Transcription and Translation of Separation of Philip Bourguignon and Maria Tomas Gonzales

I posted last year about the separation of Philip Bourguignon and Maria Tomasa Gonzales. However, I didn't have a full translation. By the miracle of ChatGPT, I was able to transcribe and translate the court documents that plaintiff Philip Bourguignon requested and received custodianship of his children "Margarita, Felipe, Andrea, Eduardo, Trinidad, Jesús, and Luis Bourguignon, all of whom are minors due to their age and otherwise under legal age." He received custody of his children on 22 February 1872.

It does not appear that the couple was formally divorced, and in fact they got back together. Philip and Tomasa had five children after this separation: Pabla, Elisa, Charles, Federico, and my great-grandmother Carolina. 

There is no indication why they separated and why Philip requested custody of his own children.

Click on the link below to see the documents in my Evernote app. The transcription and translation are below the images.

Separation of Philip Bourguignon and Maria Tomasa Gonzales 

Baptismal Record for Maria Andrea Trujillo

Today I found the baptismal record for my 2nd great-grandmother, Maria Andrea Trujillo*. She is my last ancestor to have been born in Mexico. Her family emigrated to Mexico from Socorro in the 1850s after the United States incorporated New Mexico as a territory after the Mexican American War. They didn't stay in Mexico for very long, however they were they were there long enough for Maria Andrea to have been born there. 

She is listed as Maria Albina, however I'm pretty certain that this is her record. Other records indicate that she was born on December 8, 1855, which is close to December 8, 1854. 

I used an AI program on Evernote to do a transcription of the document. I then personally reviewed the image to find mistakes in the transcription and made edits. 

Click on the link below to find the image, transcription, translation, and source material.

Baptism of Maria Andrea (Albina) Trujillo Marquez

* I found a clue that directed me to the baptism in a Ancestry.com tree of my second cousin, once removed Maurine Pool. She is the woman who gave me information decades ago about my relatives Crespin Torres and Andreita Torres. She has done a lot of research into this Torres/Trujillo family that we share.

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca - Educator, Author, and Distant Cousin

 Fabiola Cabeza de Baca was the author of “We Fed Them Cactus”. She was an “educator , nutritionist, activist, and writer of one of New Mexico’s first cookbooks, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca’s lifelong passion was to share the value of New Mexican foods.

The video below describes Fabiola’s contributions to our state’s communities and culture. 

NMPBS: ¡Colores! Fabiola Cabeza de Baca

Fabiola was my paternal grandfather’s half third cousin.