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Rev. Henry Tingcombe officiated at St Bartholomew’s on a few occasions during Rev. Donkin’s incumbency. (1855-
Henry Tingcombe was born in Hartley, near Plymouth, England in 1809. Henry and his younger brother, George, migrated to Australia in 1832, after being urged to do so by their uncle, Robert Copland Lethbridge, who had settled in the Penrith district. The two brothers settled in the Monaro district where they became sheep farmers, having bought sheep from the Macarthur family at Camden. After four or five years Henry left the Monaro district and settled in Penrith where he did clerical and administrative work, becoming the Clerk of Petty Sessions around 1840. He married Flora McLeod, who was his brother John’s sister-
Reference – Jean Newell, ‘Henry Tingcombe (1809-
Bishop Broughton sent Rev. Henry Tingcombe to be the first Anglican minister in the Armidale district. He conducted his first Baptism at Armidale in April 1846. He was ordained Priest by Bishop Broughton in February 1847.
http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/03/dec/21/29.html
Rev. Tingcombe served in this parish, which stretched from Muswellbrook to Stanthorpe, Queensland until 1854.
www.stpetersarmidale.org.au/content/StPetersArmidaleHistoryLeaflet.pdf
Henry Tingcombe is honoured in Armidale by having a street in the centre of town named after him. Central Park which is the centre of the city is bounded by Faulkner, Barney and Dangar Sts and Tingcombe Lane. It is an attractive, dignified reserve which was dedicated in 1874 as a recreational area.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/New-
Rev Tingcombe re-
Reference: Jean Newell.
Rev and Mrs Tingcombe had 5 children:
1. Henry C born 1852, married 1882 Margaret A .Forsyth at Sydney.
died 1928 at Brewarrina
2. Ellen A born 1853, died 1876 at St George
3. Margaretta Mary born 1859 at Camden, married 1882 Francis Henry Woodriff at Sydney, died 1952 at Penrith
4. George born 1862 Camden, married 1887 Maria C. Bluett at Canterbury, died 1940 Wyong
5. John Lethbridge married 1888 Ada M. Carter at Paddington, died 1906 at Burwood
The Church of St John, Camden was consecrated in 1849. A window near the Pulpit was given by public subscription in memory of Rev. Henry Tingcombe, who was the third Rector of the Church.
http://www.camdenanglican.org.au/mod/group/view.php?group_id=8
Page 248 of the 1860 Australian Almanac states that he was an Anglican Minister in the Camden and Narrellan area.
The 1863 Australian Almanac, page 116, lists Rev. Tingcombe as being at Camden in the Diocese of Sydney.
http://books.google.com/books?id=yRAOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=toc#PPA116,M1
8 March 1864 he is listed in the Western Post and Mudgee Newspaper as being in the Diocese of Sydney, and receiving an allowance of 200 pounds per annum.
Both his grandsons, Private Henry Lethbridge Tingcombe and Private Noel Tingcombe were killed within a few days of each other during WW1
Henry died on 29 July 1916, and was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. He is buried at the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.
Noel Lethbridge Tingcombe was killed in action on 4 August 1916. He is remembered with a commemorative plaque on Villers-