St. James Parish, Baltimore County, Maryland Genealogy

History
Located in Baltimore County. Originally a chapel of ease to St. John's Parish, it was proposed as a separate parish in September 1770. Part of Towson Convocation of the Diocese of Maryland, The Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Maryland. "Twelve of the original pews, installed in 1750s, still remain."

Founded
In 1777, upon the removal of the previous incumbent Rector. Known as Saint James' Church on My Lady's Manor as well as the Manor Church.



Boundary
"That Bush River upper hundred--Mine Run hundred--North Hundred and all that part of Middle River Upper hundred lying to the North of the Road leaving from the main road from York to Baltimore town, where it crosses the South branch of the Gunpowder Falls at the plantation of Walter Dulany towards the plantation of John Wilmott, and all that part of Gunpowder upper hundred to the North of the Said main road leading from the South Branch to Mr. Roger Boyce's where it intersects Mine Run hundred--should be a new parish--by the name of St. James' parish."

Resources

 * John T. Scharf, History of Baltimore City and County (1881), pp. 909ff.
 * Walter W. Preston, History of Harford County, Maryland (1901), pp. 212-213.
 * Ethan Allan, "Historical Notices of St. James' Parish," The Maryland Churchman, vol. 19 (no. 6, August 1904): 385-387.
 * Ethan Allan, "Historical Notices of St. James' Parish," The Maryland Churchman, vol. 19 (no. 7, September 1904): 406, col. 1.
 * Works Progress Administration. Inventory of the Church Archives of Maryland, Protestant Episcopal: Diocese of Maryland (November 1940), entry 198.
 * Elmore Hutchins and Robert N. Turner, St. James of My Lady's Manor (1950), pp. 24, 26.

Cemetery
See Saint James of My Ladys Manor Cemetery

Parish History
The Parish Rectors include: George Hughes Worsley (March 1779-1780), John Andrews (1782-1785), John Coleman (July 1787-1816), Matthew Johnson (1815-1818), John Reeder Keech (1819-1821), George McElheney (1821-1826; 1827-1829), John Wiley (1830-1832), James McGregor Dale (1833-1836), Alfred Holmead (1836-1842), Matthias Lewis Forbes (1842-1858). John Coleman's registers of births and christenings, marriages, and deaths and burials are available at the Maryland Historical Society (Ms. 720) in Baltimore.

Parish Records
St. James's early parish registers have been abstracted:


 * Reamy, Bill and Martha Reamy. St. James Parish Register, 1787-1815. Silver Spring, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1987..
 * Harrison, Lucy H. and John Coleman. St. James' &amp; St. Johns'. MSS. Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Md. Copy:.

Websites

 * St. James's, My Lady's Manor, The Historical Marker Database
 * https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=j_08AQAAIAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA244