Uniting Church in Australia, WA Synod
Contact
- Street address
- 10 Pier Street, Perth 6000
- Postal address
- As above
- Phone
- (08) 9221-6911
- Fax
- (08) 9221-6911
About
- Officer in charge
- Honorary Archivist
- Hours & facilities
- All reference services provided by Uniting Church, collection housed at J S Battye Library of West Australian History. Open Mon and Fri 9am-3pm and by appointment. General reference assistance available. Copying services for books, journals, original records to A3, newspapers, maps and plans.
- Access
- 1 day's advance notice of visit required. Proof of identity required. Access to records not normally available for research can be gained by bona fide researchers by application to the Secretary of the Synod.
- Acquisition focus
- All material relating to local churches, church instrumentalities and departments. Material relating to prominent church people.
- Quantity
- 500m
- Major holdings
- Parishes: Baptismal and Marriage Registers 1830- (30m); Minutes 1830- (200m); Correspondence 1830- (50m); Financial records 1830-(100m); Historical 1830- (10m).
- Parishes, Individuals: Biographical Records 1830- (10m); Photographs 1890- (10m).
- Guides
- Rummins, E: Uniting Church Archives in Western Australia, History Department, Murdoch University, 1990 (unpublished).
- References
- McAndrew, David, 'Archives of the Uniting Church Synod of WA' Church Archivists Society Newsletter (May 1989).
Last updated: 2010-10-11