Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Cumberland 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 – ($), free to members of the society, List of Churches Included; Also available at Ancestry ($)

Catholic Church
St. Patrick's, located in Carlisle, was constructed in 1807. Prior to it's construction the area was used as a supply station for the Jesuits.


 * 100 years of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese 1843 -1943. Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, 17:1. FamilySearch Library book 974.8 B2wg. Contains chronology, map, county-by-county information.

Episcopal/Anglican Church

 * 1753 History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsylvania : containing history of the counties, their townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter., pg 212  Pliny A. Durant, J. Fraise Richard, Bennett Bellman. Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers and Company, 1886. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, and . Attempts to establish a congregation date from as early as 1753 with a permanent structure being built about 1825.

St. John's Church, Carlisle


 * 1793 Registers of the Anglican Church in Pennsylvania prior to 1800, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12 (1888):341-349. Online at:Internet Archive.

Lutheran Church
Lutherans began to establish their denomination in the county about the mid 1700s. However, major strides in the growth of the denomination did not occur in Cumberland County, until the mid 1800s.

First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Carlisle


 * 1787-1875 - First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Carlisle, Baptism Index 1787-1875 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free. Batch.
 * 1790-1792, 1816-1880 - First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Carlisle, Marriage Index 1790-1792 and 1816-1880 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch. Batch

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Shiremanstown
 * 1787-1871 - St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Shiremanstown, Baptism Index 1787-1871 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free. Batch.
 * 1790, 1872-1880 - St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Shiremanstown, Marriage Index 1790, 1872-1880 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch. Batch

St. Stephen Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Kingstown


 * 1775-1852 St. Stephen Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Kingstown, Baptism Index 1775-1852 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch. Batch

Trindle Spring Evangelical Lutheran Church


 * 1803-1874 Trindle Spring Evangelical Lutheran Church, Shiremanstown, Baptism Index 1803-1874 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch. Batch

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lemoyne


 * 1896-1936 Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lemoyne, Pa. Parish Register 1896-1936 at Ancestry ($).

Presbyterian Church
Silvers' Spring Presbyterian Church, near the present site of Mechanicsburg, was organized in 1734. Meeting House Spring Presbyterian Church was organized in Middleton Township (present site of Carlisle) in 1734. Big Spring Presbyterian Church was organized in what is now the town of Newville by 1737. Falling Spring Presbyterian Church was organized, at a Scotch-Irish settlement in what is now Franklin (formerly Lancaster and then Cumberland counties), in 1738. Middle Spring Presbyterian Church, in Southampton Township, was organized by the 1740s. Upper West Conococheague Presbyterian Church was organized at what is now the town of Mercersburg in 1738. Another Presbyterian church at the "Conococheague Settlement" (present-day Greencastle) was organized by 1738.

First Presbyterian Church


 * 1785-1812 Marriage Record of the First Presbyterian Church, at Carlisle, 1785-1812 (Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Vol. 8, Part 4) at Ancestry ($); Google Books

Silver Spring Presbyterian Church


 * 1814-1830 Silver Spring Presbyterian Church Marriages, 1814-30, Silver Spring Twp., Cumberland County, Pennsylvania at PAGenWeb

Archives, Libraries, and Societies with Church Records

 * 1737-1898 Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Church Records at Ancestry ($). Big Spring Presbyterian Church (Newville, Pa.), Bobenmayer Church (Upper Frankford, Pa.), First Evangelical Lutheran Church (Carlisle, Pa.), Meeting-House Springs, Middle Spring Presbyterian Church, Poplar Evangelical Lutheran Church (Shiremanstown, Pa.), German Reformed Church (Shippenstown, Pa.), St. James Episcopal Church, St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church (New Kingston, Pa.), First Presbyterian Church (Carlisle, Pa.), Trindle Spring Lutheran Church, Ziegler's Church (Mifflin Twp., Pa.) and other miscellaneous church records.


 * Cumberland County Historical Society, holdings include local area church records. The society also maintains an internal database of over 900 church and cemetery records. Research Services will perform a search of their records.$