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Church Records
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Catholic Church Records

Baptismal register, church of St. Anthony, Davenport, Iowa by St. Anthony Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 282.77769 Bap

Publication Date: 1972

5 volumes; 1839-1996
Death register, church of St. Anthony, Davenport, Iowa by St. Anthony Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 282.77769 Dea

Publication Date: 200-

Photocopy of handwritten church register.
Vol. 1 - from 7 September 1839 to 19 September 1866, 1 December 1911 to 30 November 1947.
Vol. 2 - from 17 January 1948 to 28 December 1978.
Historical records by St. Anthony Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 282.77769 His

Publication Date: 20--

Photocopy of handwritten and typed church records. Includes index.
1839-1853 ; Communion records : 1922-1986 ; Confirmation records : 1911-1967.
Marriage register, church of St. Anthony, Davenport, Iowa by St. Anthony Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 282.77769 Mar

Publication Date: 19uu

Photocopy of handwritten church register.
Vol. 1 - from 21 November 1839 to 9 January 1882.
Vol. 2 - from 13 April 1882 to 22 December 1947.
Parish registers of baptism and marriage, 1859-1920 / St. Ann's Catholic Church, Long Grove, IA.
Call Number: SC 282 ST. ANN'S

Publication Date: 2018

Copied from the original parish registers by Rev. Raphael M. Maher, 1951; re-copied and indexed by Mrs. Jane Britt for the Iowa Bicentennial Commission, 1976.
Register of baptisms (liber baptizatorum), church of (ecclesia) St. Anthony, Davenport, Iowa. by St. Anthony Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 282.77769 Reg

Publication Date: 19uu

1947-1972
Register of marriages (liber matrimoniorum) : church of (Ecclesia) St. Anthony, Davenport, Iowa, from 1-1-1948 to 12-29-79 by St. Anthony Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 282.77769 Reg

Publication Date: 1979
St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Davenport, Iowa : deaths, 1839-1866 and baptisms, 1839-1862 by St. Anthony Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 282.77769 St

Publication Date: 197-?

Deaths, 1839-1866 and baptisms, 1839-1862
transcribed from the journal kept by the Reverend J.A.M. Pelamourgues.
Transcripts of the registers of baptisms and deaths : Holy Family Church Davenport, Iowa ; 1898-1917. by Holy Family Chuch (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 282.77769 TRA

Publication Date: 1976

Register of baptisms : 1898-1917 -- Register of deaths : 1898-1917

Lutheran Church Records

Records of Trinity Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa 1870-1887 by Trinity Lutheran Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 284.1 Tri

Publication Date: 1990?

Section 1: Marriages, 1870-1884 -- Section 2: Baptisms, 1870-1871 -- Section 3: Baptisms, 1872-1876 -- Section 4: Baptisms, 1876-1887 -- Section 5: Deaths, 1870-1887.
[Records of Trinity Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa, 1870-1982] by Trinity Lutheran Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC MICROFILM 284.1 Tri

Publication Date: 1996

Original records are in German
Membership record book by Zion Lutheran Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC MICROFILM 284.1 Zio

Publication Date: 1976

Book 1. 1861-1899 -- Book 2. 1868-1899 -- Book 3. 1900-1929 -- Book 4. 1915-1929 -- Book 5. 1930-1940 -- Book 6. 1941-1950 -- Book 7. 1951-1969 -- Book 8. 1970-1975.

Presbyterian Church Records

[Early records of First Presbyterian Church, Davenport, Iowa] by First Presbyterian Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 285 Fir

Publication Date: 19--?
Baptism records by St. Andrew Presbyterian Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 285.177769 BAP

Publication Date: 2008

Vol. 1. 1940-1969 -- v. 2.1953-1964 -- v. 3 1953-1968 -- v. 4. 1970-1996.
Church register by St. Andrew Presbyterian Church (Davenport, Iowa)
Call Number: SC 285.177769 CHU

Publication Date: 2008

Vol. 1. 1906-1957 -- v. 2.1957-1964 -- v. 3 1961-2008