Andrea ETCHEBERSE (wife of Vitaliano LERENA)

SHE IS NOT A LERENA. SHE IS AN ETCHEBERSE, and this is the SECOND time in one day that an index gave a mother her husband's surname. This row was entered that morning as half of a Lerena-married-a-Lerena couple, on an index entry naming her 'Andrea Lerena'. The plate of her daughter's marriage says '...el VEINTE Y SEIS DE MARZO [de mil no]vecientos SEIS, previa la informacion juridica, leidas las tres conciliares proclamas SIN NINGUN IMPEDIMENTO NI CANONICO NI CIVIL... autorizo el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo DON ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE, oriental, soltero, de TREINTA Y TRES anos de edad, HIJO [legitimo-struck-out] NATURAL de Don ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE y de Dona FRAILANA VALIENTE, con Dona ANDREA ALBINA LERENA, oriental, soltera, de TREINTA Y DOS anos de edad, HIJA LEGITIMA DE DON VITALIANO LERENA Y DE DONA ANDREA ETCHEBERSE. Los testigos fueron JOSE MARTINEZ y BERNARDO YRIZA[BAL] y para que conste lo firmo.' THE LINE BREAKS ACROSS THE OPENING: the left page ends '...y de Dona ANDREA' and the right page begins 'ETCHEBERSE. Los testigos fueron'. THE INDEXER TOOK THE FATHER'S SURNAME AND GAVE IT TO HER, exactly as it did to BARBARA at San Jose de Mayo on the same morning. AND HER SURNAME IS THE GROOM'S. Her daughter married an ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE, and the act records 'sin ningun impedimento ni canonico ni civil'. THAT IS AN OBSERVATION AND NOT A CONCLUSION - a shared Basque surname in one small town is not a documented kinship, and if the two families were close kin the parish would have had to dispense it.