Are the primary sources available that were used when creating "Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995"?

Question

I intended to create profiles for descendants of [[Aurenius-1|Jon Auren]] and his wife [[Gustafsson-1458|Lydia Justice]]. But I don't have a lot of trust in the only source I found: "Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995," available at FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3L-S9ZP-B?cc=2385204) It is a handwritten copy made about 1892, and I found what must be mistakes regarding dates for Jon Auren and the first name of his wife. I wonder if the primary sources for this document are available, so that one can check if these are just copying mistakes. I would like to believe that the persons included in the source I found are real, but that details may have been distorted. Or are there other sources?

EDIT: I have now created all the profiles I intended to. Anyone who can contribute to any improvement is welcome to do so. In the process, I created a free space profile (Jon Auren's descendants 18th century -) clarifying the source I questioned above as much as I was able to. Link: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Jon_Auren%27s_descendants%2C_18th_century_-

Answer 1

Per:

    It looks like that part of the secondary source is a handwritten transcription of original records, so the issue may be nothing more than the inevitable issues with reading original records and just plain typographical issues.  You're lucky in that you can tell the parishes from which the records came so it's just a case of finding and reviewing copies of the original records.

    If you'll indicate the parish on which you are focused, someone can probably tell you whether the original records are on-line.

                                    Roger

Comments

The original archives of Saint Mary Anne's parish, Cecil County, Maryland, should be where to look.

I believe Rev. Jon Auren and his family lived at Raccoon Creek (today named Swedesboro), New Jersey, when he passed away. He was minister there. He had previously been rector in Saint Mary Anne's parish, Cecil County, Maryland, and he preached alternating at both places.

Although Jon Auren is mentioned several times in "The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck, 1713-1786", his death record is not included there, neither his second son's birth record. So his burial and his son's christening may have been at St Mary Anne's in stead. Probably his wife and sons returned to their estate in Cecil County, Maryland, after his death. I have read that his wife's brother managed that estate for her.

Answer 2

The link in your query takes me to the records for St. Stephens parish, farther south than the church on North East River that Jonas Aurén served.  St. Mary Anne's parish is in a separate volume, but what I can see begins in 1743.  I believe the original book does exist, when I worked with that parish in 1983-84 it was kept in a bank vault, either in North East or Elkton.  Note that the Aurén family is partly indexed as Avren.  (And in MD court records, as Oreen, at least some of the time.)

Comments

Thanks for your valuable input, Richard.

Actually, the referred volume starts with "Index to the registers of St. Mary Ann's Parish, Cecil County" images 3-55, followed by "Church records: St. Mary Ann' parish, Cecil county, Register and vestry proceedings 1713-1799" images 57-224 (Births, deaths and marriages start at image 195), then "Tombstone records from Old West Nothingham Cemetery at Rising Sun" image 225, and then "Index to vestry proceedings" images 226-235, and then "Index to the register of births, marriages and deaths in St. Stephen's Parish, Cecil County" images 236-344, followed by "Marriages, Births and Deaths St Stephens Parish, Cecil County, Md, Copied in 1892 by Miss Lucy H. Harrison, 1687-1837", image 346-446, and finally "Records of St. Stephen's Church, North Sassafras Parish, Cecil County, Md. Copied in 1892 by Miss Lucy H. Harrison, 1687-1804", image 447-640, with index in images 641-654.

I have extracted the lines involving the names Auren, Avren and Avron, from the records I mentioned. Since it got rather bulky, I made a free space profile: Space:Jon_Auren%27s_descendants%2C_18th_century_- (link: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Jon_Auren%27s_descendants%2C_18th_century_-)