Somos Primos, in its Agust 2005 issue published the following contribution sent by Ophelia Marquez. It includes several significant facts about this family:

An entry in the diocesan records of Nueva Galicia, in Guadalajara, relates that in 1702, the leaders of the Indians from San Pedro Susticacan, in the parish of Jerez (Zacatecas), complained to the "visitador". They were unhappy with what the priest, Bartolome Cervantes Negrete and the vicar, licenciado Melchor Marin de Mayorga were charging; "bautizos un peso, matrimonios catorce pesos, defunciones quince pesos, defuncion de angelito cuatro pesos, fiesta titular de Sr. San Pedro cinco pesos y por cada imagen en procesion cinco pesos."

On 16 July 1710 was the burial of Maria Negrete, the widow of Lorenzo de los Reyes cervantes, in Guadalajara,s Church of San Francisco. She had declared her will on the 7th before Bartolome de Castro, "Escribano Real". The will's executors were her sons, Lazaro Cervantes Negrete and the priest "Bartolotne Negrete, cura beneficiado de Jerez".

Lazaro, too, had aspired to the priesthood, for in Guadalajara, in 1691, he presented this information so as to be admitted; Born in Cocula 11 Apr 1674, he was the legitimate son of Lorenzo de los Reyes Cervantes, "Escribano Real de Haciena y Caja" and Maria Negrete y Plaza. Paternal Grandparents; Captain Bartolome de los Reyes y Cervantes and Catalina Lopes de Salazar. Maternal Granparents; Captain Diego de Negrete Cortes and Jacinta Romero y Plaza.

He didn't profess however. Rosa de Chavarria was his first spouse and on 7 May 1713, he remarried in Guadalajara to Antonia Perez Lomelin. She was from Jalostotitlan (Jalisco), the daughter of Manuel Lomelin y Mendoza and Josefa Perez Maldonado y Saavedra. Being a widow upon her death, her burial was 5 June 1729 in Nueva Galicia's capital. One son, Manuel Cervantes Negrete y Lomelin professed for the priesthood in 1741. Two siblings, Basilic and Ignacio resided in Nochistlan (Zacatecas, the original homestead of the Lomelin family. They wed two sisters; Manuela and Maria Duran Ruiz de Esparaza y Gonzalez respectively.

From this lineage was Jose de Negrete, O.F.M. In 1706, he was the Order's "Provincial" (headmaster) in Jalisco.

The most remarkable data is about their ancestors cited in the information Lazaro presented when he "aspired to the priesthood" in 1691.

Does anyone know the reference to familisearch films of this information Lazaro presented?