GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Michigan: MI-32

St. Clement Church
202 North Maple Street
Pellston, MI 49769

Phone: 231-752-8251
Email: info@stclementpc.org

 

History: St. Clement Church, Pellston, Emmett County, Michigan, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Gaylord (Archives: Gaylord, Michigan). Franciscans (Sacred Heart Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at St. Clement's attended to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (a.k.a. St. Mary’s) Mission (Ojibwa, Ottawa), Burt Lake, Burt Township, Cheboygan County, Michigan.

1829	Rev. Peter De Jean from St. Peter’s, Harbor Springs, visited Sheboygan Village (Ojibwa, Ottawa)
1830	The first Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mission (Ojibwa, Ottawa) was built at Sheboygan Village
1830-1929	Lay teachers staffed a parish school
ca. 1840s-ca. 1860s	Detroit diocesan priests at St. Peter's, Harbor Springs, established and attended to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mission
1908	The second Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mission (Ojibwa, Ottawa) was built at Burt Lake
1929-1947	Franciscans at St. Francis Xavier, Petoskey, attended to Assumption BVM, Burt Lake
1947-1950s (closed)	Franciscans at St. Clement’s attended to Assumption BVM

 

Holdings of Catholic-related records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1901-1950s

Volume: 3 volumes

Description: Sacramental records for Native American parishioners of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mission; baptisms, 1901-ongoing; marriages and deaths, 1947-1950s; and confirmations, 1910, 1915, 1941, 1947-1950s.

 

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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