Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Lancaster County

 * FamilySearch Places

Databases with Several Denominations

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


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


 * 1723-1800 Humphrey, John T. Pennsylvania Births, Lancaster County, 1723-1800 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Humphrey Publications, 1997..


 * 1729-1881 Pennsylvania Church Records - Adams, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, 1729-1881 at Ancestry $
 * Church and Religious Records of Lancaster County, at Lancaster USGWArchives
 * Lancaster County PAGenWeb

Amish
Lancaster County had one of the largest Mennonite and Amish populations in Pennsylvania in the 1800s.

Catholic Church

 * 1787-1804 St. Mary's Catholic Church, Lancaster, PA Marriages, Baptisms, Burials 1787-1804 at Rootsweb

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
 * 1770-1792  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Blue Ridge District of the Eastern States Mission comprised church members living in southeastern Pennsylvania. District headquarters were in Lancaster, with branches located in Bucks, Fulton, Lancaster, and York counties.


 * Record of Members, [1929]-1944,

Congregational Church
Ephrata Community


 * 1728-1853 Sachse, Julius F. The Registers of the Ephrata Community, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Burials 1728-1853: Vol. 14 (1890):297-312, Burials 1730s-1813: 387-402. Online at: Archive.org; and Church of the Brethren Network

Episcopal/Anglican Church
Church of the Brethren


 * Church of the Brethren Network includes Conestoga Congregation Baptisms 1739-1747 and Conestoga Congregation Baptisms 1748-1769.

St. James's Church, Lancaster


 * 1755-1800 Registers begin in 1755. Online at: Archive.org


 * 1755-1759 Private Marriage Register of Rev. Thomas Barton, in York County, Pennsylvania in "Private Church Registers to 1800, York County, Pennsylvania" at Ancestry ($).
 * 1755-1756, 1783-1796  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

St. John's Church, Pequea

Registers are lost, but some parishioners appear in the registers of St. James's Church, Lancaster.

St. Thomas's Church, Caernarvon

Registers are lost, but some parishioners appear in the registers of St. James's Church, Lancaster.

Bangor Church, Caernarvon

Registers are lost, but some parishioners appear in the registers of St. James's Church, Lancaster. An old trunk was discovered at Bangor Church with "sundry account-books and ancient title-deeds.

Evangelical
Salem Church of the Evangelical Association, Lancaster
 * 1852-1877  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Trinity Church, Lititz
 * 1875-1885  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Evangelical Lutheran
 * 1730-1779 Rev. John Casper Stoever's Records:
 * Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever, Baptismal and Marriage, 1730-1779. Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Pub.,1896. Online at: Internet Archive.
 * Rev. John Casper Stoever’s Baptisms in Alphabetical Order at Lancaster PAGenWeb
 * Marriage Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever at Lancaster County Genealogy Project, with all 1,429 marriages compiled by Mildred Smith

Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Providence
 * 1729-1777  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Bergstrasse Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ephrata Township
 * 1742-1875  and  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown
 * 1770-1875 Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown, Baptism Index 1840-1908 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch
 * 1779-1885  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Lutheran Church
Cocalico Evangelisch Luttnusche
 * Parochial Registers for Lutheran Congregations in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1729-1960: A Guide to Genealogical Resources in the Parish Records of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, As Well As to Translations and Copies in Print in Public Institutions. Weiser, Frederick Sheely. Lancaster, Pa.: unknown, 1961. Online at: Ancestry ($).
 * 1729-1742  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Evangelical Church, Lutheran County
 * 1868-1967  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Mount Joy
 * 1833-1853  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Swamp Lutheran Church, Reinholds
 * 1808-1875  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Holland
 * 1730-1799  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

White Oaks Lutheran and Reformed Church, Penn Township
 * 1754-1789  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manheim
 * 1759-1875  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1771-1782, 1807-1812 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Mennonites
Lancaster County had one of the largest Mennonite and Amish populations in Pennsylvania in the 1800s.

Presbyterian Church
The first Scotch-Irish settlement in Lancaster County was made at Chickies Creek in 1714. Donegal Presbyterian Church was built there shortly thereafter. Pequea Presbyterian Church, constructed at another early Scotch-Irish settlement, was built in 1724.

Paxtang Church and Derry Church were both organized in 1729.


 * 1741-1810 Marriage Record of Paxtang and Derry Churches, 1741-1810 (Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Vol. 8, Part 10) at Ancestry ($); Google Books


 * 1736 Hanover Presbyterian Church was built in 1736 in a Scotch-Irish settlement. This ground later fell within the bounds of Dauphin County and still later Lebanon County after those counties split off.

Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church, East Earl
 * 1840-1908  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Quarryville
 * 1808-1821, 1846-1859  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index and  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Seltenreich Presbyterian Church
 * 1766-1800  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1766-1779  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Quaker (Society of Friends)

 * 1800s-1900s Pennsylvania Quaker Records: Warrington, York County, Little Brittain, Lancaster County, Centre, Centre County, West Branch, Clearfield County, Dunnings Creek, Bedford County n.p. Digital versions at Ancestry ($); Internet Archive

Reformed Church
First Reformed Church, Lancaster


 * 1736-1800  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Keller's Reformed Church, Cocalico
 * 1738-1806, 1853-1861  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1767-1779  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Muddy Creek Reformed Church, East Cocalico Township
 * 1766-1779  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Reformed Church of Cocalico
 * 1743-1772  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1753  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Reformed Church of Maytown
 * 1774-1819 - Transcript of baptismal record of the Reformed Church of Maytown, Lancaster County, 1765 (1774)-1819. Typescript held at the Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Zion's Reformed Church, Brickerville
 * 1766-1820  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1767-1779  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index