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Every person of this surname, and every spouse and parent of one, met in the course of the research — searchable, grouped by the spelling the record used, with the source that names each one. This is the raw catch, not a family tree, and most of it is not this family.
685 entries for 685 distinct names, 134 of them with a link to the source that names them; the other 551 say in the Source column why no link exists.
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The surname is rare. Forebears counts about 2,124 Lerenas worldwide, with the highest density anywhere in Uruguay — the signature of a small founding group that emigrated. At that scale most people carrying the name probably are related to one another at some depth. But “probably related” is not evidence, and a shared surname is not a relationship.
Most entries here come from surname sweeps — every Lerena in the CEMLA arrival index, in the Argentine national censuses of 1869 and 1895, in the Uruguayan and Argentine parish and civil registers, in the South African death, estate and cemetery indexes. They are here because they were found, not because they are kin. None is claimed as kin.
The list is grouped by the spelling the record used — Lerena, Llerena, Larena, Lorena, Lerina — because the spelling is evidence in itself: it is how a clerk heard the name, and the clerks disagreed. Names in other groups are spouses and parents who married in or are named alongside.
Three marks are used. Connected — proven to the direct line. Excluded — checked and shown not to belong. Unplaced — found, recorded, and honestly unresolved. Most are unplaced, and that is the point of the page.
The moment more of Pablo Armando’s people are named, this becomes the place to look — several of these may snap into position at once, and the work of finding them will already have been done. The card that named his parents →
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685 records across 195 surnames. A record is not a person: the same person can appear many times and two people can share a name, so a row links to whichever page this archive has actually identified.
| Name | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Conrado P. ABAL (declarant, 1913) Unplaced | 1891 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · empleado · found in Montevideo Second declarant at the death of EDUARDO ZALDUONDO, 22 August 1913: 'Don CONRADO P. ABAL, de veinte y dos anos de edad, soltero, oriental, empleado, vecino de la calle COLONIA 1967' - so born about 1891. He signed the act. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo death act No. 553 of 22 August 1913 - PLATE READ 11 October 2026; DGS 008165206 image 283 |
| Beatriz Eliza del Corazon de Jesus ABELLA Lerena Unplaced | 1917-11-17 · Buenos Aires, Argentina · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Born 17 November 1917 and baptised at the Basilica San Jose de Flores, Buenos Aires, on 20 January 1918 by the Presbitero Francisco Juarez, acta No. 446. Daughter of EUGENIO MARCOS ABELLA and JACINTA LERENA VILLADEMOROS, both Uruguayan, of Membrillar 96. Godparents D. Francisco Riquena Garcia and Dona Juana Manini de Abella. A GRANDDAUGHTER OF AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA TRAIBEL AND CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, if the identification of her mother holds - and it rests on a rare compound surname and a Uruguayan birth, not on the stated age, which disagrees. | record ↗ Basilica San Jose de Flores, Buenos Aires City. Baptism Records 1917-1918 - acta No. 446 of 20 January 1918; image 244, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G69G-M3" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G69G-M3</a> - FULL-TEXT read 10 October 2026 |
| Eugenio Marcos ABELLA (m. Jacinta Lerena Villademoros) Unplaced | 1876 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Buenos Aires Husband of JACINTA LERENA VILLADEMOROS, named on their daughter's baptism at the Basilica San Jose de Flores, Buenos Aires, 20 January 1918: 'D. EUGENIO MARCOS ABELLA, natural de URUGUAY, de cuarenta y un anos de edad', living at Membrillar 96. BORN ABOUT 1876 FROM THE STATED AGE. A URUGUAYAN IN BUENOS AIRES, like his wife. AND HIS OWN FAMILY STOOD AT THE FONT: the godmother is Dona JUANA MANINI DE ABELLA. | record ↗ Basilica San Jose de Flores, Buenos Aires City. Baptism Records 1917-1918 - acta No. 446 of 20 January 1918; image 244, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G69G-M3" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G69G-M3</a> - FULL-TEXT read 10 October 2026 |
| Francisco de los Santos de ACUNA (witness, Canelones) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Canelones The witness who deposed immediately before SANCHO LLERENA in the same marriage investigation, 'havecindado en la ciudad de San Felipe de Montevideo'. He said he was 'mayor de cuarenta y ocho anos' and that he could not write either. HIS DEPOSITION IS WHY THIS ARCHIVE KNOWS THE FILE STATES AGES WHEN IT HAS THEM - and therefore that Sancho's absent age is the document's silence and not a failed search. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones - Religious Marriage Investigation Files 1776-1806, the expediente of Florentino Gomez - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W</a> |
| Marcos S. ACUNA (declarant, 1936) Unplaced | 1913 · Uruguayan · empleado · found in Montevideo The second declarant at Arturo Lerena's death, 2 March 1936: 'de nacionalidad oriental, de VEINTITRES anos, de estado soltero, de profesion empleado, domiciliado en MAGALLANES 1337'. NOT FAMILY. A city death is declared by whoever is to hand, which is why the ages on such acts are secondhand. | no public link Montevideo - DEATH RECORDS 1931-1938, acta No. 8 of 2 March 1936, Tercera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q</a>; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6V-233Y" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6V-233Y</a> |
| Agustin AGNESE (declarant, 1913) Unplaced | 1885 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · empleado · found in Montevideo First declarant at the death of EDUARDO ZALDUONDO, 22 August 1913: 'Don AGUSTIN AGNESE, de veinte y ocho anos de edad, soltero, oriental, empleado' - so born about 1885. A declarant is usually a neighbour, a colleague or a relative, and WHICH OF THOSE HE WAS IS NOT STATED. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo death act No. 553 of 22 August 1913 - PLATE READ 11 October 2026; DGS 008165206 image 283 |
| Rosalia AGUILAR (mother of Sancho) Connected | Spain, presumably Andalusia · Spanish · found in Spain NAMED ON AN ACT, 15 September 2026 - the first time this archive has had a generation above Sancho on anything but a tree. The baptism of their grandson LUIS ESCOLASTICO at the Iglesia Matriz of Montevideo, 10 February 1811, gives "Abuelos paternos FELIZ GERENA y ROSALIA AGUILAR" in the same sentence that calls their son "Don SANCHO LLERENA natural de ANDALUCIA" . GERENA is the machine's G-for-L - a seventh spelling for this family, and the same mangling that produced the still-unresolved "Dona Andugara GERENA" in the Santa Rosa de Lima confirmations at Rosario. SHE IS THE REASON THIS FAMILY IS CALLED 'LERENA Y AGUILAR' AT ALL. For weeks the matronymic was marked unattested - none of the fourteen Uruguayan records gave Sancho one - and on 14 September this archive built a whole Spanish hypothesis on the idea that AGUILAR came from a GRANDMOTHER, the Ana Maria de Aguilar who married at Santa Ana, Granada in 1754. It comes from his MOTHER, which is simply how Spanish naming works, and the act says so. WHAT IS STILL NOT KNOWN ABOUT THEM: everything else. No dates, no places, no marriage, no other children. The Geneanet pages carry nothing but the line "Family: Revista 15 IEGU", and one Spanish tree offers Cordoba about 1725 and a marriage about 1753 - all values marked "about", with no source at all, and giving Sancho a birth of ca 1754 that the 1812 padron contradicts. So the PARENTAGE is documented and the PEOPLE are not. The search that follows from this is FELIX LERENA and ROSALIA AGUILAR in CORDOBA and it has not been run against Spanish parish records. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT since 14 September. Film 007713375 image 02410, Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, the baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 February 1811 - the only record in this archive that names Sancho's own parents. The plate reads 'y Ros[alia] ... lia Aguilar' across the line break - her name survives the check exactly as the transcript gave it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo, Iglesia Matriz, baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 Feb 1811 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M</a>; plus Geneanet trees citing Revista 15 IEGU - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02410 |
| Don Geronimo ALONSO de Villagomez (appraiser, 1794) Unplaced | found in Colla Named with RAMON LERENA by the widow CELESTINA GONZALEZ in 1794 to count and value the cattle and horses of Clemente Garcia's estancia. They were sworn separately and signed together. THE TRANSCRIPT GIVES HIM AS BOTH 'Geronimo Alonso' AND 'Geronimo Alonzo de Villagomez', and a 'Guillermo Hurtado de Villagomez' witnesses the same act - so there is a Villagomez household in that district and the two men are probably of it. NOT ESTABLISHED. HE IS THE ONLY MAN THIS ARCHIVE CAN NAME AS RAMON LERENA'S EQUAL IN A TASK. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1794, item 11 of 119 images - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3</a> |
| Dona Angela ALVAREZ (wife of Cristobal Salvanach) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of Julia Salvanach, named as maternal grandmother in act 1447 (1886). New to this archive. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptism act No. 1447, 31 Oct 1886 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W</a> |
| Honorio ALVAREZ Unplaced | 1867c · Brazil · Brazilian · militar · found in San Juan Bautista, Brazil 32 years old, married, brasilero, a soldier of San Juan Bautista across the Brazilian border. Husband of Anastasia LERENA. Son of Felipe ALVAREZ (dead by 1899) and of Maria ALVAREZ, 50, a widow recorded on the act as Africana, of San Juan Bautista. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), San Eugenio birth act 110 of 2 June 1899 - plate read 12 October 2026 |
| Juan Ildebel ALVAREZ y LERENA Unplaced | 1899-05-27 · San Eugenio, Artigas, Uruguay · Oriental · found in San Eugenio, Artigas, Uruguay Born at eleven in the morning on 27 May 1899 in his grandfather's house, registered six days later. The index dates him mayo de 1879 - twenty years out, and the volume label says Artigas. Birth Records 1899-1900. He carries the name doubled in the margin as ALVAREZ y LERENA. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), San Eugenio birth act 110 of 2 June 1899 - index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXQ-HXDB" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXQ-HXDB</a>, plate read 12 October 2026 |
| Rosaura ALVAREZ (m. Gualberto LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named as the mother of two children christened at Santisima Trinidad in 1901 and 1902: GUALBERTO LERENA ALVAREZ (born 2 April 1901) and ALEJANDRO ESTEBAN (born 26 December 1901). THOSE TWO BIRTHS ARE EIGHT MONTHS APART AND CANNOT BOTH BE RIGHT AS INDEXED - recorded as a conflict and not smoothed. The index writes her ROSANA on one entry and ROSAURA on the other. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep and the Zalduando surname sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Sebastiana ALVAREZ (witness, 1865) Unplaced | found in Montevideo The second witness at the Costales-Serena marriage, 25 May 1865. THE INDEX SEXES HER MALE, which is worth noting only because this archive uses index sex fields nowhere and this is why. NAMED ONCE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Teodoro ALVES LERENA Unplaced | 1907-04-22 · Artigas, Uruguay · Oriental · found in Artigas, Uruguay Registered at Artigas on 30 April 1907. Son of Honorio ALVES and Anastasia LERENA - the same couple as act 110 of 1899, eight years on and under the spelling ALVES rather than ALVAREZ. So Juan Ildebel has a brother and the marriage lasted. Index-level; no act opened. | record ↗ FamilySearch record index, Uruguay Civil Registration, Artigas - INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED, surveyed 12 October 2026 |
| Maria Carlota AMADEO LASTRA Unplaced | c.1883 · Buenos Aires · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Wife of Rafael Llerena and mother of the Juan Carlos Llerena baptised at San Nicolas, Buenos Aires in 1910. The act gives her as 'natural del Pais, de VEINTE Y SIETE anos de edad', so born about 1883. The padrino signs 'A. Lastra', so her own family stood at the font. Not shown to be connected to this archive's line. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Parroquia de San Nicolas, Buenos Aires - baptism of Juan Carlos Llerena, 1910 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 004571164 image 00201, folio 370; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-GD9T-LM" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-GD9T-LM</a> |
| Emilia ANTELO (wife of Juan Facundo Frutuoso BARROS Lerena) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named as the surviving spouse on the death registration of JUAN FACUNDO FRUTUOSO BARROS LERENA, Sancho Llerena's grandson, who died at Montevideo on 3 May 1915. Nothing else in this archive names her, and the record gives her no dates of her own. Index-level. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of her husband, 4 May 1915, Montevideo, certificate 261; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6YVC-LYSG" rel="noopener">1:1:6YVC-LYSG</a> |
| ANTONIO (enslaved in Sancho Lerena's household, 1812) Unplaced | found in Montevideo NAMED ON THE PADRON ITSELF, and this archive said the padron named nobody. Entered as 'Antonio, negro esclavo' - the only one of the four whose status the enumerator wrote out - immediately after Sancho's youngest child Dominga. Nothing else about him is known: no age, no baptism, no death, no emancipation. He is here because he was a person and the record has his name. | record ↗ 1812 padron, calle San Juan No 60; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR</a> |
| Viterba P. de ARRASCAETA (m. Faustino Lerena) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Wife of FAUSTINO LERENA BARRAGAN, named on his marriage and on the death of their son PEDRO in 1911. The index spells her Viterba, Biterva and Viterba P. de Arrascacta across three entries. ARRASCAETA IS BASQUE AND IS NEW TO THIS REGISTER. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Cayetana ARTOLA (m. Fructuoso SERENA) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named with FRUCTUOSO SERENA as the parents of a child whose godparents were BERNABE LERENA and ALEJANDRINA LERENA. THE VOLUME IS LABELLED MONTEVIDEO AND THE ACT IS FROM TRINIDAD: the page is the Montevideo CIVIL register transcribing a parish certificate signed by the Cura Vicario BRAÑA of the Santisima Trinidad, 'en Trinidad a catorce de [noviembre] de mil ochocientos noventa'. THAT MATTERS BEYOND THIS ROW: several 'Montevideo' hits in this search are Trinidad acts re-registered in the capital, and a place filter will not separate them. ARTOLA IS NEW TO THIS REGISTER. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Montevideo, Baptism Records November 1890-January 1891, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-S932-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-S932-Q</a> |
| Francisco AZANOLA Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather, with Manuela Otondo, at the baptism of MARIA CARLOTA MORATORIO LERENA on 8 March 1880 - one of the twins born to Josefa Lerena Traibel on 24 February. He was not found until the plate was opened: the machine transcript this archive had read for a week did not carry him to the register. Nothing else here names him. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godparent at the baptisms of 8 March 1880, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a> |
| BARBARA (enslaved in Alejandro Lerena's household, San Jose 1846) Unplaced | San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay · found in San Jose de Mayo SHE WAS NOT A WIFE AND SHE WAS NOT A LERENA. SHE WAS AN ENSLAVED WOMAN, and this archive published her as somebody's spouse for a few hours on 12 October 2026. The index of her son's burial lists 'Alejandro Lerena' as father and 'Barbara Lerena' as mother, and on that reading this register entered a Lerena-married-a-Lerena couple. THE PLATE SAYS OTHERWISE: 'En esta Parroquia de S.n Jose a VEINTE Y OCHO DE ABRIL de mil ochocientos CUARENTA Y SEIS, yo D.n FRAN.CO CASTELLO cura vic.o int.o di sepultura en el ANGELORIO al cadaver de CARMELO ANSELMO, HIJO NATURAL DE BARBARA, ESCLAVA DE D.N ALEJANDRO LERENA, murio ayer de enfermedad, de edad de SIETE DIAS, y se le hizo oficio rezado, de que certifico.' 'ESCLAVA DE D.N ALEJANDRO LERENA' - THE INDEXER TURNED THAT INTO A MARRIAGE, giving her the surname of the man who held her. She is named here as the act names her: BARBARA, with no surname, because the act gives her none and this archive will not lend her one. HER SON WAS CALLED CARMELO ANSELMO AND HE LIVED SEVEN DAYS. He is entered as 'hijo natural', which is what the act says; no father is named on it. THE FIFTH PERSON THIS FAMILY IS KNOWN TO HAVE HELD IN SLAVERY. The others are JUANA, ANTONIO, JOSE and TERESA, in Sancho Llerena's household at Canelones in 1812, with Juana's daughter MARIA MERCEDES born into it. THIS ONE IS THIRTY-FOUR YEARS LATER AND IN A DIFFERENT HOUSEHOLD. ON THE DATE, THIS ARCHIVE STATES ONLY WHAT IT KNOWS: the act says 'esclava' in April 1846. Uruguay's abolition came in stages during the Guerra Grande, and WHICH DECREE APPLIED AT SAN JOSE IN APRIL 1846 IS NOT ESTABLISHED HERE. That is a question for the next session and it is not answered by this act. AND HER OWN BAPTISMAL ACT WAS FOUND THREE DAYS EARLIER IN THE BOOK, 12 October 2026 - the SON'S baptism of 25 April 1846, which says two things the burial does not. 'bautice solemnemente a Car[melo] Anselmo, que nacio el VEINTIUNO del mismo, hijo natural de BARBARA LERENA, NATURAL DE ESTA VILLA, ESCLAVA DE DON ALEJANDRO LERENA : fueron Padrinos Jose Carreras y Petronila Escobar.' SO THE ACT ITSELF WRITES HER AS BARBARA LERENA. This row says she was not a Lerena, and as to family that stands - but the priest gave her the surname of the man who held her, in writing, and that is the fact to record rather than tidy away. And she was born at San Jose de Mayo - 'natural de esta Villa' - which this row had blank. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and San Jose de Mayo - RELIGIOUS DEATH RECORDS July 1839 to December 1851, the burial of 28 April 1846 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-J7GN-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-J7GN-C</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72167-155289-86; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXQ-4RD2" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXQ-4RD2</a>; and San Jose de Mayo - BAPTISM RECORDS January 1841 to May 1869, the baptism of 25 April 1846 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D9GN-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D9GN-8</a> |
| Luis BARBE (Oficial del Estado Civil, Montevideo 1936) Unplaced | Uruguayan · Oficial del Estado Civil · found in Montevideo Registered the death of ARTURO LERENA in the Tercera Seccion of Montevideo on 2 March 1936, acta No. 8. THE OFFICE IS RECORDED AND THE BUSINESS OF THE OFFICE IS NOT - the death of Jaime Albajari, nine days later on the same opening, is not admitted. | no public link Montevideo - DEATH RECORDS 1931-1938, acta No. 8 of 2 March 1936, Tercera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q</a>; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6V-233Y" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6V-233Y</a> |
| Dona Paulina BARRAGAN (wife of Fermin LERENA) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married into the Trinidad Lerena kindred. BELOQUI, ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ are Basque surnames - evidence about the community these Lerenas married into, which bears on the Basque-or-Extremaduran question without settling it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Ignacia BARREDO (mother of Casimira MONTANO) Unplaced | San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Mother of Casimira Montano, named on the 1837 San Jose marriage act as 'Dona IGNACIA BARREDO'. HER NAME CAME BACK A GENERATION LATER: her granddaughter buried at seven days in August 1850 was called ABDONA IGNACIA. | record ↗ Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records 1825-1859 - act of 3 February 1837; DGS film 008143329 image 87, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67KL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67KL</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Aurelio Eusebio BARROS Lerena Unplaced | 1833-09-14 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A SECOND CHILD OF JUSTA PASTORA LERENA AND MANUEL ZEFERINO BARROS, found 21 September 2026 - and he existed on a plate this archive had cited for a week without opening. The register carried the GODFATHER of this act since 14 September and never the CHILD. The act reads: 'En diez y nueve de Octubre de mil ochocientos treinta y tres, yo el D.r D.n JUAN CIRIACO OTAEGUI, con licencia del Cura y Vicario D.r D. DAMASO LARRANAGA, bautice solemnemente a AURELIO EUSEBIO, que nacio el dia CATORCE del proximo pasado, hijo de Man.l ZEFERINO BARROS, natural de PERNAMBUCO, y de JUSTA PASTORA LERENA, natural de MONTEVIDEO ... Padrinos ABELINO LERENA y DOMINGA LERENA.' So he is a brother of JUAN FACUNDO FRUTUOSO, born 27 November 1831, and a grandson of Sancho, and his godparents are his mother's own brother and sister. AND HIS MOTHER'S BIRTHPLACE IS GIVEN AS MONTEVIDEO HERE AND AS CANELONES ON HIS BROTHER'S ACT OF 1831 - two acts, two years apart, one parish, disagreeing about where she was born. Neither is preferred here; the Canelones reading has the support of her sister Dominga's baptism there in 1804. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de Montevideo, baptism of 19 October 1833 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 images 01176-01177; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKW-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKW-T</a> |
| Hilario BARROS Llerena Unplaced | 1835 · Canelones · Uruguayan · found in Canelones A THIRD CHILD OF JUSTA PASTORA AND MANUEL ZEFERINO BARROS, found 21 September 2026 - and found only because the index date was impossible. FamilySearch indexes his christening as 19 April 1726, which is the first year of the collection and not a date; the same artefact put his cousin Carlos Ambrosio Florencio in 1726 earlier the same day. THE PLATE GIVES THE REAL YEAR: 'El dia DIEZ Y NUEVE DE ABRIL del ano de mil ochocientos t[reinta y cinco], yo Don FRANCISCO LARROBLA, Cura y Vicario de esta Parroquia de los Canelones, bautice solemnemente a un parvulo ... por nombre HILARIO, hijo legitimo de MAN[uel Zeferino Barros] natural de PERNAMBUCO, y de JUSTA LLERENA ... padrinos PEDRO ANTONIO LLERENA y VICENTA VEGA.' SO PEDRO ANTONIO AND VICENTA VEGA STOOD AT A SECOND NEPHEW'S FONT. They are the godparents at the Aguada in 1852 for Avelino's son as well - two acts, seventeen years apart, the same couple standing for two different brothers' and sisters' children. THE BIRTH DATE IS NOT SETTLED AND THE COLUMN CARRIES ONLY THE YEAR. The index says 16 March 1835. The act's own phrase runs 'nacido a los ...' and this archive cannot read the word that follows at the resolution available; it appears to end 'del mismo', which would put the birth in APRIL and not March. Read at four times magnification before being left unresolved. A further reason for caution: 16 MARCH has now appeared as an indexed birth for three children of this family - Pedro Alberto Ysabelino 1852 and Andres 1857, both confirmed on their plates, and this one, which is not. TEST: the DeepZoom tiles of film 008166571 image 01993 at a level above dist.jpg. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones - baptism of 19 April 1835, entry 46 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008166571 image 01993; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:689G-2W33" rel="noopener">1:1:689G-2W33</a>, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9J7-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9J7-Z</a> |
