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Bobcaygeon and Dunsford Parish
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Bobcaygeon church
Christ Church - Anglican - Bobcaygeon (taken 2005)

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All of the places mentioned are thought to be in Victoria Co. Bobcaygeon is so close to the border that Peterborough Co residents would go to church there.


There is a photocopied brief handwritten early history at TUA: 8-75-1023

Note: the photocopy in TUA: 8-75-004/1/4 and /5 is not in date order. The records are in the date units given below but the units are not in any order.

Another full photocopy set is at PCMA: 90-029


Baptisms

            1869 Nov 21 - 1874 Sep 13 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

            1874 Nov 1 - 1891 Aug 28 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

            1891 Sep 12 - 1901 Dec 31 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4 Note two 1900 baptisms at end

            1902 Apr 17 - 1919 Mar 26 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/5

Confirmation

            1879 Aug 28 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

1904 May 17, 1908 Mar 5, 1909 Jan 20&21, 1910 Jul 3, 1913 Apr 27 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/5

1913 Apr 27, 1914 May 19, 1915 May 27, 1917 May 13, 1919 May 5, 1921 Jul 17, 1922 Apr 30, 1925 Jul 12 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/5

Marriages

            1869 Dec 1 - 1874 Oct 14 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

            1874 Dec 31 - 1884 Mar 19 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

            1884 Oct 1 - 1886 Mar 31 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

            1887 Oct 11 - 1896 Dec 23 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

            1907 Dec 11 - 1911 Dec 28 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/5

            1912 Feb 7 - 1927 Oct 22 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/5

            1934 Sep 1 - 1936 Feb 3 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/5

            1937 Feb 13 - 1941 Oct 7 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/5

Burials

            1869 Oct 14 - 1897 Dec 9 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

            1898 Jan 14 - 1907 Jul 20 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/4

            1907 Dec 15 - 1928 Jan 11 photocopy TUA: 8-75-004/1/5


Vestry Minutes (lists of parishioners’ signatures are frequently found)

            1866 Apr 9 - 1877 Apr 2 photocopy TUA: 75-004/1/1

            1879 Apr 14 - 1923 Dec 21 photocopy TUA: 75-004/1/2

                        There is a paragraph of history at the start of this document.

            1924 Jan 31 - 1960 Feb 15 photocopy TUA: 75-004/1/3

 

            early                                        Viccars, rector of Lindsay, would visit

            <1866 Apr 9>                         H Haywood (Vestry Minutes)

            <1867Dec 17 - 1869 Apr 6>  B Hoskin (Vestry Minutes)

            <1869 Nov 21 - 1873 Jul 30> Charles W Patterson

            1870                                        consists of at least Bobcaygeon and Sheriffs Corners

            1870                                        Appendix Z states that the parish is undefined and has one wood church in “pretty good” condition worth $700

            1871 Jan 5                              Christ Church opened

            1871                                        consists of at least Bobcaygeon and Dunsford

            1872 - 1873                            consists of at least Bobcaygeon, Dunsford, Omemee-Christ Church

            <1873 Aug 12 - 1876 Jun 30> Thaddeus Walker

            1874 - 1878                            consists of at least Bobcaygeon and Dunsford (assumed since 1875-77 have no Statement of Collections)

            <1876 Aug 26 - 1877 Nov 13> George Horlock

            1878                                        vacant

            <1878 Jul 16 - 1882 Nov 30> Henry C Avant

            1879                                        consists of at least Bobcaygeon

            1880                                        consists of at least Bobcaygeon and Dunsford

            1881                                        consists of at least Bobcaygeon-Christ Church, Dunsford-St John, Verulam-St Alban, Devitts Schoolhouse, Red Schoolhouse

            1882 - 1884                            omit Red Schoolhouse

            1883                                        vacant

            <1883 Jul 27 - 1890 Oct 21> William Farncomb

            1885 - 1886                            Red Schoolhouse returns to the list

            1887 - 1888                            consists of at least Bobcaygeon-Christ Church, Dunsford-St John, Verulam-St Alban, Verulam-St Peter

            1889                                        consists of at least Bobcaygeon-Christ Church, Dunsford-St John, Devitts Schoolhouse, Red Schoolhouse, Verulam-St Alban

            1890                                        consists of at least Bobcaygeon-Christ Church, Dunsford-St John, Verulam-St Alban, Verulam-St Peter

            <1890 Nov 11 - 1907 Jan 3>  Walter John Creighton

            1891                                        add Red Schoolhouse

            1892                                        omit Red Schoolhouse

            1893 - 1914                            consists of Bobcaygeon-Christ Church, Dunsford-St John, Devitts Schoolhouse, Red Schoolhouse, Verulam-St Alban

            1906                                        Christ Church raised 3 ½ feet and new foundation put in.

            1907                                        vacant

            <1907 Nov 3 - 1912 Feb 27> Frederick Louis Barber

            <1912 Apr 8                           vacant

            <1912 Oct 9 - 1915 Apr 7>    Edmund Greaves

            1914                                        Vestry Minutes note Sunday Schools at Christ Church, Dunsford, St Alban, Red School

            <1915 Apr - 1916 Jul 17>      T B Clarke

            <1916 Oct 21 - 1920 Sep 2> T A Nind

            1920                                        Red Schoolhouse not listed

            <1921 Jan 24 - 1927 Oct 27> T R Haughton

            1922                                        consists of Bobcaygeon-Christ Church, Dunsford-St John, Verulam-St Albans

            1928 - 1933 Jan 23>               W G G Dreyer

            1934                                        vacant

            <1934 Sep 1 - 1950                Percy Cecil Howard

            <1951 Jan 29 - 1954 Jan 27>  G J Ball

            1954 - 1959 Jan 26>               John H Barclay

            <1960 Feb 15 - 1970              G E Meades

            1971 - 1984                            E Leonard Straker

            1983                                        Douglas A Stoute (asst)

            <1986 - 1996                          David R Burrows

            1996 - 2000                            Ron King (lay, asst)

            1997 - 2003                            Donald J W Lawton

            1997                                        Burnt River-St Luke added

            1997 - 20010                          Donna White (asst)

            1997 - 2003                            Elsie Stephenson (asst)

            2001                                        name changed to Bobcaygeon Dunsford and Burnt River

            2005 - 2013                            Jeanette Lewis