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Bible Society NSW

former Bible society in New South Wales, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ4903108 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bible Society NSW was the first Australian Bible society, formed through an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales in 1817 and was known as the NSW auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (founded in London 1804). The Society's charter was signed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The formal establishment of Bible Society Auxiliaries in each colony occurred between 1817 and 1884.

In 2010, the Bible Societies of Australia in each state merged into a single organisation, Bible Society Australia.

Editorial summary

“Bible Society NSW” enters the record as former Bible society in New South Wales, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bible, Society and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1817, 1804, 1884, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1817. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bible, Society and former.
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Why this record matters

“Bible Society NSW” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bible, Society and former provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4903108. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1817, 1804, 1884 and 2010.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bible Society NSW”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bible Society NSW primary sources, Bible Society NSW archive and Bible research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Bible Society NSW” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.