At Málaga’s parish of Santiago on 16 Nov 1733, ‘Don Ricardo Colvel’ widower of ‘Doña María Caliwill’ married ‘Doña Leonor de Burc’ widow of ‘Don Patricio Fisomons’. Bride and groom were both residents of the city. [Marriages, Book 12, P. 14] Also there, on 15 July 1736, Don Daniel Donoban, of ‘Ross Carbry’, Ireland, Bishopric…
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,…
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…
On 18th November 1725 at Málaga’s church of San Juan Bautista, Gabriel O’Reilly married Elizabeth Dymock. He was born at Troyes (France), the son of Michael O’Reilly and Mary Tallon; she was from “Dunan” (Doonan?), Ireland, the daughter of Francis Dymock and Catherine Quigly. This couple had at least one child; a boy, Miguel Máximo,…
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 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…
On 12 May 1776 at the Parish of the Esteiro Shipyard near Ferrol in Galicia, Fr. Mardin de Haset, an Augustinian, and then chaplain of the Ultonia Regiment, married Don Diego Goold to Doña Ursula Haluran. Presumably the standard form for these names would have been Gould and Halloran. In any event, the groom was…
At the Cathedral in Mexico City in March 1822, Don Daniel O’Ryan, a 33-year-old native of Seville, son of Don Baltasar O’Ryan and Doña María Rafaela (Vanhez?), married Doña Manuela Payno, an 18-year-old Spaniard native to Badajoz. Daniel was probably a son of this Baltasar O’Ryan, who won a Royal Warrant from the Royal Chancellery…
On 18th December 1779, Luis Meagher y O’Brien, native of County Limerick, Ireland, married at the Naval chapel of Ferrol’s Esteiro shipyard. The groom, referred to as Don Luís, was stated to be the son of Don Dionysus Meagher and Doña María O’Brien, deceased residents of Ferrol; the bride, Doña Margarita ‘Laugna’, was stated to…
A 17th-century Anglin family from Dungarvan, County Waterford is documented by two items found in Madrid’s notarial archive: the will of one of its members, and the subsequent paperwork resulting from the will’s execution.On 24 December 1718 Thomas Anglin made his will before notary Domingo de Munilla y Zuazo in Madrid. Thomas was the Surgeon…