Genealogical Oddities (XXIX): An Anglo-Irish-Italian-American 19th Century Spanish Baptism
On 11 June 1805 at Ferrol’s navy parish of San Francisco, a child named Manuel Alejandro Rufino was baptised, a son of Don Diego Clarke, Captain of the 1st Battallion of Spain’s Hibernia Regiment, a native of Saint Augustine, Florida (who was then away from Ferrol, in Bilbao) and his wife María Concepción Quartenaro. The…