University of Texas at El Paso DigitalCommons@UTEP Guides to Microfilm Collections Special Collections Department 1999 Guide to MF489 Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juarez, 1671-1945 Special Collections Staff University of Texas at El Paso Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.utep.edu/guides Comments: Bulk Dates: 1726-1894 29 rolls of microfilm Recommended Citation Staff, Special Collections, "Guide to MF489 Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juarez, 1671-1945" (1999). Guides to Microfilm Collections. 3. https://digitalcommons.utep.edu/guides/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections Department at DigitalCommons@UTEP. It has been accepted for inclusion in Guides to Microfilm Collections by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UTEP. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Juárez Cathedral Archives, MF 489 1 Guide to MF 489 Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juarez, 1671-1945 Bulk Dates: 1726 - 1894 29 rolls of microfilm Text converted from partial card file index (Rolls 1 – 3) by students and staff of Special Collections Department, UTEP Library. Filmed by the the University of Texas at El Paso, 1983, 1987, and purchased from Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Citation: Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juarez, 1671-1893 , MF489, C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department, The University of Texas at El Paso Library C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department University of Texas at El Paso Library Juárez Cathedral Archives, MF 489 2 HISTORICAL SKETCH Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe del Paso del Rio del Norte (Ciudad Juárez, Mexico), was founded in 1659 by Francisan missionaries and was part of the Custody of Saint Paul, but later transferred under the authority of the bishop of Durango. The Mother Mission, as it is sometimes called, was the repository of all the church records within a probable radius of fifty or more miles until the Mexican War of 1846-1848. After the War, the Diocese was divided, and cases over which a bishop had jurisdiction were sent to Santa Fe. The term “Juárez Cathedral” is of rather recent usage, since the old mission in Ciudad Juárez became a cathedral only in 1958. In the 1970s, a larger building was erected beside the old mission to serve as the cathedral. Some church records from the El Paso del Norte area remained with the parishes, and some were transferred to diocesan centers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, or Durango, Durango, Mexico, but many local administrative records and sacramental records remained in Paso del Norte, later re-named Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Although many of these early documents have disappeared, some have been found and microfilmed. ARRANGEMENT Filmed in approximate chronological order, as found, and numbered rolls 1-25; Part 2 consists of microfilm received from the Catholic Archives of Texas and is numbered as MF489, Part 2, rolls 1-4. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Consists mostly of marriage records, prenupual investigations, and correspondence; contains some records of births, baptisms, confirmations, and burials from the area of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. Contains sacramental records from Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Paso del Norte (in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua) and the missions or communities of Senecú, San Lorenzo, and El Carrizal, in Chihuahua, Mexico, and of Socorro, Ysleta, San Elizario, and Nuestra Señora de las Caldas in what is now Texas. PROVENANCE The first fourteen rolls of film were microfilmed by Southwest Microfilm for the University of Texas at El Paso Library from the cathedral’s archives and miscellaneous found documents in 1983 and 1987. Some 1,000 missing documents were found in the archives of the El Paso Public Library and returned after microfilming. Another group documents from the missing archives were located by Mark Koenigsberg and filmed for the UTEP collection. The Church of the Latter Day Saints had eleven rolls of microfilm of missing documents which were purchased by UTEP--in this collection numbered 15-25. 4,000 missing Juárez Cathedral Archives, MF 489 3 documents of the Mission of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Paso del Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chih.) recovered from the Catholic Archives of Texas in Austin, Texas, through the courtesy of the Most Reverend John E. McCarthy, Bishop, and Gary Bryson, Archivist, were microfilmed and are numbered in this collection as MF489, Part 2, rolls 1-4. RESTRICTIONS None. LITERARY RIGHTS Permission to publish material from the Archives of the Cathedral of Ciudad Juarez, 1671-1945 , MF489, must be obtained from the C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department, the University of Texas at El Paso Library. NOTES TO RESEARCHERS All documents are in Spanish or Latin. The first three rolls of