Dona Juana SUAREZ

Wife of Mayor Don Joaquin Ruiz de Carvallo; "la finada" by May 1827. AND SHE IS THE "DONA JUANA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO" of the 1840 act - named there as Joaquin's wife and a native of the Colonia del Sacramento. A devotional epithet and a surname can belong to one woman. Recorded as a reading, not a finding - the two acts do not say so themselves. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713376 image 00601, folio 150 - the baptism of 12 May 1827 at the Iglesia Matriz de San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo. '...na SUAREZ. Materna...' - she survives the check as the paternal grandmother. 'PROBABLY' IS WITHDRAWN AND THE TWO ROWS ARE NOW ONE, 11 October 2026. This register carried her twice: here as JUANA SUAREZ, wife of Mayor Joaquin, and separately as 'Dona Juana del ESPIRITU SANTO', entered as the wife of a 'Don Domingo Rodriguez' who turns out not to exist. THE PLATE OF THE 1840 ACT READS JOAQUIN, NOT DOMINGO - so both rows described the same slot, the mother of Capitan Antonio, and the obstacle to joining them was a misread forename rather than anything about her. BOTH ACTS NAME HER AS ANTONIO'S MOTHER: the 1827 baptism of her granddaughter Lucinda Gregoria gives the paternal grandparents as 'Joaquin Ruiz de Carvallo y Juana Suarez'; the 1840 baptism of her grandson Domingo gives them as 'D. Joaquin Rodrig.z y D.a Juana del Espiritu S.to, ambos nat.s de la COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO'. SO SHE WAS BORN IN THE COLONIA, which this row did not know, and she was dead by May 1827 - 'la finada' - yet still named as a grandmother thirteen years later, which is ordinary. DEL ESPIRITU SANTO IS A DEVOTIONAL NAME AND SUAREZ IS THE INHERITED ONE, so the register keeps SUAREZ and /people/dona-juana-del-espiritu-santo redirects here. The devotional form is left in this prose so a search for it still finds her. AND IT ANSWERS THE QUESTION THE OTHER ROW RAISED: that row wondered whether 'del Espiritu Santo' marked a foundling. It does not - she had a surname.