ASAC C2B (open shelved item)

These volumes represent the main record of the management and decision making of St. John's Church from  1829-1942. The formation of the first Vestry in 1935 overlaps slightly with this period. See ASJ2024.92 for the early volumes of Vestry minutes.

• Articles of Inquiry** , Confirmee Lists etc 1829-1864, Diocesan Statistical Returns 1865-1891, Annual Meetings 1857-1920 Fees - 1829-1891,
• Minutes of Wardens Meetings and Wardens' Correspondence 1838-1870 (circa)
• Congregation/Seatholder annual and special meetings - 1840s-1927 [same bound volume as above item]
• Minutes of Wardens' Meetings 1871-1889
• Minutes of Wardens' Meetings 1889-1914
• Minutes of Wardens' Meetings 1914-1942
• Wardens' Correspondence 1887-1901
• Wardens' Correspondence 1914-1919
• Printed documents re church operations (including wartime meetings for various purposes such as support for the troops overseas) 1917-1919
• Seatholder lists and subscriptions 1918-1925

** Because St. John's was funded by the colonial government during the convict era, the Articles of Inquiry volume was an official record required by the government to account for expenditure and provide statistics that justified that expenditure. Once the government divested itself of responsibility for the Church of England, the volume was re-purposed for an ongoing record of church management. The final Articles of Inquiry entry was for 1864, and after that, Statistical Returns for the Diocese of Tasmania replaced the ongoing record for the period 1865-1891.

The volumes listed in this entry provide quite a lot of information about the life of St. John's, particularly for the first part of the 19th century, the convict period, for which we have very limited documentary evidence. Only a limited amount of correspondence has survived, and indeed, the amount of correspondence from that era was much smaller in a time when communications were poor and paper and postage were very expensive compared with the 20th century. 
The documents include many names such as incumbents, curates, wardens, confirmees, and the costs of church operations in the era.