GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
New York: NY-5

St. Mary Church
36 Washington Street
Cattaraugus, NY 14719

Phone: 716-257-9351

 

History: St. Mary Church has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Buffalo (Archives: Buffalo, New York). Buffalo diocesan priests at St. Mary’s attended to the Allegany (Seneca, Cayuga) and Cattaraugus (Seneca) reservation stations, 1950s.

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1950s-ongoing

Volume: Few entries among several volumes

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Mary 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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