| Jose Pando de BARROS Unplaced | Brazil · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo / Canelones Father of Manuel Zeferino Barros; named as paternal grandfather in the Cordon baptism of 13 December 1831. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen la Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo, baptism of 13 Dec 1831 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713388 image 00726, folio 133 |
| Juan Facundo Frutuoso BARROS Lerena Unplaced | 1831-11-27 · Cordon, Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo / Canelones Grandson of Sancho Llerena. Born 27 November 1831 and baptised at the Cordon on 13 December. HIS GODPARENTS WERE DON FRUCTUOSO RIVERA, FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF URUGUAY, AND HIS WIFE DONA BERNARDINA FRAGOSO - and he is named FRUTUOSO for the president. HIS DEATH IS FOUND, 21 September 2026: 3 MAY 1915 AT MONTEVIDEO, AGED EIGHTY-THREE, registered the next day, certificate 261. THE ARITHMETIC IS EXACT: a man born 27 November 1831 is eighty-three on 3 May 1915. The registration names his mother JUSTA LERENA and his father "MANUEL C BARROS", which is the Manuel Zeferino Barros of Pernambuco this archive already had - the C is for Ceferino. AND IT NAMES A WIFE THIS ARCHIVE DID NOT HAVE: EMILIA ANTELO. Found by a parent-pair query on his mother rather than on him. Index-level; the act is unopened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen la Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo, baptism of 13 Dec 1831 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2</a>; and Uruguay Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration 4 May 1915, Montevideo, certificate 261, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6YVC-LYSG" rel="noopener">1:1:6YVC-LYSG</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713388 image 00726, folio 133 |
| Manuel Zeferino BARROS Unplaced | Pernambuco, Brazil · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo / Canelones Brazilian husband of Justa Pastora Lerena, daughter of Sancho Llerena. Named in the Cordon baptism of their son, 13 December 1831. Son of Jose Pando de Barros and Ana Maria Cabalgante. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen la Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo, baptism of 13 Dec 1831 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713388 image 00726, folio 133 |
| Julia BASSANI Unplaced | 1864 · Italian or Austrian - THE TWO ACTS DISAGREE · labores de su casa · found in Montevideo, later Buenos Aires Mother of Hector Narciso (1886) and Emilia Alberta (1888), both born at her own address, calle Ybirini N 321, Montevideo, while Alejandro M. Lerena was living at calle San Jose N 17. She is soltera on both acts and he is viudo, so the children are registered as hijos de los declarantes and no marriage is stated. HER NATIONALITY IS GIVEN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS, IN FRONT OF HER, SIXTEEN MONTHS APART: "italiana" in 1886 and "austriaca" in 1888. Aged 22 and then 24, which is consistent. The Austrian Empire held Italian-speaking lands until 1918, so a Trieste or Trentino subject could truthfully be described either way and the two need not conflict - but they are not the same claim and this archive records both rather than picking. Indexed elsewhere as Basani, Bossani, Barsani and Balani. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - birth act N 424, Montevideo, 6 November 1886; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR4Z-DDT" rel="noopener">1:1:VR4Z-DDT</a> - IMAGE READ 22 September 2026; film 004596830 image 01806; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - birth act Num 108, Montevideo, March 1888; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR4Z-VVB" rel="noopener">1:1:VR4Z-VVB</a> - IMAGE READ 22 September 2026; film 004596830 image 02145 |
| Carlos BASTOS (declarant, 1936) Unplaced | 1896 · Italian · empleado · found in Montevideo One of the two men who declared Arturo Lerena's death on 2 March 1936: 'de nacionalidad ital[iano], de CUARENTA anos, de estado casado, de profesion empleado, domiciliado en CANELONES 1465'. He signs 'C. Bastos'; the transcript reads the body as 'Barton'. NOT FAMILY, and his age puts his birth about 1896. | no public link Montevideo - DEATH RECORDS 1931-1938, acta No. 8 of 2 March 1936, Tercera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q</a>; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6V-233Y" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6V-233Y</a> |
| Dona Lauriana BELOQUI (wife of Cipriano LERENA) Unplaced | 1856 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married into the Trinidad Lerena kindred. BELOQUI, ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ are Basque surnames - evidence about the community these Lerenas married into, which bears on the Basque-or-Extremaduran question without settling it. AN AGE AND HER PARENTS, 9 October 2026. The 1895 birth act of her daughter gives her as 'Dona Laureana Beloque de TREINTA Y NUEVE anos de edad, casada, oriental, labores y domiciliada con su esposo' - born about 1856. HER PARENTS ARE NAMED: Don PEDRO BELOQUI, sixty-five, widower, ESPANOL, estanciero of the Second Section of Flores, and Dona DOROTEA DELGADO, fallecida. SO THE BASQUE SURNAME IS A SPANISH-BORN FATHER, NOT A GUESS FROM THE NAME - this register had only inferred the community from the surname's shape. | record ↗ Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026; and Flores. Birth Records 1887-1902 - act No. 8 of 2 March 1895, Carmen Donata Lerena, El Tala; image 165, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Pedro BELOQUI (father of Lauriana BELOQUI) Unplaced | 1830 · Spain · Spanish · estanciero · found in Flores, Uruguay SPANISH-BORN, AND NAMED AT LAST. The 1895 birth act of his granddaughter gives him as 'Don PEDRO BELOQUI de SESENTA Y CINCO anos de edad, VIUDO, ESPANOL, ESTANCIERO, y domiciliado en la SEGUNDA SECCION de este Departamento' - born about 1830. THIS REGISTER HAD ONLY THE SURNAME'S SHAPE TO GO ON and recorded that BELOQUI, ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ 'are Basque surnames - evidence about the community these Lerenas married into'. NOW ONE OF THEM IS A DOCUMENTED SPANIARD WITH LAND. | record ↗ Flores. Birth Records 1887-1902 - act No. 8 of 2 March 1895, El Tala; image 165, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Juana BENTENO Correa Unplaced | 1789-06-23 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE CHILD SANCHO LLERENA HELD AT THE FONT, and this archive had her parents and her godparents without ever entering her. Born 23 June 1789 and baptised at the Iglesia Matriz seven days later, daughter of Nicolas Benteno, indio natural de la ciudad del Tucuman, and Leonarda Correa of Buenos Aires. NOT A RELATIVE. She is here because this is the earliest act in the archive that names Sancho, and because a godchild is a relationship the records of 1789 took seriously enough to warn the godparents about - 'a quienes adverti la COGNACION ESPIRITUAL'. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo - baptism of 30 June 1789 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 00551; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2</a> |
| Nicolas BENTENO Unplaced | Tucuman · of Tucuman · found in Montevideo NOT A RELATIVE - recorded because of who stood at his daughter's font. "INDIO NATURAL DE LA CIUDAD DEL TUCUMAN", living at Montevideo, married to Leonarda Correa of Buenos Aires. At the baptism of their daughter JUANA on 30 June 1789 the godfather was SANCHO LLERENA - the earliest record of Sancho anywhere in this archive, fifteen years before Canelones and two years before his own marriage. It is the second time he is found sponsoring at the margins of colonial society; in 1804 he stood godfather to an enslaved man. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026. Film 007713375 image 00551, Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, 30 June 1789 - and this is the EARLIEST record of Sancho in this archive. The act: 'En TREINTA de [Junio] de mil setecientos ochenta y nueve ... bautice solemnemente en ella a JUANA que nacio el VEINTE Y TRES DEL CORRIENTE, hija legitima de NICOLAS BENTENO, INDIO NATURAL DE LA CIUDAD DEL TUCUMAN, y de LEONARDA CORREA de BUENOS AIRES, avecindados en los propios de esta Ciudad ... fueron padrinos SANCHO LLERENA y JULIANA JOSEFA [Cornejo], a quienes adverti la cognacion espiritual ... Siendo testigo AGUSTIN DONCEL.' SANCHO IS SPELLED LLERENA HERE, WITH THE DOUBLE L, IN 1789 - which is how the 1811 and 1831 acts spell him and not how 1837, 1858 or 1806 do. Every word of this row survives the plate: 'INDIO NATURAL DE LA CIUDAD DEL TUCUMAN', his wife 'LEONARDA CORREA de BUENOS AIRES', and the two of them 'AVECINDADOS EN LOS PROPIOS DE ESTA CIUDAD'. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo - baptism of 30 June 1789 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 00551 |
| Josefina BERTOGLIO (mother of Maria Mercedes) Unplaced | Italian · found in Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina Godmother to ANA MARIA LERENA RAZZETTI at Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados, 19 January 1921, beside DOMINGO RAZZETTI. BERTOGLIO is Piedmontese, as RAZZETTI is Italian - this is an Italian-Argentine household in a rural partido, and the only Lerena in it is the father. NAMED ONCE. SHE IS THE BRIDE'S MOTHER, named on the marriage act of 11 January 1920: 'y de JOSEFINA BERTOGLIO, de nacionalidad ITALIANA, de estado casada, de CINCUENTA anos'. BORN ABOUT 1869 IN ITALY. She stood godmother to her own granddaughter at Adolfo Alsina in January 1921, with her husband. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados, partido de Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires - BAPTISM RECORDS 12 Apr 1917 to 19 Feb 1923, the act of 19 January 1921 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN" rel="noopener">3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN</a>, deepzoom apid TH-1-159385-157066-5; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP84-YK8K" rel="noopener">1:1:QP84-YK8K</a>; and Canelones - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1917-1924, acta No. 4 of 11 January 1920, Santa Lucia, Segunda Seccion del Departamento de Canelones - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y</a> |
| Dr. BORDONI POSSE (certified a death, 1913) Unplaced | Uruguayan · medico · found in Montevideo The physician whose certificate is cited on EDUARDO ZALDUONDO's death act of 22 August 1913 - 'a consecuencia de ANGINA DE PECHO, segun consta del certificado del Dr. BORDONI POSSE, que queda archivado'. THAT ARCHIVED CERTIFICATE IS A RECORD THIS ARCHIVE HAS NEVER SOUGHT, and his name is the handle for it. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo death act No. 553 of 22 August 1913 - PLATE READ 11 October 2026; DGS 008165206 image 283 |
| Georgina Margaret BRAILEY Connected | 1850-07-01 · Bideford, Devon · British · found in Devon SHE CONFIRMS A CORRECTION THIS ARCHIVE MADE FROM A CENSUS. The tree gave 'b. 1851, Bideford'; the 1851 census showed her eight months old on 30 March 1851 and this archive called the tree a year late. A September-quarter 1850 registration is exactly that. Named for her mother Georgina Temple. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname TEMPLE - read 8 October 2026 - 1850 Sep quarter, THE BIDEFORD UNION, volume 10 page 52 |
| Isabella BRAILEY Connected | 1841-01-01 · St Andrew, Holborn, London · British · Needlewoman · found in Devon MARY ANN HELLEN'S ELDER SISTER, confirmed twice and ten years apart - 'Granddaughter, 10, scholar, London (City), St Andrew' in 1851 and 'Dau, unmarried, 20, NEEDLE WOMAN, London (City), St Andrews' in 1861. LIKE HER SISTER SHE HAS NO BIRTH REGISTRATION - the GRO index, searched on their mother's maiden surname across 1838-1852, does not hold her. ST ANDREW IS ST ANDREW HOLBORN, which is the district her brother John Walker was registered in four years later. | GRO index — no public per-record link 1851 census, Bideford; 1861 census, Bideford folio 81 page 4; GRO birth index - NOT REGISTERED |
| John BRAILEY Connected | 1814-08-14 · West Leigh by Coldridge, Devon · British · Shoemaker · found in Devon MARY SEPTIMA'S MATERNAL GRANDFATHER. Married GEORGINA TEMPLE at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 9 July 1839 and died on 4 May 1851 at the DEVON COUNTY ASYLUM. OF HIS FOUR KNOWN CHILDREN ONLY TWO WERE EVER REGISTERED - John Walker (1845, Holborn) and Georgina Margaret (1850, Bideford). The two eldest, Isabella and Mary Ann Hellen, both born in London in the early 1840s, have no birth registration at all, which is what the 1851 census description of this household explains: 'Shoemaker Wife Pauper'. | GRO index — no public per-record link Marriage 9 July 1839, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster; GRO birth index (children, via mother TEMPLE) |
| John Walker BRAILEY Connected | 1845-06-22 · Holborn, London · British · found in London FOUND ON 8 OCTOBER 2026 WHILE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY ELSE, and he settles three things. (1) The tree's 22 June 1845 is right, because a June birth falls in the June quarter - so the 1900 death index that made him 53 had a careless informant. (2) The birthplace dispute resolves to neither side: the 1851 census says St Pancras and the tree says St Paul's, and the registration district is HOLBORN, where his sister Isabella was born. (3) HIS MIDDLE NAME IS WALKER - this family was putting its Scottish great-grandmothers' surnames into registrations as forenames in 1845, a full generation earlier than this archive had documented. Married an ELIZABETH in 1876; died 1900. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname TEMPLE - read 8 October 2026 - 1845 Jun quarter, THE HOLBORN UNION, volume 02 page 149 |
| Mary Ann Hellen BRAYLEY Connected | 1843-05-20 · St Bartholomew's, City of London · British · found in Northam, Devon MARY SEPTIMA'S MOTHER. Born 20 May 1843 at St Bartholomew's, City of London; died 21 April 1900 at Home Sweet Terrace, Northam, and indexed at age 56, which fits the birth date exactly. SHE HAS NO BIRTH REGISTRATION, AND ON 8 OCTOBER 2026 THAT WAS SETTLED RATHER THAN DEEPENED. FreeBMD holds no Mary Brayley or Brailey in the June quarter of 1843 anywhere in England and Wales; the GRO's own index, searched on HER mother's maiden surname TEMPLE across 1838-1852, returns only two children of her parents and she is not among them. Registration was not compulsory on parents until 1875 and this household is 'Shoemaker Wife Pauper' - she was almost certainly never registered. | GRO index — no public per-record link 1891 census, Northam; FreeBMD deaths Jun q 1900, Bideford, 5b/363, age 56; GRO birth index - NOT REGISTERED |
| Presbitero Juan Jose BRID (Catedral de Montevideo, 1880) Unplaced | Catholic priest · found in Montevideo Officiated at the marriage of Dr Arturo Lerena and Emma Regules at the Basilica Menor y Catedral de Montevideo on 23 June 1880, 'con licencia del infrascrito Cura Parroco'. THE OFFICE IS RECORDED AND THE BUSINESS OF THE OFFICE IS NOT - the other couples he married are not in this register. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS, the act of 23 June 1880 at the Basilica Menor y Catedral de Montevideo (volume catalogued 1887) - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1</a> |
| Andres BRIVAQUI (appraiser, Rosario 1800) Unplaced | tasador · found in Colla The second sworn appraiser of Clemente Garcia's estate, 1800. THE SURNAME IS BADLY MANGLED - the transcript gives BRIVAQUI and elsewhere the same frame produces 'Brivaqui'/'risaqui'. URIBARRI, IRIBARREN and ERRIBARRI are all likelier Basque readings of what a 1800 hand and a machine between them produced, and this archive has met Urdinaran and Yrigoyen in the same file. NOT RESOLVED, and recorded under the transcript's spelling so that nobody mistakes a guess for a reading. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 28-30 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K</a> |
| Clemente BUENO (m. Luisa Lerena 1915) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married LUISA LERENA at Trinidad on 15 March 1915. A CARMELO BALTASAR BUENO LERENA appears in the 1900-1937 index cards, born 1924 in Flores to 'Clemente Bueno and Luisa Lerena' - their son, not yet entered. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Catherine BUYS, "Lerena Catherine Buys" Excluded | SA · found in East London FALSE POSITIVE - "Lerena" here is a given name, not the surname. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry NAAIRS HAEC 1/2/6/1/9, marriage 1921 |
| Ana Maria CABALGANTE Unplaced | Brazil · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo / Canelones Mother of Manuel Zeferino Barros; named as paternal grandmother in the Cordon baptism of 13 December 1831. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen la Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo, baptism of 13 Dec 1831 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713388 image 00726, folio 133 |
| Juan CALMAN (m. Maria Leonor LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Husband of MARIA LEONOR LERENA, daughter of Cipriano Lerena and Lauriana Beloqui. Their daughter EMA CALMAN LERENA was born 20 December 1900 and christened at Santisima Trinidad on 28 January 1901. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Dr Jorge CALVETTE (physician, Montevideo 1936) Unplaced | medico · found in Montevideo Certified the death of ARTURO LERENA on 2 March 1936 - 'segun consta del certificado del DOCTOR JORGE CALVETTE, que queda archivado'. THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS IN THAT CERTIFICATE AND NOT IN THE REGISTER; the transcript of the act garbles it past reading, and this archive does not guess at a cause. AND THIS IS THE FIRST DOCTOR IN THIS REGISTER WHO IS CERTAINLY A PHYSICIAN, which is worth saying on the day the other two turned out to be lawyers. | no public link Montevideo - DEATH RECORDS 1931-1938, acta No. 8 of 2 March 1936, Tercera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q</a>; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6V-233Y" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6V-233Y</a> |
| Juana CAMACHO (LERENA by marriage) Unplaced | 1853c · Oriental · labores · found in Jesus Maria, San Jose, Uruguay 57 years old, married, Oriental, living with her husband Pedro LERENA at Jesus Maria. The index made her a grandmother called Juana Camacho and separately invented a maternal grandfather called Jesus Maria - which is the name of the locality, not of a man. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), Mal Abrigo birth act 98 of 14 September 1910 - plate read 12 October 2026 |
| Adela CAMIGLIA Unplaced | Montevideo, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Mendoza m. Carlos Lerena; mother of Avelino Carlos Lerena. NOT THE SAME CARLOS LERENA AS ROSA MARIA EPPENS'S HUSBAND - checked 14 September 2026. A consistency check flagged that two rows here each say 'm. Carlos Lerena'. They are two different men. Hers is at MENDOZA and is the father of Avelino Carlos Lerena; the other is the URUGUAYAN CARLOS b.1885 who landed at Buenos Aires in 1926 travelling with Rosa M. E. Lerena herself. Recorded because nothing else in either row said so, and a later reader merging them would invent a marriage. The Mendoza connection is worth its own look: a CARLOS MARTINEZ LERENA appears in Mendoza parish records as a child of Julian Martinez and Carolina Lerena. HER SURNAME IS CARNIGLIA, WITH AN R, 9 October 2026. The Mendoza baptism act of 6 January 1900 writes 'Adela Carniglia' in the cura's hand, and the FamilySearch index of her son's army card agrees. THIS REGISTER HAS CARRIED 'CAMIGLIA' SINCE 13 SEPTEMBER and that is kept here as what it used to say. AND SHE IS ORIENTAL: the act calls the parents 'orientales, domiciliados en este Curato'. CARNIGLIA IS AN ITALIAN SURNAME, so Uruguayan-born of Italian parents is the likely shape - and the plural 'orientales' covers both parents, which is why her nationality is taken from it as well as his. TWO DAUGHTERS ARE ADDED TO HER: Maria Adela and Maria Mercedes. AND SHE IS NATURAL DE MONTEVIDEO, 9 October 2026. The printed form of 23 April 1902 gives 'y de Dona ADELA CARNIGLIA, natural de MONTEVIDEO'. AN ITALIAN SURNAME IN MENDOZA BY WAY OF THE BANDA ORIENTAL. AND HER OWN KIN ARE HERE: the godfather of this child is D. EDUARDO CARNIGLIA, and she herself stood proxy for the godmother. | record ↗ Argentina Mendoza Catholic Church Records, 1904; and Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1899-1901 - baptism of 6 January 1900; DGS film 004597291 image 69, waypoint Q633-3DR, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HF9M-7S" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HF9M-7S</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1901-1903 - printed-form baptism of 23 April 1902; DGS film 004597291 item 003 image 95, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HFTB-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HFTB-Z</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Vicente CAMPELLONE (husband of Lucrecia LLERENA) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Cordoba, Argentina ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026, from a row this register already held. The archive named LUCRECIA LLERENA as his wife and did not hold him as a person, so the marriage was written down and could not be drawn. The citation is the one already carried by that row; no new research stands behind this entry, and nothing is claimed here beyond the marriage itself. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Cordoba, Catholic Church Records - via the register row of his wife Lucrecia LLERENA |
| Cristobal CANALE (husband of Avelina LERENA) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026, from a row this register already held. The archive named AVELINA LERENA as his wife and did not hold him as a person, so the marriage was written down and could not be drawn. The citation is the one already carried by that row; no new research stands behind this entry, and nothing is claimed here beyond the marriage itself. Their daughter Susana Avelina Canale Lerena is named on her row and is not yet entered either. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records - via the register row of his wife Avelina LERENA |
| Susana Avelina CANALE Lerena Unplaced | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026 from a row this register already held. She was named as a child on the row of her mother AVELINA LERENA and CRISTOBAL CANALE and had no entry of its own, so a household this archive holds could not be drawn. The citation is the one that row already carried and no new research stands behind this entry. Her forename AVELINA repeats her mother's, which repeats the AVELINO of the Montevideo house - a naming habit this archive has traced through five fonts, offered here as an echo and not as a link. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records - via the register row of her mother Avelina LERENA |
