OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1941, Page 2

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

LOCAL CHURCH HISTORY (To the Editor.) Sir, —At the special request of one of your journal's numerous Carterton district subscribers, might space be further granted me to extend the list of candidates for baptism at the hands of the Rev. Desbois between 1864 and 1866 beyond the four names given in my previous letter under the above caption? Repeating the said four names —William McKenzie, John Daysh, Alfred Scully Hannah, and Harry William Clay —the complete list of such candidates now reads: — William Albert Cadwallader. Emily Challis, Ann Preston, Edward Kemble. Annie Kemble, Jessie Sage, David Kiddie, Edward Louth Wakelin, Thomas Hugh Edwards, Richard Goodin, John Newcombe Bland Rayner. Benjamin Richard Rayner, Elizabeth Isabel Daysh, Sarah J. Stoodley, Thomas Victor Moore. Julia Elizabeth Peters, John Callister, James Boyne McKenzie, Hilda Bennett, Mark Wilton, William Arthur Wilton, Charles Alfred Bennett, Norman Northoliffe Rutherfurd, Phoebe Dunstan Edwards, Henry Preston, Esther Cadwallader, and Rupert Fairbrother. In addition to above, it would appear that during a visit of Rev. Desbois to Wairarapa, year 1870, he also baptized two of the Rowe children whose parents were then living at Maroa Plain. As the foregoing list of names still fails to include that of my Carterton inquirer,might I further be permitted space in which to make this omission good by reciting sufficient names of children baptised by the Rev. Amos Knell (years 1867-69) in which it. appears:— George Kiddie, Arthur Carrington, Charlotte Challis, Thomas Philip Kemble, Richard Andrew McKenzie, Charlotte Susan White, Ellen Bridget Tipper, Robert Goodin, Maria Ray, Percy Charles Rutherfurd, Gaine Carrington, Isabel Marianne Hannah, Ada Llewellyn Rutherfurd, Emma Beard, Elizabeth Annie Ramsay, Frank Michael Richards, Charles Joseph Edwards, Mary Ann Maxfield, Edward Louth Wakelin, Joseph Albert Wakelin, Georgina Wakelin, Joseph Harrison, Thomas Edwin Ray, Edward Bennett, Esther Ann Bennett, Phoebe Harrison, Henry Harrison, Jessie Harrison, and Mary Harrison —a fairly long list, yet still leaving room, I trust, for concluding two Car ter ton district names: Fanny Elizabeth Cadwallader and Jessie Carrington, to bring the year 1870 into minor numerical display. Thanking the said inquirer for her promise to show me cards of greeting (to her since-deceased mother) at the hands of the Rev. Ronaldson even after his leaving the Wairarapa district, and which she naturally has long cherished, in memory of both. —I am. etc., N.J.B. Masterton, November 4, 1941.