Search Baltimore Roman Catholic Parish Marriages

Each record will provide you with a transcript and an image. The amount of detail found in each can vary depending on the age and condition of the original record. In the transcript, you may find a combination of the following facts:

• Name
• Sex
• Birth year
• Age
• Status
• Denomination
• Father’s name
• Mother’s name
• Marriage year
• Marriage date
• Spouse’s name
• Spouse’s birth year
• Spouse’s age
• Spouse’s status
• Spouse’s denomination
• Spouse’s father’s first name(s)
• Spouse’s mother’s first name(s)
• Parish
• City
• County and State

Images

The images will reveal additional details about your ancestor’s marriage such as, the names of the witnesses (Latin - Praesentibus testibus) or if the marriage was a mixed religion marriage (Latin - mixtae religion).

This collection of sacramental registers has been digitised from the Maryland State Archives and the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in America. Among the records is marriage registers from the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, America’s first Catholic Cathedral.

If you have discovered your ancestor in the marriage records, you should search for your ancestor’s baptism record in Baltimore Roman Catholic parish baptisms. You may even find your ancestor’s confirmation records in the Baltimore Roman Catholic congregational records.

If you would like to cite this record in your family history research, Findmypast suggests the following format: [Name of Parish] [Location]. Sacramental Registers, 1782 - 1918, [page number], [Item of interest "John Smith and Mary Jones, 17 October 1873"]; Archdiocese of Baltimore. Digital Images. Findmypast. (https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/baltimore-roman-catholic-parish-registers-browse : accessed DD MMM YYYY).

For example, the record for Joseph Zywicki’s wedding at Holy Rosary in 1897 will be cited as:

Holy Rosary (Baltimore, Maryland). Sacramental Registers, 1782-1919, page 56, Josephum Zywicki and Catharinam Kowalewska, 19 July 1897; Archdiocese of Baltimore. Digital Images. Findmypast. (https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/baltimore-roman-catholic-parish-baptisms: accessed 7 September 2018).