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Burial - Cebreros, Spain - 1730


Below is an example of a parish burial record. This example is from the city of Cebreros, which is located in the province of Ávila, Spain.

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Theresa Garzia=En la Villa deCebreros en quatro dias del mes de1Theresa Garcia=In the town of Cebreros on fourth day of the month of
Visitado yfebrero del año demill Setecientos y treinta2Visited andFebruary of the year of one thousand seven hundred and thirty (1730)
CumplidoYo elLdoDiego Recio Cua vicario desta Pa3FulfilledI, the Licentiate Leonardo Diego Recio, parish priest of this
rrochial del SnSanthiago dedha villa enterre4Parish of the lord Saint Santiago, in said town I buried

 
en ella atheressa Garzia Recivio el Sacramto5 Theresa Garcia [She] received the sacrament

 
dela extremaunción solo por hauerla dado Vn acci6 of the last rites only [as she] had given to her an accident
 
dente qe nola permitió Mas; testo ante Pedro7 that did not allow her more; [she] made [a] testament before Pedro

 
Gallego SSno del ayuntamto; en primero dia destepre8 
Gallego notary of the city council; in the first day of September,

 
Ste mes y año y mando se dijessen con las votivas Vein9 
month and year and commanded that there be celebrated with votives twen-

 
tey una missas; por limosna aesta fabrica tres Rs por10 
 -ty-one masses; for alms to this parish three reales for
 
su heredero nombre aJoseph Ermenejildo Rosado11 
her heir, [she] named Joseph Ermenejildo Rosado
y por su testamentario a mi el preste Vicario y lo12 
and for her testamentary to me, the present vicar and
firme=13 I signed it=

 
Diego Recio14 
Diego Recio

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