99 Brock Street (faces Hunter - East of Water St) 705-745-7624
Website at <www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/5735/stjohns.html>
Delafosse, F M (ed) - Centenary History, St John’s Church Peterborough 1827-1927
Perry, Alicia - History of St John’s Anglican Church - (1967) PCMA (brief typescript)
Jones, Elwood H - St John’s Peterborough - (1976) OGSK
AAT has a microfilm (reel 141) of the following. The originals are in the parish archives. They consist of a number of books, with overlaps and disagreements, so care should be taken when searching. Consult the index! This is a listing of dates, not documents.
Baptisms (1833-1914)
Confirmations (1871, 1889-1913)
Marriages (1833-1917)
Burials (1837-1839, 1841-1915)
Vestry Minutes (1840-1841)
Parish List (1870's)
early missionaries William Macauley from Cobourg, Joseph Thompson from Cavan
1826 First meeting. Meetings in the schoolhouse until the church was built.
1826 Sep 4 - 1833 Jun 28 Samuel Armour (first minister) - in Cavan afterwards. He was also the first teacher in Peterborough. He regularly visited Asphodel, Douro, Dummer, Ops, Otonabee, and Smith Twps. AAT lists him as “Peterborough, Smith, North Monaghan, Mud Lake, Otonabee & other stations”.
1833 Jun 28 - 1837 Sep Richard Henry D’Olier
1835 land grant given and church construction started.
1836 services in incomplete church.
1837 fall - 1841 Aug Charles Taylor Wade
1840 church completed
1841 Oct - 1852 Sep 2 Robert Joseph Crozier Taylor (incl 3 stations in 1847). The third principal of the Peterborough Common School. (Died)
1852 - 1857 Mark Burnham
1857 Mark Burnham (Pbo, Norwood, Warsaw, Otonabee)
1854 - 1857 AAT Index lists Mark Burnham in: Pbo-SJ, Norwood, Otonabee, Dickens SH, Warsaw, Douro
1858 - 1889 John Walton Romaine Beck
1870 Appendix Z states that the parish is the Town of Peterborough and has one stone church in “good” condition worth $8000
c1875 Sunday School started under Peterborough-St John, which became All Saints (PPL:VF)
1882 Mission founded, called South Ward Mission, which became All Saints (PPL:VF)
1876 W C Allen (asst)
1878-1879 P Clementi Smith (asst)
1885 T B Angell (asst)
1889 John Cheyne Davidson (asst), C B Kenrick (asst)
1889 Dec - 1920 John Cheyne Davidson
1890 - 1894 C B Kenrick
1892 - 1898 St Johns Mission attached
1892 - 1893 Walter Mucklestone Loucks (asst)
1894 C B Kenrick, E W Pickford (asst)
1895 B C H Andrews (asst)
1896 E V Stevenson (asst), Carl Shuter Smith (asst)
1897 E V Stevenson (asst), Wm L Armatage (asst)
1898 St Johns Mission converts to Peterborough-All Saints
1905 W R Tandy (asst)
1911 C Carpenter (asst)
1916 Cornish (asst)
1921 Jan - 1936 May Robert Charles Blagrave
1923 O G H Lloyd (asst)
1924 M R Kingsford (asst)
1936 W J Gilling (asst)
1936 May - 1953 William Pearson Robertson
1937 - 1940 R T F Brain (asst)
1942 H N W Bracken (asst)
1946 T H Floyd (asst)
<1949 St Alban Mission attached
1951 - 1952 J A Purser (asst)
1953 - 1962 Frederick George Ongley
1955 Bridgenorth Mission started
1956 T B Purves (asst)
1957 - 1958 I L Scott-Beccleuch (asst)
1959 Bridgenorth ceases to be a mission
1959 St Barnabas Mission started
1961 St Barnabas ceases to be a mission
1962 vacant
1963 - 1974 John Cyril Clough
1963 - 1965 H Hesketh (ret asst)
1966 - 1969 E M Nurse (asst), H Hesketh (ret asst)
1970 H Hesketh (ret asst)
1971 - 1972 C A Gotts (asst), H Hesketh (ret asst)
1973 - 1974 H Hesketh (ret asst), W B D Heeney (asst)
1974 vacant
1975 - 1987 William Ernest Moore
1975 - 1979 Edward T Hales (asst)
1975 - 1977 H Hesketh
1975 - 1978 W B D Heeney
1982 R A McKnight (asst)
1988 vacant
1989 - 1997 Ronald R Davidson
1990 - 1992 Christopher R Greaves (asst)
1990 - 2003 Walter J Dyer (asst)
1994 - 1996 John G Runza (asst)
1997 - 2002 Mary Bell-Plouffe (asst)
1998 vacant
1999 - 2013 Gordon H Finney
2000 John G Runza (asst)
2002 - 2004 John Stephenson (asst)
2002 - 2003 John G Runza (asst)
2005 - 2007 Dana Dickson (asst)