Staten Island, Richmond County, NY Genealogical Resources
Bible Records Books/Lookups Cemeteries Census/Directories Churches FHL Holdings Forums Genealogies History and geography Immigration Legal records Message Boards Military Newspapers Obituaries Organizations Photo tour Sailor's Snug Harbor Schools Search Site Info Site map Slaves Surnames Vitals Info: B, M, D	Genealogical Resources for Staten Island Churches and Temples Church Notes Reformed Dutch Church RDC Richmond records RDC Huguenot records RDC Port Richmond records Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in Tompkinsville by Royden Woodward Vosburgh (Partial) Inventory of Reformed Church Records for New York City (archive; the site goes up and down) WPA Historical Record Survey at NYCnuts.net (archive; the site goes up and down) Port Richmond Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms 1696-1790 Dutch Marriages 1790-1811 U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-2000 on ancestry.com Records of the Protestant Dutch Church, Port Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y. on ancestry.com Staten Island baptisms from 1696 (RDC) on ancestry.com The Rev. Wilhelmus Jackson studied in Holland four years, and on returning to America was licensed in 1757 to preach, and was pastor of the Reformed Dutch churches of Bergen and Staten Island, 1757-1789. He died in 1813. He was noted as a powerful preacher, with a far-reaching voice, rivaling Whitefield as an open-air speaker. from New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800 Description: One of the geographically smallest states in the Union, New Jersey was home to over 200,000 people in 1800. Originally published in 1916, this database is a collection of biographical sketches for prominent residents of the state between 1665 and 1800. It provides a variety of information, including residence, date and place of birth, names of children, value of estate, and important professional and personal accomplishments. Of particular interest, it provides genealogically helpful information regarding spouse, children, and ancestors. It contains information regarding nearly 7500 persons. For researchers of New Jersey ancestors, this can be a valuable source of information. Extended Description: Source Information: New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916. Jewish B'nai Jeshurun In 1884 Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, the Island's first Jewish congregation, is founded in Tompkinsville. After meeting without a formal synagogue for about seven years, the congregation moves into a building on what is now Victory Boulevard. In the 1970s, the congregation moves to its current location on Martling Avenue in West Brighton. Roman Catholic Churches and their founding from WPA's Inventory of the Church Archives in New York City — The Roman Catholic Church — Archdiocese of New York — vol. 2.' (Historical Records Survey), 1941 as found at nycnuts.net http://nycnuts.net/genealogy/church/wpa_roman_catholic/index.html Year Name Location 1839 St Peter's New Brighton 1852 St Mary's Rosebank 1855 St Joseph's Rossville 1862 St Patrick's Richmond 1875 Sacred Heart West New Brighton 1877 St Mary of the Assumption Port Richmond 1887 Immaculate Conception Stapleton 1898 Our Lady Help of Christians Tottenville 1899 Our Lady of Good Counsel Tompkinsville 1900 St John Baptist de la Salle Stapleton 1901 St Adalbert's Port Richmond 1902 St Joseph's Rosebank 1908 St Anthony's Travis 1910 St Clement's Mariner's Harbor 1910 Blessed Sacrament West New Brighton 1913 Our Lady of Mt Carmel West New Brighton 1914 St Ann's Dongan Hills 1921 St Sylvester's Concord 1921 St Rita's Port Richmond 1921 Assumption New Brighton 1922 St Roch's Port Richmond 1923 St Michael's Mariner's Harbor 1922 Our Lady Queen of Peace New Dorp 1923 St Stanislaus Kostka's New Brighton 1923 Our Lady of Pity Graniteville 1924 St Clare's Great Kills 1925 St Benedicta's West New Brighton 1926 St Teresa's West New Brighton 1926 St Paul's New Brighton 1926 St Margaret Mary's Midland Beach 1926 St Christopher's Grant City 1927 Holy Rosary South Beach 1928 Christ the King Port Richmond 1935 Our Lady Star of the Sea Huguenot Park Inventory of Roman Catholic Church Records for Bronx, New York & Richmond Counties WPA Historical Record Survey at NYCnuts.net Bill has researched all the R.C. churches in Staten Island; gotten contact information and founding date. Staten Island Catholic Churches. Sacred Heart Church was founded in 1875. Margaret Mullen typed up its Golden Jubilee program. St. Peter's: In 1839 The Island's first Catholic