19th Century Spanish records document the interesting history of a branch of the distinguished family of Arbuthnott. A gentleman by the name of Jaime Arbuthnot y Arbuthnot was training for the priesthood in Spain when the Peninsular War erupted. In British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon, Dr Graciela Iglesias Rogers speculates at his origin,…
On 27 October 1751, at the chapel in Cádiz’ La Carraca arsenal, Diego Conway (ie., James Conway), native of ‘Ross in Ireland’, a son of Paul Conway and Isabel or Elizabeth ‘Flanaly’, married Maria Olfield, a native of Dungarvan in the province of Munster, and the daughter of Thomas Oldfield (or Olfield) and ‘Ana Geraldino’.…
On 8 November 1757 at Cadiz’ Cathedral, one George Rennolds or Reynolds, about 24 years of age and a native of ‘the city of York in England’, son of ‘Guillermo Rennolds’ and ‘Isabel Yaerel’, was baptised into the Catholic faith, having until then belonged to ‘the quaking sect’, as the record puts it. His Godparent…