Trinity United Church Cemetery
Location:
1520 Britannia Road East, Mississauga
Toronto Township, Concession 4 East, Lot 5
GPS:
Latitude: 43.65585
Longitude: -79.64677
History:
Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church was originally known as Hunt’s Branch. In 1851, this branch of the Wesleyan Methodist religion appears under the Brampton circuit. In March 1853, John Hunt, local preacher, and his wife Susan, sold 1 rod and 14 perches of the west ½ of Lot 5 Concession 4 East, New Survey to the Trustees of the Hunt’s Chapel congregation. The Trustees were Robert Craig, John Price, William ——-, James Price, John Hunt, Thomas Grafton, and William Johnston. The transaction was witnessed by William Young, the Wesleyan Methodist minister from Brampton.
By 1866, Hunt’s Chapel was part of the Streetsville circuit. The Chapel at this time may have been a small log building or perhaps services were held at the Hunts’ home. A new building was erected in 1867 and became known as Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church. William Perkins Bull noted that the rear of the building was apparently constructed first and the front added at a later date.
When the union of the Methodist Churches took place in 1884, Trinity became part of the Malton Methodist circuit. The Church appears to have closed around 1925 when the United Church of Canada was formed.
In the 1930’s, Perkins Bull wrote the following about the cemetery located beside the Church: “monuments generally good with a few old ones in bad repair”. He further added a note to ask K. A. McBride why the monuments had been discarded. This could mean that at the time of his recording of the cemetery in the 1930’s, some of the monuments were already missing.
The Church was demolished in 1946 and the cemetery, which has been fenced, is currently maintained by the City of Mississauga. There is a marshy section in the south-east corner.
The earliest recording from the Perkins Bull transcription was that of the children of James and Jane Harrison: Jane, who died June 23 1842, aged 1 year; and, George, who died June 24 1842, aged 5 years. There could, however, have been earlier monuments which had been removed by the 1930’s, as has been noted earlier.
The death registers for Brampton and Streetsville for the periods Trinity was connected to them have not been found to date. The Malton register which is located in the United Church Archives in Toronto has been consulted and any references to burials at Trinity have been included with the transcription.
Trudy Mann, 1985
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