Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1900 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
Silver pocket watch, 7x5 cm.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
C.C. Godden was born in Victoria and studied under Nathaniel Jones at Perry Hall, Bendigo and then at Moore College, Sydney. He was ordained in 1900 and worked as curate at St Michael's Surry Hills. He then travelled to Norfolk Island for training at the Melanesian Mission, before going to Omba/Ambae, Vanuatu as a missionary in 1901. He married Eva Dearin while on leave in Sydney in 1905 and they returned to Vanuatu in 1906. He was murdered by a local man, Alamemea, who had been pressed into working on the Queensland cane fields and bore a grudge against white man for the treatment he had received in prison for attempted murder. His daughter Ruth was born in 1907. Godden is remembered as a martyr.
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Purchased from Annette Parrott, February 2022. Previously belonged to Ron Keogh of Walcha.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Inscription inside watch case: "Presented to the Rev. C.C. Godden by St Michael's Choir, Sydney, Aug. 31st 1900". Godden was curate of St Michael's, Surry Hills (Flinders St), from 1899-1900.
Watch face labelled: A.W.W. Co. Waltham Mass. - American Waltham Watch Company.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Unrestricted. Handle with care.