| Vicente Telesforo CAPUTI (Oficial del Estado Civil, Santa Lucia 1920) Unplaced | Oficial del Estado Civil · found in Santa Lucia, Canelones The registrar who married Eduardo Lerena and Maria Mercedes Razzetti at Santa Lucia on 11 January 1920 and wrote acta No. 4 of the Segunda Seccion of Canelones. THE OFFICE IS RECORDED AND THE BUSINESS OF THE OFFICE IS NOT - the other couples in his register, including the Julia-Soro marriage six days later on the same opening, are not admitted. The rule is in tools/check-people-named.py. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Canelones - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1917-1924, acta No. 4 of 11 January 1920, Santa Lucia, Segunda Seccion del Departamento de Canelones - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y</a> |
| Custodio CARDOZO (the elder, of the 1911 diagram) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE APEX OF THE SECOND SCHEMA - father of FLORINDA and ELISEO CARDOZO, and so the grandfather of BOTH the bride and the groom of 1911. He is the reason the petition needed two diagrams instead of one: his two children married two Lerena siblings, and his two grandchildren then wanted to marry each other. THE GROOM IS NAMED FOR HIM: CUSTODIO LERENA. Like his opposite number Bernabe Lerena the elder, he exists in this archive solely because a priest drew a circle and wrote a name beside it, and he was not entered until the plate was read on 21 September 2026. | no public link Named at the apex of one of the two kinship diagrams in the Lerena-Cardozo dispensation of 1911 - 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco' - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713362 image 02473; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1</a> |
| Eliseo CARDOZO Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Married MARIA LERENA; father of Ema Cardozo. Brother of Florinda Cardozo, who married Maria's brother Bernabe Lerena. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713362 image 02473 - and the folio is not prose but 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco', TWO KINSHIP DIAGRAMS the priest drew himself to prove the impediment. 'Eliseo Cardozo casado con Maria Lerena' - on the plate. His father is named at the apex of the second schema: CUSTODIO CARDOZO. HE MARRIED MARIA LERENA ON 25 APRIL 1889 AT SANTISIMA TRINIDAD - and NOT ALONE: his brother JUAN BASILIO CARDOSO married her sister CASIMIRA the same day. THE DOUBLE WEDDING OF 25 APRIL 1889, found 11 October 2026. On one day at Santisima Trinidad, TWO LERENA SISTERS MARRIED TWO CARDOZO BROTHERS: MARIA LERENA, born about 1867, to ELISEO CARDOSO, and CASIMIRA LERENA, born about 1869, to JUAN BASILIO CARDOSO. Both are daughters of BERNABE LERENA and CASIMIRA PELAEZ. AND THIS IS WHAT THE 1911 DISPENSATION WAS ABOUT. That expediente calls CUSTODIO LERENA and EMA CARDOZO 'double first cousins' and this archive has had the diagrams for weeks without the marriages that produced them. Here they are: a LERENA brother and his LERENA sisters married a CARDOZO sister and her CARDOZO brothers - Bernabe the younger to Florinda Cardozo on 22 March 1888, then Maria and Casimira to Eliseo and Juan Basilio on 25 April 1889. TWO BLOOD PATHS BETWEEN THE NEXT GENERATION, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT 'DOUBLE' MEANS. INDEX ONLY; the acts have not been opened and which Cardozo fathered Ema is not yet shown. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records July-August 1911 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713362 image 02473; and FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Ema CARDOZO Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo The bride of the eleventh Lerena dispensation, 1911. Daughter of Eliseo Cardozo and MARIA LERENA, and double first cousin of her intended husband Custodio Lerena. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713362 image 02473 - and the folio is not prose but 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco', TWO KINSHIP DIAGRAMS the priest drew himself to prove the impediment. 'Ema Cardozo' stands at the foot of both diagrams, opposite Custodio Lerena - which is the whole point of the drawing: two descents, one couple. THE DISPENSATION WAS GRANTED AND THEY MARRIED, found 27 September 2026. This archive has held the priest's two kinship diagrams of 1911 without ever knowing the outcome. THEIR DAUGHTER VIOLETA BLANCA WAS BORN 29 OCTOBER 1915 and christened at Trinidad on 16 September 1916. INDEX ONLY - no image opened - but the couple, the place and the surname all match the diagram. AND THE MARRIAGE IS DATED: 18 SEPTEMBER 1911, Santisima Trinidad - index only, found 11 October 2026. WHICH CARDOZO WAS HER FATHER IS STILL NOT SHOWN, and it matters: if he is ELISEO or JUAN BASILIO CARDOSO, who married Custodio's aunts Maria and Casimira Lerena on 25 April 1889, then the 'double' in double first cousins is accounted for twice over. NOT ESTABLISHED. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records July-August 1911 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713362 image 02473; and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - christening of their daughter Violeta Blanca, Trinidad, 16 September 1916; index read 27 September 2026; and FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Florinda CARDOZO Unplaced | 1868 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Flores, Uruguay Married BERNABE LERENA; mother of Custodio Lerena. Sister of Eliseo Cardozo, who married Bernabe's sister Maria Lerena. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713362 image 02473 - and the folio is not prose but 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco', TWO KINSHIP DIAGRAMS the priest drew himself to prove the impediment. HER NAME WAS WRONG HERE FOR A WEEK. This archive carried "FLORENCIA", off a machine transcript. The plate says FLORINDA, written twice in two separate diagrams in the same hand. See data/corrections.tsv. SHE HAS AN AGE AND A DAUGHTER, 9 October 2026. The Flores birth act of 10 March 1922 gives her as 'Dona FLORINDA CARDOZO, de profesion labores de su sexo, de CINCUENTA Y CUATRO anos de edad', married, oriental, living in the Sexta Seccion of Flores - so born about 1868. FLORINDA JUANA LERENA IS HER DAUGHTER, and carries her name. HER OWN NAME WAS WRONG HERE FOR A WEEK and the plate corrected it; this act spells it FLORINDA a third time, in a different hand, a different town and a different decade. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records July-August 1911 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713362 image 02473; and Flores. Birth Records 1916-1925 - act No. 10 of 1922, Anibal Marino Pelaez, born 3 March 1922, Sexta Seccion of Flores; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8</a>, DGS film 008165367 item 6 image 195 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Isidora CARDOZO (m. Doroteo LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named as the mother on her children's Trinidad registrations, with her husband DOROTEO LERENA. Children this archive can name: ELIDIA MARGARITA (b. 12 March 1897), ELIDA (b. 1897, d. 23 July 1910) and AMELIA (b. c.1894), who married ABEL CONTO on 28 February 1920. ANOTHER LERENA-CARDOZO PAIRING, which this register has now met five times at Trinidad. INDEX ONLY. A FOURTH CHILD, FOUND UNDER THE SERENA SPELLING - 12 October 2026. ANGEL CUSTODIO, born 1934 at Trinidad and dead in October 1955, with the father written 'Doroteo Gerena' - the G-for-L this register has met since the Sancho baptism of 1811. THAT IS A LONG GAP FROM HER OTHER CHILDREN - Amelia about 1894, Elidia Margarita and Elida in 1897 - so either she bore children across forty years, or Angel Custodio belongs to a younger Doroteo. NOT RESOLVED. AND THIS ROW NEARLY BECAME TWO: working from the Serena sweep alone, this archive entered a second Isidora Cardozo before the build refused it on an exact name match. The Trinidad sweep had her all along, under LERENA. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep and the Zalduando surname sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong>; and FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, 12 October 2026 |
| Juan Basilio CARDOZO (m. Casimira Lerena 1889) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married CASIMIRA LERENA at Santisima Trinidad on 25 APRIL 1889, the same day his brother ELISEO CARDOSO married her sister MARIA. TWO CARDOZO BROTHERS AND TWO LERENA SISTERS IN ONE CEREMONY - and a year after FLORINDA CARDOZO married their brother Bernabe. THIS IS THE KNOT THE 1911 DISPENSATION HAD TO UNTIE. Nothing else is known of him: no age, no parents, no act opened. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Elisa CARLEVARO (m. Juan Jose Zalduando) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of JUAN JOSE ZALDUANDO POU, named on his death registration of 1949 and on their daughter's birth registration of 1912, where the index writes her CARLEVARO MACHO. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of Juan Jose Zalduando Pou, Montevideo, 22 August 1949, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6YYS-6NQ4" rel="noopener">1:1:6YYS-6NQ4</a>-adjacent row of the ZALDUANDO sweep - <strong>INDEX ONLY, read 11 October 2026</strong> |
| CARMELO ANSELMO (son of Barbara, enslaved; d. 27 April 1846) Unplaced | 1846-04-21 · San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo BORN 20 APRIL 1846, DIED ON THE 27TH, BURIED ON THE 28TH AT SAN JOSE DE MAYO - SEVEN DAYS. 'En esta Parroquia de S.n Jose a VEINTE Y OCHO DE ABRIL de mil ochocientos CUARENTA Y SEIS, yo D.n FRAN.CO CASTELLO cura vic.o int.o di sepultura en el ANGELORIO al cadaver de CARMELO ANSELMO, HIJO NATURAL DE BARBARA, ESCLAVA DE D.N ALEJANDRO LERENA, murio ayer de enfermedad, de edad de SIETE DIAS, y se le hizo oficio rezado, de que certifico.' HE IS NOT A LERENA AND THIS ROW CALLED HIM ONE UNTIL THE PLATE WAS READ. The act makes him 'HIJO NATURAL DE BARBARA, ESCLAVA DE D.N ALEJANDRO LERENA' - his mother's child, with no father named and no surname given. He is entered under the names the priest wrote, as MARIA MERCEDES, daughter of Juana, was entered for the household of 1812. 'ANGELORIO' IS THE CHILDREN'S BURIAL GROUND, and the priest used the same word for the three other infants on the same opening. HIS IS THE SHORTEST LIFE IN THIS REGISTER and it is recorded for the reason every other is: he existed, and a parish book that holds his birth, his death and his burial holds more of him than this archive holds of men it has chased for weeks. HIS BAPTISM WAS FOUND ON 12 OCTOBER 2026 AND MOVES HIS BIRTH BY A DAY. The act of 25 April 1846 reads 'que nacio el VEINTIUNO del mismo' - born 21 April, not 20 - which also squares with the burial's 'de edad de siete dias' on the 28th. His godparents were JOSE CARRERAS and PETRONILA ESCOBAR, who stood for the son of an enslaved woman four days before he died. So the whole of his life is now on two facing acts: baptised on the 25th, dead on the 27th, buried on the 28th. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and San Jose de Mayo - RELIGIOUS DEATH RECORDS July 1839 to December 1851, the burial of 28 April 1846 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-J7GN-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-J7GN-C</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72167-155289-86; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXQ-4RD2" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXQ-4RD2</a>; and San Jose de Mayo - BAPTISM RECORDS January 1841 to May 1869, the baptism of 25 April 1846 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D9GN-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D9GN-8</a> |
| Eduardo CARNIGLIA (godfather, Mendoza 1902) Unplaced | found in Mendoza, Argentina Godfather to MARIA MERCEDES LERENA CARNIGLIA at the Parroquia Matriz de Mendoza, 23 April 1902, and he came in person where the godmother did not. KIN OF THE CHILD'S MOTHER ADELA CARNIGLIA, who was herself natural de Montevideo - SO THE CARNIGLIAS WERE IN MENDOZA WHILE THE LERENAS WERE NOT. The act gives him no age and no relationship beyond the surname. | record ↗ Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1901-1903 - printed-form baptism of 23 April 1902; DGS film 004597291 item 003 image 95, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HFTB-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HFTB-Z</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Jose CARRERAS (godfather, San Jose 1846) Unplaced | found in San Jose de Mayo Godfather at the baptism of CARMELO ANSELMO on 25 April 1846 - the son of Barbara Lerena, an enslaved woman in Don Alejandro Lerena's household. The child died two days later. He is here because no role is furniture, and because who stood for such a child is worth knowing. | record ↗ San Jose de Mayo - BAPTISM RECORDS January 1841 to May 1869, the baptism of 25 April 1846 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D9GN-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D9GN-8</a> |
| Dona Dominga CARVALLO Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother at Alberto Octavio Lerena's baptism, 7 October 1850. ALMOST CERTAINLY DOMINGA JOSEFA LLERENA, SANCHO'S DAUGHTER - established 14 September 2026. The Catedral act of 12 May 1827 names "Dona DOMINGA LLERENA DE CARVALLO", wife of Capitan Don Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo and daughter of Sancho Llerena and Maria Fernandez. So the Carvallo godmother of 1850 is a LERENA BY BIRTH standing for her own brother's son, not an outsider. DELIBERATELY NOT MERGED: the 1850 act gives her only as Carvallo, and this archive has conflated on less. Read the two rows together. | no public link Named as godmother, act 585 of 7 Oct 1850 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J</a> |
| Paula CASARES (m. Emilio LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Flores, Uruguay Wife of EMILIO LERENA and mother of EMILIO DELFINO and CLOTILDE REINA LERENA, named on the Uruguayan civil registration index cards. The index spells her CASARES on one card and CAZARES on another. NOTHING ELSE IS KNOWN. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Civil Registration Index Cards 1900-1937 - the EMILIO and ALEJANDRO forename sweeps of work-list row 137, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Amalia CASAS (wife of Alejandro Joaquin LERENA) Unplaced | 1880 · Cordoba, Argentina · Argentine · found in San Jeronimo, Cordoba Married ALEJANDRO JOAQUIN LERENA - son of Alejandro M. Lerena and Elisa Villademoros - at San Jeronimo, Cordoba, on 20 June 1907, aged twenty-seven. The act calls her 'vecina de este pueblo' and names her parents CORNELIO CASAS and RAIMUNDA PEREDA. THE WEDDING WAS IN HER OWN HOUSE, NOT THE CHURCH - the printed word 'Iglesia' is struck through and 'casa particular de la novia' written over it - and THE BANNS WERE DISPENSED. Both are what haste or illness looks like on a parish form, and neither is explained here. | record ↗ Argentina, Cordoba, registros parroquiales 1557-1974 - marriage entry N 282, Parroquia de San Jeronimo, 20 June 1907; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKM7-6VW" rel="noopener">1:1:VKM7-6VW</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004484760 image 00123 |
| Don Cornelio CASAS Unplaced | Argentine · found in San Jeronimo, Cordoba Father of AMALIA CASAS, who married Alejandro Joaquin Lerena at San Jeronimo, Cordoba, on 20 June 1907. Named on the act with his wife RAIMUNDA PEREDA. New to this archive. | record ↗ Argentina, Cordoba, registros parroquiales 1557-1974 - marriage entry N 282, Parroquia de San Jeronimo, 20 June 1907; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKM7-6VW" rel="noopener">1:1:VKM7-6VW</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004484760 image 00123 |
| Rosa CASAVALLE (m. Vitalino Yndalecio LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Wife of VITALINO YNDALECIO LERENA; their daughter LAURA MARTINA LERENA CASAVALLE was christened at Santisima Trinidad on 24 December 1906. THE HUSBAND'S SECOND FORENAME, YNDALECIO, IS NEW TO THIS REGISTER and may distinguish him from the Vitalino Lerena who married Andrea Echeverry. NOT ESTABLISHED. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Dona Ysabel CENTENO Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of Ambrosia Traibel; named as maternal grandmother at the two baptisms of 12 March 1858. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713686 image 02847, folio 176, San Francisco de Asis - the two acts of 12 March 1858 that attach the Lerena Traibel branch to Sancho. EVERY NAME ON THEM SURVIVES THE CHECK, word for word. 'y YSABEL CENTENO' - on the plate, in Martin Perez's hand. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptisms of 12 Mar 1858 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713686 image 02847 |
| Doreen May CHAPPELL (m. LERENA) Connected | 1921 · Cape Town · SA · found in Cape Town / Johannesburg Married into the family. Wife of Ricardo Juan Carlos Lerena, and daughter of Roque's first wife - so Ricardo married his brother's stepdaughter. Death given as 17 Nov 1993 in the tree but her estate was advertised in Feb 2001; the year is unresolved and recorded as such. | record ↗ FamilySearch Family Tree GL8L-57C; Johannesburg cemetery register |
| Carolina CHAVARRIA (wife of Miguel Larriera) Unplaced | found in Montevideo or San Jose Named as a maternal grandparent on the christening of Maria Adelina Lerena Larriera, 13 October 1879, with her husband MIGUEL LARRIERA. Mother of MARIA INES LARRIERA, who married Pedro Alberto Ysabelino Lerena Traibel and bore the eight Lerena Larriera of San Jose. NAMED ONCE, ON A GRANDCHILD'S ACT, which is how most of the women in this register first appear. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion y San Felipe y Santiago, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS 13 Feb 1879 to 24 Jul 1880, the christening of 13 October 1879 - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N</a> |
| Casimira CHAVARRIA (m. Adolfo M. Cordero) Unplaced · of interest | AR · found in Argentina / San Jose MOTHER OF ADOLFO MAXIMO CORDERO, named in her son's marriage act of 28 February 1904. SHE IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE BLOOD LINK. Her son was dispensed a third grade of consanguinity with attingency to the second in order to marry a Lerena, so the shared ancestor lies on his father's side or on hers. A THIRD CASIMIRA IN THIS ARCHIVE - beside Casimira MONTANO, wife of Mauricio Lerena, and Casimira PELAEZ, wife of Bernabe Lerena of Trinidad. No record here yet joins any of the three. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry La Union, Montevideo - Religious Marriage Records 1902-1934, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-TWWY-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-TWWY-Y</a> - FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 |
| Isidora CHOURINO (first wife of Alejandro LERENA the younger) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores DEAD BEFORE DECEMBER 1854, when her widower petitions to remarry and the witness calls her 'la finada Dona ISIDORA CHOURINO'. AND SHE HAS A DAUGHTER WHO MARRIED A PELAEZ: the Flores death act of ANTONIO EUSEBIO PELAEZ gives his maternal grandparents as 'Don ALEJANDRO LERENA y Dona ISIDORA CHOURINO, todos orientales fallecidos'. HER SURNAME IS TRANSCRIBED 'CHONZENO' ON ONE DOCUMENT AND 'CHOURINO' ON THE OTHER, and neither has been read against a third. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1852-1855 - EXPEDIENTE, Trinidad, 2 December 1854; image 258, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Sofia CLAVIJO (wife of Pedro LLERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Uruguay Named as the mother on the Uruguayan civil registrations of five children who carry the compound LLERENA CLAVIJO. She has been a node on the charts since the Pedro Llerena row was written, with no entry of her own until 21 September 2026. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - parent-pair query on PEDRO LLERENA and SOFIA CLAVIJO, run 21 September 2026; index read |
| Dona Carolina Amalia de la CONCEPCION Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother with General Maggesi at the Catedral de Montevideo, 12 May 1827. 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. '...y D.a CAROLINA AMALIA...' - on the plate, standing godmother beside General Maggesi. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo - baptism of 12 May 1827 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 00601 |
| Abel CONTO (m. Amelia LERENA 1920) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married AMELIA LERENA at Santisima Trinidad on 28 FEBRUARY 1920; the index gives her born about 1894, daughter of DOROTEO LERENA and ISIDORA CARDOZO. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Josefa CORBELLE de Lemus Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother at the baptism of Josefa Lerena Traibel in 1852, and very likely the woman the child is named for - the pattern this family keeps. Her surname is read from the hand as CORBELLE and is not certain. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godmother at the baptism of Josefina Lerena, San Agustin de la Union, 1852 - IMAGE READ; film 008166435 image 02850; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2SSK-G" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2SSK-G</a> |
| Adolfo M. CORDERO (the elder) Unplaced · of interest | AR · found in Argentina / San Jose FATHER OF ADOLFO MAXIMO CORDERO, and a witness at his own son's wedding on 28 February 1904. The other witness was the bride's mother, Maria Ines Larriera de Lerena. The consanguinity dispensed for that marriage may run through him. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry La Union, Montevideo - Religious Marriage Records 1902-1934, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-TWWY-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-TWWY-Y</a> - FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 |
| Adolfo Maximo CORDERO (m. Zelmira Carlota Lerena 1904) Connected | 1875 · Argentina · AR · Medico · found in San Jose, Uruguay HE MARRIED ZELMIRA CARLOTA LERENA ON 28 FEBRUARY 1904 and was her blood relative. The act gives him as soltero, ARGENTINO, medico de profesion, de veinte y ocho anos, living at SAN JOSE, and hijo legitimo de D. ADOLFO M. CORDERO y Dona CASIMIRA CHAVARRIA. Twenty-eight in February 1904 puts his birth about 1875-76. THE ARCHBISHOP DISPENSED A THIRD GRADE OF CONSANGUINITY WITH ATTINGENCY TO THE SECOND - so he and his wife shared an ancestor within two or three generations, by two separate paths. The link runs through his father or through Casimira Chavarria, and finding it would attach the Corderos to this family's tree. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry La Union, Montevideo - Religious Marriage Records 1902-1934, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-TWWY-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-TWWY-Y</a> - FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 |
