Category: Malaga

Genealogical Oddities (LV): Hampshire Gent in C18th Malaga Spain

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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…

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Genealogical Oddities (XLIV): An American Sailor’s C19th Spanish Burial

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Juan Huldrich was buried in Málaga on 27 October 1836. Aged 25, unmarried, he was stated to be a native of Boston, and described as ‘Anglo Americano’, so presumably the city in question is that in Massachusetts, not Lincolnshire. He was said to have been a sailor on the frigate ‘General’ and to have died…

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