Chester County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Chester County

 * FamilySearch Places

Databases with Several Denominations

 * 1512-1989 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images; includes various counties; Also at: Findmypast ($)
 * 1520-1999 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images; includes various counties; Also at: Findmypast ($)


 * 1682-1800 Pennsylvania Births, Chester County, 1682-1800 by Humphrey, John T.  Washington, D.C.: Humphrey Publications, 1994..


 * 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 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images; includes various counties; Also at: Findmypast ($)


 * Chester County PA USGWArchives, Church Histories, Members and Images at The USGenWeb Archives
 * Chester County Church Index at PAGenWeb

Brethren
A history of the Coventry Brethren Church in Chester County, Pennsylvania, the second oldest Brethren church in America. By Urner, Isaac Newton. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1821-1904. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, also at: Archive.org

Congregational Church

 * 1620-1991 (*) at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Episcopal/Anglican Church
Chester County and its people. By W.W. Thomson. Chicago and New York: The Union History Company, 1898. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, also at.

St. John's Church, New London Registers of the Anglican Church in Pennsylvania prior to 1800. Philip Syng Physick Conner. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12 (1888):341-349. Online at:Archive.org, also WeRelate.

Trinity Church, Oxford Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia By Fisher, George Harrison. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 27 (1903):279-295. Online at:Archive.org, also at WeRelate.

Lutheran Church
Zion's or Old Organ Lutheran Church, East Pikeland Township
 * 1760-1875  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Presbyterian Church
Brandywine Manor Presbyterian Church
 * 1869-1887 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1869-1887 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Faggs Manor Presbyterian Church aka New Londonderry Presbyterian Church
 * 1781-1872 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1790-1793, 1823-1829 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Fairview Presbyterian Church, Glenmoore
 * 1845-1877 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Forks of the Brandywine Presbyterian Church
 * 1761-1781 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1761-1773 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Kennett Square Presbyterian Church
 * 1862-1884 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1862-1884 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Penningtonville Presbyterian Church, Atglen


 * 1852-1875 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1862-1885 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Quaker (Society of Friends)

 * 1684 Concord Monthly Meeting, The William Wade Hinshaw index to Pennsylvania Quaker meeting records, also known as William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker meeting records. William Wade Hinshaw and Phyllis J. Selby published the early records. Kokomo, Ind.: Selby Publishing and Printing, 1990..

Reformed Church
Reformed Church, East Vincent
 * 1784-1798, 1821-1833 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Vincent Reformed Church, East Vincent Township
 * 1733-1880 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1784-1880 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index



Historical Sketches on Chester County Churches
Quakers Quakers did exist in the Chester County area prior to the arrival of William Penn. William Edmundson, minister of the Society of Friends, met with Robert Wade in about 1675 and held a meeting. The first official meeting did not occur until 1681 at the home of Mr. Wade. This meeting, held at Mr. Wade's house would eventually become the Chester Monthly Meeting. Meetings were first held in members homes but as the congregation grew separate meeting houses were built. The earliest meetings in what is now Chester County were: Goshen, Uwchlan, Caln, Kennett, Birmingham, Nottingham, West Nottingham, New Garden, London Grove Bradford and Valley.