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Pastoral Registers

Pastoral Registers were the personal property of the ministers, and might follow them from church to church. They contain records of baptisms, marriages, and funerals performed by the minister.

  • “Baptismal Records of the Rev. A. J. Walter,” by Virginia Stenley, Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 32 (2) 193-197. REF E-2-3
  • “List of Marriages Celebrated by License in the Parishes of Queen Anne’s and Price George’s and Charles County, from the 18 January to 25th November, 1777 (by Rev. Walter Hanson Harrison),” Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 32 (3)334. REF E-2-3
  • "Marriage Register of Rev. David Love," discovered by Peter Wilson Coldham in the Public Record Office, London (PRO: AO 13/61(II)/ 420ff.). Published Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin (Fall 1997), 38 (4) 483-488. REF E-2-3
  • “Marriages from the Memorandum Book of Rev. John E. Finley,” Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 34 (3) 292. REF E-2-3
  • Pastoral Register of Rev. John Cuthbertson (Presbyterian), 1751-1791. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
  • “Pastoral Records of Jacob Goering, Baptisms and Marriages, 1791-1792, in the Vicinity of Hagerstown, Maryland,” Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 33 (1) 109-115. REF E-2-3
  • "Pastoral Registers of Frank Markey Gibson (Protestant Episcopal), Marriages 1883-1899; Burials, 1883-1899." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 21 (4) 287-308; Baptisms: Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 22 (1) 28ff. REF E-2-3
  • "Pastoral Registers of Rev. John Reeder Keech (Protestant Episcopal), 1819-1861," Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 20 (4) 269-286; 21 (1) 58-63., REF E-2-3
  • Pastoral Register of Rev. John Andrew Krug, FR Co., 1770-1795, Maryland Magazine of Genealogy 3:51-56, 4:21-37.
  • Pastoral Register of Rev. Lewis Richards (Baptist), 1784-1820, Maryland Historical Society, MS.690. See also Marriages, published in Maryland Historical Magazine 70:311-314. REF E-1-
  • Record Book of Rev. George C. M. Roberts (United Methodist), 1806-1870, Maryland Historical Society, MS.1801.
  • "Register of Marriages of the Reverend Joseph Mettam, 1836-1883," by Donna J. Williams, Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 33 (3) 531-541. REF E-2-3

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