Bethel Chapel Linfield Barossa Valley South Australia

[CHERAN]

I am not sure if this the best place to post but I am trying to find what the location of this chapel might have been.....

My "Grans"  Edward Davis Satchel and his wife Ann Jackson were buried there in 1860....

It seems it was a non denominational Chapel....

I have found their Obituaies in the paper recording their burials but I just can't pinpoint where the Chapel would havebeen.   

I can see a Chapel in Angaston (the old Union Chapel)  that seems also to meet the same sort of definition. 

In the paper it is described as "one and a half mile from the Enterprise Mine, and three from Lyndoch Valley"

Any help would be appreciated!


Cheran

[warncoort]

Local knowledge needed,try Google,plenty of hits for historical societies.

[majm]

Yes,  Mr Google is handy.
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/digitalpubs/placenamesofsouthaustralia/L.pdf  and from part of pg 17 of 32

Lindfield - In 1849, a roving reporter said:
Having occasion to visit the neighbourhood district of Barossa called ‘Lindfield’ about four miles from Lyndoch Valley, two from the Enterprise Mine and one from the Uraparinga Mine, I was not a little struck to observe the rapid improvement that is making in this, as well as other parts of the Colony. School examinations at the  Linfield  (sic) School were reported in 1851 when  ‘a  public tea meeting was held at the close to which all visitors were invited; about 100 persons sat down to tea ’: The prizes were awarded to the children in the evening… The parents would be glad to see some alteration in the government grant for education in this instance; the number of scholars… is 19, which falls short by  only one of the required number.  An 1851 report refers to a Linfield (sic) Bethel Chapel being opened in 1849 and said to be ‘…about one-and-a-half miles from the Enterprise Mine and three from Lyndoch Valley.’ Newspaper reports interchange between the two renditions of the name.

and
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/38439754  7 Nov 1851 Sth Australian Register ....

He then called upon Mr. Andrews, the master of Linfield day-school, to read the financial statement, from which it appeared that the expenses remaining unpaid, occasioned by the pulpit, windows, and fencing in of the burial-ground attached to the chapel,

Have you considered chasing up on Mr Andrews to see if there's family papers showing the Linfield day-school and/or the fencing around the burial-ground attached to the chapel?

JM

[majm]

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50247930  Sth Australian Register 7 Sept 1849

Lindfield, about 4 miles from Lyndoch Valley, two from the Enterprise Mine, and one from the Uraparinga Mine ....................
Bethel Chapel, which is erected on half an acre of land given by Mr George Hiles, who, together with other settlers, have just completed the building.

JM

[CHERAN]

Thanks for you help

I think a call to the Barossa Council may the next step to pinpoint it!

Cheran

[DavidG02]

Looking at newspaper advertisements of the times George Hiles had a property at Victoria Creek, now known as Williamstown.

I did find this interesting page of a church ''opened sometime in 1849'' which says it is in Lyndoch, so may not be the same church

Scroll down to Lyndoch Unknown http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jq1/

[CHERAN]

Thanks for this site.....  I did got side tracked yet again as soon as I clicked on the link as the church we married in in is on the first page!!!

The Lyndoch one is certainly a possibility though!

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/38443756   gives a bit of description of the area though

and this has Mr Satchell giving the same directions on his property near Victoria Creek! 

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/38441040?searchTerm=lyndoch%20valley%20mr%20satchell&searchLimits=



I still can't pinpoint exactly where he was but he had a title along with others in the family close by   Lot 9 Williamstown  1139 XIV 183...




Cheran

[Crawford1839]

Hi
You will find a plaque identifying the location of the Chapel (and Day School) on Rozenzweig Road Williamstown (near the intersection of Old Bethel Road). The chapel location it is now on ForestrySA land.

It was on section 994 Hundred of Barossa. The local Historical Society (Williamstown and District) has additional details, but Trove has information as well.

Happy hunting.

[Crawford1839]

Additional information, Mr Andrews was married, but had no children as far as I can work out), so there is no point pursuing this line of investigation.