First St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery CC#4540

103 William St. S., Wellesley Village,

Wellesley Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario East Concession 1 lot 13

This church site was donated by Christopher Doering; a frame church was built in 1854 for $1200. The frame church was destroyed by fire on 21 August 1876 and was replaced immediately by a brick successor which still stands It has been significantly altered twice in the meantime, adding a porch and basement among other things.  The early church records were lost in the first and now begin in 1888 only.

A schism in this church caused the formation of another St. Paul's Lutheran church in Wellesley, which is now known as St. Mark's. It has its won cemetery.  The southern portion of St. Paul's cemetery was originally the churchyard of  the original Swedenborgian church, a frame building which was later a Union church used for English language services. The building has been gone for many years. It is therefore useful even for those whose families were not Lutheran in religion to check the stones in the cemetery in case their Swedenborgian or other ancestors might be found here.        February 1992. 

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