film were described with item-level description in a card file which was subsequently scanned and converted to text by staff of the C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. The rest of the rolls have summary information only. Other information may be found in: Mexico and the Southwest : microfilm holdings of historical documents and rare books at the University of Texas at El Paso Library / compiled by Cesar Caballero, Susana Delgado and Bud Newman ; with an introduction by W.H. Timmons. El Paso, Tex. : University of Texas at El Paso Libraries, Special Collections Dept., 1984. pp. 20-23 Guide to the Spanish and Mexican manuscript collection at the Catholic Archives of Texas / compiled by Dedra S. McDonald; edited by Kinga Perzynska. Austin, Tex. : Catholic Archives of Texas, 1994. pp. 101-107 Container list: ROLL 1 Roll 1, Frame 36-40 1728, January 15. Juárez Cathedral Archives, MF 489 4 Diocese of Durango. Roll 1, Frame 118 1751, November 27. Petition of marriage between mulatos. Paso del Norte. Miguel Bejil. Signed by Joseph Lorenzo de Ribera. Roll 1, Frame 113 1733, October 2. Paso del Río del Norte. Roll 1, Frame 123-6 1760, April 20. Petition and testimony for marriage. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro. Roll 1, Frame 119-122 1760, February 20. Petition of marriage and testimony of witnesses. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro. Roll 1, Frame 127 1760, April 30. Permission for soldier Antonio Lucero to marry. Paso del Norte. Manuel Antonio San Juan. Roll 1, Frame 128-31 1760, May 1. Petition to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Joseph Lorenzo de Ribera Antonio Santiago Pasos. Roll 1, Frame 132-5 1760, July 22. Petition to marry Montoya and Paula Gómez. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Antonio Graciliono. Roll 1, Frame 142-45 1760, September 20. Juárez Cathedral Archives, MF 489 5 Petition to marry and testimony. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Bernardo TrujiIIo. Roll 1, Frame 136 1760, July 23. Inventory of matrimonial declaration since 1731 to 1760. Paso del Norte. Roll 1, Frame 140-41 1760, July 23. Document related to petition of marry of Antonio Graciliano Montoya and Paula Antonia Gómez. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro. Roll 1, Frame 136-39 1760, July 23. Inventory of matrimonial declaration. Paso del Norte. Fray Joseph Lorenzo de Rivera vicar. Fray Jacobo de Castro, Custodian of New Mexico. Roll 1, Frame 157-60 1760, October 27. Petition and testimony to marry María Micabela de Escalante. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Juan Antonio Martínez. Roll 1, Frame 153-56 1760, October 25. Petition and testimony to marry Maria Paula de godoy. Paso del Rio del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Pedro Nolasco Britto. Roll 1, Frame 152-55 1760, October 18. Petition and testimony to marry María Hemerentiana del Río. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Juan José Madrid. Roll 1, Frame 146-51 1760, September 23. Petition to marry Antonia Moraga. Nuestra Señora del Socorro. Fray Jacobo de Castro Phelipe Valencia. Roll 1, Frame 161-63 Juárez Cathedral Archives, MF 489 6 1760, November 1. Petition and testimony to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Lorenzo Corbases (?) . Roll 1, Frame 164-67 1760, November 11 Petition and testimony to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Sebastián, Fabián Rodríguez. Roll 1, Frame 168-9 1760, November 16. Petition and testimony to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Joseph Ruis Mendoza Julián Gracia. Roll 1, Frame 170-73 1760, December 10. Petition to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Vidal Jurado. Roll 1, Frame 174-7 1760, December 19. Petition and testimony to marry Nicolasa Rodríguez. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro, Alonso de la Pasa. Roll 1, Frame 178-81 1760, December 22. Petition and testimony to marry Margarita Rafina (?). Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro , Juan Antonio Romero. Roll 1, Frame 182-5 1761. (?) 8. Petition and testimony to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro, Joseph Antonio de la Encarnación Durán. Roll 1, Frame 186-91 1762, January 4. Petition and testimony to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro Santiago Benavides. Juárez Cathedral Archives, MF 489 7 Roll 1, Frame 219-22 1763, November 11. Petition to marry to Juana Micassa. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro, Joseph Lazca (?). Roll 1, Frame 206-8 1763. Petition to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro, Juan Pedro Ramirez. Roll 1, Frame 213-18 1763, November 8. Petition to marry and testimony to Juana Ignacia Jurado. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro, Pedro Tellez. Roll 1, Frame 202-5 1763, (?) 26. Petition to marry-Document partially missing. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro, Thomas Manuel Durán. Roll 1, Frame 206-8 1763. Petition to marry. Paso del Norte. Fray Jacobo de Castro, Juan Pedro Ramírez. Roll 1, Frame 255-6 1764, October 29.