After the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767, the religious missions they had founded in Baja California were placed in the hands of the Franciscans the following year, who faced new circumstances – internal and external. The Dominicans, however, reached the California peninsula in October 1772, but it was not until May 1773 that the transfer of the missions established under the supervision of the Franciscan Fray Francisco Palou and the Dominican Fray Vicente de Mora took place. The high number of marriages in 1778 indicates the first approach of the missionaries to their pastoral flock, consecrating the profane relationships that individuals had before the arrival of the religious and military. After 1807, fourteen marriages were recorded in the mission, although a respective decline began, which reinforces the idea that around 1810 a process of depopulation began, paralleling the decline in the number of baptisms.
Collection: Statistics
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XVIII, XIX
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Statistics
Format: Table
Source: Magaña Mancillas, Mario Alberto, «Matrimonios, familia y mestizaje en la población adscrita a la misión de Santo Domingo de la Frontera (1775–1834), Revista de Demografía Histórica, vol. 28, nº2, 2010, pp. 135–164.
Language: Spanish
Date: 2010
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Copyright: © Mario Alberto Magañas Mancillas, © Revista de Demografía Histórica
Abstract: Evolution of marriage transas in Santo Domingo de la Frontera, Baja California, after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767
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