Description

This is the ‘Old· Methodist Cemetery’, the newer one being the Erie Cemetery in Colchester Village.  It was not until 1872 that the Harrow Methodists purchased the land for their church on the east side of Church Street at the corner of King, a site that included the burial ground. It is evident that they had decided that it was to be a church burial ground by the 1860s, because some seventeen Methodist burials are recorded in that decade.  The majority of burials took place in the 1870s, with at least 37 occurring and they tapered off in the 1880s with a further 17 interred. Two burials are recorded in the 1890s and two in the twentieth century.  Alfred Munger was buried there in 1925.

The file contains 15 pages including an index on the last page.

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