Juan Augustin Llerena

TIER: the act is PRIMARY. THE SURNAME IS READ AS LLERENA AND THE LETTER AFTER 'Lle' IS AN r OR AN n IN THIS HAND (it is written the same three times); it was not compared against this scribe's other writing of the name, which is the check this archive makes before it counts a Serena or Perena. A CANDIDATE, NOT A TIE, TO Sancho's eldest son (row 'Juan Agustin LERENA Fernandez', 21 in the 1812 padron, so about twenty-eight here): the same two forenames, the same surname, a man of soldiering age. AGAINST: the father is 'Juan de los Santos', not Sancho; the padron gives all six of Sancho's children as born at Canelones, and the act says Montevideo of someone; the entry says its facts come from the hospital's slip (papeleta), a second-hand source that could garble a father's name. Nothing is merged, and the Juan Agustin row's 'last attested alive' is unchanged. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: this man's baptism, or a hospital or regiment record naming his mother, or Sancho's will.