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St. Mark's Anglican Church

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Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
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St. Mark's Anglican Church
P.O. Box 582
41 Byron Street
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Ontario, L0S 1J0
905-468-3123
stmarks@cogeco.net

http://www.stmarks1792.com/

Archives Predating 1869
Baptisms, Marriages & Burials 1792
Fonds - Brief Description

St. Mark's Anglican Church (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.) fonds. – 1792-1991. – 2.8 m of textual records.

St. Mark's Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake, is the oldest Anglican community in the Diocese of Niagara and is the oldest continuously used church west of Quebec. It was established by the first resident missionary of Niagara, Rev. Robert Addison, in 1792. The church, completed as early as 1794 and no later than 1804, was damaged by fire during the War of 1812 and was subsequently restored.

Fonds consists of parish registers containing statistical records for the military garrison at Fort George and Queenston as well as St. Mark's, vestry minute books, account books, land and cemetery deeds, memoranda and financial records. The fonds has been microfilmed on 4 reels, numbered 337-339 and 398.

Title based on content of fonds.
Fonds on deposit. Ownership of the fonds resides with St. Mark's Church.
Finding aid available in hard copy and electronically. In addition to the finding aids shown here, there are two hard copy finding aids prepared by the parish in 1997 available in the master file.
Researchers are requested to use the microfilms. They must also sign an agreement of use form.
Further accruals are expected.

Finding Aid

I - List of Parish Registers

a) Statistical

  Microfilm
Reel
Parish Register A Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1792 - 1850
- also includes Confirmation Lists 1830 - 1832 and 1838 - 1954		 337
Parish Register B Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1826 - 1850
(there is considerable overlap between Registers A and B)		 337
Parish Register C Register of Baptisms, 1853 - 1856,
Confirmations, 1849, and Burials, 1846 - 1856
- also includes Proceedings of Niagara District Committee,
Society Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1826 - 1830		 337
Parish Register D Register of Baptisms, 22 November 1840 - 20 October 1957
- also includes historical notes by rectors McMurray (1879) and Smith (1931)
and statement of the Vestry (1857) on the appointment of Rev. McMurray.		 337
Parish Register E Register of Baptisms, 20 October 1957 - 22 December 1991 337
Parish Register F

 

 Register of Marriages,
in 6 segments:
21 August 1826 - 28 October 1829
8 March 1831 - 10 November 1832
22 September 1832 - 14 April 1835
2 May 1835 - 5 September 1835
3 September 1836 - 25 October 1838
11 September 1837 - 10 October 1839		 337

 
Parish Register G Register of Marriages, 25 June 1847- 14 August 1972 338
Parish Register H Register of Marriages, 10 July 1858 - 27 November 1888,
and 14 November 1900 - 12 April 1911		 338
Parish Register I Register of Marriages, 14 October 1972 - 3 January 1987 338
Parish Register J Register of Burials, 14 November 1826 - 31 November 1991 338
Parish Register K
 		 Register of Baptisms and Marriages:
Baptisms, 17 May 1821 - 11 September 1827,
Marriages, 8 Oct. 1821 - 16 October 1824,
Marriages, 13 June 1825, 26 April 1827, 6 May 1827
(Fort George Garrison Records, in 3 segments)		 338
 
Parish Register L Register of Baptisms and Marriages:
Baptisms, 23 July 1826 - 24 June 1844
Marriages, 13 December 1827 - June 1851
(Fort George Garrison Register)		 338
Parish Register M

 

 Register of Baptisms and Marriages:
Baptisms, 7 October 1821 - 11 August 1825,
Marriages, 21 November 1821 - 11 November 1825
Baptisms, 15 January 1826 - 8 August 1826
Marriages, 28 November 1825 - 27 April 1826
(Queenston, in 2 segments)		 338

 

b) Non- Statistical

  Microfilm
Reel
Parish Register N Vestry Minute Book, 1842 - 1896 338
Parish Register O Vestry Minute Book, 1897 - 1983 339
Parish Register P Record Book of Niagara Depository of Society for the
Promotion of Christian Knowledge book sales, 1827 - 1833
- also includes lists of Diocesan Church Society Subscribers, 1827, 1842 - 1848.
For SPCK see also Parish Register C.		 339
Parish Register Q Pew Rental Accounts, 1848 - 1890. Also General Accounts,
Offerings, and Grave Lot Accounts.		 339
Parish Register R Envelope Records, 1902 - 1913 339
Parish Register S Marriages, 1987 - 1998 339
Parish Register T Marriages, 1998 - 2002 339

c) Documents

  Microfilm
Reel
Box 1 Notes concerning baptisms, marriages and burials; also marriage licences. This material appears to duplicate entries already contained in the early parish registers.  
F. 1
F. 2
F. 3
F. 4		 1811 - 1818. Marriages and baptisms, 1 page.
1818 - 1821. Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1 page.
1820. Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1 page.
1820 - 1821. Baptisms, marriages and burials, envelope list only.		  
Note: It appears that some time in the 1950s or 1960s, most of the fragmentary notes concerning baptisms, marriages and burials were placed in envelopes and the contents noted on the outside. In some cases the fragments have now disappeared or completely disintegrated -- in other cases they are still extant but are so fragile as to be unusable. The notes on the envelopes appear to accurately reflect the contents of the fragments, so they have been preserved as a substitute for the lost or damaged originals. These records appear also to be duplicated in the Parish Registers but they have not all been crossed checked. Envelopes of fragments should not be opened without consultation with the archivist.
F. 5
F. 6
F. 7
F. 8
F. 9
F. 10
F. 11
F. 12
F. 13
F. 14
F. 15
F. 16		 1824 - 1836. Baptisms and burials, 4 pages and envelope list.
1830 - 1838. Baptisms. Envelope and fragments.
1834 - 1839. Baptisms list (duplicates).
1836 - 1838. Baptisms. Envelope and fragments.
1839 - 1840. Baptisms. Envelope and fragments.
1840 - 1844. Baptisms. Envelope and fragments.
1842 - 1849. Baptisms. Envelope and slips.
1845 - 1849 [or 1850?]. Baptisms. Envelope and fragments.
1845 - 1849. Baptisms, Fort George. List and slips.
1845 - 1853. Baptisms. List and slips.
1850 - 1854. Baptisms. Envelope and fragments.
1855 - 1856. Baptisms. Envelope and fragments.

 
Note: Slips containing notes on marriages often consist of a formal record of the ceremony, signed by the parties involved as well as the minister.
F. 17
F. 18
F. 19
F. 20
F. 21
F. 22
F. 23
F. 24
F. 25
F. 26
F. 27
F. 28
F. 29
F. 30
F. 31
F. 32
F. 33		 1824 - 1829. Marriages. Slips with individual entries and a list.
1825, 1834 - 1854. Marriages. Slips with individual entries.
1829 - 1836. Marriages. Slips with individual entries and one 1829 baptism.
1829 - 1889. Marriages. Envelopes only.
1830 - 1831. Marriages. Slips with individual entries.
1833 - 1849. Marriages. Envelope (1835 - 1839) and slips with individual entries.
1834 - 1836. Marriages. Envelope and fragments.
1834 - 1853. Marriages, Fort George. Slips with individual entries and a list.
1836 - 1837. Marriages. Slips with individual entries.
1838. Marriages. Envelope and fragments.
1839. Marriages. Envelope and fragments.
1844. Marriage. Slip with individual entry.
1849. Marriage. Slip with individual entry.
1852. Marriage. Slip with individual entry.
1827. Burials. List only.
1829 - 1855. Burials. Envelope and fragments.
1850. Burials. List only.

