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Help Reading a 1669 Marriage Record From Lagos de Moreno


By Lawrence Bouett - Posted on 18 February 2013

I have a marriage record that I'm having a bit of trouble reading. It's the first complete record on the left-hand page on FHL Film 220404, image 466 (the complete link is at the end of this message).

This is the marriage of Juan de Torres Villabana and Fabiana Ximénes de Castro. My interpretation, beginning near the end of the second line of text (slashes indicate line breaks and elipsis in brackets indicates unknown words or phrases):

... el alferes /
Juan de torres [...] de la ciudad de San Luis. con /
lisensia que trato [...] lijitimo [...] hijo lijitimo /
de Juº de torres villabana en [...] /
[...] de San Luis i de dª ysabel [...] con dª fa /
biana Jimenes de Castro donsella ...

and so on; the rest I understand.

I have to say that this particular priest's handwriting is brutal! :-)

Here's the complete link: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18684-22943-14?cc=1874591&wc=12506705

Gracias y salutos,
Lawrence Bouett