Ontario Burial Places of Petworth Emigrants

Compiled by Brenda Dougall Merriman

The tables below present by county some cemeteries in which Petworth emigrants are known to be buried. Research for Assisting Emigration and English Immigrant Voices, as well as information received from descendants indicated the burial places of some of the original Petworth emigrants. That information is available in Part Two of Assisting Emigration. Since publishing the books in 2000, we have uncovered more data about where Petworth graves can be found and have compiled a more inclusive list of relevant burials and cemeteries.

Tables
The following tables include the family surname of the emigrants, the name of the cemetery, and its geographic location. Only Petworth emigrants and children born in England are included. Further information can be found about most families in the two books. The information is grouped by county. The counties are listed alphabetically, as are the Petworth names within them. We have used the county names as they existed in the 19th and 20th centuries when these people died. The tables are intended to lead to the transcription which recorded the original tombstone information. These transcriptions have for the most part been recorded by local branches of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) and have been indexed by name.

Family Surname
Individual forenames are not given here. The surname may indicate that a husband, wife or some children-those born in England-are in the cemetery. Thus, the tables do not provide vital statistics information, which will come from the cemetery transcription or a personal visit.

Cemetery Name
A few cemeteries have had different names attached to them over the years. We have used the name or names indicated by current usage or by the local transcribers. If you decide to visit a cemetery, we suggest advance planning if further directions are needed. Large cemeteries may be fenced and not open to the public at all hours. They will have many sections; using the index to a transcription or plot register is essential. Some smaller, older burial grounds or cemeteries may no longer be visible due to neglect, or may have disappeared through site re-development. See the Appendix below the tables for further details.

Town/Township
The tables locate cemeteries within a town or township but do not provide precise directions. We have appended a list of the relevant cemeteries with more details about locations. In fact, most cemetery transcriptions have either lot and concession numbers, map coordinates, a street or postal address, or perhaps a map. Local contacts, as well as the Ontario Genealogical Society branch, should be able to give directions related to a road map. Internet links are given below.

BRANT COUNTY Contact: Brant County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location HAMMOND Brant Cemetery Brantford Township HANDSFIELD Farringdon Church Brantford Township HANDSFIELD Mohawk Chapel Brantford Township WHEELER Scotland Cemetery Oakland Township

BRUCE COUNTY Contact: Bruce & Grey Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location JEATER Ripley Cemetery Huron Township

ESSEX COUNTY Contact: Essex County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location HILLMAN Lakeview Cemetery, Leamington Mersea Township

HALDIMAND COUNTY Contact: Haldimand County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location BOOKER Old Disciples Cemetery Rainham Township LEGGETT Old Disciples Cemetery Rainham Township

HURON COUNTY Contact: Huron County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location COSENS Turner United Tuckersmith Township JACKMAN Maitland Cemetery Goderich Township NOICE Public Cemetery, Fordwich Howick Township RAPSON Ball's Methodist Hullett Township TILT Turner United Tuckersmith Township

LAMBTON COUNTY Contact: Lambton County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location BACHELOR Bethel United Warwick Township NAPPER Beechwood Cemetery, Forest Plympton Township NAPPER Hillsdale, Petrolia Enniskillen Township NAPPER Oil Springs Enniskillen Township PHILLIPS St Pauls Anglican Warwick Township RANDALL Kertch /South Plympton Plympton Township RANDALL Pinehill United Bosanquet Township TRUSLER Camlachie Presbyterian Plympton Township

LINCOLN COUNTY Contact: Niagara Peninsula Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location CHASE Victoria Lawn St Catherines ELLIOTT St Johns Anglican, Jordan Louth Township PAY Victoria Lawn St Catherines

MIDDLESEX COUNTY Contact: London & Middlesex County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location BOXALL 4th Line/Zion Methodist Adelaide Township COOPER 4th Line/Zion Adelaide DOWNER 4th Line/Zion Adelaide HILTON 4th Line/Zion Adelaide HILTON St Anns Anglican Adelaide HILTON Strathroy Municipal Adelaide HOLDEN 4th Line/Zion Adelaide JOINER 4th Line/Zion Adelaide JOLLIFFE? Mount Pleasant London MANN 4th Line/Zion Adelaide MANN Strathroy Municipal Adelaide MITCHELL 4th Line/Zion Adelaide NAPPER 4th Line/Zion Adelaide PANNELL 4th Line/Zion Adelaide PARKER 4th Line/Zion Adelaide PEACOCK Tiffany Cemetery Delaware Township PULLEN Christ Church Anglican Delaware Township RAPLEY 4th Line/Zion Adelaide THOMAS 4th Line/Zion Adelaide TIGNER (TICKNER) Poplar Hill Lobo Township

NORFOLK COUNTY Contact: Norfolk County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location ANSCOMBE County Home/Infirmary Woodhouse Township COURTNAGE Baptist Cemetery, Hartford Townsend Township TERRY Vittoria United Charlotteville Township

