Volume 04 - Obituaries from Ontario's Christian Guardian, 1861 - 1870 [Methodist]

By Rev. Donald A. McKenzie

This is Volume Four of a series of volumes of transcribed vital records of births, conversions, marriages, deaths, obituaries from Methodist newspapers 1830-1900 (scroll down page for list of all volumes). 

Volume 04 provides transcribed obituary notices from Ontario's Christian Guardian periodical, 1861 - 1870: Ontario is the main geographical area covered. There are references to all the settled parts of Ontario from Windsor and the shore of Lake Huron east to Cornwall and Pembroke. Quite a few of the deaths recorded are for people who lived in the Quebec portion of the Ottawa Valley, or in the vicinity of Montreal, Sherbrooke, or Quebec city. There are also a number of obituaries for people who had emigrated to the United States and died there.

Contents include

• Introduction
• Transcriptions of Obituaries (organized alphabetically by surname)
• Index of additional names (other than those deceased)
• Index of Places sorted by province or country
  • Ontario 
  • Quebec 
  • England, Scotland & Ireland
  • United States
  • Other Foreign

Details for Volume Four:

414 pages
6.75 X 9.75" [approximate size] [blue or tan hardcover]
Originally published by Hunterdon House, New Jersey, 1988 ISBN 0912606339
This edition by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2008, ISBN 978-1-897446-31-7 (hardcover)

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Other Volumes in this series (1830-1900) include: 

• Volume 01 - Death Notices from the Christian Guardian 1836-1850
• Volume 02 - Death Notices from the Christian Guardian 1851-1860
• Volume 03 - More BMD Notices from Methodist Papers 1830-1857
• Volume 04 - Obituaries from Ontario's Christian Guardian, 1861 - 1870
• Volume 05 - Death Notices from the Canada Christian Advocate, 1858 - 1872
• Volume 6 - More Notices from Ontario's Methodist Papers, 1858 - 1872
• Volume 7 - Obituaries from Ontario's Christian Guardian 1873 - 1880
• Volume 8 - Obituaries from the Canada Christian Advocate 1873 - 1884
• Volume 9 - More Obituaries from Ontario's Methodist Papers, 1873 - 1884
• Volume 10 - Obituaries From The Christian Guardian, 1884 to 1890
• Volume 11 - Obituaries From The Christian Guardian, 1891 to 1895
• Volume 12 - Obituaries From The Christian Guardian, 1896 to 1900
  

More about this series of books:: 

The alphabetical format of the main part of these volumes will enable you to quickly find any of your ancestors whose vital events (birth, marriage, death) were reported in the Canadian Methodist newspapers from 1830 to 1900. Many of the entries are from Ontario and Quebec, however there are a significant number of entries from coast to coast across Canada, including Newfoundland, and also the Bahamas. Oftentimes the events were previously reported in other newspapers and periodicals. Those newspapers are recorded as sources. That means that researchers may find additional information in the cited newspaper than that that was repeated in the Methodist newspapers and periodicals that were transcribed by Rev. McKenzie. Also of note is that some volumes also contain vital events records for people of faiths other than Methodist.

Rev. McKenzie's detailed and informative introduction to this work, provides the reader with all the information necessary to understand and use the material.

Note about print quality: Rev. McKenzie typed every page of every book on a typewriter. Most of the volumes are very clearly printed, with a typeface that looks retro to modern readers.  His discipline was admirable. If he made a as single error on a page, that page was retyped. Some of the print in later volumes is a bit light, and few of the keys on his typewriter became worn, however those later volumes are fully readable and the information contained therein invaluable to the family historian.