Dona Isabela LERENA y BASARAN (widow, of Navarrete, Logrono)

THE MOTHER, AND SHE IS A LERENA IN HER OWN RIGHT. 'Dona Isabela Lorena y Basaran, VIUDA, vecina de Navarrete' - given power by her two sons in Buenos Aires, jointly with her son Jose Dolores, over everything the family owns in Spain. The transcript spells her first surname LORENA where it spells her sons' LEERENA and LERENA in the same paragraph, which is this archive's ordinary experience of the name and a reason to read spelling as noise. BASARAN IS BASQUE, as the surname Lerena itself is usually taken to be. HER HUSBAND IS NOT NAMED ON THE ACT - only that she is his widow and that he, too, was a Lerena. SO THE MARRIAGE THAT MADE 'LERENA Y LERENA' IS DOCUMENTED ONLY BY ITS CHILDREN. THIS HOUSEHOLD IS WHY THE ROW MATTERS MORE THAN ITS OWN PEOPLE DO. The brothers sign themselves LERENA y LERENA, so their father was a Lerena AND their mother was a Lerena - and Pablo Armando Lerena's 1908 enrolment card names JUAN CARLOS LERENA and MARIA LERENA. AND THEY ARE THE SIXTH SUCH COUPLE THIS ARCHIVE HAS MET, NOT THE FIRST - a correction to what was written here first. The two Trinidad couples of 1894 and 1913, the 1911 dispensation, Alejandro, and Eloy x Felisa Lerena at San Jose de Flores in 1912 all came before them. SO THE CARD'S DOUBLE SURNAME WAS NEVER IN REAL DOUBT, AND NAVARRETE DOES NOT RESCUE IT. What Navarrete adds is different and smaller: it is the FIRST SUCH HOUSEHOLD OUTSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, the FIRST WHERE THE CHILDREN CARRY IT DOUBLED AS A SURNAME OF RECORD - 'Lerena y Lerena', in their own signatures, not just a coincidence of two parents - and the FIRST TIME THE PRACTICE HAS A PLACE ON A MAP that can be searched. No link to Pablo Armando is claimed - see data/open-questions.tsv.