Researching Papal Dispensations

[Bjarka99]

Hello,

I am doing some genealogical research and became interested in finding out whether I could have access to century papal dispensations online to see if I can find two close consanguineal marriages in my great-greats and my greats generations (dating from late 19th century and early 20th). They were uncle and niece in the first case and first cousins in the second. Although I’ve always known about it, I’ve recently become curious. The family has always had strong Catholic links (we are descended from an aristocratic Spanish family that settled in Argentina, where I’m from), and there has always been at least a priest or a nun in every generation (there were three- a priest and two nuns- born to these married uncle and niece). They must have asked for a dispensation. I have pictures of the cousins’ wedding, and it was in a Catholic church. Any idea where I might get any information?

Thank you very much!

 

[JGMendes4049]

Hello,

I am doing some genealogical research and became interested in finding out whether I could have access to century papal dispensations online to see if I can find two close consanguineal marriages in my great-greats and my greats generations (dating from late 19th century and early 20th). They were uncle and niece in the first case and first cousins in the second. Although I’ve always known about it, I’ve recently become curious. The family has always had strong Catholic links (we are descended from an aristocratic Spanish family that settled in Argentina, where I’m from), and there has always been at least a priest or a nun in every generation (there were three- a priest and two nuns- born to these married uncle and niece). They must have asked for a dispensation. I have pictures of the cousins’ wedding, and it was in a Catholic church. Any idea where I might get any information?

Thank you very much!

Either the Vatican Archives, the parish church where the wedding took place, or the diocese in which the wedding took place. This will be a difficult task, I am predicting.

 

[Irish_Polock]

Hello,

I am doing some genealogical research and became interested in finding out whether I could have access to century papal dispensations online to see if I can find two close consanguineal marriages in my great-greats and my greats generations (dating from late 19th century and early 20th). They were uncle and niece in the first case and first cousins in the second. Although I’ve always known about it, I’ve recently become curious. The family has always had strong Catholic links (we are descended from an aristocratic Spanish family that settled in Argentina, where I’m from), and there has always been at least a priest or a nun in every generation (there were three- a priest and two nuns- born to these married uncle and niece). They must have asked for a dispensation. I have pictures of the cousins’ wedding, and it was in a Catholic church. Any idea where I might get any information?

Thank you very much!

It would have been unusual for a Papal dispensation to have been granted at that time in history. I would think that it would have gone to the local Bishop at the time and no further. As already stated by another, I would start at the local level, and head toward the Diocese (of that time) from there.

I have done a lot of genealogy for my own family, and I have used church records almost exclusively in Ireland and Poland, and I have never needed to go past the Diocese level of records - yet…