Collection search - United Mission of Williamsburgh, Matilda, and Edwardsburgh fonds [textual record (microform)] [Ontario]

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United Mission of Williamsburgh, Matilda, and Edwardsburgh fonds [textual record (microform)] [Ontario]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1790-1886.

Reference:

R17477-0-6-E, MG9-D7-23

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102823

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United Mission of Williamsburgh, Matilda, and Edwardsburgh fonds
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1790-1886.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1 microfilm reel negative and positive.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of microfilmed material: registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1790-1886, of Zion Lutheran Church, Williamsburg, and its Anglican successor. The registers also include records relating to Morrisburg and to the townships of Williamsburgh, Osnabruck, Matilda, and Edwardsburgh. In addition, there are lists of church members and confirmations, 1799-1819, 1829, 1846-1886, as well as eight marriage licences, 1884-1885. The early registers were kept in Latin. This material is located on microfilm reel M-1496.

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Williamsburgh, Matilda and Edwardsburgh Townships, Ont., United Mission of Williamsburgh, Matilda, and Edwardsburgh (Anglican)

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Williamsburgh, Matilda and Edwardsburgh Townships, Ont., United Mission of Williamsburgh, Matilda, and Edwardsburgh (Anglican) : The United Anglican Mission of Williamsburgh, Matilda, and Edwardsburgh had its origin in the Lutheran congregation of the townships of Williamsburgh and Osnabruck established by German loyalists who built Zion Church at Williamsburgh in 1789. Their first pastors were the Rev. Johann Wilhelm Samuel Schwerdfeger, 1791-1803, and the Rev. August Friedrich Meyer, 1804-1807.

In 1808 Schwerdfeger's son-in-law, the Rev. John Gunter Weagant, became pastor, but the congregations' failure to pay his salary regularly after the first year eventually led him to seek support from the Anglican Bishop of Quebec. He was ordained deacon in the Anglican Church in 1812, and priest in 1814. Part of his congregation followed him into the Anglican communion. Weagant's Hanoverian origin also enabled him to minister to the German speaking settlers near Cardinal in Edwardsburgh Township.

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(Paper) The Checklist of Parish Registers and Thematic Guide 1206, vol. 1, supply summaries of the reel's contents. Thematic Guide 1206, vol. 2, provides a table of contents for the microfilmed material.

(Microform) At the end of the reel there are indexes to the baptisms, 1790-1875, and to the marriages 1790-1832, reel M-1496.

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Location of originals note:

The originals are held by the Anglican Diocesan Archives, Ottawa, Ont.

Related material:

For further information on Rev. John Gunter Weagant, see MG 24 J 3. For later parish registers relating to the part of the congregation which remained Lutheran, see MG 9 D 7-39.
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Williamsburg (Ont.) - Church records and registers, 1790-1886 United Mission of Williamsburg, Matilda and Edwardsburg (Ont.), 1790-1886

Williamsburg (Ont.) - Birth registers, etc., 1790-1886 Williamsburg (Ont.: Township), 1790-1886

Morrisburg (Ont.) - Church records and registers, 1790-1886 Morrisburg (Ont.), 1790-1886

Morrisburg (Ont.) - Birth registers, etc., 1790-1886 Osnabruck (Ont.: Township), 1790-1886

Osnabruck (Ont.: Township) - Church records and registers, 1790-1886 Matilda (Ont.: Township), 1790-1886

Osnabruck (Ont.: Township) - Birth registers, etc., 1790-1886 Edwardsburg (Ont.: Township), 1790-1886

Matilda (Ont.: Township) - Church records and registers, 1790-1886 Zion Lutheran Church (Williamsburg, Ont.), 1790-1886

Matilda (Ont.:Township) - Birth registers, etc., 1790-1886

Edwardsburg (Ont.: Township) - Church records and registers, 1790-1886

Edwardsburg (Ont.: Township) - Birth registers, etc., 1790-1886

Lutherans - Ontario, 1790-1886
Source:

Private

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MG9-D7-23
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