Feligrecía de Villita

(sorry for my poor english)

Since the 19th century to mid 20th century La Villa de Nuestra Senora de la Encarnacion, now called City of Encarnacion de Diaz, was popularly named La Villita, nickname changed to "La Chona" used today.

Encarnacion de Diaz, is located about 40 km (25 milles) south of Aguascalientes, centered between San Juan de los Lagos, Lagos de Moreno and Aguascalientes

This "Villita" has been parish, since 1778, therefore has had own parishioners
"feligresía". I Think the others "Villitas" belong, or are part of other parishioners, don`t have a own.

Miguel Beltran

There is a villita en the jursidicton between Calvillo, Ags and
Tabasco, Zac all pueblos close to each other, thats the famous
Villita. The other villitas I havent heard of much.

Daniel Mendez de Camino y Garcia de Leon

> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:49:40 -0600
> From: stuartarms@gmail.com
> To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Feligrecía de Villita
>
> Has anyone heard of this place - Feligresía de Villita? (Ags marriage
> record dated 1874, birthplace of spouse). From context I presume it
> was in Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, or Jalisco. And perhaps it could be
> intended to mean "Feligresía de la Villa de Aguascalientes", but
> that's a bit of a stretch. I found numerous Villitas in Ags, Zac, and
> Jalisco but most of them were ranchos or other small entities and I
> can't decide which of them, if any, may be part of a parish or
> feligresía of the same name.
> Incidentally, the record in question refers to persons who also lived
> in Letras, so I presume that unless they travelled far, Feligresía de
> Villita must have been not too far from Letras.
>
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> Best regards,
> Stuart mailto:stuartarms@gmail.com
>