parish, St. Peter's, is established in New Brighton, 50 years after the Roman Catholic Church is incorporated in the City of New York. The parish includes all of Richmond County and parts of New Jersey. The church building, dedicated 10 years after, is later destroyed by fire. The present St. Peter's Church is erected in 1903. St. Paul's R.C. Church in New Brighton: Staten Island Advance Article "St. Paul's had its start as a mission of the Island's oldest Roman Catholic parish, St. Peter's R.C. Church in New Brighton." Founded 1924. St. Mary's See below and it's been said: It is a beautiful church. It is a shame that they are not more cooperative. They will tell you that most of the old records were destroyed in a water damage, but, the original "big old book" survives. It lists per alphabet, per family name, per person. St. Michael's in Mariners Harbor started keeping records in 1905 on. I have found that some of my St. Mary's parishioners married in St. Michael's. They are very helpful and will look up records for you via telephone. St Peter's CLIFTON Illustrated sketch book of Staten Island, New York : its industries and commerce 1886, page 137-8 ST. MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH This parish and congregation was organized by Archbishop HUGHES in October. 1852, and Rev. J. LEWIS was appointed the pastor. Immediately after his appointment, Father LEWIS erected a temporary chapel and schools at a cost of about $6,000 which were used for five years. In 1857, Archbishop HUGHES laid the corner stone of St. Mary's church on New York avenue, and the edifice was completed for "http://richmond.nygenweb.net/ year at a cost of $58,000. it is the finest Catholic church on Staten Island. In 1858 and 1859 the rectory adjoining the church was built, costing $10,000. Father LEWIS in 1862 purchased seven acres of land of the PARKINSON estate in Southfield, and laid it out as a cemetery. He also build upon it a neat cottage for the keeper's residence. In 1864 an ORPHAN ASYLUM for the parish, a residence for the Sisters of Charity, a large school and a dwelling for the male teachers were built at a cost of about $36,000. These schools are of the largest on the Island. The books show a daily attendance of nearly four hundred pupils who are gratuitously instructed by six Sisters of Charity, under the supervision of the pastor. Methodist and Episcopal Church Methodist Churches and their founding from WPA's Inventory of the Church Archive of New York City — The Methodist. ' (Historical Records Survey), 1940 as found at nycnuts.net http://nycnuts.net/genealogy/church/wpa_methodist/index.html Year Name Location 1787 Woodrow Princes Bay Records 1803 Asbury New Springfield 1822 Bethel Mission Tottenville; to 1849 1835 Kingsley Stapleton 1839 Mariners Harbor Mission Mariners Harbor; to 1849 1839 Trinity West New Brighton 1840 Quarantine Mission ?; discontinued 1842 Dickenson Travisville 1849 Bethel Tottenville 1849 Summerfield Mariners Harbor 1854 St John's Mission Rossville; to 1876 1854 St Mark's Mission Pleasant Plains, Westfield; to 1873 1857 St Paul's Mission Tottenville; to 1859 1859 St Paul's Tottenville 1860 Androvatt Kreischerville; discontinued 1867 Grace Port Richmond 1873 St Mark's Tottenville 1875 Mt Zion Rossville; to 1877 1876 Giffords Giffords Station; to 1877 1876 St John's Rossville; discontinued 1877 Mt Zion Mission Rossville; to 1889 1884 Bloomfield Bloomfield; to 1927 1889 Mt Zion Rossville 1900 Wandell Memorial Concord; to 1921 1903 St James Rosebank; to 1910 1908 Graniteville Port Richmond 1910 St James' Mission Rosebank; to 1924 1919 Holy Trinity Italian Mission Mariners Harbor; to 1922 1922 Holy Trinity Italian Graniteville ? St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Rossville Records Protestant Episcopal Churches and their founding from WPA's Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City — Protestant Episcopal Church — Diocese of New York, volume II. ' (Historical Records Survey), 1940 as found at nycnuts.net http://nycnuts.net/genealogy/church/wpa_episcopal/index.html Year Name Location 1708 St Andrew's Richmond Additional notes: Rev. John Talbot sent 1702, succeeded by Rev. Aeneas Mackensie. Records 1802 Trinity Chapel West New Brighton to 1866 1833 St Paul's Memorial originally St Paul's, Castleton Tompkinsville 1843 St John's Rosebank 1843 St Luke's Rossville Records 1849 Christ New Brighton 1849 St Mary West New Brighton 1854 St Simon's Mission Richmond 1855 St Simon's Chapel Concord 1856 Advent Chapel Castleton 1865 Holy Comforter Eltingville was Southfield 1865 Holy Comforter in Southfield Southfield 1869 