| Juliana Josefa CORNEJO Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother with Sancho Llerena at the Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, 30 June 1789. Nothing else in this archive names her. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026. Film 007713375 image 00551, Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, 30 June 1789 - and this is the EARLIEST record of Sancho in this archive. The act: 'En TREINTA de [Junio] de mil setecientos ochenta y nueve ... bautice solemnemente en ella a JUANA que nacio el VEINTE Y TRES DEL CORRIENTE, hija legitima de NICOLAS BENTENO, INDIO NATURAL DE LA CIUDAD DEL TUCUMAN, y de LEONARDA CORREA de BUENOS AIRES, avecindados en los propios de esta Ciudad ... fueron padrinos SANCHO LLERENA y JULIANA JOSEFA [Cornejo], a quienes adverti la cognacion espiritual ... Siendo testigo AGUSTIN DONCEL.' SANCHO IS SPELLED LLERENA HERE, WITH THE DOUBLE L, IN 1789 - which is how the 1811 and 1831 acts spell him and not how 1837, 1858 or 1806 do. The act gives her as 'JULIANA JOSEFA' and the surname runs past the column edge, so CORNEJO comes from the transcript and not from the part of the line this archive has read. It is not disputed; it is simply not yet confirmed on the plate. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo - baptism of 30 June 1789 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 00551 |
| Don Miguel Carlos CORREA de Lemus Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather, with Josefa Corbelle de Lemus, at the baptism of Josefa Lerena Traibel at San Agustin de la Union in 1852. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godfather at the baptism of Josefina Lerena, San Agustin de la Union, 1852 - IMAGE READ; film 008166435 image 02850; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2SSK-G" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2SSK-G</a> |
| Leonarda CORREA Unplaced | Buenos Aires · Argentine · found in Montevideo Wife of Nicolas Benteno and mother of Juana, baptised 30 June 1789 with Sancho Llerena as godfather. The act calls her 'de BUENOS AIRES' and the couple 'avecindados en los propios de esta Ciudad'. Not a relative. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo - baptism of 30 June 1789 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 00551; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2</a> |
| Margarita CORREAS Unplaced | Argentine · found in Cordoba, Argentina m. Baldomero Llerena. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Marriage 16 Feb 1876, Cordoba Cathedral |
| Alfredo COSTA Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather at the baptism of Raul Alfredo Luis Lerena, 10 September 1885. The child's first given name is ALFREDO, for him. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named at the baptism of Raul Alfredo Luis Lerena, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 10 Sep 1885 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W</a> |
| Maria Ester COSTA (m. Eduardo Avelino Zalduando 1927) Unplaced | 1903 · La Paz, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in La Paz, Uruguay Married EDUARDO [AVELINO] ZALDUANDO at La Paz in Canelones on 20 December 1927, certificate 30: twenty-four, single, born and resident in the town. Daughter of RAFAEL COSTA and LEONTINA SOASANI, both new here and neither pursued. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of 'Eduardo Zalduando Pou', Montevideo, 22 August 1913, aged 52, certificate 553, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a>, DGS 008165206 image 283 (PLATE NOT OPENED - the viewer demanded a sign-in on 11 October 2026); with index arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NFW-X112" rel="noopener">1:1:6NFW-X112</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB" rel="noopener">1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB</a> for the two children; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - marriage of 'Eduardo Zalduando' and Maria Ester Costa at La Paz in Canelones, 20 December 1927, certificate 30, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X92R-F5N1" rel="noopener">1:1:X92R-F5N1</a>, DGS 008166595 image 207 - indexes read 10-11 October 2026 |
| Rafael COSTA (father of Maria Ester) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in La Paz, Uruguay Named as the father of MARIA ESTER COSTA on her marriage at La Paz in Canelones, 20 December 1927, with his wife LEONTINA SOASANI. NOTHING ELSE IS KNOWN AND HE IS NOT PURSUED - he is here because this archive was found on 11 October 2026 to be naming people on records without making them people. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep and the Zalduando surname sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Antonio Francisco COSTALES (father of Joaquin) Unplaced | found in Montevideo Named as the father of JOAQUIN COSTALES on the marriage of 25 May 1865 - 'hijo de ANTONIO FRANCISCO y de MARIA JOAQUINA'. THE ACT GIVES HIM NO SURNAME; COSTALES is taken from his son. THE INDEX GAVE HIM 'LERENA' - it recorded him as 'Antonio Francisco Lerena', father-in-law of the bride, which is the same surname-bleed that made two other women Lerenas that morning. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Candido COSTALES Serena (b. c.1855) Unplaced | 1855 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Declared on his parents' deathbed marriage of 25 May 1865 as ten years old - 'declararon tener DOS HIJOS, CANDIDO DE DIEZ ANOS y LUIS DE CUATRO'. THE WHOLE POINT OF THAT CEREMONY WAS TO LEGITIMISE HIM AND HIS BROTHER. Born about 1855 to JOAQUIN COSTALES, brasilero, and MARIA SERENA. THE SURNAME COSTALES SERENA IS THIS ARCHIVE'S CONSTRUCTION FROM HIS PARENTS' NAMES - the act gives him a forename and an age and nothing else. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Joaquin COSTALES (brasilero, m. in articulo mortis 1865) Unplaced | Brazilian · found in Montevideo He married MARIA SERENA at San Francisco de Asis on 25 MAY 1865 - and the act says 'IN ARTICULO MORTIS', at the point of death. 'En VEINTE Y CINCO DE MAYO de mil ochocientos sesenta y cinco: el Presbitero Don... con licencia del infrascrito Cura Rector de esta Parroquia de San Francisco de Asis en Montevideo, previas las diligencias posibles, autorice segun Rito de Nuestra Santa Madre Yglesia y forma del Manual Toledano el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo JOAQUIN COSTALES, IN ARTICULO MORTIS, BRASILERO, hijo de ANTONIO FRANCISCO y de MARIA JOAQUINA: con MARIA SERENA, oriental, HIJA DE ANTONIO Y DE SABINA SERENA: fueron testigos Don VICTOR MANUEL GARCIA y SEBASTIANA ALVAREZ: lo que por verdad firmo. Y declararon tener DOS HIJOS, CANDIDO DE DIEZ ANOS y LUIS DE CUATRO.' HE WAS BRASILERO, son of ANTONIO FRANCISCO and MARIA JOAQUINA, neither given a surname on the act. THE MARRIAGE EXISTS TO LEGITIMISE TWO SONS - Candido, ten, and Luis, four - so he and Maria had been together since about 1855. WHETHER HE DIED OF IT IS NOT RECORDED HERE; an articulo mortis marriage is performed because death is expected, not because it has happened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Luis COSTALES Serena (b. c.1861) Unplaced | 1861 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo The younger son declared at his parents' marriage of 25 May 1865, aged FOUR - so born about 1861, six years after his brother Candido. LEGITIMISED BY A CEREMONY PERFORMED BECAUSE HIS FATHER WAS DYING. THE SURNAME IS THIS ARCHIVE'S CONSTRUCTION, as for his brother. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Rafaela DARAZ Unplaced | Argentine · found in Cordoba, Argentina m. Francisco Llerena. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Cordoba Catholic Church Records |
| Rosa DEFENARI (godmother, Buenos Aires 1912) Unplaced | found in Buenos Aires Godmother, with GREGORIO LERENA, at the baptism of JUANA LERENA at San Jose de Flores on 10 November 1912. DEFENARI IS NOT A SPANISH SURNAME SHAPE - it reads Italian (Defenari, De Fenari, Difenari), which in Buenos Aires in 1912 is entirely ordinary and may mean the godparents were a couple from different migrations. NOTHING ELSE IS KNOWN AND NO RELATIONSHIP IS CLAIMED. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Parroquia y Vicaria de San Jose de Flores, Comuna 7, Buenos Aires City - BAPTISM No. 461 of 10 November 1912 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G6VB-K" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G6VB-K</a> |
| Dorotea DELGADO (wife of Pedro BELOQUI) Unplaced | found in Flores, Uruguay Mother of Lauriana Beloqui, named once - as 'DOROTEA DELGADO, fallecida' among the maternal grandparents on her granddaughter's birth act of 2 March 1895. DEAD BEFORE THAT DATE, AND NOTHING ELSE IS RECORDED. | record ↗ Flores. Birth Records 1887-1902 - act No. 8 of 2 March 1895, El Tala; image 165, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Amalia DIAZ (wife of Arturo LERENA GARCIA) Unplaced | Peruvian · found in Valparaiso, Chile Named as 'madre AMALIA DIAZ' on the Chilean death registration of her son Juan Fernando, El Almendral, Valparaiso, 18 September 1894. THE ARMY DRAWER WRITES HER 'AMALIA VIC DIAZ' ON ONE CARD AND 'AMALIA DIAZ' ON THREE OTHERS, and the Chilean act gives the shorter form. NO AGE, NO ORIGIN AND NO PARENTS ARE RECORDED ANYWHERE THIS ARCHIVE HAS LOOKED. SHE IS PERUVIAN, 10 October 2026 - AND IT EXPLAINS AN INDEX THIS ARCHIVE COULD NOT PARSE. Her son's marriage act of 24 October 1924 gives 'y de AMALIA DIAZ, de nacionalidad PERUANA, de profesion quehaceres domesticos'. FAMILYSEARCH RENDERS HER ON ONE ARMY CARD AS 'AMALIA DIAS PERUANE', reading her nationality as part of her name - the same class of error as this family's SERENA and LERESA. AND SHE PUTS THE PACIFIC COAST INSIDE THE FAMILY'S ORBIT, which is why the Valparaiso years of 1893-94 stop being a puzzle. | record ↗ Valparaiso, Chile. Death Records September-December 1894 - entry 54, page 28, Circunscripcion de El Almendral; DGS film 004702100 image 19, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-P9FG-8" rel="noopener">3:1:939K-P9FG-8</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Libro de matrimonios: Crespo, Entre Rios. Marriage Records 1924 - acta No. 144, 24 October 1924, before Emilio F. Castellot; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Agustin DONCEL (witness, 1789) Unplaced | found in Montevideo Witness at the baptism of 30 June 1789 where Sancho Llerena stood godfather: 'Siendo testigo AGUSTIN DONCEL'. Sancho's eldest son was christened JUAN AGUSTIN about two years later. This family names children for the people at the font five times over in the acts read here - but every one of those is a GODPARENT, and this man is a WITNESS, which is a weaker place to stand. Recorded as a coincidence worth seeing and not as a source for the name. The surname is read DONCEL and could be DONCE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo - baptism of 30 June 1789 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 00551; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2</a> |
| Dona Andrea ECHEVERRY (wife of Vitalino LERENA) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married into the Trinidad Lerena kindred. BELOQUI, ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ are Basque surnames - evidence about the community these Lerenas married into, which bears on the Basque-or-Extremaduran question without settling it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Rosa Maria EPPENS Unplaced | 1887 · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires / Montevideo m. Carlos Lerena. The 'Rosa M. E. Lerena' of the CEMLA list. NOT THE SAME CARLOS LERENA AS ADELA CAMIGLIA'S HUSBAND - checked 14 September 2026. Her Carlos is the one this register holds as CARLOS LERENA (b.1885, arr. 1926) - 'travelling with Rosa M. E. Lerena, an Argentine', which is her. Adela Camiglia's Carlos is at MENDOZA and fathered an Avelino Carlos Lerena. Two men, one name, and the register now says so on both rows. AND SHE WAS IN THIS REGISTER TWICE, MERGED 20 September 2026. The other row was "Rosa M. E. LERENA", born 1887, "travelling with Carlos; evidently his wife" - which is this woman under the initials the passenger list gave her. This row had already said so; the two were never joined. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ Argentina Capital Federal Catholic Church Records; CEMLA arrival 1926; CEMLA arrival 27 May 1926, "Rosa M. E. Lerena, 39, Argentine" |
| Don Carlos Maria ESCALADA (d. by 1890, Buenos Aires) Unplaced | found in Buenos Aires The dead man whose estate Carlos A. Lerena sued in February 1890. His testamentary executors were represented by A. FERREYRA. ESCALADA is a well-known Buenos Aires name; nothing here connects him to this family beyond the lawsuit, and he is entered because our person was a PARTY to the act - the rule in tools/check-people-named.py - not because the estate is of interest. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Escalada, Carlos M.; Lerena, Carlos A.: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1891, item 11 of 91 images, the answer filed February 1890 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V3DS-X934-6" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V3DS-X934-6</a> |
| Petronila ESCOBAR (godmother, San Jose 1846) Unplaced | found in San Jose de Mayo Godmother at the baptism of CARMELO ANSELMO on 25 April 1846, the son of Barbara Lerena, enslaved in Don Alejandro Lerena's household. She and Jose Carreras stood for a child who lived seven days. | record ↗ San Jose de Mayo - BAPTISM RECORDS January 1841 to May 1869, the baptism of 25 April 1846 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D9GN-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-D9GN-8</a> |
| Andrea ETCHEBERSE (wife of Vitaliano LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores SHE IS NOT A LERENA. SHE IS AN ETCHEBERSE, and this is the SECOND time in one day that an index gave a mother her husband's surname. This row was entered that morning as half of a Lerena-married-a-Lerena couple, on an index entry naming her 'Andrea Lerena'. The plate of her daughter's marriage says '...el VEINTE Y SEIS DE MARZO [de mil no]vecientos SEIS, previa la informacion juridica, leidas las tres conciliares proclamas SIN NINGUN IMPEDIMENTO NI CANONICO NI CIVIL... autorizo el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo DON ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE, oriental, soltero, de TREINTA Y TRES anos de edad, HIJO [legitimo-struck-out] NATURAL de Don ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE y de Dona FRAILANA VALIENTE, con Dona ANDREA ALBINA LERENA, oriental, soltera, de TREINTA Y DOS anos de edad, HIJA LEGITIMA DE DON VITALIANO LERENA Y DE DONA ANDREA ETCHEBERSE. Los testigos fueron JOSE MARTINEZ y BERNARDO YRIZA[BAL] y para que conste lo firmo.' THE LINE BREAKS ACROSS THE OPENING: the left page ends '...y de Dona ANDREA' and the right page begins 'ETCHEBERSE. Los testigos fueron'. THE INDEXER TOOK THE FATHER'S SURNAME AND GAVE IT TO HER, exactly as it did to BARBARA at San Jose de Mayo on the same morning. AND HER SURNAME IS THE GROOM'S. Her daughter married an ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE, and the act records 'sin ningun impedimento ni canonico ni civil'. THAT IS AN OBSERVATION AND NOT A CONCLUSION - a shared Basque surname in one small town is not a documented kinship, and if the two families were close kin the parish would have had to dispense it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS July 1898 to December 1912, the act of 26 March 1906, certificate 26 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72168-24536-85; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-SPKF" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6J-SPKF</a> |
| Antonio ETCHEBERSE (m. Andrea Albina Lerena 1906) Unplaced | 1873 · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married ANDREA ALBINA LERENA at Santisima Trinidad on 26 MARCH 1906, 'oriental, soltero, de TREINTA Y TRES anos de edad' - so born about 1873. THE PRIEST STRUCK OUT 'LEGITIMO' AND WROTE 'NATURAL': 'hijo natural de Don ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE y de Dona FRAILANA VALIENTE'. THE CORRECTION IS IN THE ORIGINAL HAND and is the kind of thing an index never carries. THE INDEX MADE HIM THREE YEARS OLD by dropping 'treinta y' from his age. THE ACT SPELLS HIM ETCHEBERSE; the index spells him ECHEBERSE - this row is renamed to the act's spelling and the old address redirects. HIS FATHER'S SURNAME IS ALSO THE BRIDE'S MOTHER'S - see Andrea ETCHEBERSE - and the act records no impediment. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS July 1898 to December 1912, the act of 26 March 1906, certificate 26 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72168-24536-85; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-SPKF" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6J-SPKF</a> |
| Antonio ETCHEBERSE (the elder, father of the groom) Unplaced | found in Trinidad, Flores Father of the ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE who married Andrea Albina Lerena at Santisima Trinidad on 26 March 1906, and named with DONA FRAILANA VALIENTE - whom the act does not call his wife, because the priest struck out 'legitimo' and wrote 'natural'. NAMED ONCE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS July 1898 to December 1912, the act of 26 March 1906, certificate 26 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72168-24536-85; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-SPKF" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6J-SPKF</a> |
| Carlos Alberto FEIN Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Husband of Maria Adelina Lerena Traibel and so a son-in-law of Avelino Lerena. FEIN is a name from outside this family's world - the Lerena married Uruguayan and Spanish-American names for four generations, and this is the first German or Central European surname to enter the register. Nothing is claimed of it. | no public link Named as the husband in the Montevideo death registration of Maria Adelina Lerena de Fein, 20 November 1946 - index read; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-QJ6F" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-QJ6F</a> |
| Jorge FEIN Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Son of Carlos Alberto Fein and Maria Adelina Lerena Traibel, and a grandson of Avelino Lerena. Named only: the registration gives him no age and this archive has no other record of him. | no public link Named as a son in the Montevideo death registration of his mother Maria Adelina Lerena de Fein, 20 November 1946 - index read; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-QJ6F" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-QJ6F</a> |
| Cayetano Alberto FERNANDEZ (b.1897) Connected | 1897-08-07 · Pintos, Flores · UY · found in Cerro Colorado, Flores Son of SERAPIO FERNANDEZ and ANTONINA LERENA, born at PINTOS at six in the morning on 7 August 1897 and registered on the 14th. His birth act is the document that named four grandparents and explained a dispensation - see data/trinidad-consanguinity-explained.tsv. | no public link Flores, Birth Records 1887-1901 - entry No. 10, Cayetano Alberto Fernandez, born Pintos 7 August 1897; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F</a>, FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Dona Maria FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS (wife of Sancho) Unplaced | Asturias, Spain · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of Sancho Llerena and mother of Don Luis Lerena - which is where the "y Fernandez" in his name comes from. She stood godmother at her grandson Luis Eugenio's baptism in 1846. HER FULL NAME IS ON AN ACT, 14 September 2026 - and it vindicates a tree. Her daughter's marriage of 3 November 1830 names the bride "hija legitima de Sancho Llerena y de MARIA FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS". This archive has carried "Maria Josefa Fernandez Tresguerras" since its first week FROM A PUBLISHED TREE, marked secondary, with the matronymic unverified. The tree was right, and right about something no index anywhere gives. Which raises the standing of that same tree's other unopened claim - that she married Sancho at CANELONES on 8 JANUARY 1791. SHE IS ALSO THE ONE FIXED POINT IN HER HUSBAND'S IDENTITY: across fourteen records his forename alternates between Sancho and Francisco, and every single one of them names HER. The Geneanet trees give her more fully as MARIA JOSEFA FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS, and two of them add TERESA. Today's marriage act says only "Maria Fernandez Tresguerras" - but since that act has just vindicated the trees on TRESGUERRAS itself, the extra forenames are worth more than they were yesterday. Still tree-only, and not adopted. HER BIRTHPLACE AND HER PARENTS ARE NOW ON AN ACT, 15 September 2026. The 1811 baptism of her son Luis calls her "Dona MARIA FERNANDEZ natural de ASTURIAS" and names "abuelos maternos RODRIGO FERNANDEZ y ROSA FERNANDEZ" ASTURIAS confirms the Operativo Patagonia reading from a Uruguayan document - her family were of the 1778-1781 convoy, 41 Asturian founder families of which seven came from MORCIN, the concejo the trees give as her birthplace. And RODRIGO FERNANDEZ is the same man the 1812 padron records living in Sancho's household, aged 63, "asturiano" - so the household, the act and the trees agree on him from three directions. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT since 14 September. Film 007713375 image 02410, Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, the baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 February 1811 - the only record in this archive that names Sancho's own parents. 'y de D.a MARIA [Fernandez] nat.l de ASTURIAS. ... id. mat.s RODRIGO FERNANDEZ y ROSA FERNANDEZ' - read off the plate. Her parents are named on this act and are now entered as people, which they had not been since the act was found on 14 September. HER BIRTHPLACE IN THIS REGISTER SAID 'Montevideo' UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER 2026, AND THE ARCHIVE'S OWN WORKING LOG HAD SAID OTHERWISE FOR A WEEK. data/1811-luis-baptism-act.tsv recorded on 14 September that the act calls her 'natural de ASTURIAS', and the register was never changed. SO BOTH HALVES OF SANCHO'S HOUSEHOLD WERE SPANISH IMMIGRANTS, FROM OPPOSITE ENDS OF SPAIN - he from Andalusia, she from Asturias, meeting at Montevideo. That is a different family story from the one a Montevideo birthplace tells, and it is the one the earliest act gives. AND IT SHARPENS A CONTRADICTION FOUND THIS MORNING: the 1852 baptism of her granddaughter Josefina at the Union calls the paternal grandparents 'orientales'. An 1852 priest, describing two people who had been dead for decades, against the act of 1811 in which their own son is baptised. The 1811 act wins, and the 1852 'orientales' is recorded as a mistake of the record, not of this archive. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as paternal grandmother in the 1850 act, and as godmother in 1846 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J</a>; and her daughter Justa Pastora's marriage act, Cordon, 3 Nov 1830 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3WZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3WZ-8</a>; Montevideo, Iglesia Matriz, baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 Feb 1811 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02410 |
| Juan FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ (m. Barbara Sotura) Connected | San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo THE MAN WHOSE TWO CHILDREN MADE THREE LERENA MARRIAGES NEED DISPENSING. Named on the marriage act of 16 September 1825 as the father of MARGARITA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, and again - as 'Don JUAN', with his wife - among the grandparents of SERAPIO FERNANDEZ in the expediente of 1855. SO MARGARITA AND MANUEL FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ ARE HIS CHILDREN AND EACH OTHER'S SIBLINGS, which is the whole of the second grade of consanguinity the Archbishop lifted in 1855 so that Socorro Lerena could marry Serapio Fernandez. A THIRD CHILD STOOD AT THE 1825 WEDDING: MARIA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, GODMOTHER TO HER OWN SISTER. NO BIRTH YEAR, AND NONE IS INVENTED: a daughter marrying in 1825 puts him in the 1770s or 1780s and that is an inference, not a record. | record ↗ Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Manuel FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ (m. Maria de los Reyes Gonzalez) Connected | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Father of SERAPIO FERNANDEZ and of SEVERA FERNANDEZ, named in both the 1854 and the 1855 Trinidad expedientes - in 1855 simply as 'Don Manuel', in 1854 in full as MANUEL FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ. HIS OWN PARENTS ARE NAMED TOO, IN 1855: Don JUAN and Dona BARBARA SOTURA - the grandparents of Serapio, and his own surname is not legible there. AND HE IS A BROTHER OF MARGARITA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ - WRITTEN DOWN FROM 9 OCTOBER 2026, NOT INFERRED, which is what makes his children and hers first cousins. THIS ROW SAID FOR HALF A DAY THAT THE SIBSHIP WAS 'required by the degree and not written down in either act'; THAT SENTENCE IS WITHDRAWN AND THE REASON FOLLOWS. THE THIRD ACT CLOSED IT. The 1855 expediente gives his son Serapio's grandparents as 'Don JUAN y Dona BARBARA SOTURA'; the marriage act of 16 September 1825 gives Margarita Fernandez Alvarez as 'hija legitima de JUAN FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ y de BARBARA SOTURA'. SAME PARENTS, SO SAME SIBSHIP, and the second grade of consanguinity dispensed in 1855 between his son and her daughter now has a named path. THE SENTENCE ABOVE THAT CALLED IT 'NOT WRITTEN DOWN IN EITHER ACT' WAS TRUE OF THE TWO ACTS THEN READ AND IS SUPERSEDED BY A THIRD. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1852-1855 - EXPEDIENTE, Trinidad, 2 December 1854; image 258, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825, before Don Joseph Andres Salvatierra, Cura y Vicario Interino; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10 (indexed at 00009), ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Margarita FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ (wife of Alejandro LERENA the elder) Connected | San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores THE MOTHER OF THE TRINIDAD KINDRED, and the reason its first two marriages needed dispensing. Named in the expedientes of 1855, 1854 and 1858 as the wife of Alejandro Lerena and the mother of SOCORRO, ALEJANDRO the younger and BERNABE. The 1854 document gives her compound surname in full: FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ. THAT IS WHY SOCORRO MARRIED A FERNANDEZ IN THE SECOND DEGREE: her husband's father is MANUEL FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, so Margarita and Manuel are almost certainly brother and sister - which is what a second grade in the transverse line requires, and it is an inference from the degree and the compound surname, not a statement in either act. NATURAL DE SAN JOSE, resident at Trinidad, alive in August 1855. HER PARENTS, AND THEY TURN AN INFERENCE INTO A DOCUMENT. The act of 16 September 1825 calls her 'MARGARITA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, Natural de esta Villa, hija legitima de JUAN FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ y de BARBARA SOTURA'. THIS ROW GUESSED THIS MORNING THAT SHE AND MANUEL FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ WERE BROTHER AND SISTER and said so was 'required by the degree and not written down in either act'. IT IS WRITTEN DOWN NOW, IN A THIRD ACT: the 1855 expediente gives Serapio Fernandez's grandparents as 'Don JUAN y Dona BARBARA SOTURA', and those are her parents. SO MANUEL IS HER BROTHER, AND SOCORRO AND SERAPIO ARE FIRST COUSINS BY A DOCUMENTED PATH - exactly the second grade dispensed in 1855. AND HER SISTER MARIA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ WAS GODMOTHER AT HER WEDDING. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1857-1860 - EXPEDIENTE with kinship diagram, Santisima Trinidad, 15 February 1858; image 209, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825, before Don Joseph Andres Salvatierra, Cura y Vicario Interino; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10 (indexed at 00009), ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Maria FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ (godmother, 1825) Unplaced · of interest | San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Godmother at the marriage of her sister MARGARITA to ALEJANDRO LERENA, 16 September 1825 at San Jose. A THIRD CHILD OF JUAN FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ AND BARBARA SOTURA, named only here. NOT THE MARIA FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS WHO MARRIED SANCHO LLERENA at Canelones in 1791 - a different family entirely, and the two are declared apart in data/_person-pairs.txt rather than left for the gate to find. | record ↗ Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Petrona FERNANDEZ (m. Pedro Segundo LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named as the mother on three Trinidad birth registrations between 1898 and 1903: IRMA ANTONIA (13 September 1898), SARA ESMERALDA (3 November 1900) and PEDRO RICARDO (27 May 1903). Her husband is PEDRO SEGUNDO LERENA VILLADEMOROS, a son of Avelino Eduardo Lerena Traibel and Celedonia Villademoros - so this household is the Montevideo Lerena Villademoros living at Trinidad, which is how that branch reached Flores. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep and the Zalduando surname sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Rodrigo FERNANDEZ (father of Maria) Unplaced | c.1749 · Asturias, Spain · Spanish · found in Montevideo FATHER OF MARIA FERNANDEZ AND FATHER-IN-LAW OF SANCHO - named on the 1811 act and entered on 21 September 2026, a week after the act was read. 'id. mat.s RODRIGO FERNANDEZ y ROSA FERNANDEZ'. He is one of the two oldest people in this register alongside Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar, and like them he is known from a single line naming him as a grandparent. HE HAD BEEN SITTING IN A WORKING LOG SINCE 14 SEPTEMBER AND WAS NEVER MADE A PERSON - which is this archive's most persistent fault, and the reason it now has a gate for it. Nothing here gives his dates, and Asturias is inferred from his daughter's stated birthplace, not stated of him. AND THE 'PRESUMED' IN THE BIRTHPLACE COLUMN CAME OFF WITHIN THE HOUR. This archive already held him, without ever making him a person: data/padron-1812-image.tsv records that the household of 1812 ends 'RODRIGO FERNANDEZ ... at 63, ASTURIANO ... the last name before the next bracket'. So Asturias is ATTESTED, not inferred, and an age of 63 in 1812 puts his birth about 1749. TWO INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTS OF THE SAME YEAR: the baptism of February 1811 names him as the child's maternal grandfather, and the padron of September 1812 puts him under the same roof. SANCHO'S FATHER-IN-LAW WAS LIVING IN THE HOUSE - an Asturian of sixty-three, in a household of an Andalusian, his Asturian daughter, their eight children and four enslaved people. Nothing here says when he came, or whether he came with her. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo, Iglesia Matriz, baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 Feb 1811 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02410; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M</a>; and the Padron de Montevideo de 1812, calle San Juan No 60, where he closes Sancho's household at 63, ASTURIANO - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR</a> |
| Rosa FERNANDEZ (mother of Maria) Unplaced | Asturias, Spain (presumed - her daughter is 'natural de Asturias') · Spanish · found in Montevideo MOTHER OF MARIA FERNANDEZ, named on the 1811 act - and she carries the SAME SURNAME AS HER HUSBAND. 'id. mat.s Rodrigo Fernandez y ROSA FERNANDEZ'. That is worth a sentence rather than a shrug: FERNANDEZ is among the commonest surnames in Spain, so a couple both called Fernandez needs no explanation at all - but it is also exactly what a priest writes when he knows one surname and assumes the other. Nothing here distinguishes the two readings. Entered as the act gives her. AND SHE IS NOT IN THE HOUSE. The padron of 1812 ends Sancho's household with her husband RODRIGO FERNANDEZ at 63 and does not name her. That is not evidence she was dead - the padron lists who was in the house on the day - but it is the only thing this archive can say about her after 1811. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo, Iglesia Matriz, baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 Feb 1811 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02410; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M</a> |
| Serapio FERNANDEZ (m. Antonina Lerena 1885) Connected | 1856 · Uruguay · UY · Hacendado · found in Cerro Colorado, Flores HE MARRIED A FIRST COUSIN, on the face of the records. Dispensed the second grade of consanguinity by the equal lateral line on 26 June 1885 to marry ANTONINA LERENA. His son's birth act of 1897 gives him as forty-one, married, HACENDADO, vecino de CERRO COLORADO - born about 1856 - and names his parents as SERAPIO FERNANDEZ (deceased) and SOCORRO LERENA. HIS MOTHER WAS A LERENA AND HIS WIFE'S FATHER WAS A LERENA. | no public link Flores, Birth Records 1887-1901 - entry No. 10, Cayetano Alberto Fernandez, born Pintos 7 August 1897; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F</a>, FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Serapio FERNANDEZ (the elder, d. by 1897) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · UY · found in Trinidad, Flores Husband of SOCORRO LERENA and father of the Serapio Fernandez who married Antonina Lerena in 1885. His grandson's birth act of 1897 gives him simply as 'Don SERAPIO FERNANDEZ, Oriental, fallecido' - dead by then, with no age. HE IS THE PETITIONER OF THE 1855 EXPEDIENTE, 9 October 2026, signing 'C. Serapio Fernandez' at Santisima Trinidad in August 1855 to be allowed to marry Dona SOCORRO LERENA, su parienta en SEGUNDO GRADO de consanguinidad en linea transversal - first cousins. HIS PARENTS: Don MANUEL [FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ] and Dona MARIA DE LOS REYES GONZALEZ. HIS GRANDPARENTS: Don JUAN [Ynz?] and Dona BARBARA SOTURA. AND HE HAS A SISTER: SEVERA FERNANDEZ, who married Socorro's brother Alejandro in December 1854. TWO LERENA SIBLINGS MARRIED TWO FERNANDEZ SIBLINGS IN CONSECUTIVE YEARS. | record ↗ Flores, Birth Records 1887-1901 - entry No. 10, Cayetano Alberto Fernandez, born Pintos 7 August 1897; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F</a>, FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1855-1857 - EXPEDIENTE of Serapio Fernandez to marry Socorro Lerena, Trinidad, August 1855, witness Jose Maria Guerrero; images 26-27, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-23PV-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-23PV-K</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Severa FERNANDEZ (m. Alejandro LERENA the younger, 1854) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Daughter of Don MANUEL FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ and Dona MARIA DE LOS REYES GONZALEZ, named as 'padres de la contrayenta' in the expediente of 2 December 1854 at Trinidad. SO SHE IS A SISTER OF SERAPIO FERNANDEZ, who married Alejandro's sister Socorro the following August. TWO SIBLING PAIRS MARRYING EACH OTHER, WHICH IS WHY BOTH NEEDED DISPENSING. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1852-1855 - EXPEDIENTE, Trinidad, 2 December 1854; image 258, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Juana FERREIROZ (m. Manuel LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of FELICIA LERENA, born 6 May 1891 and christened 16 May 1891 at Montevideo - the household work-list row 187 lists as 'Manuel x Juana FERREIROZ, Montevideo 1891'. HER SURNAME IS CORROBORATED, WHICH MATTERS: it appears in TWO SEPARATE COLLECTIONS, the civil register and the parish baptisms. A session suggested earlier today that she might be JUANA GALARZA, who married a Manuel Lerena at the Cordon in February 1890, with 'Ferreiroz' a misreading. TWO INDEPENDENT RECORDS AGREEING ON A SURNAME IS NOT A MISREADING, AND THAT SUGGESTION WAS WITHDRAWN THE SAME DAY. WHICH MANUEL SHE MARRIED IS THEREFORE STILL OPEN. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| A. FERREYRA (lawyer for the Escalada estate, 1890) Unplaced | lawyer · found in Buenos Aires Appeared 'por la representacion que ejerzo en los autos testamentarios de Don Carlos Maria Escalada' to answer Carlos A. Lerena's claim in February 1890, asking that it be dismissed with costs. NAMED ONCE, AS COUNSEL. Note for later: a 'Doctor Lerena' appears in the 1889 Feliciano Aguirre probate in the same court - 'lo hace el Doctor Lerena si la' - and has not been opened. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Escalada, Carlos M.; Lerena, Carlos A.: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1891, item 11 of 91 images, the answer filed February 1890 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V3DS-X934-6" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V3DS-X934-6</a> |
| Eduviges FLORENCIO (m. Juan PELAEZ) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Mother of EDUVIGES PELAEZ, the bride of 1894, and named only once - as the second of the maternal grandparents on her grandson's baptism of 26 November 1905: 'Maternos: JUAN y EDUVIGES FLORENCIO (fallecida)'. DEAD BEFORE NOVEMBER 1905. HER HUSBAND IS A JUAN PELAEZ, AND THIS REGISTER ALREADY HOLDS A JUAN PELAEZ WHO MARRIED ANTONINA LERENA - NOT ESTABLISHED AS THE SAME MAN. If he is, Eduviges Pelaez and Maria Pelaez are half-sisters, which would explain why Eduviges stood godmother to Maria's daughter in 1894. See data/_person-pairs.txt. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909 - baptism of 26 November 1905, pages 32-33; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F</a>, DGS film 008163893 item 5 image 20 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Roseline Wilhelmina FORBES (m.1 Chappell, m.2 LERENA) Connected | 1903 · Cape Province · SA · found in Cape Town / Johannesburg Married into the family. Widow of Frederick Christian Chappell (d.1933); m. Roque Luis Armando Lerena 1936. CHAPPELL WAS HER MARRIED NAME - her maiden name was FORBES, which corrects this archive's earlier record. Her daughter Doreen married Roque's brother Ricardo. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry SA civil marriage 1 Nov 1920 Woodstock; SA civil marriage 21 Sep 1936; SA death 2 Jul 1950 |
| Dona Bernardina FRAGOSO de Rivera Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo / Canelones Wife of President Fructuoso Rivera, and godmother with him at the Cordon on 13 December 1831 to a grandson of Sancho Llerena. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen la Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo, baptism of 13 Dec 1831 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713388 image 00726, folio 133 |
| Vicenta Mercedes FUENTES (wife of Vicente Antonio LARENA) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026, from a row this register already held. The archive named VICENTE ANTONIO LARENA as her husband and did not hold her as a person, so the marriage was written down and could not be drawn. The citation is the one already carried by that row; no new research stands behind this entry, and nothing is claimed here beyond the marriage itself. Their children Felix Antonio (1906) and Aurora Eduarda (1913) are named on his row and are not yet entered either. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Entre Rios Civil Registration - via the register row of her husband Vicente Antonio LARENA |
| Emma R. GABARRET Unplaced | Argentina · Uruguayan/Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Married Raul Alfredo Luis Lerena - intended marriage recorded 16 November 1915 at Nuestra Senora del Socorro, Retiro, Buenos Aires. Index-level. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records / Argentine military records, searched on Gilberto as father, 14 Sep 2026 |
| Juana GALARZA (m. Manuel Lerena Leonard 1890) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Married MANUEL LERENA LEONARD at the Cordon, Montevideo, on 19 FEBRUARY 1890, and still named as his wife on his death registration of 1926, so the marriage lasted thirty-six years. SHE MAY BE THE 'JUANA FERREIROZ' OF A FINDMYPAST BAPTISM OF 1891 that work-list row 187 holds as an unidentified household - see her husband's row. NOT ESTABLISHED. INDEX ONLY. AND SHE IS PROBABLY NOT THE 'JUANA FERREIROZ' OF 1891 AFTER ALL. Two independent records - a civil birth registration and a parish baptism - name that woman Ferreiroz. See her husband's row. THE SUGGESTION MADE ON THIS ROW EARLIER TODAY IS WITHDRAWN. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the MANUEL LERENA sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Angel V. GARCIA (declarant, 1896) Unplaced | 1871c · Uruguayan · empleado · found in Montevideo Second declarant on the death act of Pedro LERENA, 7 November 1896 - twenty-five years old, soltero, empleado, of the same section. No role is furniture: he is here because he is named on an act this archive has read. | record ↗ Montevideo civil death registration, acta No. 353 of 7 November 1896, 15a Seccion de la Capital - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-909-72188-82458-0 on 12 October 2026 |
| Bartholo GARCIA (appraiser, Rosario 1800) Unplaced | tasador · found in Colla One of the two sworn appraisers of CLEMENTE GARCIA's estate, named at image 29: 'Don BARTHOLO GARCIA y ANDRES BRIVAQUI... les recibi juramento que lo hicieron a Dios Nuestro Senor y una senal de Cruz, por la que ofrecieron cumplir fiel y legalmente el cargo en que se les comisiona'. HE SHARES THE DEAD MAN'S SURNAME, which in a district this small is unremarkable and is not evidence of kinship. HE MAY BE THE 'Don Bartolo. Partia' OF IMAGE 26 - see that row. INDEX-LEVEL; the transcript is the only reading. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 28-30 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K</a> |
| Don Clemente GARCIA (d. by 1794, Rosario) Unplaced | pulpero (storekeeper) and miller · found in Colla The dead man whose estate RAMON LERENA was administering as Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad in November 1800. His widow is DONA CELESTINA GONZALEZ and the inventories concerned goods left 'en beneficio del menor'. THE WHOLE FILE IS NAMED FOR HIM, which is why a Lerena inside it was invisible to any index that catalogues by principal. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. HE WAS HER FIRST HUSBAND, and the estate was his. The court calls her 'viuda del finado Don Clemente Garcia' and the inventory concerns 'los bienes que por fin y muerte de su PRIMER CONSORTE quedaron a beneficio de su hijo menor'. SO HE DIED LEAVING ONE MINOR SON AND A WIDOW WHO REMARRIED BEFORE OCTOBER 1800. HE WAS OF THE COLLA, in the Banda Oriental, not of Buenos Aires - the file sits in a Buenos Aires court because the Juez de Menores of the capital had jurisdiction over the whole viceroyalty. THE INVENTORY SAYS WHAT HE WAS: A STOREKEEPER WITH A MILL. Read 11 October 2026. The first item appraised is 'un RANCHO de veinte y dos varas de largo, siete de ancho, con las paredes de PIEDRA, revocadas y blanqueadas de ambas partes, con CUATRO VIVIENDAS, la una de ellas compuesta de PULPERIA con mostrador, armazon y adyacentes, trastienda, sala y aposento'. Then a house of six doors, three with lock and fittings, and five windows, paved floor and corridors on both sides - 746 pesos; a stone-walled, thatch-roofed building of eleven varas by seven - 314 pesos; and 'una ATAHONA compuesta de casa, rueda, piedras, palo-fierro, linterna y demas utensilios' - a MILL - at 310 pesos. Then the tools: stone-picks, an adze, axes, a turned round table, benches, a pine chest, a crowbar, a spade, a hoe. SO THE MAN WHOSE ESTATE RAMON LERENA WAS SENT TO VALUE KEPT THE SHOP AND THE MILL OF HIS DISTRICT - which is also why the case was worth a court in Buenos Aires taking an interest in. HIS MINOR SON IS NEVER NAMED IN THE FRAMES READ, only ever 'su hijo menor'. HE DIED SIX YEARS EARLIER THAN THIS ROW'S NAME SAYS - BY 1794, NOT BY 1800. The 1794 file already calls him 'el finado Don CLEMENTE GARCIA' and already calls Celestina Gonzalez 'la viuda'. THE ROW'S OWN TITLE IS NOW WRONG AND IS LEFT UNCHANGED DELIBERATELY, because renaming a person changes their published address; see data/corrections.tsv and the slug ledger. AND HE HAD AN ESTANCIA AS WELL AS THE SHOP AND THE MILL. The 1794 inventory walks out to 'la ESTANCIA del finado' to count 'EL GANADO Y CABALLOS'. So the estate is a rural holding with stock, a store, a mill and a house - which is why it took two inventories six years apart and a court in the capital. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - Probate Estate Case Files 1800 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z942" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z942</a>; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 28-30 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K</a>; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1794, item 11 of 119 images - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3</a> |
| Dona Catalina G. de GARCIA (signed for the bride, 1938) Unplaced | found in Montevideo She signed the 1938 marriage act in the bride's place: 'en este acto la contrayente manifiesta NO SABER FIRMAR, verificandolo a su ruego dona CATALINA G. DE GARCIA'. A LITERACY FACT RECORDED BY THE STATE, and the kind of detail an index never carries. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1938, acta No. 2 of 4 January 1938, 11a seccion del Departamento de Montevideo, before Eduardo Machiavello - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-70652-64458-41; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TH5-4T7K" rel="noopener">1:1:6TH5-4T7K</a> |
| Victor Manuel GARCIA (witness, 1865) Unplaced | found in Montevideo Witness at the deathbed marriage of Joaquin Costales and Maria Serena, San Francisco de Asis, 25 May 1865, with SEBASTIANA ALVAREZ. NAMED ONCE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Don Geronimo GAVAZZO Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of Hermenegilda Carolina GAVAZZO; named at her marriage to Alfredo Lerena Traibel, 3 February 1892. THE SURNAME IS CORRECTED OFF THE IMAGE, 21 September 2026. This archive held it from a MACHINE FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT of the 1892 marriage act and never opened the page. The page was opened - film 007713383 image 02601, folio 340 - and the act reads 'hija legitima de Don GERONIMO GAVAZZO y Dona CAROLINA SUAREZ'. GAVAZZO, not "Gavarro"; SUAREZ, not "Juarez". It is corroborated independently by Hermenegilda's own Montevideo death registration of 20 June 1940, certificate 632, read off film 008166249 image 01900, which writes her HERMENEGILDA GAVAZZO DE LERENA and her parents Geronimo Gavazzo and Carolina Suarez. Two images, forty-eight years apart, against one machine transcript. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, marriage of 3 Feb 1892 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K</a>; IMAGE READ 21 September 2026 - film 007713383 image 02601 |
