The burial registers of the parish of Santiago de Carril, in the municipality of Villagarcía de Arosa, record the burial there on 25 December 1886 of ‘Miguel Brayer Thonard’, aged 65, a native of Ans in the province of Liège, Belgium, son of Pedro Miguel Brayer and Margarita Thonard. His marital status is said to…
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,…
Idle curiousity leads me to wonder about the precise way in which the bride and groom who married in Zaragoza in 1726 were connected. They were not Spanish, nor can one really characterise them as Belgian or German… In fact, the map of Europe has changed so much that it’s a challenge to be consistent…