Christ Church Parish, South Carolina

United States South Carolina  Christ Church Parish

Christ Church Parish was created in 1706 as an original parish from the northeast coastal part of Berkeley (1682-1768) County.

Christ Church Parish served the former Berkeley (1682-1768) County and later Charleston District in what is present-day Charleston County.

South Carolina's "Anglican parishes were used as election districts and had responsibility for road development, care of the poor, and education."

Founded

 * 1706

Boundary

 * Borders St. Michael's, St. Philip's, and St. Thomas &amp; St. Denis parishes. For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina. An overlay of districts is available at Carolana.com.

Cemetery

 * Gregorie, Anne King. "Cemetery Inscriptions from Christ Church Parish," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr. 1920):73-76; Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jul., 1920):132-135. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

Select graves are photographed and transcribed at Find A Grave.

The cemetery records for the Independent or Congregational Church at Wappetaw have also been transcribed:


 * "Inscriptions from the Church Yard of the Independent or Congregational Church at Wappetaw, Christ Church Parish," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jul. 1924):136-142. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

Census

 * 1790 Charleston District Christ Church Parish, courtesy: South Carolina Tri County Genealogy.

Genealogy

 * [Bond] Webber, Mabel L. "The Bond Family of Hobcaw Plantation, Christ Church Parish," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan. 1924):1-22. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * [Bond] "Corrections: The Bond Family of Hobcaw Plantation, Christ Church Parish," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jul. 1924):158. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

Parish History

 * Gregorie, Anne King. Christ Church, 1706-1959, A Plantation Parish of the South Carolina Establishment. Charleston, S.C.: The Dalcho Historical Society, 1961.

For an early history of the parish, see Chapter 7, Christ Church Parish, pages 275-283, in:


 * Dalcho, Frederick. An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina from the First Settlement of the Province, to the War of the Revolution; with Notices of the Present State of the Church in Each Parish and Some Account of the Early Civil History of Carolina, Never Before Published. Charleston: E. Thayer, 1820. ; digital versions at Google Books; Internet Archive.

Parish Records
In the 1950s, the parish held its registers at the church. The records begin in 1694. Copies:. Births and christenings are indexed on the IGI for the years 1694 to 1843. Abstracts have also been published:


 * South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vols. 18-22 . Digital versions at JSTOR ($).

Taxation

 * [1784] "1784 Tax Returns," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 1975):178-182.
 * [1786] "1786 Tax Returns," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 1980):27-28.

Websites

 * Christ Church Marker, The Historical Marker Database
 * Christ Church: The Episcopal Church of Christ Church Parish Marker, The Historical Marker Database