 
Box 2 Marriage Licenses  
Note: regarding Marriage Licenses. Although these are not, strictly speaking, Church records, being issued by successive Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada, since they all relate to the town of Niagara and, presumably, to weddings which took place at St. Mark's or one of the miliary garrisons, they have been listed in chronological sequence here. They have not been crossed-checked against the Parish Registers.
F. 1
F. 2
F. 3
F. 4
F. 5
F. 6
F. 7
F. 8
F. 9
F. 10
F. 11

F. 12

F. 13

F. 14

 1821 - 1828. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir Peregrine Maitland, 27 items.
1829 - 1831. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir John Colborne, 32 items.
1832 - 1834. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir John Colborne, 32 items.
1835 - 1836. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir John Colborne, 16 items.
1836 - 1837. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir Francis Bond Head, 24 items.
1838 - 1841. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir George Arthur, 14 items.
1840. Marriage License issued by Charles Poulett Thomson, 1 item.
1841 - 1842. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir Richard Downes Jackson, 7 items.
1841. Marriage Licenses issued by Charles Baron, 3 items.
1842 - 1843. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir Charles Bagot, 16 items.
1843 - 1845. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe,
17 items.
1846.Marriage Licenses issued by Charles Murray, Earl of Cathcart,
2 items.
1847 - 1854. Marriage Licenses issued by James, Earl of Elgin,
56 items.
1853 - 1854. Marriage Licenses issued by William Rowan,
9 items.

 
Box 3    
F. 1

F. 2

F. 3

F. 4

F. 5

F. 6

F. 7

F. 8

F. 9

F. 10

F. 11
F. 12
F. 13
F. 14
F. 15
F. 16

 1855 - 1861. Marriage Licenses issued by Edmund Walker Head,
18 items.
1857. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir William Eyre,
5 items.
1862 - 1868. Marriage Licenses issued by Viscount Monck,
13 items.
1868 - 1873. Marriage Licenses issued by Sir John Young,
7 items.
1870 - 1873. Marriage Licenses issued by John, Baron Lisgar,
9 items.
1872 - 1874. Marriage Licenses issued by Frederick Temple, Earl of Dufferin,
5 items.
1874 - 1875. Marriage Licenses issued by Lt. Gov. John Crawford,
6 items.
1877 - 1880. Marriage Licenses issued by Lt. Gov. D.A. Macdonald,
12 items.
1881 - 1888. Marriage Licenses issued by John Beverley Robinson,
19 items.
1888. Marriage License issued by Lt. Gov. Alexander Campbell,
1 item.
1879 - 1886. Marriage licenses. These licenses do not relate to Niagara but concern other towns in Ontario. 15 items.
1818 - 1820. Correspondence regarding rebuilding the church and church finance. 3 items.
1836. Authorization by Charles James, Bishop of Quebec, appointing John Strachan to oversee the Church in Upper Canada. With the Bishop's signature and seal.
1853 - 1877. Financial correspondence regarding sale of church lands. 28 items.
1861 - 1886. Financial correspondence. 18 items.
1854. Leases of Church lots. 7 items.

 
Box 4 Cemetery Deeds, arranged alphabetically by surname.  
F. 1

F. 2

F. 3

F. 4

F. 5

 Cemetery Deeds, A,
1862 - 1926, 10 items.
Cemetery Deeds, B,
1895 - 1924, 22 items.
Cemetery Deeds, C,
1892 - 1962, 18 items.
Cemetery Deeds, D - G,
1903 - 1946, 16 items.
Cemetery Deeds, H,
1892 - 1930, 14 items.

