The San Luis Obispo County Genealogical Society

SLO County Resources

St Patrick's Cemetery

Arroyo Grande,

San Luis Obispo County,

California

 RECORD OF INTERMENTS

[Book at St Patrick's Catholic Church, Arroyo Grande, CA]

1877 - 1908

 "Published with the Approbation of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons"

Baltimore:

John Murphy Company,

Printers To The Holy See And To The Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore,

44 W. Baltimore Street

The Genealogical Library in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County, California has copies of hand written pages from the above book.  The Interments recorded are for several Cemeteries.

The data recorded on those pages, over 100 years ago is filled with great genealogical information.

 An explanation of the page contents as well as two indexes of the data have been created.

The alphabetical Index contains the following and can be found on this Website:

Line # ~ Date of Death ~ Date of Burial ~ Name

The Second Index is a typed copy of the information written on the ROI [Record of Interment] pages.

This is set up in columns with Line Numbers so that the information can be readily accessed.  

The Second Index contains the following and can be found in the Arroyo Grande Genealogical Library:

Line # ~ Date of Death ~ Date of Burial ~ Name ~ Parent/Spouse [Lines 213-230] ~ Place of Birth ~ Age ~ Place of Death [Lines 1-120] ~ Cause of Death [Begins Line 121] ~ Priest ~ Cemetery ~ Remarks

There is a Column that denotes whether or not the Sacrament was performed, but this was not included. This information is available on the hand written pages for those who would wish to have that information for their family files.

Additionally not all of the pertinent information was entered on the hand written pages, whether this was from lack of information at the time or other reasons, is not known. Where there was no information entered, 'Blank' was entered in that cell and column.

An explanation is necessary about the Columns as they are inconsistent in heading and content.

Over the years represented in the ROI, the headings changed and information was not always entered the same way. It is reasonable to assume that given the differences in handwriting, several people were responsible for data entry. 

Two other matters must be considered: The dates as originally written are not to be taken as accurate, but should be considered 'clues' to work with and to be checked against the records at the San Luis Obispo County Clerk's Office.

Second, the names of the Parishioners who passed away may be different than those recorded in other documents - again, these are to be considered 'clues'. I have done my best to enter them as they are written, but there will be differences.

There are 20 pages of entries that consist of the following - A transcribed 'sample' is provided here: A sample image can be seen here.

"July 14th 1877. I the undersigned gave Christian burial in the Catholic Cemetery of Guadalupe to the dead body of Catherine Lind wife of M Lind a native of Ireland & who died in Guadalupe the day previous aged 42 years. She received the Sacrament of the Church - M Lynch"

One additional note about the above, there may be additional information of interest contained in the 'Burial / Sacrament Notice' that was not entered in the ROI. These notes are limited to Line Numbers 1 > 112. A ** behind the date on Lines 1 - 112 indicates that date taken from the Burial/Sacrament Notation.

The alphabetical index also has a numerical notation after the Name - this indicates the page number where the Burial/Sacrament notice can be found.

All of the hand written pages have been scanned and are available here:

They may be copied or downloaded for your personal Genealogical use.

This Site belongs to the San Luis Obispo County Genealogical Society

Site Updated: 18 January 2012