| Hermenegilda Carolina GAVAZZO (de LERENA) Unplaced | c.1862 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Married Alfredo Lerena Traibel at the Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 3 February 1892, aged thirty. Daughter of Don Geronimo GAVAZZO and Dona Carolina SUAREZ - so the plate, read 21 September 2026; this row said "Gavarro" and "Juarez" until then, on a machine transcript. She and her husband were COUSINS - the act dispenses an impediment of the third degree of consanguinity with atingencia to the second. THE SURNAME IS CORRECTED OFF THE IMAGE, 21 September 2026. This archive held it from a MACHINE FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT of the 1892 marriage act and never opened the page. The page was opened - film 007713383 image 02601, folio 340 - and the act reads 'hija legitima de Don GERONIMO GAVAZZO y Dona CAROLINA SUAREZ'. GAVAZZO, not "Gavarro"; SUAREZ, not "Juarez". It is corroborated independently by Hermenegilda's own Montevideo death registration of 20 June 1940, certificate 632, read off film 008166249 image 01900, which writes her HERMENEGILDA GAVAZZO DE LERENA and her parents Geronimo Gavazzo and Carolina Suarez. Two images, forty-eight years apart, against one machine transcript. AND SHE HAS A DEATH, found the same day: 20 JUNE 1940, at MONTEVIDEO. The act says she died at R. Masini 3273, 'de estado VIUDA', 'a consecuencia de FRACTURA DEL CUELLO DEL FEMUR' - a broken hip, which for a woman of about seventy-eight in 1940 is usually the end. Certificate 632, registered by Jose M. Reyes Corvalan. SO ALFREDO JUSTINIANO DIED BEFORE 20 JUNE 1940, which is the first thing this archive has ever known about the end of his life. She was a widow, and the marriage had lasted at least into its fifth decade. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, marriage of 3 Feb 1892 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K</a>; IMAGE READ 21 September 2026 - film 007713383 image 02601; and her own Montevideo death registration No. 632 of 20 June 1940 - IMAGE READ, film 008166249 image 01900, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXM-NTHF" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXM-NTHF</a> |
| Dona Adelaida GAZO (wife of Ysaac LERENA) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married into the Trinidad Lerena kindred. BELOQUI, ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ are Basque surnames - evidence about the community these Lerenas married into, which bears on the Basque-or-Extremaduran question without settling it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Ana GOMEZ (married Florentino, Canelones) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Canelones The bride of the Canelones marriage investigation in which SANCHO LLERENA deposed. Named throughout as the woman to whom Florentino Gomez had given his word. NOTHING ELSE IS RECORDED OF HER IN THE FRAMES READ. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones - Religious Marriage Investigation Files 1776-1806, the expediente of Florentino Gomez - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W</a> |
| Florentino GOMEZ (married Ana Gomez, Canelones) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Canelones The groom whose marriage investigation SANCHO LLERENA swore in. He sought to marry ANA GOMEZ, and the expediente closes by decreeing that neither it nor the conciliar proclamas produced any canonical impediment. SANCHO KNEW HIM FROM 'LA LINEA DE VITORIA' - the two men had been in the same place for some years, which makes this man THE ONLY NAMED ASSOCIATE OF SANCHO LLERENA THIS ARCHIVE HAS. The transcript calls him Gomez in one line and GONZALEZ in the next; that is the transcript, not two men. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones - Religious Marriage Investigation Files 1776-1806, the expediente of Florentino Gomez - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W</a> |
| Don Pascual GONZALEZ Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of Dona Carmen Gonzalez, and so great-grandfather of Luis Eugenio and Gilberto Lerena. Named with his wife Josefa Grandal in his granddaughter Sixta's death act of 1884. | no public link Named in the death act of Sixta Lenguas, Montevideo No. 45, 17 Jan 1884 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D</a> |
| Dona Carmen GONZALEZ (wife of Gen. Pedro Lenguas) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of General Don Pedro Lenguas, and mother of both JUSTINIANA Lenguas and SIXTA Lenguas - the two sisters who married, respectively, Luis Lerena and Dr Candido Juanico. Appears as "Carmen Gonzalez" and as "Maria del Carmen Gonzalez". HER PARENTS ARE NOW NAMED: D. PASCUAL GONZALEZ and Dona JOSEFA GRANDAL - from her daughter Sixta's death act of 1884. Note that her mother and her husband's mother are BOTH GRANDAL: Josefa and Juana. Pedro Lenguas and Carmen Gonzalez were very probably cousins - recorded as an observation, not a proved relationship. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as maternal grandmother in the 1846 baptisms - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J</a> |
| Dona Celestina GONZALEZ (widow of Clemente Garcia) Unplaced | found in Colla The widow whom RAMON LERENA notified in person on 6 November 1800, 'a quien ... notifique la providencia antecedente a Dona CELESTINA GONZALEZ en su persona'. She had written to the Alcalde del Partido del Rosario about the inventories. SHE IS THE PERSON A LERENA WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF on the only day in 1800 this archive can place him. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. SHE IS A VECINA DEL COLLA, AND SHE FOUGHT THE COURT. The providencia of 1800 calls her 'Dona CELESTINA GONZALEZ, VECINA DEL COLLA, viuda del finado Don CLEMENTE GARCIA' and records 'la resistencia que hace para la faccion de Ymbentarios de su difunto marido'. She had written to the Alcalde on the sixteenth; he wrote to Buenos Aires on the twenty-fourth; the Juez de Menores ordered the inventory made anyway. THE REASON SHE WAS COMPELLED: she had REMARRIED while she had a minor child - 'por haber pasado a segundas nupcias, teniendo hijo menor' - which made her tutora y curadora of the boy's inheritance and the court's business. RAMON LERENA NOTIFIED HER IN THE PRESENCE OF HER SECOND HUSBAND, who is not named in the frames read. SHE IS THE ONLY PERSON THIS ARCHIVE CAN PLACE IN A ROOM WITH RAMON LERENA. AND SHE COULD NOT WRITE EITHER. At the close of her declaration: 'no firmo porque dijo no saber [escribir]', and her husband signed with the witnesses in her place. THAT IS THE THIRD PERSON IN ONE DAY'S READING WHO COULD NOT SIGN - Sancho Llerena in 1800, Francisco de los Santos de Acuna before him, and now the woman who held the shop and the mill of the Rosario in trust for her son. RAMON LERENA, WHO SIGNED HIS OWN NAME TWICE, WAS THE LITERATE ONE IN THAT ROOM. AND SHE CHOSE RAMON LERENA HERSELF, IN 1794. The earlier file names him and GERONIMO ALONSO as 'sujetos NOMBRADOS POR LA VIUDA' to count and value the cattle and horses of her husband's estancia, and she separately named LORENZO MARTINEZ DE OLALLA to act for her. THIS IS WHY THE GARCIA HOUSEHOLD BELONGS IN THIS REGISTER AND THE CHABO HOUSEHOLD DOES NOT: in 1794 Ramon Lerena was not the official but a man she picked, swore in and trusted with her son's inheritance. SIX YEARS LATER HE CAME BACK AS THE MAGISTRATE, to make her do what she was refusing to do. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - Probate Estate Case Files 1800 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z942" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z942</a>; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 28-30 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K</a>; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1794, item 11 of 119 images - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3</a> |
| Dona Juliana Joaquina GONZALEZ Unplaced | found in Montevideo Mother of Julia Juanico, and wife of Dr Candido Juanico. Published genealogy gives Candido's wife as SIXTA Lenguas Gonzalez, married 1857 - too late for a daughter marrying in 1864, so Juliana is an earlier wife. That is inference from dates. A THIRD ACT NOW NAMES HER, 13 September 2026: the baptism of her grandson Candido Jaime, San Francisco de Asis act No. 1720 of 6 July 1886, reads "maternos: Don Candido y Dona Juliana Gonzalez". Twenty-two years after the marriage act, the same parish still gives Julia's mother as Juliana Gonzalez. The published genealogy's SIXTA Lenguas Gonzalez is not what the registers say. AND THE TWO-WIVES INFERENCE IS CONFIRMED. Searching Candido Juanico as a father returns two distinct sets of children: Julia, by Juliana Joaquina Gonzalez, born 1842; and Sara, Zara Sista Emirena and Celia, all JUANICO LENGUAS, born 1866-1869 to SIXTA LENGUAS. A full generation apart. The published genealogy was right about the 1857 marriage and wrong to attach it to Julia. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as the bride's mother, Montevideo marriage act 258 (1864); and again as maternal grandmother in Montevideo baptism act 1720 (1886) - image read; and act No. 405 of 4 Oct 1843, her daughter's own baptism - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NLLP" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NLLP</a>; and act No. 1720 of 1886, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RS-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RS-F</a> |
| Honorato GONZALEZ (m. Paula Modesta LERENA 1918) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married PAULA MODESTA LERENA at Santisima Trinidad on 18 NOVEMBER 1918; the index gives her born about 1878, daughter of Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez - so a sister of the Maria and Casimira who married two Cardozo brothers on one day in 1889. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Juan Carlos GONZALEZ LERENA (m. 1920s, Montevideo) Excluded | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo CHECKED AND EXCLUDED, 15 September 2026 - he is the only 'Juan Carlos Lerena' in FamilySearch's entire full-text corpus apart from a 2001 death record. The Vicar General "dispenso a Don Juan Carlos Gonzalez Lerena las tres conciliares proclamas en el matrimonio que intenta contraer con ... Concepcion Petrona Urbano". LERENA IS HIS SECOND SURNAME - his mother's - not his father's. That is the same shape as the only Juan Carlos Lerena in all of Geneanet, a "del Campo Lerena". Pablo Armando's father must carry LERENA as the PATERNAL surname and must have been born by about the 1850s to father a son in 1882. This man is marrying in the 1920s. Recorded so that the next reader who runs this search does not have to spend an hour excluding him. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, AND THE COMPOUND SURNAME IS REALLY THERE. Film 007713367 image 02860, folio 391, entry No. 14610: 'El OCHO DE NOVIEMBRE de mil novecientos VEINTE Y DOS, el Rmo. Sr. Vicario General ... en uso de sus facultades dispensó a Don JUAN CARLOS GONZALEZ LERENA las tres conciliares proclamas en el matrimonio que intenta contraer con ...'. So the date is 8 NOVEMBER 1922, not merely 'the 1920s', and the register of Montevideo dispensations numbers it 14610. THE BRIDE'S NAME IS ONLY PARTLY LEGIBLE and is not written down here as a reading: the words run '...cepcion Petrona' and then a surname this archive cannot settle between URBANO and a similar hand. IT IS NOT GUESSED. WHY THIS MAN IS IN THIS REGISTER AT ALL: he is a JUAN CARLOS, which is the forename this whole archive turns on - Pablo Armando's father is named Juan Carlos Lerena on the 1908 enrolment card. THIS IS NOT HIM AND WAS NEVER CLAIMED TO BE: this man carries GONZALEZ as his paternal surname and LERENA as his mother's, and he is marrying at Montevideo in 1922, forty years after Pablo Armando was born at Rosario. He is kept because a Juan Carlos with LERENA anywhere in his name is worth being able to rule out on the record rather than meeting again in five years' time. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1856-1932, 8 Nov 192- - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NNW8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NNW8</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713367 image 02860, folio 391 |
| Maria de los Reyes GONZALEZ (wife of Manuel FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Mother of SERAPIO and SEVERA FERNANDEZ, named in the Trinidad expedientes of 1854 and 1855. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH MARIA GONZALEZ, THE WIFE OF RAMON LERENA, who stands a generation higher on the 1858 schema. TWO WOMEN NAMED MARIA GONZALEZ IN ONE PARISH IN ONE DECADE, and this archive has declared them apart rather than let the gate find them later. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1852-1855 - EXPEDIENTE, Trinidad, 2 December 1854; image 258, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Maria Josefa GONZALEZ (wife of Ramon LERENA of Colla) Connected | Uruguayan · found in Rosario / Colla, Colonia Mother of Mauricio. Indexed on the marriage act as 'Maria Gonzales'; this archive's own notes on the Rosario-Colla household give her as MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ. The fuller form is kept here and the indexed form is recorded beside it, because they have not been reconciled on an image. AND THE SAME CANDIDACY AS HER HUSBAND'S ROW, 9 October 2026. The Trinidad expedientes name MARIA GONZALEZ as the wife of Ramon Lerena and the grandmother of Socorro and Bernabe. INDEXED HERE AS 'MARIA GONZALES' ON THE 1837 ACT AND WRITTEN 'MARIA GONZALEZ' ON THE 1858 SCHEMA - the shorter form now appears in two independent documents, which is why the fuller 'Maria Josefa' is still carried but not relied on. NOT MERGED. AND THE FULLER FORM IS CONFIRMED ON A PLATE, 9 October 2026. This row carried 'MARIA JOSEFA' from the archive's own notes while the 1837 index gave only 'Maria Gonzales', and said the two had 'not been reconciled on an image'. THEY ARE NOW: her son Alejandro's marriage act of 16 September 1825 writes her 'MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ' in the priest's hand. AND HER FAMILY STOOD AT THAT WEDDING: the godfather is MARCOS DE LEON GONZALEZ, which is the DE LEON GONZALEZ of her own parentage. | record ↗ Named as the groom's mother in the 1837 San Jose marriage; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F21B-SZ5" rel="noopener">1:1:F21B-SZ5</a>; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825, before Don Joseph Andres Salvatierra, Cura y Vicario Interino; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10 (indexed at 00009), ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Mercedes GONZALEZ Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother at Julia Juanico's baptism, 4 October 1843 - presumably kin to her mother Juliana Joaquina Gonzalez. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records / Civil Registration, searched on Candido Juanico as father, 13 Sep 2026 |
| Servando GONZALEZ (m. Estefania Lerena) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Husband of ESTEFANIA LERENA and father of the GONZALEZ LERENA children named on her row. Named on every one of their baptisms and registrations and on nothing else found here. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Dona Josefa GRANDAL Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of Don Pascual Gonzalez and mother of Dona Carmen Gonzalez. The second GRANDAL in this generation, alongside Juana Grandal. | no public link Named in the death act of Sixta Lenguas, Montevideo No. 45, 17 Jan 1884 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D</a> |
| Dona Juana GRANDAL Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of Don Antonio Lenguas and mother of General Don Pedro Lenguas. Her surname and that of Josefa Grandal - mother of Carmen Gonzalez - are the same, which suggests Pedro Lenguas and Carmen Gonzalez were cousins. An observation, not a proved relationship. | no public link Named in the death act of Sixta Lenguas, Montevideo No. 45, 17 Jan 1884 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D</a> |
| Don Jaime HERRERA Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Married Maria Lerena - the child of the 1866 Rosario act - at Montevideo on 3 November 1886. Son of "el Doctor Don Nicolas" Herrera and Dona Adela Crucet. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis marriage act 1879, 3 Nov 1886 |
| Guillermo HURTADO de Villagomez (witness, 1794) Unplaced | found in Colla Witness at the 1794 inventory of Clemente Garcia's estancia, signing where there was no notary. Shares the Villagomez name with GERONIMO ALONSO DE VILLAGOMEZ, who was appraising the stock beside Ramon Lerena. INDEX-LEVEL and the transcript is the only reading. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1794, item 11 of 119 images - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3</a> |
| Presbitero D. Antonio JENARA (baptised 1912) Unplaced | Argentine · presbitero · found in Buenos Aires The priest who baptised JUANA LERENA at San Jose de Flores, Buenos Aires, on 10 November 1912, 'por el infrascrito Cura de esta Parroquia' - so he too was acting for the parish priest rather than as him. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Parroquia y Vicaria de San Jose de Flores, Buenos Aires - baptism No. 461 of 10 November 1912 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G6VB-K" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G6VB-K</a> |
| JOSE (enslaved in Sancho Lerena's household, 1812) Unplaced | found in Montevideo One of the four enslaved people in the household, named on the padron between Antonio and Juana. Not to be confused with JOSE LORETO LERENA, Sancho's son baptised in 1806, who is a different person on a different line. Nothing else about him is known. | record ↗ 1812 padron, calle San Juan No 60; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR</a> |
| JUANA (enslaved in Sancho Llerena's household) Connected | found in Montevideo, calle San Juan No 60 A WOMAN THIS FAMILY HELD IN SLAVERY, NAMED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME. The padron of 1812 records four enslaved people in Sancho Llerena's household and gives none of them a name. The baptism of her daughter, six weeks later in the same year, names her: JUANA. Nothing else is known about her - no age, no origin, no surname, no later record. This row exists so that the archive carries her name rather than a number. See also her daughter MARIA MERCEDES. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713375 image 02628, folio 136, Montevideo Catedral - the baptism of 26 September 1812. HER NAME SURVIVES THE CHECK, and that is the whole reason this plate was opened. The act reads 'que nacio antes de ayer, hija de JUANA, negra esclava de D.n SANCHO LERENA y de D.a MARIA FERNANDEZ'. A machine is worst at proper nouns, and this woman's name is the only thing any record gives her - so it was the one that most needed a human to read it. It is JUANA, in the priest's own hand. The act also states that she was held by BOTH Sancho and Maria Fernandez, jointly - which the transcript rendered the same way and which the padron of the same month confirms by putting her inside that household. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo Catedral baptism of her daughter, 26 Sep 1812 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X757-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X757-D</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02628 |
| Celia JUANICO Lenguas Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Half-sister of Julia Juanico, by Sixta Lenguas. Married Carlos A. Folle; died 24 August 1940, at Montevideo. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records / Civil Registration, searched on Candido Juanico as father, 13 Sep 2026 |
| D. Enrique JUANICO (the godfather, an adult in 1843) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather at Julia Juanico's baptism, act 405 of 4 October 1843 - image read. NOT to be confused with her BROTHER Enrique Juanico, born 18 May 1841, who was baptised the same day at act 404. A boy of two cannot stand godfather; this is an adult Enrique, almost certainly the uncle the baby had just been named for. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godfather, San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptism act No. 405, 4 Oct 1843 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NLLP" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NLLP</a> |
| Dona Julia JUANICO Unplaced | 1842-11-23 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · "labores del sexo" · found in Montevideo Daughter of Dr Candido Juanico and Dona Juliana Gonzalez. Married Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas at San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, 19 December 1864. DIED 11 JULY 1910 at calle Constituyente 992, Montevideo, aged sixty-six, A WIDOW - which dates her husband's death to before that. HER BAPTISM IS FOUND AND THE IMAGE READ: born 23 November 1842 at Montevideo, christened 4 October 1843 at San Francisco de Asis - the same parish where she married in 1864, where her son Candido Jaime was baptised in 1886, and where her daughter Maria married that November. Her mother is given in full as JULIANA JOAQUINA GONZALEZ; godparents D. Enrique Juanico and Mercedes Gonzalez. Her death registration estimated 1844 from a stated age of 66; she was 67. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil death registration no. 357, 12 July 1910 - image read; plus Rosario baptism act 1541 (1866) and Montevideo marriage act 258 (1864); baptism act No. 405, folio 274, 4 Oct 1843 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NLLP" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NLLP</a> |
| Dr. Don Candido JUANICO Unplaced | c.1812 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · abogado, magistrado, legislador · found in Montevideo Father of Julia Juanico. Son of Francisco Juanico and Juliana Texeira. Stood as witness at his daughter's wedding in December 1864. HE MARRIED TWICE. Juliana Joaquina Gonzalez first - Julia, b.1842, is hers - and SIXTA LENGUAS second, by whom Sara, Zara Sista Emirena and Celia Juanico Lenguas, born 1866-1869. Note the second wife's surname: his daughter by the first married a Lerena LENGUAS. Justiniana Lenguas and Sixta Lenguas are very likely kin, which would mean these two families were already connected before 1864 - recorded as an observation, not a proved relationship. HIS AGE AND PROFESSION ARE NOW ON AN ACT: Sixta's death registration of 17 January 1884 records her husband as "D. Candido Juanico, Oriental, edad 72 anos, viudo, ABOGADO" - so born about 1812, and a lawyer, which is what this archive's "Dr." has always rested on. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as the bride's father and as a witness, Montevideo marriage act 258 (1864); and his second wife's death act, Montevideo No. 45 of 17 Jan 1884 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D</a> |
| Enrique JUANICO Gonzalez (b.1841, Julia's brother) Unplaced | 1841-05-18 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A BROTHER OF JULIA JUANICO, found on the image 13 September 2026. Born 18 May 1841 and baptised on the SAME DAY as his sister - he at two and a half, she at ten and a half months. Son of D. Candido Juanico and Dona Juliana Joaquina Gonzalez. Not to be confused with the adult D. Enrique Juanico who stood godfather at Julia's baptism that same day; the archive keeps them as two rows deliberately. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptism act No. 404, 4 Oct 1843 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NLLP" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NLLP</a> |
| Sara JUANICO Lenguas (m. Casaravilla) Unplaced | 1866 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Half-sister of Julia Juanico, by Candido's second wife Sixta Lenguas. Married Pedro Casaravilla, Montevideo, 2 August 1894; died 1937. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records / Civil Registration, searched on Candido Juanico as father, 13 Sep 2026 |
