Sacramental Records

Marriages:
We have no entries from September 16, 1836 to November 8, 1849.

Deaths:
We have no records for 1883, or from 1885 to 1902.

We have a funeral register covering September 1821 to March 2, 1836; the first burials in the St. Peter's cemetery were December 13, 1825.

We have a record of bodies laid in the vault of the cemetery before burial that runs from December 12, 1844 to Sept 3, 1861.

The next funeral register we have begins November 10, 1858; all persons in it are listed as being buried in Mt. Olivet. Write to1300 Bladensburg Rd, NE, DC 20002, 202-399-3000.

We have no records of the closing of St. Peter’s cemetery and the removal of the bodies. Such information might be in the Archdiocesan archives in Baltimore. Write to: Archivist, Archdiocese of Baltimore, 320 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD 410-547-5443.

This list of churches located near St. Peter's may help you in your genealogical search.

St. Patrick’s (est. 1794)
619 Tenth St, NW
Washington DC 20001
202-347-2713

St. Mary’s (1845)
725 Fifth St, NW
Washington DC 20001
202-289-7771

St. Dominic (1852)
630 E Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
202-554-7863

St. Aloysius (1859)
19 Eye St, NW
Washington DC 20001
202-336-7200

St. Joseph’s (1868)
313 Second Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202-547-1223

Holy Comforter (1904) - St. Cyprian (1893)
[Parishes merged in 1966]
1357 East Capitol St SE
Washington DC 20003
202-546-1885

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