Very Rev. Dean. Michael B. Boomer

1810 - 1888  (77 years)

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  Rev. Michael Boomer

  
  

• Name	Michael B. Boomer
  Prefix	Very Rev. Dean.
  Born	1 Jul 1810	, Ireland   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1840	Trinity Anglican Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	minister
  Residence	Bef 1851	69 Blair Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Occupation	1851	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Clergyman
  Residence	1851	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Episcopalian
  Occupation	1871	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Rector, Trinity Church
  Residence	1871	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Church of England
  Historic Building	1873	14 Blair Road, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Trinity Church Rectory
  	two story brick house, used as Trinity Anglican Church Rectory.
  		Trinity Lutheran Church Rectory 2 story brick house built in 1873
  Residence	26 - 28 Blenheim Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-33279
  Died	4 Mar 1888	London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada   [4, 6]
  Buried	Woodland Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario   [4]
  Person ID	I33279	Generations
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2024

  
  

  Father	George Boomer,   b. 1780, Of, Hill Hall Near Lisburn, Down, Ireland ,   d. 30 Sep 1844  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Mary Knox,   b. Abt 1780, Of, Hill Hall Near Lisburn, Down, Ireland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F8695	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Isabella Jemima Davidson,   b. 1808, , Scotland ,   d. 19 Aug 1876, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada  (Age 68 years)
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2024
  Family ID	F8687	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Helen Adams,   b. 1817, of, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 30 May 1848, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 31 years)
  Children	1. Mary Boomer,   b. 1841, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Helen Boomer,   b. 1844, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. George Edward Boomer,   b. 1844, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Oct 1881, Shanghai, , Shanghai, China  (Age 37 years)   4. Edward Boomer,   b. 1848, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 23 Aug 1849  (Age 1 years)
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2024
  Family ID	F8688	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Harriet Ann Mills,   b. 10 Jul 1835, Bishops Hull, Taunton Deane Borough, Somerset, England ,   d. 1 Mar 1921, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada  (Age 85 years)
  Married	1878
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2024
  Family ID	F8693	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Trinity Anglican Church 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. The first Parish Hall was built in 1855 through the generosity of Mr. Shade. When Mr. Shade died in 1862 his Will provided funds for the construction of a Rectory along with an endowment fund to provide for the rector's salary. The church was enlarged in 1856, and in 1868 the Parish Hall was made larger. The interior of the church was altered in 1885-1886 and the Norman Tower was added during the same time frame through the generosity of Matthew Wilks. Work began on rebuilding the Parish Hall with the laying of the cornerstone on July 17, 1911. Electric lighting was installed in 1916. The Parish Hall was further enlarged in 1956; the new Chapel of the Holy Trinity was built about the same time. Canon Ridley established a Mission in Preston in 1888. Construction of St. John's Anglican Church in that community was begun in 1889 with dedication services held in 1890. St. James Anglican Church in Hespeler also began as a Mission of Galt. Work began in 1919 on St. David's Mission at the corner of Pollock and Chalmers Street in Galt. The Mission, which began as a Sunday School, was dedicated by Archbishop Williams in April 1920. Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose ____________________ St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church Early Anglican services were held in the Berlin area in the 1840s by the Rev. Michael Boomer of the Galt Mission. In 1856 William Jaffray moved from Galt to Berlin and established an English-language newspaper, the Berlin Chronicle. An Anglican, who had attended Trinity Church in Galt, Mr. Jaffray led in the formation of a congregation in Berlin, where he acted as Lay Reader. Two other gentlemen influential in establishing the Anglican presence in Berlin were Henry Joseph Fletcher Jackson and Dr. David S. Bowlby. Land was purchased on April 5, 1861 on the southeast corner of Water St. N. and Short (now Duke) Streets, and the first church, of red brick with white brick trim, was built in 1861. The church was demolished in April 1894 to make room for the present church which was built on the same site and dedicated on October 7, 1894. A Parish Hall was built in 1927 and the church was enlarged in 1955. Early rectors who followed the missionary, Thomas S. Campbell, were the first rector Rev. E.R. Stimson (1859-1864), Rev. Dr. John Schulte (1864-1867), Rev. Henry Jessop (1868) and Rev. Alexander Sydney Falls (1869-1876). Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose __________________________________ St. John's Anglican Church The first church services were held by Rev. Michael Boomer as a mission of Trinity Anglican Church, Galt. These early services were held in various locations: in homes, in the Royal Templars' Hall in the Erb Block, in the Lyceum Hall, and in the frame Lutheran church on King Street. A Sunday School which met in the CNR station house on Guelph Street was begun in 1880 by Mr. Robert Jell. Rev. Canon Ridley of Trinity in Galt organized a congregation in 1888. A church building was constructed in 1889 at the corner of Queen (now Queenston Road) and Argyle Streets and was dedicated in 1890 by Bishop Baldwin of the Diocese of Huron. The first baptism is reported to have taken place on May 17, 1890. Hespeler was attached to Preston until January 1, 1890 when the former became a separate parish. An extension to the church, which included the first Parish Hall, was built in 1908; a new Parish Hall was constructed in 1925; and in 1927 the church was declared free of debt and was consecrated by Archbishop Williams. The church was once more enlarged, and rededicated, in 1953. Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose _________________ VERY REV. MICHAEL BOOMER, LL.D., LONDON. DEAN BOOMER, son of George Boomer, a linen manufacturer of Huguenot descent, and Mary Knox, of Scotch ancestry, was born at Hill Hall, near Lisburn, County of Down, Ireland, January 1, 1810. The name was originally spelt Bulmer, and the progenitor of the family in Ireland was Rend Helmer, who with his wife fled from France about the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and settled at Lambeg, in a house now called the Priory. The name was finally changed from Rene Balmer to Rainey Boomer. An interesting anecdote in told of him in the Ulster Journal of Archeology." As King William (of Orange) passed through Lambeg on one occasion, about 190 years ago, he was met by Mr. Balmer, who addressed him in French. After explaining to the King the cause of his being in Ireland, as His Majesty was about to pass on, his humble subject asked permission to embrace him. The King consented, and having received a saluteon the cheek, he, stooping toward Bulmer's wife, a lovely French woman, said: "and the wife also," and he saluted her heartily. Our subject was educated at the Belfast Royal Academic Institution, of which he was a foundation scholar for five years, and at Trinity College, Dublin, having graduated from the latter in 1838, and there receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Law, in 1860. He came to Canada in 1840; was ordained Deacon the same year by Bishop Strath., and Priest the following year, as a missionary for the Propagation of the Gospel ; and was appointed to the minion of Galt a position which he retained for more than thirty years When be entered upon his mission work, there were but three Episcopal families in the parish, and neither school house nor church; when he left, a large stone church and fine parsonage were up, and there were nearly a thousand members of the church, and an endowment of $1,000. In 1872 the subject of this notice was called to London by the Bishop of Huron, and appointed Dean of Huron and Principal of Huron College, an institution founded by Bishop Hellmuth in 1863, for preparing young men for the ministry, and which is quite flourishing under the principalship of the worthy Dean. His present wife was M. Harriet Roche, of England, an authoress who has written a very popular work on South Africa,. "On Trek in the Transvaal" The Canadian biographical dictionary : and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men: Ontario volume.

