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North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Jennifer (View posts)
Posted: 21 May 2006 3:11AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bissell, Flintoft
Does anyone know if this cemetery is available on microfilm ? I am researching Bissells, and have discovered some of them are in that cemetery. I would like to find the dates on their stones.

Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Posted: 21 May 2006 1:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 27 Sep 2006 6:00PM GMT
Surnames: Dougherty, McGuire, Ward, Kirk, Howell, McCann, etc.
The North Pelham Church cemetery is on microfilm. I found this information on the Archives of Ontario site:

Niagara Regional Municipality - Pelham Town - North Pelham First Presbyterian Church
MS 451, Reel 82

You would borrow it through the closest library to you that has a microfilm reading machine.

If you wouldn't mind waiting a week or so until I go downtown, I can check the Welland Library's Local History Collection to see if they have this transcript. Also, perhaps someone else with a personal copy of the transcript will respond before then to save you the hassle of ordering the film.

Sharon
Welland, Ontario

Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Posted: 24 May 2006 7:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 27 Sep 2006 6:00PM GMT
These are the Bissells in the transcription of the North Pelham Presbyterian Church cemetery:

Gordon E. Bissell
1886 - 1975
his wife
Alice M. Corman
1885 - 1973

Gordon L. Bissell
Dec. 26, 1879 - Mar. 15, 1972

D. Leslie Flintoft
May 2, 1887- April 12, 1961
his wife
Florence E. Bissell
July 11, 1896
[I presume this is a birthdate. No date of death was recorded.]
their daughter
Beulah Pearl
June 24, 1917 - Oct. 27, 1918

Earl K. Bissell
Dec.19 1902 - May 25, 1983
his wife
Violet L.
April 12, 1905 - June 13, 1975

James A. Bissell
died Aug. 27, 1927
aged 69 y'rs
his wife
Emma I. Nelson
died Aug. 16, 1938
aged 76 y'rs

I hope this helps.

Sharon
Welland, Ontario

Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Jennifer (View posts)
Posted: 25 May 2006 1:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
This helps a lot. Thank you very much.

Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Posted: 6 Nov 2011 1:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hinton
Sharon,

Where did you end up finding this information. I am looking for Hinton's that were buried in that Cemetery. It would be a lot easier to find a paper copy of the records than to find a mircofilm reader.

Laura

Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Posted: 7 Nov 2011 4:20AM GMT
Classification: Query
I probably got my information from a paper transcription of the cemetery at the Welland Library.

I see online at the Ontario Genealogical Society website that there are 3 Hintons buried in the Pelham cemetery: George, Nellie, and Nellie E. Here's the link: http://ogs.andornot.com/CemeteryIndex.aspx

Put "Hinton" and "Welland" (county) in the search box.

At FamilySearch online I found this death information for Nellie E./Edith Nellie, daughter of George and Nellie:

Name: Edith Nellie Hinton
Event: Death
Event Date: 27 May 1914
Event Place: Rosedere, Lincoln, Ontario
Gender: Female
Age: 4
Estimated Birth Year: 1910
Father: Geo. Hinton
Mother: Nellie Horton
Spouse:
Reference Number: yr 1914 cn 19486
Film Number: 1861976
Digital Folder Number: 4035466
Image Number: 213


["Rosedere" is probably a misspelling of "Rosedene". Check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosedene,_Ontario ]

If this is the Hinton family you are looking for, let me know and I will get the full transcription information for you. It may be a week before I will have time to go downtown to the library, however.

Sharon
Welland, Ontario

Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Posted: 8 Nov 2011 3:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Sharon,

This is definitely the Hinton family that I am looking for.

I would much appreciate the full transcript information. Waiting a week is not a problem, whenever you get there is great.

Thanks,
Laura

Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 6:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
I checked at the library yesterday and found that there was just one Hinton stone in the cemetery...for Nellie E., the 4 year old daughter of George and Nellie. This is the wording on the stone:

Nellie E.
dau of Geo. & Nellie
HINTON
died May 27 1914
aged 4 yrs & 4 ms

Safe in the Arms of Jesus

Now, as luck would have it...well, almost... the North Pelham Presbyterian Church was having their Christmas Bazaar today according to the local newspaper. I had already planned to make the short trip as the church ladies have a cookbook that I wanted to purchase not to mention delicious baked goods that I can't resist. It turned out to be a beautiful sunny day...great for photos... and at the last minute I tucked my camera into my purse.

I made all the purchases I wanted and then went across the street to the cemetery. I knew from the transcription that the stone was in the 27th row, the 3rd stone over from the roadway into the cemetery. You would think that this stone would be easy to find but it wasn't. The rows are not regularly placed and straight like in a city cemetery and many of the marble stones were unreadable from the effects of acid rain. Also, the marble stones tended to be placed right in the ground and not on bases so many were leaning over and unreadable by a standing adult. So the bad news is I could not locate the stone.

I did find out at another source that the child Nellie was born in Lincoln County, north of Welland County where the hamlet of North Pelham is located, on 2 Jan. 1910.

Here is the link to Mapquest so you can check on the map to see the lacation of the cemetery.
http://classic.mapquest.com/maps?city=Pelham&state=ON&am...

The church is on the southwest corner of the intersection of Cream Street and Metler Road and the cemetery is on the southeast corner.

Sharon
Welland, Ontario

Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Posted: 22 May 2015 6:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
Sharon,

I know it has been a long while since you sent me this information but I want to thank you.

I have been able to make it to the cemetery and find the tombstone for little Nellie Hinton. It is obvious that she was well loved. The tombstone is now difficult to read and I am hoping to find a way to restore it.

Where ever I look it tells me that George and Nellie were buried at the same cemetery but I come up with the same thing you did that there is no headstone for them.
You stated that from the transcripts that little Nellie was in the 27th row and 3rd stone from the roadway. How did you find that and how can I find where George and Nellie are? I am wondering if they are in the plots next to little Nellie as there were no headstones there.

Laura



Re: North Pelham First Presbyterian Church

Posted: 27 May 2015 4:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
You wrote: "You stated that from the transcripts that little Nellie was in the 27th row and 3rd stone from the roadway...."
That information came from the library's copy of the cemetery transcription. When members of the local branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society and/or volunteers begin the process of transcribing a cemetery, they determine a starting point (e.g. a roadway) and number the rows from that point. Each stone in each row is given a number, also. Recording the row/stone numbers makes it easier for the transcribers to find where they left off if they have to return on another day to continue their work. When the transcription is completed and their work is published, it makes it easier for visitors to find family gravesites, too.

The transcription contains only the info on the stones that are in place on the days the transcribers go to record. Stones that were never put in place or have been removed from the cemetery for whatever reason (e.g. theft) do not, of course, get recorded. Since there was no stone for George and Nellie when the transcribers worked in the North Pelham cemetery, there was no row/stone number recorded in the transcription.

George and Nellie very well could be in plots next to little Nellie. Here's a suggestion for you:

Most libraries that have computers available for public use also have Ancestry subscriptions. If your library is like this, then see if you can find a death registration for George and/or Nellie. With the date of death in hand for one or both, you could contact the church secretary or minister and ask them to check the church's Interment Book/Burial Register. Having these dates this person should have no trouble finding out whether or not George and Nellie are buried in this cemetery.

Perhaps someone else reading this will have another suggestion for you to try.

Good luck in your search.

Sharon
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