Tohickon Union Lutheran Church, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1800

Tohickon Union Lutheran Church is located in Bedminster Township, which lies in the north-central area of Bucks County. This database contains 4000 entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials for the church for the years 1750 to 1800. It also includes a brief history of the area. For those interested in this area of Pennsylvania, this will be a helpful database.

Church records rank among the very best genealogical records available worldwide, but they are one of the most under-used sources in American genealogy. Until the advent of vital statistics in the United States, a very late development in most states, church records were the primary source of birth, marriage, and death information. The sheer number of denominations and affiliate churches has made identifying and locating their records a time-consuming ordeal for most genealogists. Church records vary a great deal in content and emphasis according to the basic theology of the religious group that created them.

Early immigrants from England, Scotland, and European countries brought their religious beliefs, institutions, and customs with them, including the keeping of church books in which to record births, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, communion lists, deaths, and burials. Lutheran and Reformed records in Pennsylvania rank among the very best.