St. Thomas Meeting Room, ON

The St. Thomas Meeting Room is considered one of four of the oldest, continuously meeting, Darbyite assemblies in all of Ontario, Canada, alongside the Ottawa Meeting Room, ON, the London Meeting Room, ON and the Smiths Falls Meeting Room, ON. Each is known to have existed in 1878, if not earlier.

Contents

Locations

• @ Masonic Hall, Talbot St. +1880+
• @ Room over store, entrance 645 E. Talbot St. +1911+
  • same?

Meeting Times

• Su B 11am, R 7pm +1911+

Leadership

• J.W. Fortune +1878
• Samuel Butler 1879-1880+ there was a Samuel Butler living in Norfolk County in 1871 that identified as "closed communion Baptist" while his family identified as Methodist. Possible.
  • worked at "Can. S'th'n R"
• Andrew Stevens +1889+ (b. 1827); Occupation in 1891: Carpenter. Wife Elizabeth (b. 1831); Both born in England; Niece: Alice Reesor (b. 1873 Quebec) was a dressmaker living with this family in 1891.
• Samuel Blount Hall, Jr. +1889-1923+ (b. 1858 England)
  • 87 Kains St. +1911+
• David Moore/More (sic?) +1894-1896+
• Elijah Bunker Watson +1901+ (b. 1854 Peel Twp., Wellington, ON - d. 1944 Edmonton, AB)
  • founder +1903+ @ Innisfail Meeting Room, AB +1903-1966+
• John P. Watson +1903-1923+
  • 6 Barwick St. +1911+
• W.H. Lucas +1911-1933+
  • 178 Wellington St.
• Leonard Charles Owen Jr. +1927-1936 (1874-1936)
• Lawrence C. Jones +1949-1973+
• John Gerald Jacklin +1951+ (1907-2008)
• G.S. Walker +1962-1973+
• P.R. Glading +1973+
• Hugh G. Walker +1985+
• Robert Geoffrey Whatmough +1999+ (1919-2004)
• David Harman +2005+
• Ernie Walker +2010+

Other Correspondents

• Miss Stella House +1949-1951+