On 25 December 1807 at the parish of St Peter in the Catalan city of Reus, ‘Benito’ Vandenboske, a gardener, stated to be from Liedekerke in the Diocese of Mechelen in Flanders, married Francisca Girardi y Ripoll, native of Reus. The groom’s parents were named as Judocus Vandenboske and Francisca Gilis. I am unsure what…
A baptism recorded at Seville’s parish of San Roque in December 1868 must have tested the limits of the priest’s ability to spell phonetically – in the effort to detail so many foreign names and places, the child’s name seems to have been omitted from the entry, unless the name ‘Eduardo’ scribbled in the margin,…
On 10 November 1717 a lady made her will before Madrid notary Domingo de Munilla y Zuazo. He wrote that she identified herself as Doña Guillerma Bambec, though she said that she was commonly – and mistakenly – known here as Doña Catalina. The notary said that she was a native of ‘Bucsel, Jurisdiction of…