San Marcos, Ocotepeque, Honduras Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of San Marcos ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * San Marcos de Ocotepeque in 1718 was a hacienda owned by Don Sebastián Espinoza.
 * In 1836, the brothers Juan Fernando, Juan Clímaco Lemus and Jacinto Fuentes, residents of Chucuyuco, bought this land from the government.
 * As the years passed, they asked the authorities of Gracias for their independence and it was declared with the title of Villa de San Marcos, belonging to Gracias.
 * On January 1, 1840, date in which San Marcos was given the title of municipality.
 * Over the years it received the title of city, belonging first to Gracias, then to Santa Rosa de Copán, then to Villa de San Francisco and finally it belonged to the municipality of Sensenti.
 * It was in 1985, that San Marcos Ocotepeque received its category as a municipality.
 * The municipality of San Marcos has a population of approximately 22,600 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1906-1934 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - index & images

Church Records

 * 1814-1837 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - index & images

Cemeteries
Indexes of those buried in the cemeteries of the municipality of San Marcos may be located in findagrave.com
 * Cementerio Municipal de San Marcos
 * Address: Carretera hacia Ocotepeque, Barrio Las Lajitas, San Marcos
 * Cementerio de Aldea El Jaralón
 * Cementerio Santa Marta
 * Cementerio Mesa Grande