Evan William Bigwin

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Given Name(s):
Evan William

Surname:
Bigwin

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Age:
(unknown)

Sex:
M

Born:
Mar 16, 1954

Died:
Oct 13, 2022

Evan is buried here.

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There are no other people on same stone or plot:

Cemetery:

Alderville Reserve, Alnwick Twp., ON, Canada

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The Alderville Reserve Cemetery (which is still active) is located in Alnwick township, on C2 L13, in Northumberland County , ON, Canada.

This cemetery:
• was compiled by Allan Birney
• is up to date as of Nov 01, 2020

GPS Coordinates:

Latitude:
N 44° 11' 0.31"
44.18342

Longitude:
W 78° 3' 58.36"
-78.06621

Additional Info:

Records taken from transcription by Sybil Hicks, in April 1993. Record was updated during the summer of 2003 by Alan and Debbie Elder of the Lakeshore Genealogical Society. This cemetery was photographed and updated in November 2020 by Keith Edwards.

Rev. William Case, a leader in early Methodism in Upper Canada, native of Massachussetts, served in Canada since 1805 except for 5 years when he was Presiding Elder in N.Y. State. He spent many of his early years in the Belleville area. In 1826 he invited two native Indians from Brantford to come to the area to give some spiritual guidance to the local Indians. Many local

Indians were influenced by Case to enter the ministry in different roles (missionaries, pastors, exhorters).

Case chose Grape Island (southeast of Belleville) with an area of 10 acres, to nurture and educate his new group of Christian Indians. On October 26, 1826 the local Indians signed a 999 year lease giving Case the use of Grape Island as his Mission Station. By January 1827 Rev. Case claimed 90 adults & 40 children had "embraced the faith". Later, a group from Kingston & Gananoque joined the Grape Island Mission.

In the spring of 1837 the mission at the overcrowded Grape Island Mission came to an end. Sir John Colborne assigned 3,500 acres in Alnwick Twp. The land was surveyed into 50 acre lots in 1835. The Conference of 1836 appointed Case and two others to supervise the move of the Indians to their new home. They named it Alderville, in honour of the Rev. Robert Alder, who was Secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (England) between

1833 and 1851.

Grape Island was quiet again after 1837. Two Indian families stayed there to farm it for some years. The Indians at Alderville quickly built their fine white clapboard church at the heart of the village.

Rev. Case is buried in this cemetery in an unmarked grave.

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Notes

Died Northumberland Hills Hospital. Son of the late Marie Hogg and the late Derwyn Hogg and the late Phyllis Charles and step-son of Marion Smith Hogg; husband of Joan Crouch for 43 years; brother of Rhonda, Rosemary, Heather, Susan, Wanda, Mark, Arnold, Erwin, and the late Lisa Hogg. MacCoubrey Funeral Home. Info from obituary.

How to Submit Photos for Evan William Bigwin

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• The specific prefix code for this person's plot is ALDRVLEWB;
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• ALL images for Evan William Bigwin and others on the same stone or plot MUST have the same exact prefix up to and including the semi-colon.

Personal Pictures Example:

• Suppose you have two images for this person's monument with filenames 40thBirthday.jpg and Evan William Headshot.jpg
• The specific prefix code for him is ALDRVLEWB^0;
• Your modified filenames will be ALDRVLEWB^0;40thBirthday.jpg and ALDRVLEWB^0;Evan William Headshot.jpg
• The text following the semicolon can be anything you want (including spaces)
• Add a caption as follows (surrounding spaces optional; tilde (~) marks the end of the caption; otherwise we will use the complete filename):
ALDRVLEWB; Your caption here~ 40thBirthday.jpg and
ALDRVLEWB; Another caption~ Evan William Headshot.jpg

• ALL personal photos of Evan William Bigwin MUST have the same exact prefix up to and including the semi-colon.
• These personal images will NOT appear for others on the same stone or plot.