San Benito Abad y Santa Barbara Church Records in Patillas 1810 – 1940

The last is always the best. This is the last update for San Benito Abad y Santa Barbara church records for Puerto Rico. While there was one listed when it first came out, this one will complete the series of available information.

The municipality sits south of Lorenzo, just east of Guayama and Arroyo, and west of Yabucoa and Maunabo which means that prior to the town’s founding date, individuals should be looking at other towns to continue their research. You can find church records for these towns via the menu above under Puerto Rico, then click on the municipality to review those records. As a reminder, the website is set up to open in a new tab so that you do not lose your place.

Another keynote on Patillas, it was founded in 1810 and is fertilized by the Patillas, Maton, Chiquito y Jacaboa rivers. Consequently, in 1877, there was a completed school for boys and one for girls in the Pueblo. In addition, there were 5 incompleted schools in 1877 in the Real Rio Arriba, Jagual, Apeadero, Jacaboa, and Guardarraya. Lastly, the church was not built until 1848 and the cost was 10,895 pesos.

The 1800s

In 1841, a large portion of the Pueblo burnt down as all buildings were made of wood. But by 1867, the town had a meat market, cemetery, and town hall. We are indeed lucky that the church records survived this event. I do not know if all of the death books survived, hopefully, they did but they were not filmed and just require a trip to Puerto Rico to review the books.

While I took a high-level look at the baptism books, please review all books as priests were known to place someone in the wrong books. Thus this occurred consistently in all of the churches across Puerto Rico. Lastly, I suspect that the Pardo books also contain Blancos.

San Benito Abad Indexes of Names Books

• Baptisms Index 1857 – 1862 for Book 12 (Image 1846)
• Baptisms Index 1866 – 1873 for Books 14 and 15 (Image 1889)
• Baptisms Index 1881 – 1884 for Book 18 (Image 1930)
• Baptisms Index 1893 – 1895 for Book 22 (Image 2012)
• Baptisms Index 1895 – 1900 for Book 23 (Image 2075)
• Baptisms Index 1900 – 1903 for Book 24 (Image 2037)
• Baptisms Index 1906 – 1908 for Book 25 (Image 2119)
• Baptisms Index 1908 – 1911 for Book 26 (Image 2152)
• Baptisms Index 1912 – 1915 for Book 27 (Image 2214)
• Baptisms Index 1915 – 1918 for Book 28 (Image 2274)
• Baptisms Index 1918 – 1922 for Book 29 (Image 2344)
• Marriages Index 1877 – 1905 for Book 3 (Image 1044)
• Marriages Index 1905 – 1914 for Book 4 (Image 1084)
• Marriages Index 1914 – 1921 for Book 5 (Image 1111)
• Marriages Index for Books 6 and 7 (Image 1136)

Baptism Books

Baptism Books for Pardos & Esclavos

• Book of Baptisms of Pardos 1811 – 1815 (Image 4)
• Book of Baptisms of Pardos 1816 – 1820 (Image 262)
• Book of Baptisms of Pardos 1843 – 1848 (Image 860)
• Book of Baptisms of Esclavos (Slaves) 1858 – 1870 (Image 1205)

Books of Baptisms for Blancos

• Book 5 of Baptisms of Blancos 1813 – 1824 (Image 53)
• Book 6 of Baptisms of Blancos 1825 – 1827 (Image 1107)
• Book 7 of Baptisms of Blancos 1827 – 1829 (Image 1261)
• Book of Baptisms of Blancos 1834 – 1838 (Image 457)
• Book of Baptisms of Blancos 1841 – 1851 (Image 645)
• Book 12 of Baptisms 1857 – 1862 (Image 1359)
• Book 13 of Baptisms 1863 – 1866 (Image 1595)
• Book 14 of Baptisms 1866 – 1869 (Image 1861)
• Book 15 of Baptisms 1869 – 1873 (Image 4)

Books of Baptisms for All

• Book 16 of Baptisms 1873 – 1876 (Image 289)
  • Index included in the back, starts with Image 556
• Book 17 of Baptisms 1877 – 1881 (Image 612)
  • Index included in the back, starts with Image 885
• Book 18 of Baptisms 1881 – 1883 (Image 916)
• Book 19 of Baptisms 1883 – 1886 (Image 1222)
• Book 20 of Baptisms 1887 – 1890 (Image 1532)
• Book 21 of Baptisms 1890 – 1893 (Image 2)
• Book 22 of Baptisms 1893 – 1895 (Image 322)
• Book 23 of Baptisms 1895 – 1900 (Image 533)
• Book 24 of Baptisms 1900 – 1903 (Image 850)
• Book 25 of Baptisms 1906 – 1908 (Image 1061)
• Book 26 of Baptisms 1908 – 1911 (Image 1295)
• Book 27 of Baptisms 1912 – 1915 (Image 1676)
• Book 28 of Baptisms 1915 – 1917 (Image 2047)
  • This book continues in the below images
• Book 28 of Baptisms 1917 – 1918 (Image 2)
• Book 29 of Baptisms 1918 – 1922 (Image 162)
• Book 30 of Baptisms 1922 – 1924 (Image 5)
• Book 31 of Baptisms 1925 – 1926 (Image 308)
• Book 32 of Baptisms 1926 – 1928 (Image 551)
• Book 33 of Baptisms 1928 – 1931 (Image 785)

Confirmations

• Book of Confirmations 1871 – 1890 (Image 1256)
  • This book appears at the end of the esclavos baptism book for 1858 to 1870
• Book of Confirmations 1870 – 1890 (Image 1603)
  • Duplication of the above book – check for better images
• Book 2 of Confirmations 1908 (Image 1697)
• Book 3 of Confirmations 1920 – 1934 (Image 1749)

Marriages

• Book 1 of Marriages 1842 – 1861 (Image 1180)
  • Index included in the back, starts with Image 1374
• Book 2 of Marriages 1865 – 1877 (Image 1403)
  • Index included in the back, starts with Image 1640
• Book 3 of Marriages 1877 – 1905 (Image 1668)
• Book 4 of Marriages 1905 – 1914 (Image 1986)
• Book 5 of Marriages 1914 – 1921 (Image 2161)
• Book 6 of Marriages 1921 – 1929 (Image 2273)
• Book 7 of Marriages 1929 – 1940 (Image 2544)

Deaths

• Book 18 of Deaths 1873 – 1879 (Image 552)
  • Index included in the back, starts with Image 827
• Book 19 of Deaths 1879 – 1884 (Image 854)
  • Index included in the back, starts with Image 1124
• Book 20 of Deaths 1884 – 1889 (Image 1149)
  • Index included in the back, starts with Image 1454
• Book of Deaths 1891 -1900 (Image 1483)

Reference

Ubeda y Delgado, M. (1878). Isla de Puerto Rico: Estudio Historico, Geografico y Estadistico de la Misma. Accessed by https://books.google.com/books?id=Gl8zAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA271#v=onepage&q&f=false