Ascension West New Brighton 1872 St Luke's Mission various; to 1887 1884 Mercer Memorial Chapel Richmond 1887 St Stephen's Tottenville 1891 Chapel of Our Father West New Brighton 1893 Grace Chapel Garrettson; to 1902 1893 Prince's Bay Mission Prince's Bay; to 1897 1899 Trinity New Dorp 1906 All Saints' chapel of Our ather Mariner's Harbor 1906 Old Mill Road Mission New Dorp Beach 1907 Linoleumville Mission Linoleumville 1912 Holy Redeemer Port Richmond 1913 St Luke the Physician Willowbrook 1925 St Ann's Great Kills Inventory of Protestant Episcopal Church Records for Bronx, New York & Richmond Counties WPA Historical Record Survey at NYCnuts.net Inventory of Methodist Church Records for New York City WPA Historical Record Survey at NYCnuts.net A page about Early Methodist History on Staten Island (archived) Originally from the Making of America site, now found on Google books at The Family Prayer book, or The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of The Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; Accompanied by A General Commentary, Historical, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Practical: Compiled from the Most Approved Liturgical Works, with Alterations and Additions, and Accommodated to the Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America By Thomas Church Brownell, D.D. LL.D, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Connecticut Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 819 & 821 Market Street. 1868. At the end is a list of subscribers to the book. Some were Staten Islanders and some might be. Unfortunately I cannot seem to access the names alphabetically past Churchill, but here's what I came up with: Episcopalians in 1868 Barker, John, Castleton, S. Island Barrett, Nathan, Castleton, S. I Bement, E., Castleton, S.I. Britton, Cornelius, Freshkills, S.I. Carter, Mrs., Port Richmond L. I. [???] Catlin, George, Tompkinsville, L. I. [???] Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1802 in New Springville. No longer exists. St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Amboy Road, Tottenville. Founded 1857 as an outgrowth of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. John S. Swaim became the first full-time pastor in 1860. Esther Paugh is church historian. Summerfield United Methodist, Mariners Harbor. Founded 1839 on Harbor Road as Methodist Episcopal Church at Mariners Harbor. Moved 1869 as Summerfield Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1973 the church Historian, Charles V. Morris printed a 102 page booklet of the history of the church "The Tie That Binds". In 2003, 100 Harbor Road, Staten Island, 10303, Rev. Donald Goodson. Kathy says, "Summerfield no longer has their early records, but they were filmed by LDS." Woodrow United Methodist Church: Francis Asbury, the first Methodist bishop ordained in America, came to Staten Island in 1771 as part of his 10,000-miles-on-horseback evangelistic mission. He preached at a home on Wood Row, now Woodrow Road. St. Ann's Episcopal Church was founded in 1925 by Holy Comforter in Eltingville parishioners. They merged back in 1951 to become St. Alban's, but some St. Ann's parishioners went to St. Andrew's instead. Moravian Church: Founded in Staten Island with New Dorp Moravian in 1763. The Moravian Church. Ancestral Curios Vital Statistics. He says he has: Port Richmond, S.I. baptisms 1696-1790 Moravian Church, S.I. marriages 1764-1863 among many other non-SI. New Dorp Services on SI began about 1742. Property was purchased in 1763 to build their first church (in now New Dorp). NEW! Moravian Marriages 1764-1863 Second church was Castleton Hill founded 1873. Great Kills started 1886. Vanderbilt Avenue Moravian Church: Founded in 1884 on Cedar Street. Initially German. Moved to Osgood Avenue 1889. Rev. E. S. Hagen installed as pastor Dec 29 1889. Moved from Osgood Avenue to Vanderbilt Avenue in 1927. Vanderbilt family worshipped here. Presbyterian Churches and their founding from WPA's Inventory of the Church Archive in New York City — Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. ' (Historical Records Survey), 1940 as found at nycnuts.net http://nycnuts.net/genealogy/church/wpa_presbyterian/index.html (archive) Year Name Location 1727 English of Staten Island Stony Brook; to about 1776 1856 First of Staten Island; originally First of Clifton, Staten Island then First of Edgewater Stapleton 1872 Calvary of Staten Island West New Brighton 1887 First of New Brighton New Brighton 1911 Calvary Chapel West New Brighton 1925 Rosebank Mission also Our Savior Rosebank Inventory of Presbyterian Church Records