Verbatim heading: '+ 1841. En.o 18 San Juan de Castro / José Tiburcio Castro, Prefecto del 1.o Dist.o - Causa de incesto.' The Hernández-Romero concubinage affair: Francisco Hernández petitions for the return of his sister M.a Concepción; Branciforte Juez de Paz letters; Gob. Alvarado orders diligencias (9 Jan 1841); Juez Juan Miguel Anza takes declarations (18 Jan): Juana Hernández (wife of Juan Romero) accuses Concepción of concubinage with Juan Romero and brothers-in-law (also Agustín, Claudio Vásquez, Juan Salazar); Concepción confesses only the Romero part; no end appears — Anza passed it to the Prefect for the Governor. Recovered 2026-09-02 (the old d149 row's Castro/Anza fields came from THIS causa).
| Date | 1841-01-18 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José Tiburcio Castro, Prefecto del 1.o Dist.o — Causa |
| Place | San Juan de Castro |
| Series | Departmental State Papers, Benicia |
| Tomo | II (Miscellaneous) (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | pp.173–86 |
| Savage copy page | 402–406 (stamps) |
| Scan leaf | n403–n407 |
| Document type | causa (Savage abstract) |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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José Tiburcio Castro, Prefecto del 1.o Dist.o — Causa, San Juan de Castro, 1841-01-18, Departmental State Papers, Benicia, II (Miscellaneous), pp.173–86, Archives of California, C-A 39, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within II (Miscellaneous)]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca39/ca39-d227.html