Early Church Register for the Shaver (St Abrahams) Lutheran Church of Beckleysville, Baltimore County, Maryland.
Sometimes lost records reappear. This is the case with the Register for St Abrahams (also called the Shaver) Church in Beckleysville, Baltimore County Maryland. Our USGenWeb Assistant coordinator for the Anne Arundel County site was given by an aunt a pile of old genealogical research papers that a family member had collected in the 1950s. At the bottom of the stack of old papers he found what appears to be the ledger for the Shaver Church starting in 1805. Apparently Casper Millender was one of the Elders of the chruch in 1850's and had custody of the ledger. The book or ledger was apparently never was turned back in after Casper's death, but was kept by his descendants.
Today the church is known as the St Abraham's Church in Beckleysville. Copies of the ledger are being provided to the Maryland State Archives, the Maryland Historical Society, and the Baltimore County Genealogical Society. The original papers are being returned to the church. You can view scanned copies of the ledger and our attempt to decipher some of the entries here on the USGenWeb Baltimore County Website.
You can also look at images of the pages below:
View Scanned Images of the Shaver Church Register
The records in the ledger before 1840 were written in German Script. It appears that the pages may not be complete as there are no entries between 1826 and 1834.
- View the Cover of the Ledger. Warning: this is a 666 kilobyte graphic file so it may be a slow download!
- View the title page of the ledger. This is a 229 kilobyte graphic file.
- View Page 1 of the ledger, deaths and baptisms from 1805 to 1808. (This is a 230 kilobyte graphic file).
- View Page 2 of the ledger, births from 1808 to 1822, (This is a 183 kilobyte graphic file)
- View Page 2a of the ledger, births and baptisms 1811 to 1825. (This is a 223 kilobyte graphic file)
- View Page 3 of the ledger, births and baptisms in 1826. (This is a 106 kilobyte graphic file)
- View Page 4a of the ledger, births and baptisms 1834-1835. (This is a 224 kilobyte graphic file)
- View Page 4b of the ledger, births and baptisms 1835-1837. (This is a 248 kilobyte praphic graphic file.)
- View Page 5a of the ledger, births and baptisms 1837-1839. (This is a 247 kilobyte graphic file.)
- View Page 5b of the ledger, births and baptisms 1838-1839 (This is a 256 kilobyte graphic file.)
- View Page 6a of the ledger, births and baptisms 1826-1841. (This is a 228 kilobyte graphic file)
- View Page 6b of the ledger, births and baptisms 1840-1842 (This is a 215 kilobyte graphic file)
- View Page 7 of the ledger, births and baptisms 1842-1844. (This is a 184 kilobyte graphic file.)
- View Page 8 of the ledger, births and baptisms 1845-1852. (This is a 525 kilobyte graphic file.)
- View Page 9 of the ledger, Confirmation list from 1805. (This is a 76 kilobyte graphic file.)
- View Page 10 of the ledger, Communicant List from 1806 and 1807. (This is a 230 kilobyte file.)
- View Page 11a of the ledger, 7 May 1837 list of persons (144 kilobyte graphic file)
- View Page 11b of the ledger, Communion list from 17 Decemer (1837?) (211 kilobyte file)
- View Page 12 of the ledger, Communion Lists for 17 Nov 1839 and 14 Nov 1840) (227 kilobyte graphic file)
- View page 13 of the ledger, Communion and Comfirmant lists for 2 May 1841, 14 Nov 1841, and 13 Nov 1842. (245 kilobyte file)
- View page 14a of the ledger, Communion list? of 28 May 1843. (109 kilobyte file)
- View page 14b of the ledger, Communion List 14 Nov 1843 and 28 April 1844 (100 & 94 kilobyte files)
- View page 15 of the ledger, Communion lists of 21 May 1848, 22 Nov 1846, and 12 June 1848 (215 & 160 kilobyte graphic files)
- View Page 16 of the ledger, Communion List 18 Nov 1848 and 26 May 1849 (191 kilobyte file)
- View Page 17 of the ledger, Formula for the Government and Discipline of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (106 kilobyte file)
- View Page 18 of the ledger, Communion list 18 Nov 1849 (116kilobyte file)
- View Page 19 of the ledger, 1839 Receipt for repairs to Parish Home (51 kilobyte file)
- View Page 20 of the ledger (back cover?) (484 kilobytes)
- View 1868 & 1870 Receipts
- View 1856 Expenditures
- View 1856 Building Expenditures
- View 1846 Expenses and Receipts
- View List of Subscribers (Donations) for Mr. Wisess moving
- View List of Catechumens 11 June 1857
We wish to thank Walt Tracey who scanned all the images and coordinated efforts to transcribe the church register and provide the data to this USGenWeb site.
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