Godbolt Primitive Methodist Cemetery
Location:
14686 Caledon / King Townline South, Caledon, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 9, lot 14, Albion Township.
GPS:
Latitude: 43.92648°N
Longitude: -79.73958°W
History:
Trudy Mann, in her book, Early Churches of Albion and Caledon Townships, Peel County, mentions King Township Primitive Methodist Church, also known as Wauby’s and Fuller’s Appointments. This church was located in King Township “on the west side of 12th Line, just north of Hammertowe, a small village at the corners of Concession 11 and 12. This location continued to serve northeast Albion as well as those in the vicinity of King Township.”
There was no cemetery connected to this church but not far from there was a small cemetery on the Albion King Township border, on the east half of Lot 14 Concession 9, Albion Township. This was known as Godbolts and was used by the Fuller family. William Perkins Bull described the cemetery as about one third of an acre in extent, rectangular and “one of the most desolate and untidy of all”. Bull states that the first burial, most likely in 1833, was that of Samuel Fuller.
Bull recorded names of the Fuller, Godbolt and Nunn families, the only ones that could be read at the time, though he suggested that there might be many more burials in the cemetery but which were by then entirely inaccessible.
The stones in Godbolt Primitive Methodist Cemetery are now set in a cairn which stands in a field on Lot 14, Concession 9, Albion Township.
Dorothy Kew
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