Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church
Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church is the second oldest building in Halifax, Nova Scotia after St. Paul's and was built for the Foreign Protestants.
Little Dutch Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia
History
It was adapted as a church in 1756 and consecrated in 1760.[1] Established by Otto William Schwartz, it is the oldest known surviving church in Canada associated with the German-Canadian community. It was an official chapel of St. Paul's Church (Halifax). Eventually, the congregation migrated to St. George's (Round) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Robert Fitzgerald Uniacke is buried in the cemetery and Major Leonard Lockman is buried beneath the Church where his monument remains.[2][3][4]
Notable interments
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Otto William Schwartz (tablet removed to St. George's Round Church in 1831)
Johann Matthäus Holland, Hessian (soldier)[6]
- Major Leonard Lockman, namesake of Lockman St. (now Brunswick St.)[10][11]
- Elliot and Ella, Children of Mark P Seward, 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
- Elizabeth, Wife of John Fraser, Surgeon, Nova Scotia Fencibles
- Johann Nikolaus Batz, Hessian (soldier), unmarked grave[12]
See also
References
- Henry Roper: A Brief History of the Parish of St George Archived 2008-04-03 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2 September 2013
- Leonard Lockman
- Leonard Lockhart - Canadian Biography
- 14 December 1896 edition The Acadian Recorder
- Find a Grave - Inscription
- https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GScid=2403462&GRid=70838521&
- https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GScid=2403462&GRid=70870571&
- pp. 83-87
- p. 122
- Halifax Gazette, 15 May 1752 announced: "Just imported, and to be sold by Joshua Mauger, at Major Lockman's store in Halifax, several Negro slaves."
- Note the 1896 article Old Chicken Cock Church erroneously asserts that Joseph Gerrish, namesake of Garrish St. is buried under the church. His gravestone is in the Old Burial Ground. (See Old Chicken Cock Church)
- Find a Grave
Further reading
- Paul Erickson: Anthropological Investigations at the Little Dutch Church in Halifax, in Deutsch-kanadisches Jahrbuch - German Canadian Yearbook, 16, Ed. Lothar Zimmermann, Hartmut Froeschle, Myka Burke. Historical Society of Mecklenburg, Upper Canada, Toronto 2000 ISSN 0316-8603
- Old Chicken Cock Church. 14 December 1896. The Acadian Recorder
- A Brief History of the Little Dutch Church (St. George). 1899.
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