| Zara Sista Emirena JUANICO Lenguas Unplaced | 1869-10-14 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Half-sister of Julia Juanico, christened 16 February 1870 at San Francisco de Asis. Her middle names echo Julia's own eldest daughter, Maria Julia Margarita Josefa EMIRENA Justiniana, born at Rosario in 1866. EMIRENA is not a common name and the two half-sisters were given it within a few years. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records / Civil Registration, searched on Candido Juanico as father, 13 Sep 2026 |
| Clara Henriette KNOF (m. Antonio Lerena Diaz 1924) Unplaced | 1909 · Crespo, Entre Rios, Argentina · Argentine · found in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires Fifteen years old at her marriage on 24 October 1924, so born about 1909: 'de quince anos, de nacionalidad ARGENTINA, nacida en CRESPO, domiciliada en Villa Crespo, de profesion quehaceres domesticos'. Daughter of OTTO KNOF, deceased, and IDA PONTOPHIDAN - a German-descended family of the Entre Rios colonies, which is what Crespo was. THE ACT RECORDS THAT HER MOTHER GAVE CONSENT IN PERSON, which at fifteen it had to. | record ↗ Libro de matrimonios: Crespo, Entre Rios. Marriage Records 1924 - acta No. 144, 24 October 1924, before Emilio F. Castellot; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Otto KNOF (d. before 1924) Unplaced | found in Crespo, Entre Rios Father of Clara Henriette Knof, and already dead at her marriage - the act writes him 'Otto Knof (fallecido)'. ENTERED BECAUSE THE ACT NAMES HIM, not because anything connects him to this archive's question. | record ↗ Libro de matrimonios: Crespo, Entre Rios. Marriage Records 1924 - acta No. 144, 24 October 1924, before Emilio F. Castellot; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Antonio LARENA (Cayasta) Excluded | Argentine? · found in Cayasta, Garay, Santa Fe RETRACTED. Cayasta was an ITALIAN COLONY - the register runs Laurini x5, Lauron, Castelarin, Masorini, Panluzzi, Gaetta, Salvaserra. The same mother is transcribed 'Ines Azela' for one child and 'Ines Raiela' for the other, so the indexer could not read the name. 'Larena' here is almost certainly an Italian surname mis-rendered. The apparent cluster is a transcription artefact. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Baptisms - children Maria (19 Jul 1890) and Carmela (10 Sep 1892) |
| Antonio LARENA (Gualeguaychu, 1895 census) Unplaced | 1876 · Entre Rios · Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios With Roque Larena at Gualeguaychu in 1895. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 national census |
| Aurora Eduarda LARENA Fuentes Unplaced | 1913 · Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026 from a row this register already held. She was named as a child on the row of her father VICENTE ANTONIO LARENA and VICENTA MERCEDES FUENTES and had no entry of its own, so a household this archive holds could not be drawn. The citation is the one that row already carried and no new research stands behind this entry. Born 1913, and a sister of Felix Antonio. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Entre Rios Civil Registration - via the register row of her father Vicente Antonio LARENA |
| Carmela LARENA Unplaced | 1892 · Cayasta, Santa Fe · Argentine · found in Cayasta, Garay, Santa Fe Daughter of Antonio Larena and Ines Raiela. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Baptisms 1645-1930, chr. 10 Sep 1892 |
| Felix Antonio LARENA Fuentes Unplaced | 1906 · Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026 from a row this register already held. He was named as a child on the row of his father VICENTE ANTONIO LARENA and VICENTA MERCEDES FUENTES and had no entry of its own, so a household this archive holds could not be drawn. The citation is the one that row already carried and no new research stands behind this entry. Born 1906, and a brother of Aurora Eduarda. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Entre Rios Civil Registration - via the register row of his father Vicente Antonio LARENA |
| Gregorio LARENA Unplaced | 1881 · Spanish · jornalero · found in arr. 1912-10-08 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship VALDIVIA |
| Juan Antonio LARENA Unplaced | 1837 · Gualeguaychu · Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios Son of Juan Larena and Petrona Lopez; m. Macedonia Lozano. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Entre Rios Civil Reg., d. 1 Jun 1908 |
| Juan LARENA (arr. 1910) Unplaced | 1883 · Zaragoza · Spanish · jornalero · found in arr. 1910-10-04 With an infant daughter, Rosa. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship PRINCIPE UMBERTO |
| Juan LARENA (Gualeguaychu) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios m. Petrona Lopez. Head of the largest documented Larena kindred in Argentina. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Entre Rios, Civil Registration 1833-1965 |
| Maria LARENA (arr. 1911) Unplaced | 1888 · Spanish · su casa · found in arr. 1911-05-09 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship BARCELONA |
| Maria LARENA (Cayasta baptism 1890) Unplaced | 1890 · Cayasta, Santa Fe · Argentine · found in Cayasta, Garay, Santa Fe Daughter of Antonio Larena and Ines Azela. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Baptisms 1645-1930, chr. 19 Jul 1890 |
| Rudosindo LARENA Unplaced | 1879 · Spanish · carpenter · found in arr. 1905-06-04 The earliest arrival under any spelling. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship PANAMA from Carril |
| Sytefano LARENA Unplaced | 1877 · Italian · agricultor · found in arr. 1909-03-02 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship ITALIE from Genova |
| Vicente Antonio LARENA Unplaced | Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios m. Vicenta Mercedes Fuentes; children Felix Antonio (1906), Aurora Eduarda (1913). | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Entre Rios Civil Reg. |
| Victorino Severo LARENA Unplaced | 1878 · Gualeguaychu · Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios Son of Juan Antonio Larena and Macedonia Lozano; m. Placida Epifania Alarcon. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Entre Rios Civil Reg., m. 4 May 1903 |
| Dr. D. Damaso LARRANAGA (Vicar, 1833) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · Cura y Vicario · found in Montevideo Named on the plate as the Cura y Vicario whose licence allowed the baptism of 19 October 1833: 'con licencia del Cura y Vicario D.r D. DAMASO LARRANAGA'. DAMASO ANTONIO LARRANAGA is one of the founding figures of Uruguay - first Vicar Apostolic of Montevideo, naturalist, and founder of the National Library. NO RELATIONSHIP TO THIS FAMILY IS CLAIMED AND NONE EXISTS: he is named because he held the office, as he is on thousands of Montevideo acts of these years. He is entered for the same reason the LAVALLEJAS, the RIVERAS, the ORIBES and GENERAL MAGGESI are: this archive records who was in the room, and in a small city in the 1830s the room kept containing the men in the history books. The fourth such name checked against a plate today, and the fourth to be really there. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de Montevideo, baptism of 19 October 1833 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 images 01176-01177; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKW-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKW-T</a> |
| Maria Ines LARRIERA Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of Alberto Lerena (Pedro Alberto Ysabelino, 1852-1921), named at his death. Nothing else in this archive names her. 'NOTHING ELSE IN THIS ARCHIVE NAMES HER' LASTED THREE HOURS. Eight children born in the Departamento de San Jose between 1879 and 1898 name her as their mother, and one of them - ZELMIRA CARLOTA - has been in this register since 14 September with her name on it, unrecognised. A VICTORIA CROSADE LARRIERA stood godmother at her son Carlos Ambrosio Florencio's baptism in 1889, presumably a sister. HER HUSBAND'S DEATH ACT WAS READ OFF THE IMAGE THE SAME DAY: 'era casado con MARIA INES LARRIERA, de cuya union quedan NUEVE HIJOS'. She outlived him - the act does not call her fallecida where it calls both his parents so - and she had borne nine children, one more than the civil index surfaces. HER OWN PARENTS, AT LAST - 11 October 2026. The christening of her eldest, Maria Adelina, at the Montevideo cathedral on 13 October 1879 names the maternal grandparents MIGUEL LARRIERA and CAROLINA CHAVARRIA. THIS ROW HAS SAID 'NOTHING ELSE IN THIS ARCHIVE NAMES HER' AND THEN BEEN CORRECTED TWICE - first by eight children, now by two parents. AND IT EXPLAINS A FORENAME: her youngest son was ANGEL MIGUEL AVELINO - Miguel for her father, Avelino for her husband's. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as the wife in the Montevideo death registration of Alberto Lerena, 2 March 1921 - index read; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LD5-X4PR" rel="noopener">1:1:6LD5-X4PR</a>; her husband's death act READ OFF THE IMAGE 21 September 2026 - film 008165205 image 01604, which is where the words quoted in the note below come from; and Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion y San Felipe y Santiago, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS 13 Feb 1879 to 24 Jul 1880, the christening of 13 October 1879 - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N</a> |
| Miguel LARRIERA (father of Maria Ines) Unplaced | found in Montevideo or San Jose Named as a maternal grandparent on the christening of his granddaughter Maria Adelina Lerena Larriera at the Montevideo cathedral, 13 October 1879, with his wife CAROLINA CHAVARRIA. HE IS THE LARRIERA OF THE LERENA LARRIERA, the eight children born in the Departamento de San Jose between 1879 and 1898. HIS GRANDSON ANGEL MIGUEL AVELINO CARRIES HIS NAME. Nothing else of him is known - no act of his own, no dates, no origin. CHAVARRIA and LARRIERA are both Basque-shaped, as is TRAIBEL on the other side of the same child. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion y San Felipe y Santiago, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS 13 Feb 1879 to 24 Jul 1880, the christening of 13 October 1879 - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N</a> |
| Ana LAVALLEJA Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother, with Constantino Lavalleja, to Ana Rosario Lerena Traibel on 12 March 1858 - the child carries her name. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713686 image 02847, folio 176, San Francisco de Asis - the two acts of 12 March 1858 that attach the Lerena Traibel branch to Sancho. EVERY NAME ON THEM SURVIVES THE CHECK, word for word. 'Dona ANA LAVALLEJA, a quienes adverti el parentesco espiritual y demas obligaciones: lo que por verdad firmo. MARTIN PEREZ.' | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptisms of 12 Mar 1858 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713686 image 02847 |
| Constantino LAVALLEJA Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather, with Ana Lavalleja, to Ana Rosario Lerena Traibel at San Francisco de Asis on 12 March 1858. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713686 image 02847, folio 176, San Francisco de Asis - the two acts of 12 March 1858 that attach the Lerena Traibel branch to Sancho. EVERY NAME ON THEM SURVIVES THE CHECK, word for word. 'fueron padrinos Do[n] CONSTANTINO LAVALLEJA y Dona Ana Lavalleja' - on the plate. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptisms of 12 Mar 1858 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713686 image 02847 |
| Justiniano LAVALLEJA Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather to Alfredo JUSTINIANO Lerena Traibel at San Francisco de Asis on 12 March 1858, and the man the child is named for. LAVALLEJA is one of the great names of Uruguayan independence - Juan Antonio Lavalleja led the Treinta y Tres Orientales in 1825. NO RELATIONSHIP TO HIM IS CLAIMED HERE: Lavalleja is a surname, not a proof. What the record shows is that this family stood at fonts with Lavallejas, as it had with a RIVERA in 1831 and married an ORIBE in 1836. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713686 image 02847, folio 176, San Francisco de Asis - the two acts of 12 March 1858 that attach the Lerena Traibel branch to Sancho. EVERY NAME ON THEM SURVIVES THE CHECK, word for word. THIS WAS THE NAME MOST AT RISK AND IT HOLDS. A machine that meets a famous Uruguayan surname will write it whether or not the page says so - that is exactly how FRUCTUOSO RIVERA got printed over the 1831 act's own FRUTUSO RIBERA. Here the page says 'JUSTINIANO LAVALLEJA', and it says it in a hand that also spells LERENA and TRAIBEL correctly on the same line. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptisms of 12 Mar 1858 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713686 image 02847 |
| Manuela LEMOS (m. Pedro A. LERENA) Unplaced | 1843c · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of PEDRO A. LERENA and mother of MANUEL ANTONIO LERENA (born 31 March 1883, christened 9 April 1883 at Montevideo) and of FELICIA CLEMENTINA LERENA (born about 1868, married 1886). HER HOUSEHOLD IS ONE OF THE FOUR WORK-LIST ROW 187 COULD NOT PLACE, and it now has two children and a span of fifteen years. WHICH PEDRO LERENA SHE MARRIED IS NOT SETTLED: this register holds a PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA born 1793, son of Sancho, who cannot be the father of an 1883 child, and a separate PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA who married TERESA LEONARD and fathered a son about 1866. WHETHER MANUELA LEMOS AND TERESA LEONARD WERE TWO WIVES OF ONE MAN OR THE WIVES OF TWO MEN IS NOT ESTABLISHED. INDEX ONLY. ANSWERED 12 OCTOBER 2026, OR NEARLY. His death registration names his parents: PEDRO A. LERENA and VICENTA DE LA VEGA - so the Pedro she married is a son of that couple, which is the parentage of PEDRO LERENA VEGA, counted at sixteen in Montevideo household 229 about 1833. He died 6 November 1896 aged 69. AND THE ACT WAS OPENED THE SAME EVENING AND CONFIRMS IT. Acta 353 calls her 'Dona Manuela, Oriental, de 53 anos' - so born about 1843 - and names the children of the marriage as Antonio, Carlos Teodoro and Manuel Antonio, with a further son, Don Pedro A. Lerena, declaring the death. Her husband is a son of PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA and VICENTA DE LA VEGA, named in the act. The question this row asked on 11 October is answered. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong>; and the Montevideo civil death registration of her husband, certificate 353, 7 November 1896 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6YDY-GP3T" rel="noopener">1:1:6YDY-GP3T</a>, found 12 October 2026; and Montevideo civil death registration, acta No. 353 of 7 November 1896, 15a Seccion de la Capital - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-909-72188-82458-0 on 12 October 2026 |
| D. Felipe LENGUAS Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather at Alberto Octavio Lerena's baptism, 7 October 1850, with Dona Dominga Carvallo. A fourth Lenguas in this generation. | no public link Named as godfather, act 585 of 7 Oct 1850 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J</a> |
| D. Juan LENGUAS Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather at Luis Eugenio Lerena's baptism, 7 January 1846, with Maria Fernandez. Presumably a brother of Justiniana. | no public link La Mauricia, Villa de la Union, Montevideo, baptised 7 Jan 1846 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J</a> |
| Don Antonio LENGUAS Unplaced | 1807 · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE FURTHEST BACK THE LENGUAS LINE NOW GOES, reached 14 September 2026. Father of General Don Pedro Lenguas, and so great-grandfather of both Luis Eugenio and Gilberto Lerena. Named with his wife Juana Grandal in his granddaughter Sixta's death act. An Antonio Lenguas BORN 1807 AT BUENOS AIRES and buried 30 July 1841 at San Isidro Labrador, Las Piedras, Canelones, with a wife JUANA GRANDAL, is in the indexed Uruguayan records - almost certainly this man, which would make the Lenguas a Buenos Aires family before they were a Montevideo one. | no public link Named in the death act of Sixta Lenguas, Montevideo No. 45, 17 Jan 1884 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D</a> |
| Dona Justiniana LENGUAS Gonzalez Unplaced | c.1822 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of the LERENA LENGUAS, and named as such in TWO acts read here: her son Luis Eugenio's marriage of 19 December 1864, at which she was also a witness, and her granddaughter Laura Adela's baptism of 1869, which calls her one of the "abuelos paternos". Her sister SIXTA LENGUAS GONZALEZ married Dr Candido Juanico - so the Lenguas married into both houses, and Sixta stood godmother to Laura Adela in 1869. That she was the second wife of Luis Lerena y Fernandez, and a daughter of Gen. Pedro Lenguas Grandal, is SECONDARY. SHE WAS ALIVE ON 24 DECEMBER 1901, AGED 79, and in the house where her son died. His death act No. 216 records her "de setenta y nueve anos, de profesion labores, domiciliada accidentalmente en la calle Suarez No. 25" - which puts her birth about 1822 and has her outliving Luis Eugenio. AND BY 1908 SHE WAS LIVING IN ARGENTINA, AGED 87. Her grandson Jose Julio's birth registration of that year describes her "de ochenta y siete anos, oriental, viuda, labores, RESIDENTE EN LA REPUBLICA ARGENTINA". She was 79 and in Montevideo when her son died in 1901; seven years later the matriarch of this family had crossed the river - and her son GILBERTO had moved to Buenos Aires between 1887 and 1889. HER OWN PARENTS ARE NOW IN AN ACT: "Maternos: el GENERAL D. PEDRO LENGUAS y Carmen Gonzalez". And that settles a question this archive had never been able to answer: SIXTA LENGUAS, the second wife of Dr Candido Juanico, has the very same parents on her 1884 death registration - so JUSTINIANA AND SIXTA ARE SISTERS. When Luis Eugenio married Julia Juanico in December 1864, the groom's maternal AUNT was already the bride's STEPMOTHER. The families had been joined since 1857. HER MARRIAGE ACT, 3 MARCH 1842: "Justiniana Lenguas, natural de la Ciudad de Montevideo, de VEINTE anos de edad, hija legitima del Sr. GRAL. Lenguas y Dona Carmen Gonzalez." Twenty years old, so born about 1822 - agreeing exactly with her stated 79 in 1901 and 87 in 1908. She was her husband's SECOND wife; he was a widower of a Dona Carolina. AND SHE WAS ALREADY A WIDOW IN 1895, aged 73, living in Gilberto's Buenos Aires house - "Lenguas de L. Justiniana, m, 73, VIUDA, R. Oriental" on the schedule of Seccion 21, Manzana 15. So DON LUIS LERENA WAS DEAD BY 1895, which closes his death window to 1850-1895. She was in Argentina thirteen years earlier than the 1908 evidence this archive had. | GRO index — no public per-record link Named as the groom's mother, and a witness, in Montevideo marriage act 258 (1864); and her marriage of 3 March 1842 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-V7SM-N" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-V7SM-N</a> |
| Dona Sixta LENGUAS Gonzalez (2nd wife of Candido Juanico) Unplaced | c.1837 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE SISTER OF JUSTINIANA LENGUAS - established 13 September 2026. Her death registration of 17 January 1884 names her parents as "Pedro Lenguas, Carmen Gonzalez" and her husband as "Candido Juanico"; the 1846 baptism acts name Justiniana's parents as the same couple. So the second wife of Julia Juanico's father was the sister of Luis Eugenio's mother, and the two families were joined in 1857 - seven years before the marriage this archive has treated as the join. Married Candido Juanico in 1857 per a published genealogy; the mother of Sara, Zara Sista Emirena and Celia Juanico Lenguas, born 1866-1869. She is NOT the mother of Julia, who was born in 1842 to Juliana Joaquina Gonzalez - an inference this archive made from the dates before it could prove it, and then proved. THE IMAGE IS NOW READ, 14 September 2026, and it carries the family two generations further back. She died at one in the morning at calle de Piedras No. 202, aged 47. Her parents "D. PEDRO LENGUAS y Dona CARMEN GONZALEZ, finados"; her paternal grandparents "D. ANTONIO LENGUAS y Dona JUANA GRANDAL"; her maternal "D. PASCUAL GONZALEZ y Dona JOSEFA GRANDAL". Her husband is recorded "D. CANDIDO JUANICO, Oriental, edad 72 anos, viudo, ABOGADO". | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil death registration, 2nd section, act No. 45, 17 Jan 1884 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N36Y-D</a> |
| General Don Pedro LENGUAS Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of JUSTINIANA and of SIXTA Lenguas, and called "el GENERAL" in his granddaughter's baptism act. Through Justiniana he is great-grandfather to Gilberto Lerena's children; through Sixta he is father-in-law to Dr Candido Juanico. He also stood godfather at his granddaughter's christening. HIS OWN PARENTS ARE NOW NAMED: D. ANTONIO LENGUAS and Dona JUANA GRANDAL - from his daughter Sixta's death act of 1884, image read. That is a generation this archive had never reached. THE RANK IS CONFIRMED IN A SECOND ACT, four years earlier: his daughter's marriage of 3 March 1842 calls her "hija legitima del Sr. GRAL. Lenguas y Dona Carmen Gonzalez". AND IT EXPLAINS A FAMILYSEARCH GHOST: the index of that act renders "Gral. D. Pedro" as a forename - "Geraldo Dios Lenguas" - which is how a military rank turns into a christian name and a searchable person who never existed. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as maternal grandfather in the 1846 baptisms at La Mauricia - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J</a> |
| Telesforo LENGUAS (in Luis Lerena's household, c.1858) Unplaced · of interest | c.1824 · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A LENGUAS LIVING IN DON LUIS LERENA'S HOUSE, and entirely new to this archive. Entered at 34 in household 97, a year older than Justiniana Lenguas herself, among her children. A brother of hers is the obvious reading and is NOT asserted - the census gives no relationships, only names, ages and nationality. No Telesforo appears anywhere else here. | record ↗ Uruguay census, household 97; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9ZP-B94V-P" rel="noopener">3:1:3QSQ-G9ZP-B94V-P</a> |
| Marcos de LEON GONZALEZ (godfather, 1825) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Godfather at the marriage of ALEJANDRO LERENA, 16 September 1825 at San Jose - and the surname is the point. This archive holds MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ, the groom's mother, as 'natural de la Ysla de Canarias, LANZAROTE, daughter of MARCIAL DE LEON GONZALEZ'. SO THE GODFATHER CARRIES THE GROOM'S MOTHER'S FULL COMPOUND SURNAME, DE LEON GONZALEZ, and stands at her son's wedding - which is what a brother, a nephew or her own father does. MARCOS AND MARCIAL ARE ONE LETTER APART AND ARE NOT MERGED HERE: the archive's Marcial comes from a different act, and a godparent line does not state a relationship. | record ↗ Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Teresa LEONARD (m. Pedro Antonio LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of MANUEL LERENA LEONARD, named with her husband PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA on their son's 1890 marriage and his 1926 death registration. HER SURNAME IS THE SOURCE OF HIS COMPOUND and it is not a Spanish or Italian name - LEONARD is English, Irish or French, which would make her the first such woman this register has met in the Uruguayan line. THAT IS AN OBSERVATION ABOUT A SURNAME AND NOT A CLAIM ABOUT HER; no record of her own has been found. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the MANUEL LERENA sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| [infant son] LERENA (unnamed; d. 22 May 1932, Bloemfontein) Connected | 1932 · Bloemfontein · SA · found in Orange Free State A SON OF ROQUE LUIS ARMANDO LERENA, born and dead at BLOEMFONTEIN in May 1932. The civil death registration gives the parent as Louis Lerena and the place as BLOEMFONTEIN, which no record in this archive had ever put this family in - it sits between the Cape of Roque's birth and the Transvaal of his death. THE ARCHIVE HAD HIM AS 'an unnamed infant' FROM A TREE; the register says MALE. The tree gives b. 17 May, d. 22 May 1932; the register gives the death as 22 May 1932 and an age this archive will not use - see data/roque-infants-civil-deaths.tsv. He is one of three infant children of Roque who died before their father and so appear on no death notice of his. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry South Africa, Orange Free State, Civil Death Registration, 1902-1954 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:87XR-S93Z" rel="noopener">1:1:87XR-S93Z</a> |
