Anulaciones

Arturo,

Are there any filmed records of annulments in Mexico? Would they be called anulaciones? I know that annulments have to be approved by upper levels of the Catholic hierarchy, and that the process took a long time, unless the man had money to pay. It seems a man could get an annulment from the Catholic church for himself or for his children if he was rich enough. Women could only get them in certain cases.

I have a case where a lady at the turn of the last century had a child and when the father wanted to go back to Mexico City where he came from or where he wanted to live, she refused to go. I never found a record of her marriage in the city where she had told her family she was married, nor have I found a record for the birth of her child, or for herself. However, I did find a marriage record for her husband to another woman that was recorded exactly one year after the birth of his child with the first woman, and in the same church she said she had been married to him.

I know that divorce would not have been allowed in a Catholic country around 1912, but could the man have gotten an annulment in order to remarry in the church one year later, and are there records of such things?

Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ---