Item consists of an index. Alphabetical list of names of individuls appearing in the General Register of Births and Baptisms, originally compiled in June of 1843 following the Annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, ending 1874; entries for 1874 to 1884 fall under the auspices of the Methodist Church in Canada, and those 1884 to 1893 the Methodist Church of Canada, reflecting the organizational changes experience by the agency in question. Entries for Burkholder index are arranged alphabeticaly by father's name so that they appear in family groups. 794 entries appearing under the heading "Vaughan" in the General Register appear in the index.