by David F Radcliffe
In November 1862, William James Barlow, aged 29, married Christiana Caroline Stivey, aged 18, at Holy Trinity Church in Bay Street. They started married life in a rented four-room wooden house at the very southern end of Station Place. Christiana gave birth to their first child, James, in early 1863. Later that year, the young family…
by Lex Johnson
Brass plaque for Rev F Platts on the pulpit from Holy Trinity Church, Port Melbourne (now located at Port Melbourne Town Hall).
In 1861 the Reverend F C Platts was appointed to Holy Trinity Church in Sandridge.
The congregation was to have some interesting years!
Frederick Charles Platts was born in India in 1823 where his father was…