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A Parliamentary Return - Aborigines (Australian Colonies), 1844, contains the following -
p.57. Mission Establishments -
Salary of Rev. L. E. Threlkeld - £150
Allowance for five convict servants 36
£186
p. 160 - Notification of the Col. Sec. to Mr. Threlkeld that the mission is to be discontinued (May, 1841).
"The Governor cannot accede to the proposal made by you that you should remove to Newcastle, and still continue to receive a salary from Government. His Excellency is reluctantly forced to acquaint you that the engagement entered into with you by the Government in the year 1831 will be considered at an end with the expiration of the present year."
Mr. Threlkeld's final report follows.
p. 304 gives a statement of the yearly expenses of the mission.
From 1852 to 1859 Moore's Almanac shows Mr. Threlkeld as Minister of the Bethel Union, Sydney and holding services on board ships in the harbour. The church was first in Erskine St., later in a temporary building at Circular Quay, then known as the Mariners' Church. A later church was erected, adjoining Campbell's Wharf.
The 1860 Almanac shows this charge as vacant.
A letter to Threlkeld (in the Threlkeld Papers), dated 20th Oct., 1857, states that the day is Threlkeld's birthday, and that he has completed his 73rd year. There is a further letter written in January 1862, inquiring for the Executors of the late Rev. Mr. Threlkeld.
This volume also contains the printed reports of the Lake Macquarie Mission, 1838-40.