ONTARIO COUNTY Contact: Whitby-Oshawa Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location WILSON Harndon Cemetery, Raglan Whitby Township

OXFORD COUNTY Contact: Oxford County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location BOXALL Old St Pauls Woodstock BRISTOW Plattsville Community Blenheim Township BUDD Old St Pauls Woodstock COLEMAN Old St Pauls Woodstock DENMAN Old St Pauls Woodstock DITTON Old St Pauls Woodstock HARWOOD Trinity Anglican East Zorra Township KEMP Old St Pauls Woodstock LILLYWHITE Old St Pauls Woodstock LILLYWHITE West Oxford United West Oxford Township SIMS Old St Pauls Woodstock SMITHERS Hillview United Woodstock

PERTH COUNTY Contact: Perth County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location CAPLING Shakespeare Cemetery South Easthope Township COSENS Woodlawn, Listowel Wallace Township

WATERLOO COUNTY Contact: Waterloo Region Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location ADSETT Pioneer Methodist,Winterbourne Woolwich Township BRISTOW Early Presbyterian Woolwich Township BRISTOW Elmira Union Woolwich Township COSENS Old Blair Cemetery, Preston Waterloo Township DEARLING New Hope Cemetery Cambridge (Hespeler) PENFOLD Pioneer Methodist,Winterbourne Woolwich Township SLIPPER Hagey Mennonite, Preston Waterloo Township THOMAS Early Presbyterian Woolwich Township TILT Old Blair Cemetery, Preston Waterloo Township TRIBE Pioneer Methodist,Winterbourne Woolwich Township TRUSSLER Rosebank Cemetery Wilmot Township WAKEFORD Martin Mennonite Waterloo Township

WELLINGTON COUNTY Contact: Wellington County Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location ADSETT Howitt Memorial Puslinch Township GOLDS Woodlawn City of Guelph HEATHER Woodlawn City of Guelph HEMING Woodlawn City of Guelph MARTIN Ponsonby Cemetery Nichol Township PENFOLD Elora Municipal Nichol Township PENFOLD Woodlawn City of Guelph SOCKETT Stone United Church Eramosa Township

WENTWORTH COUNTY Contact: Hamilton-Wentworth OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location HARPER Carlisle United East Flamborough Township HOLMWOOD St Johns Anglican Church Town of Ancaster WILLARD Sheffield Beverly Township WORSFOLD Sheffield Beverly Township

YORK COUNTY Contacts: York Region Branch OGS; Toronto Branch OGS Family Surname Cemetery Name Town/Township Location BARNES St James Anglican City of Toronto BIRCH (BURCH) Holy Trinity Anglican, Thornhill Vaughan Township CHANTLER Newmarket Cemetery Newmarket FRY Necropolis City of Toronto GOLDRING Christ Church Anglican, Mimico Etobicoke Township GOLDRING St James Anglican City of Toronto JACKMAN St James Anglican City of Toronto JACKMAN Mount Pleasant City of Toronto JACKMAN Necropolis City of Toronto LELLIOTT Holy Trinity Anglican, Thornhill Vaughan Township MELLISH Carrville Cemetery Vaughan Township MESSENGER Potters Field City of Toronto MILLYARD Thornhill Community Markham Township PALMER Necropolis City of Toronto SMITHERS Wesleyan Methodist Pioneer Vaughan Township UPTON Necropolis City of Toronto

Compilation
To compile these tables, we reviewed the alphabetical list of emigrants in Part 2 of Assisting Emigration for adults and families for whom we had no place of death or burial, but where we did have an indication of their settlement or later residence. The names of likely subjects were checked against the Ontario Cemeteries Finding Aid (OCFA) which contains over two million entries and acts as an index to cemeteries which have been transcribed (usually by an OGS branch). While the OCFA does not contain every transcribed cemetery in the province (Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is not included, as one example, since it maintains its own fee-based electronic database) it is a great boon for this kind of project. The next step was to search any appropriate cemetery transcriptions. Eleven series of the transcriptions have been microfilmed by the Archives of Ontario, and the full Ontario Genealogical Society Collection is available at the North York Public Library in Toronto in paper form.

In order to identify Petworth individuals, we correlated such data as their age at the time of death, with their birth or baptismal information, if known. Sometimes the cemetery stone would give an important clue, such as 'native of Sussex, England.' Sometimes death registrations, census returns and newspaper notices were necessary to confirm place of birth, and names of spouse or children. Occasionally we had intensive work to distinguish a Petworth man from another individual of the same name in the same area.

Contact
In most cases, a Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is the creator of the cemetery transcription (see link below). A transcription will have a nominal index, often including forenames as well as surnames. The Ontario GenWeb with its many county sites is also another very useful resource for local contacts: (www.geneofun.on.ca/ongenweb)

The archives of the Petworth Project are housed in Special Collections (Fonds GA 136) at the University of Waterloo Library [link to their website]. The collection, authors and compilers welcome new or corrected information; see About Us for email links.

