OTAGO'S PIONEER CLERGYMEN. Graves of the Revs. James Watkin and Charles Creed at Rook wood Cemetery. New South Wales. The Rev. James Watkin was the Wesleyan missionary who began the first Christian enterprise in the South Island of New Zealand, in May. 1840. The Rev. Charles Creed, who succeeded Mr Watkin in 1544, preached the first sermon at Opepoti, afterwards named Dunedin, in December, 1845. He baptised the first three children born in Dunedin Their wives, who shared their missionary experiences, are interred in the same graves. —Photos taken by Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt during a recent visit to Sydney.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 1 March 1921, Page 34
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101OTAGO'S PIONEER CLERGYMEN. Graves of the Revs. James Watkin and Charles Creed at Rook wood Cemetery. New South Wales. The Rev. James Watkin was the Wesleyan missionary who began the first Christian enterprise in the South Island of New Zealand, in May. 1840. The Rev. Charles Creed, who succeeded Mr Watkin in 1544, preached the first sermon at Opepoti, afterwards named Dunedin, in December, 1845. He baptised the first three children born in Dunedin Their wives, who shared their missionary experiences, are interred in the same graves. —Photos taken by Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt during a recent visit to Sydney. Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 1 March 1921, Page 34
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