Larimer County, Colorado, Marriage Index Volume I 1858-1910
The index, which lists more than 3400
marriages, is divided into two parts: 1) an
alphabetical list in which the name of the Groom is shown first followed by the
name of the Bride and, 2) an alphabetical list in which the name of the Bride is
shown first, followed by the name of the Groom.
Note: There have been eleven marriages
that occurred prior to 1910 and are listed
in the Larimer County, Colorado, Marriage Index Volume II, 1911-1950. It
appears that these marriages were not officially recorded until after 1910.
Larimer County, Colorado, 1885 State Census
Larimer County was created by an act of the first Territorial Legislature of Colorado, approved November 1, 1861.
The County as created was bounded on the north by Wyoming; east by Weld County; south by Boulder and Summit
Counties; and west by the Snowy range or Continental Divide (including North Park).
Larimer County, as originally created, was ninety (90) miles long and fifty-one (51) miles wide at its widest part, the
width varying according to the trend of the mountains on its western boundary, and contained approximately 4,300 square
miles of territory, or 2,752,000 acres. In 1874 Grand County was carved out of Summit County and its northern boundary
formed a part of the southern boundary of Larimer County. Even though the area known as North Park was not affected by
this change, local officials assumed differently and, therefore, enumerated it as part of Grand County in the 1880 and 1885
censuses.
No further change was made in the Larimer County boundaries until the Seventeenth General Assembly of Colorado, in
the winter of 1909, created Jackson county out of that portion known as North Park, reducing the overall size of Larimer
County to approximately 2,800 square miles, or 1,792,000 acres.
At the time Larimer County was originally created, La Porte was named as the county seat. But at an election held in
1868, the county seat was moved to Fort Collins by a vote of the people of the County.
Larimer County, Colorado, General Index (Direct), 1862-1872
Land transfers listing the Grantor and the Grantee. The records were copied from the
original in the County Courthouse for the years 1862-1872.
Online databases of the following Obituary Databases:
California Obituaries of former Colorado Residents
Thanks to Eleanor E. Borkenhagen for these obituaries.
Eleanor clips obituaries from the Los
Angeles Times and the Orange County Register. As she clips them, Eleanor sorts them by
counties and sends them to the genealogical society that has a connection with the person in the
obituaries. The following are obituaries that Eleanor found that relate to Fort Collins and various
outlying towns.
Larimer County Obituaries
This is the beginning of a project to create a database containing the obituaries published
in Larimer County publications. Marjority of the database will contain obituraries
cut from
Fort Collins' local
newspapers from March 1988 to August of 2002. This database is being uploaded to the web site, as the data becomes available,
to facilitate
genealogy researches.
Please Note:
The Coloradoan Newspaper , has online archieves from January 1, 1999. The archives contain
other articles in addition to obits that may be useful to researchers. The search is free, but there is a charge to access articles.
The website details several methods of accessing the articles, buying individual articles, subscribing, etc. New articles are free
for the first seven days.
To access these archieves, Click here Coloradoan Newspaper
then click on the Archives tab on the left side of the page.
