Rev. Curran

Abt 1840 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Curran
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	Abt 1840	of, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1873	Trinity Anglican Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	minister
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-114637
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I114637	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  An Anglican missionary, Rev. Michael Boomer, arrived in Galt in 1840 to organize the community's first Anglican congregation. Services were held in the Township Hall until the fall of 1844 when a new stone church was completed. The building was opened and consecrated in October, 1844 by Dr. Strachan, Bishop of the Diocese of Toronto. Land for the church had been donated by the Dickson family and the cost of the building was assumed largely by the Dicksons and by Absalom Shade. The first Rector of Trinity Church, Rev. Michael Boomer, was to minister to the Galt congregation until moving to London in 1872 when he became Principal of Huron College and Dean of the Huron diocese. Dean Boomer was followed by Reverend Canons Brock (1872-1873), Curran (1873-1877), Hinks (1877-1886) and Rev. Canon Ridley who was rector from 1886 until his sudden death in November 1915. Ambrose, Rosemary. Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide to Churches Established Before 1900. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: Waterloo-Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1993.

  
  

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  Born - Abt 1840 - of, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - minister - 1873 - Trinity Anglican Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth