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Union United Church, Wellesley

Begun: c.1865
Closed: 1965

The Wesleyan Methodist Wellesley Circuit may have had its base in Crosshill at the church referred to as Rush's Methodist Church. Services are reported to have begun in the Crosshill area c.1851.

The Wesleyan Methodist congregation in Wellesley Village began c.1865 as a Sunday School, later sharing an inter-denominational church known as Union Church which had been built in 1858 by the Swedenborgians at the corner of
William and Doering Streets. A Wellesley Mission was created in 1890 by the Annual Meeting of the Galt District, Guelph Conference of the Methodist Church from an amalgamation of the Hawkesville and Linwood Missions. Presbyterian services were also held in the church.

In 1925, the already "united" Methodist and Presbyterian congregations joined the United Church. The church closed some forty years later, in 1965 - the final service was held in July of that year. In 1992 the church was occupied by the Wellesley Missionary Church.


Records:
Baptism dates: unknown         Location of records: unknown
Marriage dates: unknown        Location of records: unknown
Burial dates: unknown             Location of records: unknown

Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms for Waterloo County c.1830-1874 are in an indexed card file at the Kitchener Public Library. See
Waterloo County Marriages 1858-1869 for information on Marriages for 1858-1859. The Millbank United Church Membership Roll 1938-1962, which includes members from Union United Church, Wellesley from 1948-1962, is at the United Church Archives.

References: Dewar, WHS 1967(55):52; Maple Leaf 1983:97; Methodist Church 1887-1899; R. Taylor 1986; WHS 1965(53):23.

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.

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