1. DEATH OR BURIAL RECORDS (with two exceptions):

PAHRC does have death records for Holy Trinity & Old St. Mary’s accordingly:

Holy Trinity

Death Registers: 1790-1872

Old St. Mary’s

Burial Registers: 1823-1878

Funeral Registers: 1856-1874

Death Registers: 1837-1856 (Lists cause of death)

Inscriptions of tombstones from Old St. Mary’s at 11th and Moore Streets (Handwritten Copybook and Word document).

Parish cemetery records are maintained by individual parishes.

List of Parish Cemeteries

Records from diocesan cemeteries are maintained by:

Catholic Cemeteries Office
111 South 38th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 895-3450
cemetery@adphila.org

Published Sources:

“St. Mary’s Graveyard, 4th & Spruce Sts., Philadelphia, Records & Extracts from Inscriptions on Tombstones” in Records of the American Catholic Historical Society, Vol. III.

“Burials in Old St. Mary’s Cemetery, 1788-1800″ in Records of the American Catholic Historical Society, Vol. V.

Brief history of early parish cemeteries

2. CONFIRMATION RECORDS:

Some of the early baptismal registers contain an alphabetical list of those who received Confirmation that year, but these are scattered throughout the register. Usually, the alphabetical list is the only information.