Perry County, Pennsylvania Church Records

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Perry County

Perry County, Pennsylvania Church Records

Online Resources

• More information and resources are found on Pennsylvania Church Records.

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Perry County

• FamilySearch Places
  

Databases with Several Denominations

• 1512-1989 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; includes various counties; Also at: Findmypast ($)

• 1520-1999 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; includes various counties; Also at: Findmypast ($)

• 1708-1985 Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – ($), free to members of the society, List of Churches Included; Also available at Ancestry ($)

• 1856-1971 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Deaths and Burials, 1856-1971 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; includes various counties; Also at: Findmypast ($)

• Ancestry's Red Book at Perry GenWeb, is the digitized version that has links to multiple societies and churches for more information on what is contained or how to contact them to get information.
• Perry County Archives Church Records courtesy USGenWeb Archives
  

Databases by Denomination

Congregational Church

• 1620-1991 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Congregational Records, 1620-1991 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; includes various counties; Also at: Findmypast ($)

Lutheran Church

St. Michael's Lutheran Church was in Pfoutz Valley and was organized between 1770 and 1773. The Lebanon Lutheran Church was also an early church in the area in 1790 sharing a church with the Loysville Reformed Church. Mt. Zion Lutheran Church organized in about 1809, met in the old Union Church with St. Peter's Reformed Church.

• 1774-1870 St. Michael Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pfouts Valley, Baptism Index 1774-1870, Batch C504851 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
  
  
• 1875-1884 St. Michael Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pfouts Valley, Baptism Index 1875-1884, Batch M523911 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
  
  
• 1846-1847 Marriages performed by John William Heim, Perry County, Pennsylvania - original at the Wentz Library of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; FS Catalog 553473
  
• 1901-1947 Church records (Newport Evangelical Charge) – Newport Charge included the following churches: Calvary at Newport, Ebenezer at Milford now Wila, Mt. Zion at Elliottsburg, Stony Point in Southwest Madison Township, St. Mary's in Liverpool and Messiah or Hunter's Valley in Spring Township; FS Catalog 555502
  
• Classified index to Churches between the mountains: a history of the Lutheran congregations in Perry County, Pennsylvania by Rev. D. H. Focht – A book that is more about history, but it may lead to where one needs to look; FS Catalog 33326

Methodist Church

• 1893-1930 Church records, 1893-1930 (Newport Methodist) which covers Newport, Millerstown, and Donnally Mills. In 1906 Newport was its own charge.

Presbyterian Church

The Centre Presbyterian Church was one of the first churches in the area being organized in 1766. Dick's Gap Church and Blain Presbyterian Church or the Upper Church of Blain were both organized in 1767.

• 1778-1793 Center Presbyterian Church, Shermans Valley, Marriage Index 1778-1793, Batch M523911 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
  
  
• Minutes and register of the Upper Church of Blain (also known as Toboyne) - transcription
• Pastor's register of baptisms, communicants, burials - Transcribed from a register in possession of Mrs. F. A. Blair, Blairs Mills, Pa; FS Catalog 473620

Reformed Church

Loysville Reformed Church shared their church with the Lebanon Lutheran Church. St. Peter's Reformed Church was organized in about 1809 and met with Mt. Zion Lutheran Church in the Old Union Church.

United Brethren

• 1856-1917 Church records [Perry Circuit of the United Brethren in Christ] covers Classes attached to Perry Circuit are listed in the catalog entry; FS Catalog 1053128

Perry County Pennsylvania Churches