WESTRUP, HAROLD ARCHIBALD VICTOR (1897-1954)

WESTRUP, HAROLD ARCHIBALD VICTOR, Baptist minister, Upper Blackville and Underhill, 1927-30; b. Derby, England, 9 Dec 1897, s/o the Rev. Arthur Westrup and Jane Southgate; m. Susan May Wright, of Great Yarmouth, England; d. Glace Bay, N.S., 28 Feb 1954.

Harold A. Westrup came to New Brunswick with his parents in 1923 from England. In 1925 his father, the Rev. Arthur Westrup, was called to the pastorate of the Baptist churches at Whitneyville and Little Southwest. He served on the field for two years, during which time, Harold A. Westrup started to preach under a license issued by the Whitneyville church.

Arthur Westrup subsequently returned to England, where he died in 1955, at age ninety-five. After ministering for short periods at other locations, Harold A. Westrup was invited to the churches at Upper Blackville and Underhill in 1927. Two years later, while still stationed there, he was ordained, and before he resigned his pastorate in 1930 he had added the names of twenty-seven converts to the membership rolls of the two churches.

When Westrup left the Miramichi, he went to the churches at Mouth of Keswick and Burtt's Corner. He was later pastor of the Pennfield group of churches and of the Charlotte Street Baptist Church, in Saint John. In 1951, he was called to Glace Bay, N.S. When he died three years later, at age fifty-seven, he left his wife, Susan M. Wright, a son, and a daughter.