GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
North Carolina: NC-7

St. Francis de Sales Church
2000 East Elizabethtown Road
P.O. Box 2249
Lumberton, NC 28358

Phone: 910-739-4723
Email: office@stfrancisdesalescatholic.org

 

History: St. Francis de Sales Church, Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Raleigh (Archives: Raleigh, North Carolina). It has had some Lumbee Indian parishioners, 1940s-present.

1940-1952, 1968-1990s	Franciscan Friars of the Atonement (Archives: Garrison, New York) administered the parish
1940s-1980s	Sisters, Adorers of the Blood of Christ (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) administered the parish school
1952-1968, 2000s-present	Raleigh diocesan priests have administered the parish
1990s-2000s	Laity administered the parish school
1990s-present	Laity administered the parish religious education program

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1940s-ongoing

Volume: Several records

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Francis de Sales Church.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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