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Twillingate - St. Peter's Anglican Church Cemetery (complete)

St. Peter's Anglican Church is one of the oldest wooden churches still in existence in Newfoundland. The main building was erected in 1842, the tower was completed three years later. Bishop Field consecrated the church in the summer of 1845. In 1862 the parishioners purchased the tower bell in grateful appreciation of the bountiful seal harvest of that year.

The headstones were read, recorded and transcribed by AMALIE LEWIS TUFFIN, 1998. While I have endeavored to be as correct as humanly possible, there could be some typographical errors.

Twillingate - St. Peter's Snelling Cove Cemetery (partial)

The headstones were recorded by TONYA WARD.

***If a name is linked, that indicates that a photograph was taken of the headstone. Please click on link to view photo

St. Peter's, Twillingate
St. Peter's Anglican Church, Twillingate
Picture compliments of Arlene Bennett

NAME	RELATION	BORN	DIED	AGE	NOTES
Richard Hodder			April 17, 1871	62 years	a Native of Devonshire, England
Walter [Hodder]	also his son		at Messina February 6 1872	21 years

Rebecca [Hodder]	widow of the late Richard Hodder		June 26, 1885	74 years

Josiah Colbourne			17 August 1875	29 mos. (??)

William Archibald Stirling			September 1st 1874	10 years
John Mayne Stirling			July 27, 1855	3 years
David Stirling			April 10, 1898 (??)	10 days

Ann Sinnott			departed this life July 27, 1867

Anne Gray			August 31st	6 (?) months

Mary B. Baird			November 28th 1878	[age illegible]
Annie M. Baird			December 1st 187?	[age illegible]

Agnes Mary [Wells]	the beloved wife of George Wells		August 8, 1876	24 years
Elias [Wells]			August 24th, 1874	2 years
Edwin [Wells]			January 4, 1875	1 year

Zechariah Warr			May 1st 1869	31 years

Dinah Elizabeth [Blackler]	the children of Angus and Catherine Blackler		September 28th 1859	3 months
Philip [Blackler]	the children of Angus and Catherine Blackler		September 10th, 1860	[space left for age, but nothing there]

Joseph [Haydon]	the beloved husband of Rosannah Haydon		August 6th 1870	in the 73rd year of his age

Martha Blackler			December 1st, 1877	80 years

James Blackler		1796	July 21st, 1875	79	born at Exeter in Devonshire England

William C. Talbot			November 4th, 1872	46 years
Andrew Lunnen			July 17th 1874	26 years	[This stone was on a flat headstone laid over a brick tomb which rose about a foot off of the ground. It was the only one like this in the entire cemetary.]

Alfred [Mursel]	son of Charles and Maria Mursel	[date broken off]

Samuel Colbourne			October 18th, 1859	44 years

Joseph Colbourne Roberts			August 6th, 1860	3 years and 9 mos
Joseph Roberts			October 16th, 1861

James Roberts			November 4th 1868	75 years

Joseph [Jelard]	the beloved son of Robert and Rachel Jelard		March 16th, 1878	20 years

Mary Ann Strong	wife to Samuel Strong			27th year of her age	[This stone had no legible date on it, but appeared very old.]

Edward [Britt]	husband of Mary Britt		April 7th, 1870 [? could be 1878]	66 years

Louisa Colbourne			May 1867 (?)	17 years

John Colborne Junr.			28th of November 1858	40 years	drowned in Green Bay during a snow storm the Night of the

Elizabeth Chinn			April 4th 1861	33 years

Jean [Manuel]	the beloved wife of Thomas Manuel		November 15th 1862	52 years
Alfred [Manuel]	also their son		at sea August 15th 1862	25 years

Susan Haydon			February 5th, 1866	31 years

William Lethbridge			July 15, 1868	7 months

Mary Lethbridge			November 23, 1874	1 hour
Harry Lethbridge			July 24, 1879	3 ½ years
Harry Lethbridge			August 2nd 1883	5 months
[NOTE: The above two stones were very expensive looking and were surrounded by a very sturdy wrought iron fence, one of the few in the cemetery.]

William Archibald Stirling	surgeon		at Twillingate August 13th 1858	72 years

Eleanor E. Peyton			March 1, 1864	21 years
Georgina Peyton			March 23rd 1864	10 years

Ann Newman			June 13, 1875	67 years

Samuel Drake			February the 7th 1829	37 years

Luke Cook			November 18th 1843	37 years

Elizabeth White Dowell			November 15th 1855	25 years
William [Dowell]	son of the above		August 22, 1854	5 months

Hannah [Lacey]	the wife of Samuel Lacey		September 22, 1852	42 years

Samuel Lacey			November 22nd, 1889	88 years	a native of Dorset

Thomas Collis			20th of May 1825	54 years	who was born at Bucknowle, in the County of Dorset, England

John Farewell			October 16th 1825	55 years

Jas. Pride	son of John and Mary Pride		January 8, 1850	31 years

Absalom Purchase			January 28th 1896	71

Elizabeth [Purchase]			December 31st 1881	45 years	erected by William Purchase in Memory of his beloved sister

John Purchase			February 14th 1865	67 years
Elizabeth Purchase			February 26 1865	61 years
[NOTE: Each of the Purchase headstones had flowers in front of it. These were the only stones in the cemetery with flowers.]

Martha {Taylor]	wife of Henry Taylor		November 18th 1879	32 years

Sarah B. Taylor			April 3, 1893	55 years

Charlotte L. Pearce			1st day of August 1863	in the 54th year of her age

Ann Pearce			23rd day of March, 1852	in the 74th year of her age	a native of Piddletown, Dorsetshire

W. Daw Pearce			drown’d the 31st of May 1866	28 years

Alexander Guy			June 20, 1862	70 years

John Elliott			March 23rd 1852	50 years
Ann [Elliott]	also his wife		May 2nd 1860	63 years

George Maidment			[illegible] 1862	23 years
**Entries below added by Tonya Ward
Louise Colbourne
Josiah Colbourne JP			April 14, 1904	78 years
Entries below are for Snelling Cove Cemetery St. Peter's Snelling Cove is the same cemetery as St. Peter's Anglican (above), they are located in Twillingate about 200 metres behind St. Peter's Anglican Church. Snelling Cove is the newer cemetery - Tonya Ward Please Note: This is a partial transcription of the cemetery**
Alfred John Colbourne			October 20, 1978	77 years
Arthur John Ridout	Son of John and Susan Ridout		February 26, 1906	24 years
Edwin B. Rideout			November 28, 1968	78 years
Elias Fifield			1860 - 1921
Elizabeth Fifield			1864 - 1945
Ellen Colbourne			October 7, 1917
Ernest Colbourne			1926 - 1954
Georgina Stirling
Hannah Colbourne	Widow of the late John Colbourne		December 14, 1892	73 years
Katherine E. Rideout			July 20, 1983	92 years
Lucy Pearl Rideout			1913 - 1996
Lydia Kate Fifield	Beloved wife of Alfred Fifield		April 21, 1971	74 years
W. William Rideout			1914 - 1989
Susan Colbourne	Wife of Josiah Colbourne JP		November 8, 1894	62 years
Walter Ronald Colbourne	Darling Child of Arthur and Amelia Colbourne		August 25, 1901