GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-114

Mission la Soledad
36641 Fort Romie Road
P.O. Box 506
Soledad, CA 93960

Phone: 408-678-2586

 

History: Mission la Soledad, Soledad, Monterey County, California, had been a predominantly Native American parish in the Diocese of Monterey (Archives: Monterey, California).

1791-1834 (Natives declined)

Franciscans (Santo Evangelico Province) (Archives: Puebla, Mexico) established and administered Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Mission (Esselen, Ohlone, Yokuts)

1851-1859

Monterey/ Two Californias diocesan priests at San Antonio, Jolon, attended to la Soledad

1859-1880

Monterey-Los Angeles diocesan priests at San Antonio, Jolon, attended to la Soledad

1890s-ca. 1900 (no longer Native)

Monterey-Los Angeles diocesan priests at Sacred Heart, Salinas City, and St. Teodoro, Gonzalez, attended to la Soledad

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1791-ca. 1900

Volume: Several volumes

Description: Sacramental records (copies, e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of Mission la Soldedad.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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