Marjoss Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Guide to Marjoss Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Place Names
The best gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Marjoss.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Kassel, Germany. The following records have been digitized by the website Archion. Archion requires a subscription. You can learn how to use Archion by clicking here. There are no indexes to these records. More recent records may be restricted.

Lutheran
The Lutheran residents of Marjoss belonged to the parish of Steinau.

Reformed
Church records begin 1661.


 * church records 1661-1714 ($)
 * church records 1714-1743 ($)
 * church records 1743-1773 ($)
 * church records 1771-1800 ($)
 * church records 1801-1830 ($)
 * baptisms 1831-1891 ($)
 * marriages 1831-1939 ($)
 * burials 1831-1914 ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Marjoss began in October 1874.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries
Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck Family History Society for Nassau and Frankfurt Hessian Family History Association Hessian State Archives Society for Family Studies in Kurhessen and Waldeck