If you are referring to the Christ Church that used to be at the corner of Rutledge/Sumter - those records are now at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Charleston - I recently had reason to inquire and was told that's where they were - and what I needed was there. Donna >From: Elizabeth Russo <elizabethrusso@home.com> >Reply-To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com >To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SCCHARLE] CHRIST CHURCH, St. Philips, St. Thomas, St. James Goose >Creek, Bethel >Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:09:34 -0500 > >Now if JOHN CARNE and MARY HUTCHINSON were married in 1765, and he was >from Charleston [with a brother definitely at St. Philips], and she was >listed in their prenuptial agreement as being from Christ Church Parish, >and if he was known to have worked in Charleston--where would I most >likely find them? So far, I have found neither a marriage nor a burial >record for them in a church record--or anywhere else, for that matter, >except the prenup. > >Their daughter, ANN CLARKSON CARNE, married PETER DUBOIS--somewhere--16 >March 1797 [family records]. PETER DUBOIS was baptised in St. >Thomas/St. Denis; and he was listed in his father, PETER DUBOIS,' >household for the 1790 census in St. James, Goose Creek. This couple >was in Charleston from at least 1798 when their oldest was born until >the late 1830s, and were said to have attended Bethel Methodist as a >young couple. > >Now as I understand it, Bethel would be "Old Bethel" Methodist church, >which is the building now relocated to 222 Calhoun Street and has had >Black congregants since a schism back in the 1830s--by which time my >ancestors had moved on to Alabama. > >Old Bethel was originally built on the site now occupied by Bethel >Methodist church at 57 Pitt Street. But this current building at this >site was built well after the departure of my ancestors, so... > >...if I want to worship at a church where my ancestors actually sat, how >about St. James Goose Creek, or St. Thomas or St. Denis, or Christ >Church? Are any of these original to prior to 1800 and currently having >services? How about Strawberry Chapel? How about Cumberland Methodist >Church--where my gggrandfather visited in 1821, coming back to >Charleston as a homesick 23-year-old from the wilds of Alabama? > >The Huguenot church--the focus of my fellow researchers on this upcoming >trip--was built in 1845 at a time when my ancestors had not been >Huguenots in decades, and my DUBOIS ancestors had long since left the >state. > >Maybe my best shot at finding something connected to my ancestors will >be standing on the grounds of these sites with old drawings or pictures >of moved buildings and imagining my best... > >Elizabeth DuBois Russo > > >==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== >Lots of holdings on Charleston County Families >South Carolina Historical Society >http://www.schistory.org > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

To be honest, I don't know which/what Christ Church, except that I have several records of my families prior to 1800 saying "Christ Church Parish", so whatever church building[s] served the parish prior to 1800 would be what I'm interested in; ditto, membership records. Do Episcopalian records follow the individual parish church--and is St. Peter's now the jurisdiction where Christ Church Parish once was? I rather imagine the Parish back then was much larger than current parishes, at least geographically, so I'm not certain where I should look for church records. Could the custom in 1765 have been to say "of Christ Church Parish" when in fact the person mentioned lived within the Parish but attended some other church? I get confused when speaking of old political/geographical boundaries in liturgical terms. At any rate, I suspect that my ancestors were indeed Anglican/Church of England [what is the difference?] before the American Revolution, and mostly Methodist afterward. So I'll go looking for Christ Church Records wherever I can. Please pardon the ignorance of this ol' Methodist... Elizabeth Donna Howland wrote: > > If you are referring to the Christ Church that used to be at the corner of > Rutledge/Sumter - those records are now at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in > Charleston - I recently had reason to inquire and was told that's where they > were - and what I needed was there. > > Donna > > >From: Elizabeth Russo <elizabethrusso@home.com> > >Reply-To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com > >To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [SCCHARLE] CHRIST CHURCH, St. Philips, St. Thomas, St. James Goose > >Creek, Bethel > >Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:09:34 -0500 > > > >Now if JOHN CARNE and MARY HUTCHINSON were married in 1765, and he was > >from Charleston [with a brother definitely at St. Philips], and she was > >listed in their prenuptial agreement as being from Christ Church Parish, > >and if he was known to have worked in Charleston--where would I most > >likely find them? So far, I have found neither a marriage nor a burial > >record for them in a church record--or anywhere else, for that matter, > >except the prenup. > > > >Their daughter, ANN CLARKSON CARNE, married PETER DUBOIS--somewhere--16 > >March 1797 [family records]. PETER DUBOIS was baptised in St. > >Thomas/St. Denis; and he was listed in his father, PETER DUBOIS,' > >household for the 1790 census in St. James, Goose Creek. This couple > >was in Charleston from at least 1798 when their oldest was born until > >the late 1830s, and were said to have attended Bethel Methodist as a > >young couple. > > > >Now as I understand it, Bethel would be "Old Bethel" Methodist church, > >which is the building now relocated to 222 Calhoun Street and has had > >Black congregants since a schism back in the 1830s--by which time my > >ancestors had moved on to Alabama. > > > >Old Bethel was originally built on the site now occupied by Bethel > >Methodist church at 57 Pitt Street. But this current building at this > >site was built well after the departure of my ancestors, so... > > > >...if I want to worship at a church where my ancestors actually sat, how > >about St. James Goose Creek, or St. Thomas or St. Denis, or Christ > >Church? Are any of these original to prior to 1800 and currently having > >services? How about Strawberry Chapel? How about Cumberland Methodist > >Church--where my gggrandfather visited in 1821, coming back to > >Charleston as a homesick 23-year-old from the wilds of Alabama? > > > >The Huguenot church--the focus of my fellow researchers on this upcoming > >trip--was built in 1845 at a time when my ancestors had not been > >Huguenots in decades, and my DUBOIS ancestors had long since left the > >state. > > > >Maybe my best shot at finding something connected to my ancestors will > >be standing on the grounds of these sites with old drawings or pictures > >of moved buildings and imagining my best... > > > >Elizabeth DuBois Russo > > > > > >==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== > >Lots of holdings on Charleston County Families > >South Carolina Historical Society > >http://www.schistory.org > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== > Lots of holdings on Charleston County Families > South Carolina Historical Society > http://www.schistory.org

Donna, what can I look for on your behalf when I locate such records of Christ Church? Anyone else, give me your names, too, and though I can't promise miracles, I can be on the lookout. I am grateful for the information, and hope you'll forgive my horrible manners in the last message where I neglected to thank you sufficiently. Elizabeth Donna Howland wrote: > > If you are referring to the Christ Church that used to be at the corner of > Rutledge/Sumter - those records are now at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in > Charleston -