Report on Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish, Fort Bragg
A report (dated 3 August 1921) compiled by Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap. summarizing the parish status and regional demographics for Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Fort Bragg, California. The report reveals a debt-free parish valued at $12,000, serving a growing Catholic population of 1,500 comprised primarily of Italian, Portuguese, and Slavonian immigrants. The records detail local sacramental counts since 1910 (including 368 baptisms and 76 marriages) and note that early local services were
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- A report (dated 3 August 1921) compiled by Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap. summarizing the parish status and regional demographics for Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Fort Bragg, California. The report reveals a debt-free parish valued at $12,000, serving a growing Catholic population of 1,500 comprised primarily of Italian, Portuguese, and Slavonian immigrants. The records detail local sacramental counts since 1910 (including 368 baptisms and 76 marriages) and note that early local services were supported by a private chapel 30 miles away in Greenwood (Elk). Additionally, the accompanying ledger outlines Mendocino County’s broader demographics, estimating a total county population of 20,000 (including 4,000 Catholics) split across key municipal hubs like Fort Bragg, Ukiah, Mendocino, and Greenwood.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Irish Capuchin Foundations in the United States > Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California
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- built by a family named Staur. Mailed a few boxes each year.
- in each of the third public cemeteries there is a part set aside
- a small powder chapel at Brancoville, 32 miles east and
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Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel Fort Bragg, California, aug. 3rd 1912. I Name of Mission. A church of our Lady of Good Counsel. I taken over by the Capachin Parties of the Province of Longland at the same time as St Anthony's Mission at Mendecino. No mission church attached to parts of Fort Bragg, especially a small powder chapel at Brancoville, 32 miles east and built by a family named Staur. Mailed a few boxes each year. Church and house built about 22 years and supplied from Mendecino until 1910. Fr Lebastian Brannan C. McCay was first Pastor (esclerged). From 1912 to 1913. Fr Louis Wright. From 1913 to 1915 Fr Edward Parnney. From 1915, Fr Laurence Blanderfield. " Paish Debt. None. " Catholic Population. about 1500, comprised principally of Italians Podigese, Slavonians. (Croatians) " Number of Marriages since 1910. 76. " " Baptisms " 1910. 368 " " Conversions " 1910. 10. Before 1910 Fort Bragg was supplied from St Anthony. Mendecino and marriages, Baptisms, conversions are entered in the registry at Mendecino. " No school or other institution at Fort Bragg. There are at present about 160 children of school age in the parish. No baptists benefit property, that is owned by the Parties, but in each of the third public cemeteries there is a part set aside for the bureau of Catholics. This Mission on Sunday 8th 1900 Leave about $12,000. Seed year School of Misses ($400) Fr Anthony. C. McCay. Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel Fort Bragg, California, 1912 Population of Mendecino C. About 20,000 Catholics about 4,000. Population of Atkish - 3,400 " Fort Bragg - 3,500 " - Mendecino - 1,000 " - Brecowood - 500