Maria Adelina LERENA LARRIERA

Eldest known child of Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera, born in the Departamento de San Jose on 6 July 1879 and christened that October. SHE IS NAMED FOR HER AUNT MARIA ADELINA LERENA TRAIBEL, born at Montevideo in August 1865 - fourteen years older, and alive when this child was named. A great-granddaughter of Sancho. INDEX-LEVEL. NO LONGER INDEX-LEVEL, AND THE CHRISTENING WAS IN THE CAPITAL - 11 October 2026. The act of 13 October 1879 is at the CATEDRAL DE LA INMACULADA CONCEPCION, CIUDAD VIEJA, MONTEVIDEO, though she was born in the Departamento de San Jose three months earlier. AND IT NAMES ALL FOUR GRANDPARENTS, which is what this row needed: paternal AVELINO LERENA and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, maternal MIGUEL LARRIERA and CAROLINA CHAVARRIA. The maternal pair were unknown to this archive until today. THE GODPARENTS ARE 'AVELINO LERENA Y ADELINA LERENA' - her own grandfather, and an Adelina. SO THIS ROW'S GUESS ABOUT HER NAME IS NOW SUPPORTED, THOUGH STILL NOT PROVED: it has always said she was named for her aunt MARIA ADELINA LERENA TRAIBEL, and an Adelina Lerena did stand at the font - but the act gives the godmother no second surname, so which Adelina is not settled. THE TRANSCRIBER SPELLS THIS FAMILY FOUR WAYS IN ONE ACT: 'Alberto LEREÑA' for the father, 'Avelino SERENA' for the grandfather, 'Avelino LEVENA' for the godfather and 'Adelina SERENA' for the godmother. One page, one family, four spellings - which is the ordinary condition of this surname and the reason this archive searches by shape rather than by letter.