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The Sydney Morning Herald,
Monday 19 March 1906
(New South Wales)
PERSONAL
The Rev. Matthew Maddern, who for the past 39 years has been a member of
the Methodist ministry of New South Wales, and who is at present located
at Rockdale, will at the end of the present month retire from active
work. The Rev. Mr. Maddern is a native of Zennor, Cornwall (England),
having been born there in 1844. He, together with his parents, came to
Australia in 1854 in the Black Ball liner Marco Polo. He received his
education at St. Paul’s school, Geelong (Victoria), this school being
attached to St. Paul’s church, then in charge of Archdeacon Stretch,
father of Bishop Stretch, the present Bishop of Newcastle. He began his
ministry in the Oberon (New South Wales) circuit, and has successively
filled the following stations:—Mudgee, Berrima, Bega, Murrurundi, Gympie
(Q.), Maryborough (Q.), Rockhampton (Q.), Wallsend, East Maitland,
Orange, Wagga, Sydney, Bowral, and Rockdale. Whilst in charge of the
Wagga and Bowral circuits he filled the office of chairman of the
Riverina and Goulburn districts. Although Mr. Maddern is retiring from
active work as a minister, the Church will not lose his services
altogether, for he has consented to act as a supernumerary. He, with
Mrs. Maddern, proposes to spend the next few months among the South Sea
Islands, and with this object in view will leave by the Manapouri on
April 3 for the Tongan Islands, for the purpose of paying a visit to his
daughter, the wife of the Rev. C. P. W. Brown, who recently succeeded
the Rev. Dr. Moulton in the charge of the Tongan Mission. Mr. Maddern
will also visit the Samoan and Fijian islands, and during his sojourn
among them will make the conditions of life among the natives a subject
for special study. His successor in the Rockdale circuit is the Rev. W.
H. Beale, who will take up his new charge on the third Sunday in April.
The Sydney Morning Herald,
Saturday 16 August 1924
(New South Wales)
DEATHS
MADDERN.—August 15, 1924, at the Methodist Parsonage, Homebush, the Rev.
Matthew Maddern, aged 80 years.
Contributed by Bob Bolitho
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