  
  

• Sources

  [S528] Book - Ontarian Families Genealogies of United Empire Loyalists and other Pioneer Families of Upper Canada, Vol 1 Pg 87. https://content.ancestry.ca/iexec/?htx=BookView&ti=5543&dbid=27968&iid=dvm_LocHist012013-00058-1&fn=absalom&ln=shade&pid=102 [S570] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1871, Div. 3, Pg. 33. [S313] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1851, Pg.25. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180433874/michael-boomer. [S1034] Book - City of Cambridge Local, Architectural Conversevation Advisory Committee Local Building Inventory, Report on 14 Blair Road, Cambridge, Ontario. two story brick house, Trinity Anglican Church Rectory, porch replaced in 1922. [S528] Book - Ontarian Families Genealogies of United Empire Loyalists and other Pioneer Families of Upper Canada, Vol 1 Pg 87. https://content.ancestry.ca/iexec/?htx=BookView&ti=5543&dbid=27968&iid=dvm_LocHist012013-00058-1&fn=absalom&ln=shade&pid=102

  
  

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  Born - 1 Jul 1810 - , Ireland Occupation - minister - 1840 - Trinity Anglican Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Bef 1851 - 69 Blair Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Clergyman - 1851 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Episcopalian - 1851 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Rector, Trinity Church - 1871 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Church of England - 1871 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Historic Building - Trinity Church Rectory - 1873 - 14 Blair Road, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - - 26 - 28 Blenheim Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 4 Mar 1888 - London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Woodland Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth