Home | Pioneers | Contact Us | Copyright/Disclaimer
|
Home | Pioneers | Contact Us | Copyright/Disclaimer |
|
Edward Gifford Pryce,
M.A. Cooma 1843 The following photos were supplied by Michael Povey <mpovey-at-tpg.com.au> 7.09.11
EDWARD GIFFORD PRYCE, M.A., was the last Missionery sent by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to Australia. He was following his calling on Manaro in 1843, and resided in a house in later years used as an Anglican Rectory, and subsequently as a private residence - known as The Grange. In 1845 the foundation of the first Anglican Church was laid by Bishop Broughton, and upon its completion the Rev. E. G. Pryce became the first incumbent, a position he occupied till 1856. In later years he resided at Woolway Station, which had been acquired by members of his family from Alexander Hamilton. Transcribed by Pattrick Mould in 2003, from the book "Back to Coma' Celebrations" page 85
On the 25th May 1915, died of wounds
received at the Dardanelles, Allan Langley Pryce, third son of Mr H G
Pyrce, at one time of Woolway Station, and grandson of the late Rev. E G
Pryce of Manaro, and of the late John Selkirk, surgeon, of Windsor.
Alan Pryce was born at Woolway 26 years ago,
but had not resided in the Cooma District until early childhood. At an
early period of the war he joined the Expeditionary Forces as a private,
and while in Egypt was transferred as a reinforcement to the 1st
Battalion, serving with which he received the wounds from which he
subsequently died.
The name Pryce will be a familiar one to
residents of the Cooma district, some of whom will remember the Rev Edward
Gifford Pryce, BA, the last State Aid Chaplain to come to Australia, who
in 1843 was appointed as the first Minister to Manaro, with a missionary
district extending from Micalago southerly to the Gippsland coast and
easterly to the ocean. Mr Pryce afterwards erected at his own cost the
old Church and Parsonage on Cooma Creek, and filled the incumbency of
Christ Church, Cooma until 1855, when he left Manaro. In later years he
returned to the district and for some time resided with his son at Woolway.
Finally he became blind and in 1904 died at Rossmore, NSW at the ripe old
age of 90 years.
From Michelle Edwards
Descendants of Edward Gifford Pryce
Recompiled from the new Monaro Pioneers database: 12.09.08
|
|
%20&%20William%20Louis%20@%20Gegedzerick%20Cemetery%20%20Berridale%20%20NSW.JPG)
Monaro
Pioneers