Month: August 2014

Genealogical Oddities (XXXVI): A Powell family from London in 19th Century Galicia

On 12 Dec 1817 in the city of Orense, at its church of Santa Eufemia la Real, took place the baptism of Carlota Josefa Luisa, daughter of Don Bernardino Losada, an administrator with Spain’s Tobacco distribution network, and his wife Doña Luisa Powell. The infant’s maternal grandparents were named as Don Basilio Powell and Doña…