Special note: A tremendous amount of research time and effort by John B. Colligan and Terry L. Corbett has resulted in the material presented here to the interested researcher concerning New Mexico families living in the El Paso del Norte area during the latter part of the 1700s. There has been a tendency to neglect the study of these families as part of New Mexico's colonial era. In addition, it is important to know that there were individuals and families that came from the El Paso region that settled in northern New Mexico, as well as people of the north that settled in the El Paso del Norte area. Colligan and Corbett now make their careful analysis of numerous records in comparison with the census records of 1788 and 1790 available to the interested public.

Researched and Prepared by

John B. Colligan and Terry L. Corbett

We have combined the 1788 and 1790 censuses of El Paso del Norte in order to compare households. The information has been organized alphabetically by the name of the head of household. The spelling of these names have been standardized to conform to that used by Fray Angélico Chávez in his Origins of New Mexico Families. An asterisk (*) after bold face name indicates uncertainty that both entries are the same person. Transcription of bold face names has been standardized. The larger typeface duplicates the actual census document enumeration along with a parenthetical notation of the census year and the household number in the original document. The smaller typeface indicates an annotation supplied by the editors from various sources. The sources and the abbreviations employed to indicate them are:

Diligencias Matrimoniales from the Archives of the Archbishopric of Durango (AHAD) are from Rick Hendricks, Editor and John B. Colligan, Compiler, New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760, 1799, and its companion volume in preparation for the period 1800-1850;

Rick Hendricks, "An Annotated Calendar of Documents Relating to Socorro and San Elizario," in El Valle Bajo: The Culture History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of El Paso, v. II, edited by John A. Peterson and David Ol Brown, prepared for El Paso County Lower Valley Water District Authority, Archaeological Research, Inc., El Paso and Hicks and Company, Austin, 1994 (El Valle Bajo)

Diligencias Matrimoniales as summarized by Lionel Frietze and Jack Colligan from microfilms at the University of Texas, El Paso, of the Guadalupe Mission records in the Catholic Archives of Texas, Austin, (CAT). These have been noted by roll number and frame number.

El Paso Public Library, El Paso, Texas, Cleofas Calleros Collection of Juárez Catherdral records, microfilm copies (EPPL Callero Collection). No frame numbers were used in these films, and the roll numbers are inconsistent, so none are designated herein.

Juárez Cathedral Archives, Diligencias Matrimoniales, as summarized by Lionel Frietze and Jack Colligan from microfilms at University of Texas at El Paso, of the Juárez Cathedral Archives (JCA)

Juárez Catherdral Archives, Baptisms at San Antonio de Senecú, 1771-1790, (JCA, r 9)

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Paso del Río del Norte, Baptism Records, 1750-1782, (JCA, r 5); 1782-1799 (JCA, r 6) as extracted by John B. Colligan

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Paso del Río del Norte, Marriage records, extracted by Terry Corbett from the University of Texas, El Paso, microfilm from the Juárez Cathedral Archives (NSG). There are no frame or reel numbers in this collection.

Aaron Magdaleno, El Paso del Norte Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Marriage & Death Recrods, 1728-1775, Familia Ancestral Research Association, January 1998 (Magdaleno)

Rick Hendricks, "El Paso Wills, 1754-1817," Nuestras Raíces, 7:2, Summer 1995, pp. 90-91, based on UTEP microfilm of Juarez Municipal Archives, Bk. 1, 1804, r. 13a, f. 1-4; will of 8 May 1805, f. 208-09, 214-15;

The reader should not rely solely on the annotations given herein, but should consult the original documents via microfilm to verify the data.

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