Elisa VILLARDEMOROS (m. Alejandro LERENA)

Named as the mother at the Cordon christening of ALEJANDRO JOAQUIN NARCISO LERENA on 29 May 1873. Probably a sister of CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, who married Avelino Eduardo Lerena in the same decade - see his row and her husband's. The spelling VILLARDEMOROS is the index's; Celedonia is indexed VILLADEMOROS. Index-level. SHE IS NAMED BESIDE ALEJANDRO M. LERENA AT A FONT IN 1872, as godmother to Angelica Maria, daughter of her kinswoman Celedonia. IF SHE IS THE FIRST WIFE OF THE ALEJANDRO M. LERENA WHO WAS A WIDOWER IN NOVEMBER 1886, THEN SHE DIED BETWEEN 1873 AND 1886 - and a Montevideo death in that window is a findable record and is the next thing to look for. Her surname is written VILLADEMOROS on the 1872 act and VILLARDEMOROS in the 1873 index. HER DEATH IS NOW BRACKETED TO FIFTEEN MONTHS, 27 September 2026. The Cordon act of 26 December 1877 calls her '(hoy finada)' - dead that day - and her daughter Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria was born 19 September 1876. SO ELISA VILLADEMOROS DIED BETWEEN 19 SEPTEMBER 1876 AND 26 DECEMBER 1877, and a Montevideo burial in that window is a findable record. That death is what makes Alejandro M. Lerena a WIDOWER on the acts of 1886 and 1888, nine years later. HER DEATH IS NOT IN THE INDEXED CORPUS, AND THAT IS EXPECTED RATHER THAN PUZZLING. Searched 27 September 2026 across Uruguayan records 1874-1880: no death or burial for an Elisa Villademoros. SHE DIED BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 1876 AND DECEMBER 1877, WHICH IS BEFORE URUGUAY HAD CIVIL REGISTRATION AT ALL - the registers begin in 1879. So her death is a PARISH BURIAL, in books this archive has on its work list to walk by image and has not walked. THE WINDOW IS FIFTEEN MONTHS AND THE PARISH IS ALMOST CERTAINLY THE CORDON, where both her children were baptised. That is a cheap walk and it would name her parents. HER NAME REACHES ARGENTINA IN 1907, thirty years after her death, on her son's marriage act at Bell Ville, Cordoba - spelled VILLADEMORAS, a fourth variant after Villademoros, Villardemoros and Villademores. AND THE CORDOBA ACT OF 1907 CONFIRMS HER DEATH ON A PLATE, thirty years after the Cordon christening that first recorded it: 'hijo legitimo de Alejandro M. [Lerena] y ELISA VILLADEMORAS (FINADOS)'. HER PARENTS ARE NAMED AND THE SISTERHOOD IS NO LONGER A GUESS, 11 October 2026. Her marriage act of 28 December 1871 gives her as 'Dona ELISA VILLADEMOROS, del mismo estado y oriundez, hija de los finados D. PEDRO y Dona ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS' - so SOLTERA, NATURAL DE MONTEVIDEO like her husband, and THE DAUGHTER OF A PEDRO AND AN ANGELICA WHO WERE BOTH ALREADY DEAD. CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS IS THE DAUGHTER OF PEDRO VILLADEMOROS AND ANGELICA MENDEZ. Same father, same mother, same city. THEY ARE SISTERS, AND THIS ROW HAS SAID 'PROBABLY' SINCE SEPTEMBER. AND IT SETTLES THE 1873 GODMOTHER TOO: this register holds a 'Dona Angelica Villademoros' standing at the font for Elisa's son in May 1873. SHE CANNOT BE THE MOTHER, WHO WAS DEAD BY DECEMBER 1871 - so she is a third sister, which is what this archive had reasoned and could not prove. AND IT ESTABLISHES A PATTERN THIS ARCHIVE HAS NOW SEEN TWICE IN ONE DAY: TWO BROTHERS MARRIED TWO SISTERS. ALEJANDRO MAXIMO LERENA and AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA TRAIBEL are both sons of AVELINO LERENA FERNANDEZ and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL; ELISA and CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS are both daughters of PEDRO VILLADEMOROS and ANGELICA. SO THE LERENA VILLADEMOROS COUSINS ARE DOUBLE FIRST COUSINS - exactly the structure that forced a dispensation at Trinidad in 1911, here produced in Montevideo a generation earlier. NO DISPENSATION OF KINSHIP WAS NEEDED FOR THE MARRIAGES THEMSELVES, because the two families were not related before them; what was dispensed in 1871 was TWO CONCILIAR BANNS, a dispensation of notice and not of blood.