for New York City WPA Historical Record Survey at NYCnuts.net Lutheran Churches and their founding from WPA's "Inventory of the Church Archive in New York City — Lutherans" (Historical Records Survey, 1940) page 143 as found at nycnuts.net Lutheran Year Name Location 1852 St. John's Port Richmond 1856 Trinity Stapleton Notes 1883 Wagner Memorial College Rochester NY 1886 Bethlehem Orphan and Half Orphan Home Fort Wadsworth 1892 Our Savior West New Brighton 1894 Zion Port Richmond 1898 St. Paul's West New Brighton 1905 Wasa Port Richmond 1911 Immanuel New Springville 1915 St. Matthew's Dongan Hills 1916 Eger Norwegian Lutheran Home for the Aged New Dorp 1918 Wagner Memorial College (present site) Grymes Hill 1920 Eltingville Eltingville 1923 Messiah Annadale 1925 Christ Great Kills 1927 Norwegian Evangelical Free Westerleigh 1934 Lutheran Welfare Society Stapleton Notes on Trinity Trinity Lutheran Church, est. 1856, f.k.a The German Evangelical Church, in Stapleton, Staten Island, (Thanks to Andrew Schmitt for this info) is described in Staten Island And Its People, Volume I, page 490 (by Leng, Charles W. and Davis, William T., 1929) as follows: "The German Evangelical Church at Stapleton was incorporated February 17, 1857; the trustees were: Andrew Wohlrabe, Ernest F. Kortum, and Henry Uhrsbrach. Pastor Christian Hennicke had, during 1856, succeeded in organizing a congregation and was the first pastor. Services were suspended from October, 1867, to January 30, 1859, when Pastor K. Goehrling accepted a call and remained until October, 1869. In 1862 the board of trustees was reorganized with P. W. Caesar, Louis De Jonge, Julius De Jonge, D. Bauer, Carl Franke, F. Lenting, William Houff, C. Winzer, and Mr. Uhrsbrach. On February 5, 1865, Mr. De Jonge reported the acquisition, in part by the gift of Albin Warth, of land on which to build a church. The pastors have been: Pastor Robert Karl Beer, 1869 to 1870. Pastor E. Hering, 1871 to 1875. Pastor A. Kuehne, 1875 to 1895. Pastor A. Krause, 1895 to 1907. Pastor F. Sutter, 1907 to date. [-to date = 1929. As per J Far, jtfa at mac dot com, Pastor Sutter's son took over after he passed away in the 1970s or 1980s.] Among the family names connected with this church have been Lindemann, Meurer, Zentgraff, Siemer, Bardes, Stake, Schaefer, Wedemeyer, Wolf, Francke, Hagedorn, Herpich, Horrmann, Matthius, Schmidt, Zorn, Pape, Schaible and many more. The growth of this church under the ministry of Pastor Frederic Sutter since 1907 has been remarkable; it is said to have 3,000 baptized members and 1,100 communing members, perhaps the largest Protestant membership on Staten Island. The present edifice, an imposing Gothic structure of yellow brick on Beach Street, was dedicated in 1914. The parish house contains classrooms, auditorium, gymnasium, bowling alleys, etc., virtually a community house for the members of the church. The parsonage, built in 1922, brings the value of the church property close to $300,000. Among Pastor Sutter's aids in this great church, which is soon to change its name to Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, are H. Fry, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Meurer, Mr. and Mrs. John Hagen, Carl Lorey, Charles Schaeffer, Dr. Fred Bock, and C. C. Stoughton." N.B.: 1. In line 5, "were suspended from October, 1867, to January 30, 1859," is how this appears in the book. 2. Pastor Sutter is listed as being the Pastor from 1907 to date --take into account that this was printed in 1929. Some of its records are transcribed at Kirchenbuch/. Kirchenbuch is the German word for church book. Church books, or Kirchenbücher, are a Church's register of births, communions, confirmations, marriages, and deaths. More on Trinity from J Far, jtfa at mac.com (email bounced): Trinity Lutheran Church Fredrick Sutter Carl Sutter - 64 Pastor Tom Mugavero 79 Richard Michael 2001 Trinity was founded in October of 1856 by a group of German immigrants that felt a church was needed in the Stapleton area of Staten Island to serve their needs. The congregation met in Kingsley Methodist Church, located nearby on Cebra Avenue for eight years. In February of 1865 the congregation acquired four building lots at the corner of Beach Street and, what is now, St. Paul’s Avenue. Shortly thereafter the Unitarian Church building on Richmond Turnpike was purchased and moved to the lots owned by the congregation. That building, pictured here, served the needs of Trinity until 1913. In 1907, Trinity called as its pastor The Reverend Dr. Frederic Sutter. Shortly after the arrival of Pastor Sutter the church felt a