Cidra Church Record in Puerto Rico
Cidra, known as “Town of the Eternal Spring”, is located in the eastern central region of Puerto Rico. Its location is just north of Cayey; south of Comerío and Aguas Buenas; east of Aibonito; and west of Caguas. The town was founded in 1809. Knowing this information is important since you’ll need this information as you seek for records older than the existence of the town or church records.
For Cidra, the church was not established until 1818. I highly recommend that pulling up a map to see if other churches existed closer than Caguas if they were established prior to 1818. The digitized books contain baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and death records going to 1937. The breakdown of the books is as follows…
Baptisms
- Book 1 of Baptisms 1818 – 1830 Slaves & Pardos (Image 4)
- Book 2 of Baptisms 1830 – 1840 with Index in front (Image 219)
- Book 3 of Baptisms 1840 – 1847 Slaves & Pardos with Index in front (Image 390)
- Book 4 of Baptisms 1847 – 1871 with Index in back (Image 875)
- Book 3 of Baptisms 1840 – 1850 Whites & Pardos with Index in front (Image 651)
- Book 4 of Baptisms 1850 – 1853 with Index in front (Image 1012)
- Book 5 of Baptisms 1853 – 1856 with Index in front (Image 1177)
- Book 6 of Baptisms 1856 – 1859 with Index in front (Image 1337)
- Book 7 of Baptisms 1859 – 1864 with Index in front (Image 1497)
- Book 8 of Baptisms 1864 – 1868 with Index in back (Image 1726)
- Book 9 of Baptisms 1868 – 1878 with Index in back (Image 1920)
- Book 10 of Baptisms 1878 – 1880 with Index in back (Image 2115)
- Book 11 of Baptisms 1880 – 1888 (Image 2394)
- Book 12 of Baptisms 1888 – 1895 (Image 4)
- Book 13 of Baptisms 1895 – 1904 with Index in back (Image 332)
- Book 14 of Baptisms 1904 – 1908 (Image 608)
- Book 15 of Baptisms 1909 – 1914 (Image 865)
- Book 16 of Baptisms 1914 – 1918 (Image 1146)
- Book 17 of Baptisms 1918 – 1922 (Image 1525)
- Book 18 of Baptisms 1922 – 1925 (Image 1923)
- Book 19 of Baptisms 1925 – 1926 (Image 2210)
- Book 20 of Baptisms 1926 – 1929 (Image 2448)
- Book 21 of Baptisms 1929 – 1931 (Image 2676)
- Book 22 of Baptisms 1931 – 1933 (Image 4)
Confirmations
- Book 1 of Confirmations 1829 – 1871 (Image 108)
- Book of Confirmation 1908 (Image 318)
- Book of Confirmations 1918 (Image 384)
Marriages
- Book of Marriages 1820 – 1867 with Index in front (Image 237)
- Book of Marriages 1820 – 1849 for Pardos (Image 444)
- Book of Marriages 1819 – 1850 (Image 584)
- Book 5 of Marriages 1868 – 1893 with Index in front and back (Image 769)
- Book 6 of Marriages 1894 – 1918 with Index in back (Image 1009)
- Book 7 of Marriages 1918 – 1926 with Index in front (Image 1341)
- Book 8 of Marriages with Index in front 1926 – 1937 (Image 1640)
The link to Book 2 of Deaths is going to marriages. It may need to start at image 1904 instead. I am currently going through this book an image at a time and have found that it actually goes to December 1849 (at image 1952). There are a number of years that are out of sequence and some of these are included starting at image 1952 as well. They are heard to read but it looks like it goes back to the early 1830s.
-Manuel
Manuel, thanks for catching that! I've made the correction. 🙂