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From: "MM" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-MELB] Anglican Church History, Melbourne, anyone?
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:50:57 +1000
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Dear Lenore,
from Grolier Encyclopaedia under heading MONTGOMERY.

Henry Hutchinson (1847-1932) Anglican Bishop of Tasmania was born at
Cawnpore, India on 3.10.1847 ............etc.
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would appear to not be your Henry Montgomery.
There are no other "Montgomery" references in the books.

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Mary of Melbourne
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> Hello folks,
>
> For a local history project, not family history, I am trying to work out
> whether the Henry Montgomery who bought 14 acres of land and built a large
> stone house in Essendon in 1853 might possibly be the Reverend Henry H
> Montgomery, an entry for whom I found in the State Library of Victoria
> Biographical Index. Would anyone have a history of the Melbourne Anglican
> Church handy which could possibly mention the Rev Montgomery? He had a
> child baptised in St Peter's Church in 1852, another born in Essendon in
> 1854, and another born in Melbourne in 1856. His wife was Frances Reid.
>
> Montgomery only owned the land in Essendon from 1853 to 1855.
>

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