Alink with Millicent’s pioneering past will be remembered on Sunday.
The township was named in 1870 after Millicent Glen (nee Short) the daughter of the first Bishop of Adelaide.
She was born in the Ravensthorpe Rectory in Northamptonshire, England 187 years ago on September 29, 1837 and her descendants reside in the South East region to this day.
References to Mrs Glen will be made at the 3pm service at St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church.
As it is a fifth Sunday in the month, it is the rostered turn of the Anglican Church to host a combined service for Millicent’s nine churches.
It will be led by Lay Reader “Fred” Smith and will be followed by afternoon tea.
Mr Smith said Mrs Glen was a remarkable pioneer and had come to live at Mayura Station as a teenage bride.
“As a coincidence, she married in the same church in Adelaide as my late Smith grandparents,” Mr Smith said.
“Mrs Glen had laid the foundation stone of St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church in Millicent in 1879.
“As September 29 is also the feast day of St Michael, it is thought the church was dedicated to this saint as a further acknowledgement to Mrs Glen.
“The Glen family sold Mayura Station in the 1890s and moved to Mount Gambier where she died in 1930.
“I have approached the clergy at the Ravensthorpe church and hopefully she will be remembered there as well on Sunday.”