The Rev. TQ Stow was the second Christian minister of religion in South Australia, arriving in 1837. He was said to have been a descendant of the North American Indian woman Pocahontas, and was a respected and popular preacher. Stow held his first church services in a large tent on the site of the present Adelaide Railway Station. Like some other early ministers, Stow had to find work to supplement his income, and consequently opened a boys' school. In 1867, five years after his death, Stow Memorial Church was opened in Flinders Street, Adelaide, and named in his honour. Today the church is known as Pilgrim Church. The 1894 rules of the church give prescriptions for church membership and election, including topics such as the use of 'communion tickets'.

Stow, Thomas Quinton, 1801-1862

Stow Memorial Church (Adelaide, S. Aust.)

Pocahontas, d. 1617

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Stow, Thomas Quinton. Letter to the Rev Wells of London, 1839, D 6518(L)

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'The late Rev TQ Stow', Adelaide observer, 16 August 1862, supplement p. 2