Barbara Distin Morgan papers relating to Reverend Thomas Henry Distin Morgan and the Morgan family

MLMSS 11884

fonds

1894-1993

9669644

0.16 metres of textual material (1 box)

Thomas Henry Distin Morgan was born in England in 1868 but grew up in Sydney. In 1895 he was ordained priest by the Archbishop of Sydney and served as curate at St John’s Darlinghurst and at Camden. In the same year he received a licence as the first Chaplain Superintendent of the Mission to Seamen, 100 George Street, Sydney. It was a position he held until 1908 during which time he also started a Mission to Seamen in Newcastle and Adelaide. In 1900 he was appointed Acting Chaplain Royal Naval Establishments, Garden Island. In 1908 he resigned both positions owing to a nervous breakdown. After recovering he was inducted Rector of St. Simon and St. Jude, Bowral, NSW in 1910 and remained there until his death in 1937.
Reference: Library correspondence file

Collection was collated by Rev. T.H.D. Morgan’s daughter Barbara Distin Morgan and passed onto her daughter, who was the donor’s mother.

Barbara Distin Morgan papers relating to Reverend Thomas Henry Distin Morgan and the Morgan family, 1894-1993. Including letters, photographs, commissions, ​illuminated address, newspaper clippings, and printed material. The collection was accumulated by Rev. Distin Morgan’s daughter, Barbara Distin Morgan and documents his life. The material falls into two parts, Rev. T.H. Distin Morgan’s own papers and material gathered by Barbara to further illuminate his life and the wider Distin Morgan family.

Papers related to Reverend Thomas Henry Distin Morgan include:

Illuminated address – St John’s Church, Darlinghurst to the Reverend T. H. Distin Morgan, 31 July 1910
Commission as Surrogate, 3 August 1910
License as Minister, 10 June 1895
Commission as Deacon, 20 May 1894
Ordination as priest, 9 June 1895
Appointment to be Rural Dean of Berrima, 13 January 1931
Letters, 1900, 1910
Photographs of the rectory, church and parish hall, Bowral, 1910

Papers related to Barbara Distin Morgan and family include:

Photographs of ‘Woodburn’, Barraba, NSW, n.d., 1995
Photographs of ‘Wiston’
The Story of St. Jude’s by A.V.J. Parry, 1974
Barbara Distin Morgan’s memories of St Judes’s and her father, 1999
Various biographical notes on Rev. T.H. Distin Morgan
A History of St Jude’s, Bowral by George Hunt
Transcript of an interview with Barbara Distin Morgan, ‘Memories of Wingecarribee Shire’, 1999.
Newspaper clippings about Rev. T.H. Distin Morgan
Letters received by Barbara Distin Morgan mainly concerning Rev. T.H. Distin Morgan and the Morgan family, 19080-1993
Photographs of Barbara Distin Morgan
Darling Point as seen by Miss Flood and Dr Stacy, between the years 1912-1920’, typescript.

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