RECORDS OF
ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Baptism, confirmation, marriage, and death records
     from 1840 to 1947


St. Paul Lutheran Church
as it appeared in 1889

St. Paul Lutheran Church, located at the corner of Port and Burgundy Streets, is the second oldest German protestant congregation in New Orleans. Information about the church and its records can be found here.
For further information, contact norm.hellmers (at) gmail.com.




Baptism Records


Baptism Records: 1840-1844
     A transcription of these records can be found here.


Baptism Records: 1844-1856 (Find in the records by the page number)
     Index (1844-1856) in jpg format can be found here.
     Records (1844-1856) in jpg format can be found here.


Baptism Records: 1856-1947 (Find in the records by the baptism number)
     Index (1856-1879) in jpg format can be found here.
     Index (1879-1947) in jpg format can be found here.
     Records (1856-1879) in jpg format can be found here.
          Includes baptisms numbered 1 to 5611.
     Records (1879-1906) in jpg format can be found here.
          Includes baptisms numbered 5612 to 8783.
     Records (1907-1947) in jpg format can be found here.
          Includes baptisms numbered 8784 to 11,218.
     A partial index can be found here. Use your browser's "find" feature to search the records.




Confirmation Records


Confirmation Records: 1845-1856
     Records (1845-1856) in pdf format can be found here.
Confirmation Records: 1857-1947
     Records (1857-1947) in pdf format can be found here.
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Confirmation Photographs


Photographs in pdf format of individual confirmation classes (by year) can be found here.
     Years: 1897 (German and English classes), 1922, 1923, and most years between 1927 and 2003.
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Marriage Records


Marriage Records: 1840-1844
      Note: No marriage records have been found for these years.


Marriage Records: 1844-Dec 1853 (Find in the records by the page number)
     Index (1844-1853) in jpg format can be found here.
     Records (1844-1853) in jpg format can be found here.


Marriage Records: Jan 1854 - 1947 (Find in the records by the marriage number)
     Index (1854-1871) in jpg format can be found here.
     Index (1871-1947) in jpg format can be found here.
     Records (1854-1871) in jpg format can be found here.
          Includes marriages numbered 1 to 1,570. (Nos. 1559-1870 are repeated.)
     Records (1871-1947) in jpg format can be found here.
          Includes marriages numbered 1,559 to 3,217.




Death Records
     Note: No index has been made of these death records. The original records must be searched year by year.


Death Records: 1840-1844
     An online transcription of these records can be found here.


Death Records: 1845-1853
      Note: Death records were not kept in these years or have not been found.


Death Records: 1854-1881
     Records (1854-1881) in jpg format can be found here.
          Includes deaths numbered 1 to 1,319.
Death Records: 1881-1947
     Records (1881-1947) in jpg format can be found here.
          Includes deaths numbered 1,320 to 3,592.




Histories of the church published on various anniversaries


Note: Some of these are large pdf files and may take time to download for viewing or saving to your computer. Viewing pdf files requires the free Adobe Reader, which can be downloaded here.

          50th Kurzgefaßte Geschichte der deutschen Evangelisch-Lutherischen St. Paulus Gemeinde
                  U. A. C. zu New Orleans, La. (1890) [12.62 megabytes]
          50th A Brief History of the German Evangelical-Lutheran St. Paul Congregation U. A. C. of
                  New Orleans, La. (1890) [English translation of above; 7.27 megabytes]
             75th Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation, New Orleans, La.: A Brief Historical
                  Sketch of Its Organization and Development, 1840-1915 (1915) [15.82 megabytes]
          80th Directory of the St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (1920) [4.30 megabytes]
          90th Souvenir Booklet of the 90th Anniversary of Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Church
                  and School (1930) [8.07 megabytes]
          100th 100 Years with St. Paul’s, 1840-1940 (1940) [20.78 megabytes]
          135th Founded on the Firm Foundation (1975) [8.55 megabytes]
          150th Port & Burgundy: a pictorial history published in commemoration of the
                    sesquicentennial of Saint Paul Lutheran Church (1990)

          The first history of St. Paul Lutheran Church was written by the Rev. G. J. Wegener in 1889, a copy of which was placed in the cornerstone of the newly constructed church building. The history, previously unknown, was discovered inside the cornerstone in 1989 in anticipation of the 150th anniversary of the church. The opening of the cornerstone coincided with the 100th anniversary of the church building on September 13, 1989. The history was handwritten by Pastor Wegener in German. A translation was prepared by Brigitte Pfeiffer, and can be found here.