St. John's Lutheran Church, Linwood
Begun: 1871
Closed: c.1955
The congregation of this Missouri Synod Church in Linwood was organized in 1871 by Pastor F. Dubpernell of First St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Wellesley. Services were held in a school until a stone church was built in 1872-1873 several miles west of Linwood; the cornerstone for the new church was laid the second Sunday after Trinity in 1873. Church dedication was by Pastor Dubpernell on the 23rd Sunday after Trinity in 1873. He was succeeded in the same year by Pastor W. Brandt of Floradale.
In 1905 the congregation moved in to Linwood to a church which they had bought and renovated. According to Longo (1984:17) the church purchased by the congregation was the former Evangelical Association Church in Linwood which had been built in the 1880s.
A Parish formed of Linwood, Floradale and Salem was ministered to in the early years by Pastor Adam Ernst. St. John's was later part of the Wellesley-Poole Parish, and then of Kitchener and Tavistock. The congregation was small and its size gradually decreased, partly because of the presence of a Canada Synod Church (St. Peter's) in Linwood.
Records:
Baptism dates: unknown Location of records: unknown
Marriage dates: unknown Location of records: unknown
Burial dates: unknown Location of records: unknown
References: Cronmiller 1961:165; Longo 1984:17; Malinsky 1954:69.
Information excerpted from: Waterloo County Churches, A Research Guide to Churches established before 1900, by Rosemary Willard Ambrose © Waterloo-Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1993. It is reproduced by permission.
For a complete list of resources mentioned above, please click here.
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Closed: c.1955
The congregation of this Missouri Synod Church in Linwood was organized in 1871 by Pastor F. Dubpernell of First St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Wellesley. Services were held in a school until a stone church was built in 1872-1873 several miles west of Linwood; the cornerstone for the new church was laid the second Sunday after Trinity in 1873. Church dedication was by Pastor Dubpernell on the 23rd Sunday after Trinity in 1873. He was succeeded in the same year by Pastor W. Brandt of Floradale.
In 1905 the congregation moved in to Linwood to a church which they had bought and renovated. According to Longo (1984:17) the church purchased by the congregation was the former Evangelical Association Church in Linwood which had been built in the 1880s.
A Parish formed of Linwood, Floradale and Salem was ministered to in the early years by Pastor Adam Ernst. St. John's was later part of the Wellesley-Poole Parish, and then of Kitchener and Tavistock. The congregation was small and its size gradually decreased, partly because of the presence of a Canada Synod Church (St. Peter's) in Linwood.
Records:
Baptism dates: unknown Location of records: unknown
Marriage dates: unknown Location of records: unknown
Burial dates: unknown Location of records: unknown
References: Cronmiller 1961:165; Longo 1984:17; Malinsky 1954:69.
Information excerpted from: Waterloo County Churches, A Research Guide to Churches established before 1900, by Rosemary Willard Ambrose © Waterloo-Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1993. It is reproduced by permission.
For a complete list of resources mentioned above, please click here.
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