Albion Congregational Church Cemetery
Location:
107 Queen Street North, Bolton, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 7, lot 9, Albion Township.
GPS:
Latitude: 43.8819°N
Longitude: -79.7410°W
History:
Trudy Mann, in her book Early Churches of Albion and Caledon Townships, Peel County, states that the Bolton Congregational Church was organized by Rev. Joseph Wheeler and was the first church to be erected in the Town of Bolton, opening services being held on December 15, 1842. In 1864 the original mud brick church was replaced by a frame building “reported to have four gothic-arched windows in each side and a handsome circular window of stained glass in the south end, facing the village”. After the death of the Rev. Joseph Wheeler the congregation dwindled, and the church closed in 1880.
Little seems to be known about the Bolton Congregational Cemetery, where it was, how it was laid out and who were buried in it, though it has been reported that burials there took place as late as 1892. It was most likely used for about fifty years. Some of the bodies were removed to Laurel Hill Cemetery during the straightening of Hwy. 50 in 1962 but other remains are probably still there. A few remaining stones have been placed by the Town of Caledon in a small cairn beside a new development. One of the stones has the name Warbrick, a family name associated with the Bolton Congregational Church. An informative article on the church and cemetery was written by Prof. Ian R. Dalton, a descendant of the Warbrick family, and was published in the Hurontarian Regional News of August 24, 1988.
Dorothy Kew
Transcription purchase:
No transcription has been made available for purchase from the OGS website, because the cemetery had so few stones.
However, transcriptions of this cemetery are available in the Members’ Only section of the Halton-Peel Branch website.