The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beadroll
Beadroll \Bead"roll`\, n. (R. C. Ch.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.
On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.
--Spenser.
It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of
English worthies, to find how few are directly
represented in the male line.
--Quart. Rev.
Wiktionary
beadroll
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A catalogue of people whose souls are to be be prayed for. 2 A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.