R.M. Green document collection C2A box 32


Identifer
ASJ2026.10

Physical Description
  • Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs, many relating to St. John’s – 1940s to early 1950s
    Scrapbook of photos of churches including UK. Article by Canon Greenwood regarding the centenary of Melbourne and the marriages of Batman and Fawkner at St. John’s – likely 1933 before Greenwood was a canon.
    Scrapbook – newspaper clippings about Launceston churches etc – Grammar, Trinity Mission Hall Inveresk, St. Mark’s Deloraine farewell dated 1952, Anglican clergy conference photo of assembled clergy (undated), various church photos and postcards, historical news clipping articles evidently much older than the 1952 date.
    Wippell & Company Ltd catalogue no. 147 of church furniture London & Manchester – likely 1930s 
    Memo book listing pew holders. Includes allocated pews in north and south galleries, so pre-1938 when those galleries were demolished.
    Packet of 10 postcards with photos of the construction period of St. John’s – 1901-1911.  7 copies of an earlier SW view, 3 of a later SW view and 1 of NW view. Likely circa 1908.
    Documents marked GC in linked pdf file

The linked pdf file also shows the location of documents that have now been subsumed into the main documentary archives for the church, and an examination of the related Index of Correspondence will show that many of the documents are now stored in close proximity to related documents that were always held by the church.

Historical Details

The Green family were long-standing members of St. John's who took an active part in leadership, more than one generation serving as wardens and members of vestry when it was inaugurated in 1938. The family legal practice, in later years Ritchie, Parker, Alfred Green and Co, was in St. John Street, north of Brisbane St. and there seems to have been an inter-generational mix-up of church documents, churchwarden correspondence and documents belonging to the firm relating to business handled on behalf of the church, or in some cases, its tenants.

The collection of documents returned to St. John's in in 2024 has now been sorted, and documents that rightly belonged to the church collection have been returned to the related archive boxes and added to the index of documents.

A section of the documents were not church documents, or in some cases were duplicates of documents already held, and these have been kept separately.

Materials
papers and bound books
Dating of Item
1869-1978

Database Date:            Faculty Date:

26 May 2026;

Disposal Date:

Online Sources

Related Collection
All Saints Documentary Archives
Related Person or Organisation
Richard Green