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Issue 10 of The Cemetorian
Issue 10 of The Cemetorian is now available to members and supporters.
Here is an extract from our feature article "Rev Henry Liddiard":
The younger Rev Liddiard made a decision to visit Australia for health reasons, setting sail from Liverpool on August 8, 1849 on the Nelson and arriving in Melbourne on November 17, that year.
However, it was not until June 4, 1851 that Liddiard showed his letters of orders to the then Lord Bishop of Melbourne, Charles Perry, who duly licensed him to perform the Office of Minister to the Parish of St Kilda and its vicinity in the District of Port Phillip.
Being such a new settlement, in lieu of church buildings, private homes were used for services. According to a St. Kilda history website, the first service conducted by an ordained minister in St Kilda took place in the home of an Anglican, Henry Jennings on January 6, 1850. Rev. Liddiard preached to 30 people.
In December 1852, now aged 50, he returned home to England and after settling his affairs returned to Melbourne with his wife Ann (40) and two daughters Catherine Liddiard (18) and Susan Liddiard (16). The family left on the Marlborough with 152 passengers from Plymouth, England on January 1, 1854 and arrived in their new homeland on March 20, almost three months later. Liddiard was obviously a man of means. On his first trip he was accompanied by a man-servant called Brodie and had the funds to purchase various properties. But he maintained an active “interest in the welfare of the rising generation of Oakleigh and its neighbourhood.” Many of these people were poor immigrants from the British Isles trying to eke out a living,with tents their only shelter. Many had tried their luck on the Victorian gold fields without success and were now Oakleigh’searly pioneers.
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