 
Box 5 Cemetery Deeds, arranged alphabetically, continued.  
F. 1

F. 2

F. 3

F. 4

F. 5

F. 6

F. 7

F. 8

F. 9

 Cemetery Deeds, K,
1897 - 1923, 9 items.
Cemetery Deeds, L,
1891 - 1923, 6 items.
Cemetery Deeds, M,
1893 - 1936, 14 items.
Cemetery Deeds, O,
1893 - 1922, 5 items.
Cemetery Deeds, P,
1892 - 1922, 10 items.
Cemetery Deeds, Q - R,
1895 - 1929, 13 items.
Cemetery Deeds, S,
1892 - 1937, 18 items.
Cemetery Deeds, T,
1892 - 1935, 3 items.
Cemetery Deeds, W,
1891 - 1922, 8 items.

 
Box 6 (oversize box)  
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7.

 Smaller box containing:
Deed with Seal conveying title to four and one half acres of Clergy Reserve land on which to build the Church to Charles James (Bishop of Quebec), Robert Addison, Thomas Creen, Thomas McCormick and Thomas Butler of St.Mark's Church, 20 May 1829.
(Numbers are attached to the items)
Deed and Plot Plan conveying title of two acres of Crown Land for
Rectory (Parsonage House), 2 April 1850.
Deed and Plot Plan conveying title of two acres of Crown Land for a Burial Ground, 23 April 1850.
An Act of Parliament granting authorization to sell land unable to be used as Burial Ground. Printed. 1877.
Consecration of St.Mark's Church, John Strachan, Lord Bishop of Toronto, in his own hand July, 1842.
Indenture by which David Price secured title to Pew Number Thirty Five, November 1831.
Pew Deeds - 30 originals, 1842.

 

II - Index of Statistical Records

a) Baptisms

  Microfilm
Reel
St. Mark's, Niagara-on-the-Lake    
Parish Register A 1792-1850 337
Parish Register B 1826 - 1850
(there is considerable overlap between Registers A and B)		 337
Parish Register C 1853 - 1856 337
Parish Register D 22 November 1840
- 20 October 1957		 337
Parish Register E 20 October 1957
- 22 December 1991		 337
Fort George Garrison    
Parish Register K 17 May 1821 - 11 September 1827 338
Parish Register L 23 July 1826 - 24 June 1844 338
Queenston Garrison    
Parish Register M 7 October 1821 - 11 August 1825 338
Parish Register M 15 January 1826 - 8 August 1826 338

b) Confirmations

  Microfilm
Reel
St. Mark's, Niagara-on-the-Lake    
Parish Register A 1830-1832 and 1838-1954 337
Parish Register C \1849 337

c) Marriages

  Microfilm
Reel
St. Mark's, Niagara-on-the-Lake    
Parish Register A 1792-1850 337
Parish Register B 1826 - 1850
(there is considerable overlap between Registers A and B)		 337
Parish Register F

 

 21 August 1826 - 28 October 1829
8 March 1831 - 10 November 1832
22 September 1832 - 14 April 1835
2 May 1835 - 5 September 1835
3 September 1836 - 25 October 1838
11 September 1837 - 10 October 1839		 337

 
Parish Register G 25 June 1847 - 14 August 1972 338
Parish Register H 10 July 1858 - 27 November 1888,
14 November 1900 - 12 April 1911		 338
Parish Register I 14 October 1972 - 3 January 1987 338
Note: For marriages 1821 - 1888, see also Marriage Licenses in Boxes 2 and 3.
Fort George Garrison    
Parish Register K 8 Oct. 1821 - 16 October 1824
13 June 1825, 26 April 1827, 6 May 1827		 338
Parish Register L 13 December 1827 - June 1851 338
Queenston Garrison    
Parish Register M 21 November 1821 - 11 November 1825
28 November 1825 - 27 April 1826		 338
Parish Register S 1987 - 1998 398
Parish Register T 1998 - 2002

398

d) Burials

  Microfilm
Reel
St. Mark's, Niagara-on-the-Lake    
Parish Register A 1792 -1850 337
Parish Register B 1826 - 1850
(there is considerable overlap between Registers A and B)		 337
Parish Register C 1846 -1856 337
Parish Register J 14 November 1826 - 31 November 1991 338