need for a new church building. The new, and present, structure was commenced in 1913 and dedicated the "http://richmond.nygenweb.net/ year. The gothic structure features a number of interesting appointments. There are gargoyles near the top of the tower. The large stained glass windows in the sanctuary were made in Munich, Germany, by the Mayer Company. The Ascension painting over the altar, was done by a young French painter who painted it at the nearby German Club because that structure had the highest ceiling on Staten Island. Added in 1954 was the 53 rank organ manufactured by the firm of Cassavant Freres, Vancouver, BC. Pastor Frederic Sutter was succeeded by his son, Carl, in 1964. One of Pastor Carl’s earliest and most important accomplishments was the completion of the new building for Trinity Lutheran School in 1964. Serving more than 200 students, Trinity Lutheran School not only serves children of the congregation, but of the entire community. The School has become a significant legacy of Pastor Carl and his commitment to Stapleton. No longer a neighborhood of all German immigrants working in the local breweries, Stapleton became a home for people from all over the world and from all walks of life. The Reverend Dr. Thomas F. Mugavero, who was called to Trinity in 1979, led the congregation as it followed these changes and continued to welcome all. As it was when it was founded, Trinity today is a mirror of the community in which it resides - descendants of those same immigrants who founded the church, political and religious refugees from Liberia and other African countries, Native American, and more, all take an active part in and enrich the ongoing ministry of Trinity. These few paragraphs tell something of the history of the church, but is hardly the true history of the congregation. It says nothing of the outreach to the community through the church’s soup kitchen, emergency food shelf, and participation in community organizations. Nor does it speak of the wonderful tradition of liturgy and music of the church, led in worship by its various choirs. These things are a part of the past, present and future - the living History and Records and mission of the congregation of Trinity Lutheran Church. Trinity has again, for only the fourth time in 100 years, chosen a new Pastor - The Reverend Richard F. Michael. Pastor Michael began his service at Trinity in February of 2001 and leads us into the 21st century as a growing, thriving, almost 150 year old, diverse part of the family of God. Come experience our history and experience the ministry of Trinity - Where God’s grace is shared. Churches in 1875 Source: 1875 State Census Town ED Church Name Denomination Castleton 1 [the suppl. schedules were not filmed]   Castleton 2 Christ Church Episcopal Castleton 2 Unitarian Church Unitarian Castleton 2 Harbor Church Methodist Castleton 3 Saint Marys Castleton Av P.E. Castleton 3 Calvary Bement & Castleton Aves Presbyterian Castleton 3 Mission Chapel Moravian Castleton 4 St. Andrews Episcopal Church [none listed - assume Episcopal] Castleton 4 Trinity Methodist Episcopal Castleton 4 St. Peters Roman Catholic Middletown 1 St. Pauls Memorial Church P.E. Middletown 1 German Lutheran Church Lutheran Middletown 2 Free Church M.E. Middletown 3 United Bretherens Church United Bretheren Middletown 4 1st Presbyterian Church of Edgewater Presbyterian Northfield 1 Park[?] Baptist Baptist Northfield 1 1st Bobless[?] Baptist Northfield 1 Grace Methodist Episcopal Northfield 1 St. John Evangelical Lutheran Northfield 2 Church of St. Andrew P.E. Northfield 2 Asbury M.E. Church Methodist Episcopal Northfield 2 Travisville Chapel Methodist Episcopal Northfield 3 Summerfield M.E. Church Methodist Episcopal Northfield 3 Mariners Harbor Baptist Church Baptist Northfield 3 AME Zion Church Methodist Episcopal Northfield 4 Reformed Church (US) Reformed Church Northfield 4 St. Marys Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Southfield 1 Reformed P.[?] Richmond Reformed Dutch Southfield 1 Church of the Holy Comforter P.E. Southfield 1 [no name] Roman Catholic Southfield 2 St. Marys Roman Catholic Southfield 2 [illegible - possibly Presbyterian] Roman Catholic Westfield 1 St. Pauls M.E. Methodist Westfield 1 Bethel M.E. Methodist Westfield 1 First Baptist Baptist Westfield 2 St. Marks Methodist Episcopal Westfield 2 African M.E. Methodist Episcopal Westfield 2 Woodrow Methodist Episcopal Westfield 2 St. Josephs Roman Catholic Westfield 2 St. Lukes _?_ Episcopal Westfield 3 [none listed]   Mary the Immaculate Virgin ? ? ?
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