Goshenhoppen Registers 1741-1819

The Goshenhoppen registers of baptisms marriages and deaths are the sacramental records of the Catholic mission at Goshenhoppen now Bally in Washington Township Berks County Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1741 the year the mission was founded and extending with some gaps to 1819 these include sacraments administered at Goshenhoppen and outlying missions in southeastern Pennsylvania particularly in the counties of Berks Bucks Northampton Montgomery Lehigh and Lebanon an area containing much of the early Germanic population of the state. Taken as a whole the Goshenhoppen registers contain entries relating to about 4000 baptisms marriages and deaths with references to about 15000 individuals. Added to this work for the first time is a complete name index.