Ceiba Digitized Church Records 1840 – 1978

As I move forward in transcribing more records for different municipalities, I am discovering regions where I do not believe I have any ancestors but also how vast this island actually is.  While I see many comments that slavery existed on the eastern part of the island, the truth is that it existed everywhere equally around the island. There is no exclusive place nor have I come across a region where I have not seen slaves or former slaves in the records. I want to remove that myth from everyone’s mind.

So for the municipality of Ceiba, in Puerto Rico, it founded in 1838, and the name of the church for this town is San Antonio de Padua.  The municipality can be found along the northeastern coast of the island south of Fajardo. There are not a vast number of church records but the collection is complete. I found that many books were mislabeled and the catalog has the wrong years listed.  These are all corrected below.

The digitized church records are as follows with the first book containing 9 different books:

Baptisms Books

• Book 2 of Baptisms for Whites 1845 – 1856 (Image 1969) with Index in back
• Book 2B of Baptisms 1845 – 1870 (Image 3) with Index in back
• Book 3 of Baptisms 1856 – 1866 (Image 112) with Index in back
• Book 4 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1866 – 1872 (Image 364) with Index in back
• Book 5 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1872 – 1877 (Image 674) with Index in back
• Book 6 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1877 – 1882 (Image 981) with Index in back
• Book 7 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1882 – 1885 (Image 1614) with Index in back
• Book 8 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1885 – 1889 (Image 1296) with Index in back
• Book 9 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1889 – 1893 (Image 1830) with Index in back
• Book 10 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1893 – 1895 (Image 2158) with Index in back
• Book 11 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1895 – 1900 (Image 2339) with Index in back
• Book 12 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1900 – 1903 (Image 2674)
• Book 12 of Baptisms 1903 – 1905 (Image 4) Continued from above with Index in back
• Book 13 of Baptisms for Whites and Mixed 1905 – 1910 (Image 181) with Index in back
• Book 14 of Baptisms 1910 – 1920 (Image 519)
• Book 14 of Baptisms 1910 – 1920 (Image 792)with Index in front
• Book 15 of Baptisms 1920 – 1935 (Image 976)

Marriage Books

• Book 2 of Marriages for Freed Blacks and Slaves 1845 – 1857 (Image 1414)
• Book 2 of Marriages 1845 – 1875 (Image 1787) with Index in back
• Book 3 of Marriage for Whites and Mixed 1876 – 1907 (Image 2232) with Index in back
• Book 4 of Marriage for Whites and Mixed 1907 – 1955 (Image 2069) with Index in back

Death Books

• Book 2 of Deaths 1845 – 1859 (Image 2545) with Index in back
• Book 3 of Deaths 1859 – 1869 (Image 6) with Index in back
• Book 4 of Death 1870 – 1878 (Image 315) with Index in back
• Book 5 of Death 1878 – 1886 (Image 624) with Index in back
• Book 6 of Death 1886 – 1896 (Image 936)with Index in back
• Book 7 of Death 1896 –  1907 (Image )with Index in back
• Loose death records from 1956 – 1978 (Image 1564)