1888 Crawshawbooth worked in Sunnyside Printworks, Member Wesleyan Church
Local preacher at the Free Methodist Non-Conformist Church, Rawtinstall, England for four
years to 1894. They did not allow married preachers and he was married to:

Jane Eckersley (July 31,1862 - October 13,1923) buried in Brantford
A scholar & Teacher in Thorn Wesleyan School, Bacup, Eng
Her Parents: Charles Eckersley (1839 - March 26,1917) buried Heaton Cemetary
Mary Ann Eckersley (1941 - March 7, 1917) Buried Heaton Cemetary
1893 March 5 - John Harper Schofield, son born - died September 21, 1971 buried Kitchener

1894 summer- left England from Rawtenstall to go to the Methodist Episcopal Church of America

1894 November 14 - Bartol Schofield, daughter born (Married name Peart)- died March 3, 1981
Burlington
1894 Aug. 24 - became a preacher with the United Brethren in Christ, Marvin Greene, Tennessee, U.S.A.

1897 Aug to 1898 Aug. 6, Danville District, Urbana Illinois Mission (Pesotum & Urbana, Illinois)
United Brethren Mission, Upper Wabash Conference, Indiana, U.S.A.

1898 March 15 - Twin daughters born Mary Melissa (Married name Chalmers) died
nicknamed Mamie Buried Lundy’s Lane, Niagara Falls

Margaret Azora (Married name McLellan) died March 23, 1983
Buried in Brantford
Believe living in Gessie, Indiana Manse at time of twins birth but could have been born
in Bethlehem, Indiana.
1898 Sept. 10 named to the Upper Wabash Conference at Brook, Indiana
to July 15 1899 Danville District Illinois, Gessie Indiana Circuit, ( Pleasant Grove, Gessie, Farmer’s Chapel, Union Corner and Foster, ( added in 1899) Upper Wabash, Indiana, U.S.A.
United Brethren in Christ
Yearly Salary 1899 to 1900 -$500.00
Missionary Subscriptions & Church Benevolences - Children Bartol & Harper each 50 Cents,
James W. Schofield $5.00
1899 Aug to Nov 26, 1900 Crawfordsville, Indiana District, Veedersburg Circuit (Veedersburg, New
Castle and Dices, Indiana)
1900 New Century U.B. Church Cornerstone laid, Veedersburg
see 1)Notebook entitled Extracts for contents of cornerstone and picture of church
2) Gold Watch presented to Rev. Schofield from Veedersburg in 1900

1900 Dec.-Oct 22, 1906 - Sheffield Charge - United Brethren Church (Sheffield, Freeport, and Galt)
1) see Gold topped Cane presented when he left
Services were held in the Foresters Hall, Branchton starting Nov. 22, 1901 for
the remainder of the Year. Also mentions Freeport and lists members
When Queen Victoria died a special service was held at Sheffield

1905 Oct. 14 - The Globe, byline Sheffield, Ontario “United Brethren and Methodists will vote to join
forces.”



1906 As well as being a pastor in Berlin he was named the Presiding Elder of the United
Brethren Conference renamed General Supervisor of the District for the recently
joined United Brethren and Congregational congregations. District charges are Berlin,
Blenheim, Gainsboro, Listowel, Port Elgin, Sheffield, Shelborne, Sherkston, Vienna,
Waterloo and Zion.

1906 Oct. 21- 1908 Oct 4 Berlin, Ontario - The United Brethren Association of Congregational Churches
Church Street U.B. Church renamed Grace Congregational Church
1908 Oct. 25 - transferred to the Congregational Church of Nova Scotia & New Brunswick
to 1910 May 22 - Liverpool, Nova Scotia - Centenary Methodist Church
Harper Matriculated from the Liverpool Academy

1910 June 6 Accepted to Hamilton Conference as a Methodist Minister although he had been ordained as
a United Brethren Minister

1910 July 3 to 1912 Aug. 11 - Port Rowan (also St. Williams, and Forestville, Ontario) Methodist
Church, Hamilton Conference
( Harper teaching in Rowen Mills in 1910/11 and Charlton in 1911/12 )

1913 Sept. 20 to 1917 June 24 -Freeman, Ontario (West Plains, East Plains and Appleby)
Jacob Peart- Official Board Member
Ross Peart- Committee Social Services (Bartol’s husband)

23. E. Peart- Evangelism

Listed as Members - Margaret, Mary, Bartol, Jane and J. W. Schofield
also Pearts - Jacob, William, Lois (Smith) Ross and Eva

1917 July 1 to 1919 June 29 - Bartonville - 3 churches each Sunday (Wesley, Burkholder & Bartonville)
1918 Mary -President and Margaret - Corresponding Secretary of the Y.P.S.

1919 Aug to 1924 Brantford - Sydenham Church
Sept 1922 Meeting re: new church building as old building has serious structural failures
Jun 2/23 Contracted John English to Build new church - $43,880.00
Dedicated March 30, 1924
Jane killed in a car accident on icy roads returning from a visit to Bartol and Ross Peart
Oct 13, 1923 - James would suffer from a leg injury for the rest of his life
1924 July 6 to 1928 -St. Catharines, Ontario - Memorial Church

1929 to 1931 Probably Walkerton (Definite July/Aug 1931 from Harper’s Diaries)
1931 Nov. to 1935 June 30 - Walkerton - St. Paul’s
1935 President of the Hamilton Conference of United Churches
July 12, 1932 to Sept 12, 1932 James and Mater (spouse) visited England
Harper and Ross Peart gave sermons some Sundays while Rev. Schofield was away
1935 July 7 until he retired 1941 June 30 - Dunnville, Grace United Church
Chaplain RCAF Training School
1941 moved back to Brantford

1943 - Came out of retirement and served as the interim minister for 11 months for an honourarium at
Sydenham United Church in Brantford

1944 - Jan 23, attended Burning of Mortgage Service Sydenham United, Brantford

1946 March 2 died in Brantford and buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

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