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Guide to Lutheran Church Records
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church (St. Louis, Mo.)
The chart below provides information detailing the records available for this church in microfilm and printed format in the Special Collections Department. Lists showing other Lutheran churches in this set are available by the name of the church and geographically by the location of the church (state, then city).

Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church 1849-
2153 Salisbury
St. Louis, Missouri 63107

Located in the Bremen-Hyde Park area of north St. Louis at the northwest corner of Salisbury and Florissant.
"It was organized on April 26, 1849 by twelve Lutherans of New Bremen, a community then two miles north of the St. Louis city limits. . . . Beginning with the founding of Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Baden on May 15, 1860, six daughter organizations have been formed from Bethlehem Church." - History of St. Louis Neighborhoods: Hyde Park and Bissell-College Hill, p.18
See also

  • One Hundredth Anniversary, 1849-1944, R977.866/O58
  • The Diamond Jubilee of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, R977.866/O58

Text in German and English.

SLCL Roll

Book

Ministerial Act

Years

Index

Concordia Roll

Comments

10

1

Baptism

1849-1859

    p. 1-74
Confirmand

1859
1851-1866

  p. 74-89
Baptism

1860-1864

  p. 90-132
Marriage

1850-1869

  p.133-164; Years out of order
Baptism

1864-1869

  p. 174-210
Communicant

1850-1870

  p. 211-271
Confirmand

1870-1887

  p. 272-304
Burial

1851-1869

  p. 325-339

2

Baptism

1870-1885

    p. 1-155
Marriage

1870-1885

  p. 161-191
Burial

1870-1885

  p. 201-257

3

Baptism

1885-1897

    p. 29-154
Confirmand

1885-1897

  p. 201-253
Communicant

1885-1895

  p. 261-300
Marriage

1885-1897

  p. 301-331
Burial

1885-1897

  p. 333-380
Church History

1849-1873

  p. 381-384

4

Baptism

1898-1916

    p. 33-148
Confirmand

1898-1916

  p. 209-282
Marriage

1916-1910
1898-1910

  p. 297-308 309-340
Burial

1898-1916

  p. 341-398

11

5

Baptism

1917-1946

    p. 33-138
Marriage

1942-1946

  p. 150-156
Confirmand

1942-1946;
1917-1933

  p. 188-193; 209-268
Marriage

1932-1942

  p. 269-285
Confirmand

1933-1942

  p. 286-308
Marriage

1917-1932

  p. 309-340
Burial

1917-1946

  p. 341-400

6

Index to Book 6       Incomplete; no page numbers given
Baptism

1946-1967

  p. 53-136
Burial

1967

  p. 161
Confirmand

1947-1959

  p. 169-219
Marriage

1946-1967

  p. 221-246
Burial

1946-1966

  p. 249-281
Confirmand

1960-1967

  p. 282-298
Burial

1966-1967

  p. 299-300

7

Ministerial acts, gains, losses

1957-1961

    Remarks section contains sponsors, witnesses, survivors and congregation transferred to/from.

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