All Saints Parish, South Carolina Genealogy

This parish is also known as All Saints Parish, Waccamaw.

Before the American Revolution, the state church of South Carolina was the Church of England (the Anglican Church, or Protestant Episcopal Church). Besides keeping parish registers, the church kept many records of a civil nature in their vestry books. The Vestry was as much a political body as a religious one. The wardens and commissioners were responsible for the roads, education, the poor and orphans, voting and collecting taxes in addition to their church duties.

Founded
All Saints Parish, Waccamaw, (Pawley's Island, Georgetown, SC) was created in 1767 from the coastal part of Prince George Parish, a part of Craven County.

Boundary
Borders: Prince George Parish and the North Carolina border. For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina. An overlay of districts is available at Carolana.com.

Areas Served: All Saints Parish, Waccamaw, served:


 * part of Craven County 1767-1768
 * part of Georgetown District 1768-1800
 * and survives to the present

Modern equivalents: The original parish covered parts of what are present-day Georgetown, and Horry counties.

Research Guides

 * South Carolina Archives Summary Guide: All Saints Parish, available online, courtesy: South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Cemetery
500 of the graves at All Saints Parish Cemetery are described at Find A Grave. Includes transcripts and select photographs.

Hundreds of graves are also described at SCGenWeb.

Parish History
For an early history of the parish, see Chapter 11, All-Saints, Waccamaw, page 322, 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.

For some aspects of social life in All Saints Parish after the Civil War, see:


 * Harwell, Richard B. "The Hot and Hot Fish Club of All Saints Parish," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan. 1947):40-47. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

Parish Records
Parish registers have been abstracted in:


 * Bull, Henry DeSaussure. All Saints' Church, Waccamaw : The Parish, the Place, the People, 1739-1949. Columbia, S.C.: R.L. Bryan, 1949. 975.789/P1 K2b

For an updated and corrected version, see:


 * Bull, Henry DeSaussure, Gertrude Cornish Bull, et al. All Saints Church, Waccamaw, 1739-1968: With Updates which Have Been Added Additional Text, Parish Register Updates, Appendixes, and Index, 1948/1968-1992. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Company Publishers, 1994. 975.789/P1 K2b 1994

South Carolina Historical Society holdings: "All Saints’ (Episcopal) Church. Waccamaw. Vestry minutes, 1844-1893. 2 vols."


 * "Original and typescript minutes. Reports (1845) by building committee and rector on plans for alteration of the church. Information about church plate, linen, and furnishings; letter (1866) of resignation from the Rev. A. Glennie commenting on necessary contraction of the church as result of the war; Bishop W. B. W. Howe’s order of deposition (1876) of the Rev. P. F. Stevens from the Anglican priesthood. Among the names of well known lowcountry families appearing in the records are: Allston, Alston, Dunkin, Flagg, Hasell, Heriot, Mazÿck, Pyatt, Tucker, Ward, and Weston."

Taxation

 * [1825] 1825 Georgetown District Tax List, available online, courtesy: Georgetown South Carolina Genealogy website. (All Saints Parish)

Websites

 * All Saints Parish, Waccamaw homepage including a good brief history.
 * All Saints Parish (1767) / All Saints, Waccamaw Marker, The Historical Marker Database
 * All Saints Summer Parsonage / The Rectory, The Historical Marker Database