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BOOKS - St. Raphael's Roman Catholic Parish Registers 1805-1904 - Baptisms, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials & Converts (Glengarry County, Ontario)
Compiled by Duncan MacDonald
Originally published by MacDonald Research Centre, Brockville, 1990-1999
This edition published by MacDonald Research*, Milton, 2010
*MacDonald Research is an imprint of GlobalGenealogy.com Inc.


coilbound This series of books contains transcriptions of the parish records for St. Raphael's Roman Catholic Church in Glengarry County, Ontario. Incuded are transcribed extractions of baptisms/births, marriages, burials/deaths, conversions and more. Content organized alpabetically by surname of principle persons. Index for "other names"

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  • Part I 1804-1822 Births, Marriages & Converts
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  • Part II 1823-1831 Births, Marriages & Converts
    ISBN: 9781897446874; 203 pages; 8.5 X 11"; Coil bound
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  • Part III 1831-1842 Births & Marriages
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  • Part IV 1842-1854 Baptisms & Marriages
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  • Part V 1854-1865 Baptisms Burials & Marriages
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  • Part VI 1865-1885 Births, Burials & Marriages
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  • Part VII 1886-1904 Baptisms, Burials & Marriages
    ISBN: 9781897446706; 251 pages; 8.5 X 11"; Coil bound
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  • Deaths 1804-1856
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  • Diary of Deaths recorded by Rev. John MacDonald (R.C.) 1838-1866
    There is much material in this volume that is not recorded elsewhere. For more details about this book click here.
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  • The BREVITY of Father John MacDonald - Tythes, Masses, and Notes 1838-1866
    The BREVITY, a companion book to Diary of Deaths, is a continuation of the extracts from the diaries of Rev MacDonald. Packed with details of individuals and families. For more details about this book click here.
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Earliest Roman Catholic baptisms, marriages and burials prior to and overlapping the building of St. Raphael's Church History of St. Raphael's Church
    St Raphael's is situated in the former Charlottenburgh Township, now South Glengarry on the seventh concession back from the St Lawrence River. Commenced by Alexander Macdonell, vicar general and future Roman Catholic Bishop of Upper Canada, this large stone church served a congregation of Gaelic-speaking Catholic Highlanders who had settled in the eastern-most county of Upper Canada in 1786. For a time St Raphael's function as the administrative centre of the Roman Catholic Church in Upper Canada and today is recognized as the founding church for the Anglophone Catholics of the province.

    The church was constructed during a period when the province was still under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Quebec, a state of affairs which continued until 1826, when the dioceses was divided and Macdonell became the first Bishop of Kingston (Upper Canada). Evidence of this transitional period in Church history is preserved by Macdonell's plan for St Raphael's, which resembles the cruciform design developed by Abbe Pierre Conefroy and popular in Lower Canada from 1812 to 1830.

    Throughout the early 19th century, St Raphael's constituted the largest parish of Roman Catholics in the colony. Its significance was reflected not only in the size of the church but also in the educational buildings that were associated with it. These included a large stone presbytery which Macdonell built for his own use in 1808 and which served from 1817 as a boys' school; a single story building which once housed the former College of Iona, a seminary established by Macdonell to train young men for the priesthood; and a school building for girls of the parish (since demolished). These were among the first Roman Catholic educational institutions in the province. Macdonell's account book indicates that payment for the first load of cut stone was made through the building contractor and master mason, Archibald Fraser, in the spring of 1816.

    In 1970 a fire destroyed St Raphael's roof, its 1830's tower and all of its interior decorations. Fortunately the outer walls were spared and thus its plan, its impressive scale and its fine masonry work - three physical characteristics of Macdonell's church - remain. The parishioners of St Raphael's decided to preserve the ruin and build an unobtrusive modern church against its southwest corner. The original structure was designated as Heritage property 1974 under the Ontario Heritage Act and an Ontario Heritage Foundation Grant supported the work of consolidation.

    Despite the church's loss of original purpose, its stark silhouette against the rural landscape of Glengarry County powerfully engages the minds of all who see it, evoking those early days in the history of the Church and preserving the memory of those intrepid settlers.

    The Ruins was declared a National Historic Site in 1999. Source for "History St. Raphael's Church": www.saintraphaelsruins.com


NOTE about print quality:
GlobalGenealogy.com acquired MacDonald Research Centre after the passing of its founder and primary transcriber/compiler, Duncan MacDonald. We are pleased to make his books available under the new MacDonald Research imprint. Each book has been reprinted as it was prepared by Mr. MacDonald, without corrections or additions. Modern technology helped us reproduce the original work in as-good-as, or better quality as that which was originally published. Much of MacDonald's original work was created on a typewriter. His well-worn "masters" were made on a photocopier. We've cleaned them up as much as possible without re-keying all of the content resulting in books that are useful and complete, but of a print quality that reflects the technology of the time in which they were orignally published.





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