Thanks To:
The Jackman Foundation
Ontario Cemeteries Finding Aid (www.islandnet.com/ocfa)
OGS Branches (www.ogs.on.ca/branches.htm)
Archives of Ontario (www.archives.gov.on.ca)

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Appendix: Additional Details on Ontario Cemeteries and Burial Places of Petworth Emigrants

BRANT COUNTY
Brant Cemetery	on Highway 2, north side of road, east of City of Brantford
Farringdon Church	old Highway 24 (Mount Pleasant Road) south of Brantford
Mohawk Chapel	Mohawk Street, Brantford
Scotland Cemetery	at the Baptist church in Scotland Village, Oakland township
BRUCE COUNTY
Ripley Cemetery	Ripley Village, Huron Township
ESSEX COUNTY
Lakeview Cemetery	233 Erie St. South, Town of Leamington
HALDIMAND COUNTY
Old Disciples	Rainham Township, perhaps known as Sweets Corners Christian
HURON COUNTY
Ball's Methodist	Baseline Rd east of Londesborough Village, Hullett Township
Maitland	southeast end of Town of Goderich
Public Cemetery	Fordwich Village, Howick Township
Turner's United	south of Brucefield Village, Tuckersmith Township
LAMBTON COUNTY
Beechwood Cemetery	Town of Forest
Bethel United	southeast of Arkona Village, Warwick Township
Hillsdale	Town of Petrolia
Kertch Burying Ground	Kertch Village northeast of Wyoming, Plympton Township
Knox Presbyterian	Village of Camlachie
Oil Springs	Town of Oil Springs
Pinehill United	Village of Arkona
St Pauls Anglican	Wisbeach village, lot 28 concession 1 Warwick Township
LINCOLN COUNTY
St Johns Anglican	5th Ave at Road 81, Town of Jordan
Victoria Lawn	2 Queenston St, RR #6, City of St Catherines
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
Christ Church Anglican	Delaware Village, Delaware Township
Mount Pleasant	Riverside Drive; City of London
Poplar Hill	southwest of Coldstream Village, Lobo Township
St Anns Anglican	Adelaide Village, Adelaide Township
Strathroy Municipal	southwest end of Metcalf St, Town of Strathroy
Tiffany	Delaware Village, Delaware township
Zion	County road 39 west of Strathroy
NORFOLK COUNTY
Baptist Cemetery	Hartford Village, Townsend Township
County Home	Infirmary cemetery behind Norview Lodge, 510 Queensway W., Simcoe
Vittoria United	Vittoria Village, Charlotteville Township
ONTARIO COUNTY
Hardon Cemetery	Raglan village, Whitby Township
OXFORD COUNTY
Hillview	6th Ave, Town of Woodstock
Old St Pauls	Dundas St, Woodstock
Plattsville Community	Highway 97 between Plattsville & Bright Villages
Trinity Anglican	Highway 59 south of Tavistock Village, East Zorra Township
West Oxford United	southeast of Town of Ingersoll, across the river
PERTH COUNTY
Shakespeare	Shakespeare village, South Easthope Township
Woodlawn	Highway 86, Listowel Village
WATERLOO COUNTY
Early Presbyterian	Highway 86 west of Town of Elmira, Woolwich Township
Elmira Union	Highway 86 east of Elmira
Hagey Mennonite	Fountain St N, City of Cambridge, across from Preston cemetery
Martin Mennonite	corner King Street N & Country Squire Road, City of Waterloo
New Hope	235 Cooper St, Cambridge (Hespeler)
Old Blair	Blair village, Cambridge (Preston)
Rosebank	on Huron Road across from Brethren Church, Wilmot Township;
Pioneer Methodist	County Road 23, 1/2 mile south of Winterbourne Village
WELLINGTON COUNTY
Elora Municipal	South Street, Town of Elora
Howitt Memorial	4th concession road west of highway 6, Puslinch Township
Ponsonby	Ponsonby Village, Nichol Township
Stone Church	Highway 24 between Villages of Eramosa and Everton
Woodlawn	north end of Woolwich St., City of Guelph
WENTWORTH COUNTY
Carlisle United	Carlisle Village, East Flamborough Township
Sheffield	Sheffield Village, Beverly Township
St Johns Anglican	corner Halson & Wilson Sts, Town of Ancaster
YORK COUNTY
Carrville	north side Rutherford Road west of Bathurst St, City of Vaughan
Christ Church Anglican	Royal York Road south of Evans Ave, City of Toronto
Holy Trinity Anglican	east side Yonge St, City of Vaughan (Thornhill)
Newmarket	site re-developed; removed? to current cemetery 112 N Main St
Necropolis	200 Winchester St, City of Toronto
Potters Field	site re-developed; burials removed to St James & Necropolis
St James Anglican	635 Parliament St, City of Toronto
Thornhill Community	northeast corner John St & Church Lane, Vaughan (Thornhill)
Wesleyan Methodist Pioneer	City of Vaughan (Woodbridge)