Ceiling of Málaga Cathedral. Photo by Matthew Hovious In 1776, “Don Guillermo Ybuelin” of “Southampton in the county of Hampshire, England” son of Don “Mateo Ybuelin” and Doña “Ysabel Sivers” married, at the Sagrario chapel of Málaga city cathedral, Josefa Mandly, a native of Málaga, daughter of Don Mathias Mandly and Doña Isabel Rosa de…
Muchas veces en los archivos, algo interesante e inesperado surge cuando estás buscando, entre miles de renglones escritos, otra cosa. Así fue con esta pequeña curiosidad que encontré entre los registros sacramentales de Antequera (Málaga) y que comparto aquí por si pudiera ser de utilidad a algún investigador que al intentar reconstruir su descendencia se…
The church of San Jorge, La Coruña [photo: Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA] On 13 May 1812 at La Coruña’s parish of San Jorge, a boy named Juan Francisco Pedro Regalado Tark was baptised. His parents were named as Jorge Pedro Tark and Isabel Hovié, both natives of the parish of St Mary Magdalene in…
On 7th July 1717 at the Cathedral in Tarragona, Balthazar Plunkett, 1st Lieutenant in Diego ‘Magdonel”s company of the Vendome Infantry Regiment, a native of Gibstoun in Ireland and the son of ‘Don Joan Plunquet’ deceased and ‘Doña Rosa Plunquet i Dilon’, married Teresa Fitón of Tortosa, the daughter of Dr. Francisco Fitón, deceased physician,…
El patio del Centro Conde Duque, visto desde el Archivo de la Villa No soy muy de reclamar, como sabe quien bien me conoce; no porque me dé todo igual, ¡al contrario! sino meramente porque la experiencia me ha hecho creer que reclamar da igual. Lo que esté torcido se enderezará cuando le de la…
En La Coruña el 24 de octubre de 1629, se bautizó en su parroquia de Santiago a Benito, hijo legítimo del Licenciado Francisco Bz. (Benítez? Vazquez?) Cortegada, Relator de la Real Audiencia de Galicia, y de Dª María de Tabares. Los padrinos fueron el Licenciado Bañales, abogado de la Real Audiencia, y Dª Catalina Bañales,…
At La Coruña’s parish of Santiago on 10 April 1613, Manuel, son of “Guillermo Salder”, described as an English gentleman, and his wife “Doña _na” was baptised. The godparents’ surnames were abbreviated as “Spta”, and they were stated to be Manuel de “Spta”, Veedor y Contador de la presente de guerra, and his sister Doña…
On 15 January 1809, Joseph Pritchard, son of Robert Pritchard native of ‘Bicksan’ in Denbighshire & his wife Anna Robinson, native of ‘Lincon’ in Lincolnshire, and said to be a parishioner of its parish of St Sebastian, was baptised at La Coruña’s parish of San Nicolás. The record notes that the father was in Spain…
On 5 June 1806 at Ferrol’s parish of San Julián, the chaplain of the Navarra Regiment of Volunteers christened a child Felipe Marcelino, the son of Don Maximilian Chase, musician of said regiment, and Doña Martina Pien. The child’s paternal grandparents were stated as José Chase, native of Germany, and Ana María Ulbrich, from Corcubión…
On 4 January 1759, Ana Donovan (also written once as Inés Donovan, so perhaps actually Agnes?) aged 54, native of Kilkenny, died in Cádiz, her burial taking place the next day. On 30 January 1759 Maria Dodd, aged 47, native of the parish de “Butifinensis” in County Cork, Ireland, the widow of “Guillermo Shee” (William…