Puerto Rico: Barranquitas Church Records 1860 to 1952

One of the interesting things I have discovered between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic is the constant repetition of town names. It is not a few but plenty of towns. While pulling up the map of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, I discovered the town of La Vega which is a province and town in the Dominican Republic’s Cibao region. There are other such towns like Moca, San Juan, and Santo Domingo.

Barranquitas is a municipality that sits in a mountainous region of the island. Just southeast of this regions sits Coamo. The municipality was founded in 1803.

There are limited church records available so I recommend that while researching, you may have to also look for ancestors in other sources if they are available.

Barranquitas is known for its Taino history with the Cacique or Chief was known as Orocobix during the 16th century.  He was later to wind up as enslaved and working the mines for the Spaniards that invaded the island.

If you’d like to read up on many of the Caciques for not just Puerto Rico but many of the other islands, click here. You’ll discover that Tainos existed in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Bahamas, and Cuba.

The following are the church records currently available online. Note that there are no death books and that the baptism books start with 1860.

Baptisms

• Book 10 of Baptisms 1860 – 1882 with Index in back (Image 5)
• Book 11 of Baptisms 1882 – 1886 (Image 293)
• Book 12 of Baptisms 1886 – 1895 Pages are not in order (Image 525)
• Book 13 of Baptisms 1895 – 1901 with Index in back (Image 840)
• Book 14 of Baptisms 1901 – 1904 with Index in back (Image 1185)
• Book 15 of Baptisms 1904 – 1907 with Index in back (Image 1420)
• Book 16 of Baptisms 1907 – 1909 with Index in back (Image 1672)
• Book 17 of Baptisms 1910 – 1912 with Index in back (Image 1828)
• Book 18 of Baptisms 1913 – 1918 with Index in back (Image 2114)
• Book 18 of Baptisms 1913 – 1918 Continuations (Image 2397)
• Book 19 of Baptisms 1918 – 1922 (Image 2507)
• Book 20 of Baptisms 1922 – 1926 (Image 4)
• Book 21 of Baptisms 1926 – 1928 (Image 374)
• Book 22 of Baptisms 1928 – 1930 with Index in front (Image 594)
• Book 23 of Baptisms 1930 – 1932 with Index in back (Image 848) 
• Book 24 of Baptisms 1932 – 1934 with Index in front (Image 1123)
• Book 25 of Baptisms 1934 – 1936 with Index in back (Image 1309)
• Book 26 of Baptisms 1936 – 1938 (Image 1539)
• Book 27 of Baptisms 1938 – 1941 with Index in back (Image 1806)
• Book 28 of Baptisms 1941 – 1943 with Index in front and back (Image 2114)
• Book 29 of Baptisms 1943 – 1945 with Index in front (Image 2426)
• Book 30 of Baptisms 1945 – 1947 with Index in back (Image 5)
• Book 31 of Baptisms 1947 – 1948 with Index in back (Image 273)
• Book 32 of Baptisms 1948 – 1950 (Image 557)
• Book 33 of Baptisms 1950 – 1952 with Index in front (Image 850)

Marriages

• Book of Marriages 1860 – 1870 (Image 1153)
• Book of Marriages 1871 – 1886 with Index in back (Image 1432)
• Book 13 of Marriages 1899 – 1909 with Index in front (Image 1726)
• Book 14 of Marriages 1909 – 1929 with Index in back (Image 1937)
• Book 15 of Marriages 1930 – 1938 with Index in front (Image 2253)