| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Welsh Presbyterian Church |
| Title: | Welsh Presbyterian Church Records |
| Dates: | 1906-1940 |
| Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) |
| Abstract: | The Welsh Presbyterian Church was a Cleveland, Ohio, church founded ca. 1890, located on East 55th Street, and known as Willson Avenue Welsh Presbyterian Church before Willson Avenue became East 55th Street in 1906. It was part of the Pittsburgh Presbytery and merged with the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Cleveland in the 1940s. The collection consists of two record books containing minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees and Elders, 1906-1912, monthly meetings of the Church Session, 1922-1937, and registers of pastors, elders, communicants, baptisms, marriages and deaths, 1912-1940. |
| MS Number | MS 3995 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Welsh Presbyterian Church Records, 1906-1940, consist of two record books containing minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees and Elders, 1906-1912, monthly meetings of the Church Session, 1922-1937, and registers of pastors, elders, communicants, baptisms, marriages and deaths, 1912-1940.
This collection will be useful to researcher studying the history of religion, the Presbyterian church, and the Welsh immigrant community of Cleveland, Ohio, in the first half of the twentieth century. Genealogists will find the registry records particularly useful.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3995 Welsh Presbyterian Church Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Mrs. Chris Edwards in 1984.
Welsh Presbyterian Church Records 1906-1940 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Minutes 1906-1920 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Minutes 1922-1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Registry records 1912-1940 | |||||||||