Sugar Notch

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Holy Family [Polish]

www.holyfamily100.org

Established as a pastorate in 1903; according to Msgr Gallagher, merged with SS Peter and Paul between 1990-1992, but at some point between then and 1997 Holy Family became the primary parish^1,2,3,4

Cemetery

School - established under the Bernardines in 1916, closed between 1962-68⁵

St Charles Borromeo

www.holyfamily100.org

Built as a mission of Immaculate Conception, Wilkes-Barre, in 1875; established as a pastorate in 1879; Polish and Lithuanian priests from Nanticoke used St Charles' facilities until Holy Rosary and SS Peter and Paul were organized; merged with SS Peter and Paul Lithuanian, Sugar Notch, between 1984-1989^6,7,8,9,2

School - under IHM auspices 1929-1971^10,11

Cemetery¹²

SS Peter and Paul [Lithuanian]

Established as a pastorate in 1917;¹³ merged first with St Charles and then with Holy Family;² closed in 1995. Records kept at Holy Family¹⁴

Cemetery¹⁵

 



Notes

1. Gallagher, Rev John P, A Century of History: The Diocese of Scranton 1868-1968, Scranton: The Diocese of Scranton, 1968, p 295
2. Gallagher, Msgr John P, A Second Century Begins: The Diocese of Scranton 1968-1993, Scranton: The Diocese of Scranton, 1993, p159
3. The Official Catholic Directory, New Providence NJ: P J Kenedy and Sons, 1997. Lists Holy Family as the primary Sugar Notch parish, with SS Peter and Paul as merged into it and St Charles as a mission.
4. Holy Family Church, "History," www.holyfamily100.org/history.htm
5. Gallagher, Rev John P, op cit, p268, 379
6. Bradsby, H C, History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Chicago: S B Nelson, 1893, pp447-50. Transcription
7. Gallagher, Rev John P, op cit, p150
8. Liturgical Publications of St. Louis, Inc, "Parishes established from the mother church of St Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception," www.catholic-forum.com/churches/1029smsj/established_from.html
9. Extract from St. Charles Borromeo's Centennial Program, sites.rootsweb.com/~paluzern/church/stcharles.htm
10. Gallagher, Rev John P, op cit, p274. Gallagher and the IHM website both say that the IHM came to St Charles in 1929, while the St Charles Centennial Program extract says 1928.
11. IHM Congregation, "Where We Have Been," ihm.marywood.edu/2.OurHistory/2IHMWhereHaveWeBeen.html
12. 1997 Official Directory has Holy Family with a cemetery, but specifies nothing about St Charles, while the St Charles Centennial Program refers to a parish cemetery. I don't know if these are the same or different cemeteries.
13. Gallagher, Rev John P, op cit, p299. Gallagher has SS Peter and Paul established in 1917, while the 1997 Official Directory has the date 1847. This seems premature for a Lithuanian parish to be organized.
14. Gillen, Ron and Juozas (Joe) Mickunas, "Lithuanian Parishes," www.lithuaniangenealogy.org/databases/churches/lt_churches-us.html?state=PA
15. Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, "Cemeteries in Luzerne and Wyoming Counties," sites.rootsweb.com/~panepgs/cemeteries.htm