Eduardo ZALDUONDO

Husband of Amelia Lerena. This archive called him 'DEL SUANDO' for a week, off a machine transcript; the plate says ZALDUONDO. His parents are on the same act - JUAN ZALDUONDO and DOLORES POU de ZALDUONDO. POU is Catalan or Balearic and ZALDUONDO is Basque, so his household was Spanish on both sides a generation back, as the Lerena were. A DEATH, A BIRTH YEAR AND A SECOND SURNAME READING, 11 October 2026 - all from an index, and all probably his. The Uruguayan civil register has an 'EDUARDO ZALDUANDO POU' dying at Montevideo on 22 August 1913 aged fifty-two - so born about 1861 - certificate 553, son of JUAN and DOLORES POU, married to a LERENA. That is this man's father, this man's mother and this man's wife's surname. THE INDEX ALSO GIVES HIM A SECOND SURNAME, POU, after his mother - which is the ordinary Spanish form and supports rather than weakens the match. AND ON 11 OCTOBER 2026 THE DUPLICATES GATE CAUGHT SOMETHING MUCH LARGER THAN A DUPLICATE. Four index entries had been worked up as a NEW family - an 'Eduardo ZALDUONDO Pou' with parents Juan and Dolores Pou, married to a Lerena, with a daughter Maria Margarita. Every one of those people was ALREADY IN THIS REGISTER UNDER ZALDUONDO, off the 1903 Pocitos plate. Set side by side the agreement is fourfold: the husband EDUARDO; his father JUAN; his mother DOLORES POU; and a daughter MARIA MARGARITA - with the wife a Lerena daughter of AVELINO and CELEDONIA/CELIDONIA in both. Two unrelated Montevideo households do not match on all five. SO IT IS ONE HOUSEHOLD, AND ONE OF THE TWO SURNAME READINGS IS WRONG. The 1903 reading is from a PLATE; the 1913 reading is from an INDEX, and it is the same index that renders Lerena as 'Lerma' and Avelino Lerena as 'Arabia Larena Lerena'. A PLATE OUTRANKS AN INDEX, so ZALDUONDO is the better reading and 'Zalduando' is most likely its mangling - which also explains why the 1903 machine transcript called him 'DEL SUANDO', a string far closer to 'Zalduando' than to what the plate says. NOT MERGED YET, AND DELIBERATELY SO. The test is one plate: DGS 008165206 IMAGE 283, the 1913 death act, which gives the surname and the parents in the register's own hand and should name the widow. It was attempted on 11 October 2026 and the image viewer REDIRECTED TO A SIGN-IN - false-zero disguise seventeen, which this archive has met before. HIS OWN DEATH ACT WAS READ FROM THE PLATE ON 11 OCTOBER 2026, and it is the document that settles his surname. 'Ha fallecido EDUARDO ZALDUANDO ... nacido en MONTEVIDEO, de cincuenta y dos anos de edad, de estado casado y de profesion JUBILADO, a consecuencia de ANGINA DE PECHO ... Que el finado era hijo de JUAN ZALDUONDO y de DOLORES POU, FALLECIDOS. ... era casado con ANGELICA LERENA, de cuya union quedan TRES HIJOS llamados: MARIA ELENA, EDUARDO AVELINO y MARIA MARGARITA.' SO: BORN AT MONTEVIDEO about 1861, which this archive did not have; DIED 22 AUGUST 1913 at calle JUAN B. BLANCO 9, at seven in the morning, aged fifty-two, certified by Dr BORDONI POSSE; declared by AGUSTIN AGNESE, 28, and CONRADO P. ABAL, 22, before the Juez de Paz EDUARDO J. MORATORIO. AND HE WAS RETIRED AT FIFTY-TWO - 'jubilado' is a pension, so there was a salaried career behind it, which is a thread this archive has not pulled. HIS PARENTS WERE BOTH DEAD BY 1913. THE NAME THIS ROW CARRIED UNTIL TODAY - ZALSAMENDI - WAS A MISREADING of the 1903 hand, and this archive argued FOR it that same morning against a civil index that had been right. See data/corrections.tsv. AN OBSERVATION, OFFERED AS NOTHING MORE: THE JUEZ DE PAZ WHO WROTE THIS ACT IS A MORATORIO. 'Eduardo J. Moratorio', Juez de Paz of the 18th section of the Capital. This register already holds MARIA CARLOTA MORATORIO LERENA and MARIA DE LAS MERCEDES MORATORIO LERENA, twins born 24 February 1880 to a Moratorio father and a Lerena mother. THAT IS A COINCIDENCE OF SURNAME IN ONE CITY AND IT IS NOT EVIDENCE OF ANYTHING - Moratorio is not rare in Montevideo, a Juez de Paz signs whatever comes before him, and no connection is claimed. It is written down only so that nobody who meets the two facts separately thinks they have found something new. HIS MARRIAGE ACT GIVES HIM AN EXACT BIRTH DATE, 11 October 2026: 'nacido el dia QUINCE de AGOSTO de mil ochocientos SESENTA en esta Ciudad'. So 15 AUGUST 1860 at Montevideo, and he was thirty-seven when he married on 20 November 1897 - the computer index read that as thirty-one. WHICH MAKES THE DEATH ACT SLIGHTLY WRONG TOO: it calls him fifty-two on 22 August 1913, and a man born 15 August 1860 had turned FIFTY-THREE seven days before he died. A stated age is an informant's arithmetic and this is what it costs. IN 1897 HE WAS AN EMPLEADO living with his parents at calle Convencion No. 226; by 1913 he was jubilado at calle Juan B. Blanco 9.