India, Madras Diocese Protestant Church Records, 1743-1990

What is in This Collection?

This collection contains records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths for the church in the Diocese of Madras, Church of South India. The Church of South India was created as a successor to the Church of England after India's independence in 1947. It is a union of the Anglican Church in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka; the South Indian Methodist Church; and the South Indian United Church. The South Indian United Church was formed by a merger of Congregationalist, Dutch Reformed, and Presbyterian churches in 1908.

The Church of South India is comprised of 24 dioceses in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telegana, and the distrcts of Jaffna and Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka. The Madras Diocese is one of eight diocese in the state of Tamil Nadu. The other seven are Coimbatore, Kanyakumari, Madurai-Ramnad, Thoothukudi-Nazareth, Tirunelveli, Trichy-Tanjore, and Vellore.

For many of the volumes included in this collection the information found in the parish registers was entered by clerk in the diocesan offices from reports submitted by the several parishes. Because of this you may find records from multiple parishes on the same page, or several consecutive pages from the same parish.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

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What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:
Baptism

Marriage

Burial

Collection Content

Sample Images

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  Baptisms, 1864 St. Stephen's (Church of England), Palaveram, Madras

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  Marriages, 1889 Scotch Kirk, Secunderabad [Hyderabad], Andhra Pradesh

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  Burials, 1901 Trimulgherry and Cocanada [Kakinada], Andhra Pradesh