Kern County Marriages
Affidavits for Marriage License

Francisco Mendoza-Virginia Miranda

Submitted by Carol M Staats 2005

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These Affidavits were stored in a box in the Local History Room at the Beal 
Memorial Library in Bakersfield, CA.  They were loosely filed alphabetically and 
some had consent notes written by parents, guardians, etc. attached to them.  A 
few consent notes were written on the back of old envelopes and one on a piece 
of brown paper bag.  The following records concern the family of Jesus Miranda 
and his Native American wife Petra, who lived in the Kern River Valley.  My 
notes are in brackets. 

In the matter of the application of
Francisco Mendoza             
                For a License to Marry
Virginia Miranda
 
State of California] ss
County of Kern
 
                Francisco Mendoza and Jesus Miranda being first duly sworn and 
each for himself doth depose and say that he knows the above named Virginia 
Miranda, that she is of the age of eighteen years and a resident of Weldon, 
County of Kern, State of California; and the said Francisco Mendoza being 
further sworn deposes says that his name is Francisco Mendoza, that he is of the 
age of thirty years, and is a resident of Weldon, County of Kern, State of 
California and I know of no legal objection to our marriage.
 Francisco Mendoza
                X (his mark)
Jesus Miranda
Submitted and sworn to before me this 24th July A D 1884.
J W Sumner, Justice of the Peace 
[Jesus and Petra Miranda were the parents of Virginia Miranda]