Bolton Anglican & Methodist Cemeteries
Also known as: Old Christ Church Cemetery
Also known as: Old Anglican Abandoned Cemetery
Also known as: Abandoned Cemetery (Bolton)
Also known as: Old Methodist Cemetery (Bolton)
Location:
166 Centennial Drive (Bolton), Caledon, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 6, lots 9 & 10, Albion Township.
GPS:
Latitude: 43.88235°N
Longitude: -79.74323°W
History:
ANGLICAN CEMETERY
The first Anglican Church was built of mud brick in 1845 on the hill overlooking Bolton to the south. The land was conveyed by James and Ellen Bolton, and Samuel and Ann Sterne, with an area of 1.2 acres and now is described as Lot 28, Block 4, Plan 7 for Bolton.
A cemetery was around the church with dates of death on the stones going back as early as 1822. The cemetery has some decorative iron fences around the individual plots that were made by the Plummer Foundry, in Bolton. One pattern had the weeping willow with the lamb below and another, the rose and lily design. These fences had elaborately decorated iron fence posts. There is also a simpler iron fence that has wooden corner posts. Dr. C. W. Jeffreys, the Canadian Historical artist, sketched one of the fences that appears in the book, “Fences” by Harry Simons.
The last burial was John Lougheed, aged 76 years, on April 14, 1925.
METHODIST CEMETERY
It is located immediately to the north of the Anglican Cemetery. The conveyance was by James and Ellen Bolton, and James and Maria Warbrick to John Reynar, James Ewart and John Tindale, Trustees for the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Bolton Village. It was registered in 1850 and is now described as Lot 29, Block 4, and the land was about one third the area of the Anglican Cemetery.
There were few burials in either of these cemeteries after 1893 when Laurel Hill Cemetery was opened and there were many removals to the new cemetery.
These cemeteries were neglected for many years. In 1972, Bolton’s centennial year, many improvements were made to these cemeteries. The flat stones were placed in a cairn that crosses the old roadway leading to the site of the old Anglican Church.
David McFall
A plaque states “Site of 1st Anglican Church built 1845.
Anglican and Methodist Burying Ground restored 1972 – Bolton Centennial”
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