| Abdona Ignacia LERENA (d. 1850, aged 7 days) Unplaced | 1850 · San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo A DAUGHTER OF MAURICIO LERENA AND CASIMIRA MONTANO, DEAD AT SEVEN DAYS. Buried en el angelorio at the Parroquia de San Jose on 7 August 1850 by Don Francisco Castello, Cura Vicario interino: 'di sepultura en el angelorio al cadaver de ABDONA IGNACIA, hija legitima de Don MAURICIO LERENA y Dona CASIMIRA MONTANA, murio el dia anterior de enfermedad, de edad de SIETE DIAS'. SHE CARRIES HER MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER'S NAME, IGNACIA BARREDO. AND THE MARGIN WRITES HER 'ABDONA IGNACIA LORENA' where the body writes LERENA - the same trap, in one entry. A SEPARATE PERSON FROM ANY LATER IGNACIA LERENA, and that matters: row 319 lists an Ignacia Lerena marrying at Trinidad in 1882 as a candidate child of this couple. REUSING A DEAD INFANT'S NAME WAS ORDINARY, AND IT IS EXACTLY HOW TWO PEOPLE BECOME ONE BY ACCIDENT. | record ↗ San Jose de Mayo, San Jose. Religious Death Records July 1839-December 1851 - burial of 7 August 1850; image 94, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-J7GH-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-J7GH-Y</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Abelino LERENA (godfather, 1833) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A LERENA MAN OF SANCHO'S OWN GENERATION OR THE NEXT, found 14 September 2026. He stood godfather with Dominga Lerena at the Catedral in October 1833 to a child of Justa Pastora Lerena - so almost certainly her brother or cousin. The transcript renders him "Abelino Serena", one more instance of the S-for-L this archive has met before. AVELINO is also the forename attached to the LERENA TRAIBEL branch elsewhere in this archive, which is worth testing rather than assuming. THE AGE NOW FITS, WHICH IS NOT THE SAME AS PROOF. Avelino Lerena Fernandez, Sancho's son, is now dated to a birth of 1815 - so he was EIGHTEEN in October 1833. Young for a godfather and entirely possible, and he would have been standing for his own sister's child. STILL KEPT AS A SEPARATE ROW until a record joins them, for the reason the two Arturos exist in this archive. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, AND THE PLATE SAYS LERENA, NOT SERENA. So the S-for-L in this row was the MACHINE'S, not the record's - the third time today an assertion about this family's spelling turned out to be a transcript artefact rather than a scribe's. The act reads 'Padrinos ABELINO LERENA y DOMINGA LERENA'. AND THE CO-GODPARENT MATTERS MORE THAN THE SPELLING. He did not stand alone: he stood with DOMINGA LERENA, and Dominga Josefa Llerena Fernandez is a DOCUMENTED daughter of Sancho, baptised at Canelones on 15 May 1804. So the two at this font are a documented Sancho daughter and this man, at the baptism of a third Sancho daughter's child. That is corroboration from 1833 for a parentage the 1858 acts settled - twenty-five years earlier and from a different parish. It is still not proof: a cousin can stand beside a sister. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godparent at the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo, baptism of Oct 1833 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKW-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKW-T</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 images 01176-01177 |
| Adolfo LERENA (godfather, Pocitos 1903) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A LERENA MAN THIS ARCHIVE HAS NEVER MET, and he was invisible until the plate was opened. He stood godfather to Maria Margarita Zalduondo Lerena at Pocitos on 15 August 1903, with Maria Angelica Yubia. A Lerena at the font of a Lerena woman's child is very likely her brother - which would make him another child of the AVELINO and CELIDONIA B. whose names are on the same act as maternal grandparents. THAT IS THE OBVIOUS READING AND IT IS NOT DOCUMENTED HERE: the act gives him no parents and no age. He is also the only ADOLFO in this register. AND HE IS TWELVE YEARS OLDER THAN THIS ROW THOUGHT - 11 October 2026. At NUESTRA SENORA DEL CARMEN, EL CORDON, between January 1891 and July 1892, 'ADOLFO LERENA' and 'MARIA MERCEDES LERENA' stood godparents together to BALVINA MARIA, daughter of MANUEL CABRERA and BALVINA VALDIVIA. SO HE WAS AN ADULT BY 1891, not merely by 1903, and he was at the Cordon - the parish where Alejandro Maximo Lerena married Elisa Villademoros in 1871 and where the Lerena Traibel were christened. TWO LERENAS AT ONE FONT AGAIN, and this time both of them are ours to place. She is given no married name, which is the ordinary way a register writes an unmarried woman, so BROTHER AND SISTER IS THE LIKELIEST READING AND IS NOT PROVED. THE DATE WITHIN THE VOLUME IS NOT ESTABLISHED - the book runs January 1891 to July 1892 and the act was read from the names panel, not the page. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godfather in the Pocitos baptism of 15 August 1903 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713400 image 02828, folio 344; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a>; and Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS January 1891 to July 1892, the christening of Balvina Maria Cabrera - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-KSWC-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-KSWC-H</a> |
| Agustina Ramona LERENA Fernandez Connected | 1795-08-27 · Canelones ("el Canelon") · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo, calle San Juan No 60 ONE OF SANCHO'S SIX CHILDREN LISTED IN THE 1812 PADRON, and the first time any of them has been entered here. The household at calle San Juan No 60 held Sancho "andaluz" 45, Maria Fernandez 36, and six children all "naturales del CANELON" - Juan Agustin 21, Pedro Antonio 19, Agustina 17, Fidel 12, Justa 10 and Dominga 7 - together with Sancho's father-in-law RODRIGO FERNANDEZ, 63, asturiano, and four enslaved people. That all six were born at Canelones is the best support the 1791 marriage venue has, and it comes from a census rather than from a tree. NOT AN ACT: this row rests on a published transcription of a census, reported at second hand through a family tree. The act has not been opened here. Aged 17 in the 1812 padron, so born about 1795, which the tree gives exactly. She is the second half of the 1812 godparent pair - "Dona AGUSTINA PERENA" - standing with her elder brother Juan Agustin at a Fernandez grandchild's baptism. Her forename repeats his second, which is the ordinary Spanish habit of naming siblings from one saint. HER ACT IS FOUND, 15 September 2026, one day after she was entered here from a census age and a tree. Canelones, 30 August 1795: "bautice puse el Santo Oleo y Crisma a AGUSTINA RAMONA de tres dias nacida, hija legitima de Don Sancho Lerena y de Dona Maria Fernandez vecinos de la Villa". Born 27 August 1795, and her second forename is RAMONA. Her godfather was DON FIDEL REY of Montevideo - which is where her younger brother FIDEL got a forename that appears nowhere else in this family. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, AND SHE GAINS A SECOND FORENAME. Film 008166571 image 01017: 'a TREINTA DIAS DEL MES DE AGOSTO ... yo el Cura y Vic.o de esta Parroquia de los CANELONES ... bautize, puse el Santo Oleo y Crisma a AGUSTINA RAMONA, DE TRES DIAS NACIDA, hija legitima de D.n SANCHO LERENA y de D.a Maria Fernandez, VECINOS DE LA VILLA. Fueron sus padrinos D.n FIDEL REY, vecino de MONTEVIDEO, y D.a JOSEFA ... de la misma Villa.' 'DE TRES DIAS NACIDA' CONFIRMS THE BIRTH OF 27 AUGUST 1795 that this register carried from a tree and a padron. AND THE GODFATHER EXPLAINS A NAME THIS FAMILY USES: FIDEL. Sancho's next son but one was christened FIDEL, about 1799 - four years after Don Fidel Rey stood at this font. This family names children for whoever stands at the font, five times over in the acts read here, so the likeliest source of the forename FIDEL in the Lerena is this man. IT IS AN INFERENCE FROM A PATTERN, NOT FROM A RECORD, and it does not touch the separate question of whether the FIDEL LERENA who married Maria Ruedas is Sancho's son. The act also carries a scribal self-correction - the teniente cura is written 'D.r Christoval Munoz QUIERO DECIR ...' - and the Cura y Vicario signs JOSE MANUEL DE ROO, the same hand that signs Jose Loreto's act eleven years later. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Padron de Montevideo de 1812 (AGN, Fondo ex AGA, L 251), transcribed in Apolant, "Operativo Patagonia" ficha 355 and quoted in the Geneanet tree of jfina; plus that tree's own child list; Canelones baptism, 30 Aug 1795 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-M</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008166571 image 01017 |
| Alba LERENA (godmother, Trinidad 1905-09) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Godmother at Trinidad between 1905 and 1909, with a godfather the panel renders 'PIO C. PERENA' - the same man as the 'Pio C. Serena' of the companion volume, under a third spelling. ALBA IS A FORENAME THIS REGISTER HAS NOT MET. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Santisima Trinidad, Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69QT-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69QT-J</a> |
| Alberto Julian LERENA LARRIERA Unplaced | 1883-08-17 · Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Son of Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera, born in the Departamento de San Jose on 17 August 1883 and named for his father. His is the one record of the eight whose detail was read out in full - certificate 157, page 73 - and it names both parents and no grandparents. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020, Departamento San Jose - index read 21 September 2026, certificate 157, page 73, microfilm 1935375; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR41-4D5" rel="noopener">1:1:VR41-4D5</a> |
| Name | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Alberto Octavio LERENA LENGUAS Unplaced | 1850-03-22 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo IMAGE READ 13 September 2026, and his name is ALBERTO OCTAVIO - not "Alberto Otario", which is how FamilySearch indexed it. Born 22 March 1850, baptised 7 October 1850. "Hijo legitimo de D. Luis Lerena y Dona Justiniana Lenguas, NATURALES DE MONTEVIDEO. Paternos: D. Sancho y Dona Maria Fernandez. Maternos: D. Pedro y Dona Carmen Gonzalez." Godparents D. Felipe Lenguas and Dona Dominga Carvallo. His act is the one that puts SANCHO on a document. HE IS NOT ZELMIRA'S FATHER, and this archive floated him as a candidate for six days. From 14 September the Zelmira Carlota row offered him as the Alberto Lerena who fathered a daughter in San Jose in 1880 - on a forename and an age, which that row itself called 'precisely the evidence that produced the two Arturos'. WITHDRAWN 21 September 2026 on a document: that Alberto's death registration names his parents as Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel, not Luis and Justiniana. He is Alberto Octavio's FIRST COUSIN. Nothing is known here of Alberto Octavio after his baptism of 7 October 1850. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry S. Agustin, pueblo de la Restauracion, Montevideo, baptism act No. 585, 7 Oct 1850 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J</a> |
| Alejandra Raymunda LERENA Gazo Unplaced | c.1874 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Ysaac Lerena and Adelaida Gazo, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Alejandrina LERENA (m. Balbino PELAEZ) Connected | 1852 · Sexta Seccion, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores THE DAUGHTER OF ALEJANDRO LERENA THE YOUNGER THAT THIS ARCHIVE COULD ONLY INFER UNTIL 10 October 2026. Yesterday it wrote 'a daughter of his by Isidora Chourino married MALVINO PELAEZ' and could not name her. Her death act - Estacion Juan Jose Castro, 28 January 1926, read off the plate - gives 'ALEJANDRINA LERENA DE PELAEZ... nacida en esta Seccion, de SETENTA Y CUATRO ANOS, de estado viuda... hija de ALEJANDRO LERENA y de YSIDORA CHOUSINA, ambos fallecidos. Abuelos paternos: ALEJANDRO LERENA y MARGARITA FERNANDEZ. Abuelos maternos: se ignora'. SO BORN ABOUT 1852, and HER GRANDPARENTS CONFIRM THE 1854 EXPEDIENTE FROM A SECOND ACT SEVENTY-TWO YEARS LATER. HER MOTHER'S SURNAME HAS A THIRD SPELLING HERE - CHOUSINA against CHONZENO in 1854 and CHOURINO on the Flores act; none is preferred. FOUR CHILDREN: Luis, Aurora, Antonio Eusebio and Juan Pedro, who declared her death. | record ↗ Flores. Death Records March 1918-January 1919 - acta of 28 January 1926; image 85, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-QNVC" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-QNVC</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Alejandro Esteban LERENA Alvarez Unplaced | 1901-12-26 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 26 December 1901, registered 30 December 1901 and christened at Trinidad 14 March 1902. HE IS A FIFTH ALEJANDRO and belongs on the watch list in data/the-three-alejandros.tsv. AND A CONFLICT THIS ROW KEEPS: a brother GUALBERTO LERENA ALVAREZ is christened with a birth of 2 April 1901, eight months before this one. Both cannot be right as stated; neither act has been opened. Parents on the record: Gualberto LERENA and Rosaura ALVAREZ. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Alejandro F. LERENA (m. Natalia LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named as the father of AURORA LERENA on her children's civil birth registrations at Trinidad, 11 October 2026, with his wife given as NATALIA LERENA. SO THIS IS A LERENA WHO MARRIED A LERENA - the same shape as the 1894, 1911 and 1913 couples, and the fourth such pairing this register has met. NO DISPENSATION HAS BEEN FOUND FOR THEM and none is claimed; their daughter was born about 1868, which puts the marriage in the 1860s, before the Montevideo dispensation series this archive has worked. HE IS ALSO ONE OF THE TWO MEN WORK-LIST ROW 137 CALLS UNWORKED - 'Alejandro F. Lerena' - and this is the first record to give him a wife and a child. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Alejandro Joaquin Narciso LERENA Villardemoros Unplaced | 1872-10-29 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Born 29 October 1872 and christened at the Iglesia del Cordon on 29 May 1873, son of Alejandro Lerena and Elisa Villardemoros. His godparents are the interesting part: JOAQUIN REGUSA Y GARCIA and ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS. The first is almost certainly the JOAQUIN REQUENA named on the 1866 christening of Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre, his probable first cousin; the second carries his mother's surname. The child's own second forename is JOAQUIN, for the godfather, which is how this family names. Index-level. READ OFF THE PLATE 27 September 2026. 'En veinte y nueve de Mayo [de 1873] el Cura y Vicario bautizo solemnemente a ALEJANDRO JOAQUIN NARCISO, nacido el veinte y nueve de Octubre, hijo legitimo de D. ALEJANDRO LERENA [y Da. ELISA VILLADEMOROS], orientales. Padrinos D. JOAQUIN REGUSA y Da. ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS.' NO GRANDPARENTS ARE NAMED, which is the one thing this plate was opened for. HE CROSSED TO ARGENTINA AND MARRIED THERE, found 27 September 2026. Marriage 1907 at the Inmaculada Concepcion, BELL VILLE, departamento Union, CORDOBA - to AMALIA CASAS, with his parents given as 'ALEJANDRO M LERENA' and 'ELISA VILLADEMORAS'. SO THE SON OF THE FIRST MARRIAGE WENT TO ARGENTINA TOO. His half-brothers and half-sisters by Julia Bassani were born at Montevideo, then Misiones, then Buenos Aires; he is in CORDOBA. INDEX ONLY - no image opened. A marriage act names the groom's parents, his age and often his birthplace, so this plate is worth opening: it would be a FOURTH independent statement of his father's name and might date him. READ OFF THE PLATE 27 September 2026, and it gives four things the index did not. The act, entry N 282: 'El dia VEINTE DE JUNIO del ano mil novecientos y siete ... el Teniente Pbro. autorizado por el infrascripto Cura del Curato de SAN JERONIMO, Provincia y Obispado de Cordoba, en la [Iglesia - struck out] CASA PARTICULAR DE LA NOVIA, DISPENSADAS las moniciones canonicas, autorizo el matrimonio de ALEJANDRO JOAQUIN LERENA, de TREINTA Y CUATRO anos de edad, NATURAL DE MONTEVIDEO, REPUBLICA ORIENTAL, domiciliado en este Curato, e hijo legitimo de ALEJANDRO M. [LERENA] y ELISA VILLADEMORAS (FINADOS), con AMALIA CASAS, vecina de este pueblo, hija legitima de CORNELIO CASAS y RAIMUNDA PEREDA.' THE INDEX SAID ONLY '1907' AND 'Inmaculada Concepcion, Bell Ville'; THE PLATE SAYS 20 JUNE AND SAN JERONIMO. And the index read the surname SERENA: on the plate the initial is a clear L, set beside the scribe's own S in 'San Jeronimo' on the same opening. SIXTH S-FOR-L. Age 34 in June 1907 fits his birth of 29 October 1872. THE BANNS WERE DISPENSED AND THEY MARRIED IN THE BRIDE'S HOUSE RATHER THAN THE CHURCH, which is what haste or illness looks like on a parish form. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening of Alejandro Joaquin Narciso Lerena, Cordon, Montevideo, 29 May 1873; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-WTXR" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-WTXR</a>; index read 20 September 2026 - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 007713388 image 02091; and Argentina, Cordoba, Catholic Church Records 1557-1974 - his marriage at Inmaculada Concepcion, Bell Ville, Union, Cordoba, 1907; index read 27 September 2026 - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004484760 image 00123, entry N 282, Parroquia de San Jeronimo, Cordoba |
| Alejandro LERENA (the elder, m. Margarita Fernandez Alvarez) Connected | Villa del Rosario, Colonia, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores THE FATHER OF THE TRINIDAD KINDRED, found 9 October 2026 in two expedientes three years apart. Named in 1855 as the father of SOCORRO LERENA and in 1858 as the father of BERNABE LERENA, both times married to MARGARITA FERNANDEZ [ALVAREZ], and in 1854 as the father of ALEJANDRO LERENA the younger. THREE CHILDREN, FROM THREE SEPARATE DOCUMENTS. NATURAL DE SAN JOSE, VECINO DE TRINIDAD - the 1858 expediente says so of him and his wife. ALIVE IN AUGUST 1855, when his daughter's petition describes her living at her parents' side. HIS OWN PARENTS ARE DRAWN ABOVE HIM: RAMON LERENA and MARIA GONZALEZ, at the apex of the schema the Cura Vicario drew in 1858. NO BIRTH YEAR IS RECORDED AND NONE IS INVENTED HERE. His daughter was born about 1832, so he belongs to the 1800s or the 1790s. HIS OWN MARRIAGE ACT, READ OFF THE PLATE THE SAME DAY HE WAS ADDED. Act No. 17, 16 September 1825, Villa y Parroquia de San Jose, before Don Joseph Andres Salvatierra: 'ALEXANDRO LEREÑA, Natural de la VILLA DEL ROSARIO, y vecino de esta, hijo legitimo de RAMON LEREÑA y de MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ'. SO HE IS A SON OF RAMON LERENA OF ROSARIO-COLLA AND A BROTHER OF MAURICIO, a descent this archive has held in data/ramon-lerena-rosario.tsv since 17 September. AND HIS BIRTHPLACE CONTRADICTS THE 1858 EXPEDIENTE, WHICH CALLS HIM AND MARGARITA 'NATURALES DE SAN JOSE'. THE 1825 ACT IS THE BETTER WITNESS - it is his own marriage, and it says ROSARIO, while calling Margarita natural de esta Villa, which IS San Jose. THE EXPEDIENTE'S PLURAL LOOKS LIKE A CLERK COLLAPSING TWO ORIGINS INTO ONE. Recorded as a conflict, not resolved by preference. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1857-1860 - EXPEDIENTE with kinship diagram, Santisima Trinidad, 15 February 1858; image 209, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825, before Don Joseph Andres Salvatierra, Cura y Vicario Interino; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10 (indexed at 00009), ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Alejandro LERENA (the younger, m.1 Isidora Chourino, m.2 Severa Fernandez 1854) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SECOND ALEJANDRO, AND THE REASON THIS ARCHIVE DID NOT COLLAPSE TWO WIVES INTO ONE. On 2 December 1854 at Trinidad he petitions as 'Don ALEJANDRO LERENA de estado VIUDO de la finada Dona ISIDORA CHOURINO' to marry Dona SEVERA FERNANDEZ, and the witness names his parents as Don ALEJANDRO y Dona MARGARITA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ - so he is a son of the elder Alejandro, and a brother of Socorro and Bernabe. HIS BRIDE IS A SISTER OF SOCORRO'S HUSBAND, both children of Manuel Fernandez Alvarez and Maria de los Reyes Gonzalez: two Lerena siblings married two Fernandez siblings in consecutive years, each pair dispensed. AND HIS FIRST MARRIAGE LEFT ISSUE: a daughter of his by Isidora Chourino married MALVINO PELAEZ, by a Flores death act of their son. He wished to marry quickly, the petition says, before a journey that would keep him away a long time. A SON AT LAST, AND HE CAME FROM THE GERENA SPELLING - 12 October 2026. VENANCIO, married at Santisima Trinidad on 24 April 1885, with his parents given as 'Alejandro Lerma' and SEVERA FERNANDEZ. THIS ARCHIVE HAD NO CHILD OF EITHER OF HIS MARRIAGES. The same sweep returns his own marriage of 24 December 1854 under SERENA, which is the control. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1852-1855 - EXPEDIENTE, Trinidad, 2 December 1854; image 258, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T9T9-T</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - spelling sweeps PERENA, GERENA, LLERENA + Flores, 12 October 2026 |
| Alejandro LERENA TRAIBEL (formerly recorded as LERENA LENGUAS) Unplaced | 1843-05-29 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo CORRECTED 14 SEPTEMBER 2026, AND THE CORRECTION MOVES HIM BETWEEN BRANCHES. This archive recorded him on 13 September as "A SIXTH CHILD of Luis Lerena and Justiniana Lenguas", born 29 May 1845. BOTH HALVES WERE WRONG. The act reads: "bautizo solemnemente a ALEJANDRO, que nacio el veinte y nueve de Mayo del pasado ano CUARENTA Y TRES, hijo legitimo de AVELINO SERENA y AMBROSIA TRAIBEL. Paternos FRANCISCO y MARIA FERNANDEZ. Maternos JUAN e ISABEL CENTENO. Padrinos LUIS [L]ERENA y JUSTINIANA LENGUAS." He is a son of AVELINO, not of Luis - and Luis and Justiniana are his GODPARENTS, which is how the archive came to read them as his parents. The two brothers brought their children to the same font on the same morning and stood for each other's. So he is the ELDEST KNOWN CHILD OF AVELINO LERENA AND AMBROSIA TRAIBEL - eight years before Josefa and thirteen before Alfredo, who was born 2 October 1856 and not the 1858 this register carried until 20 September - and this row said he "pushes their marriage back before May 1843". THAT LAST CLAIM IS WITHDRAWN, 20 September 2026, AND SO IS THE CONFIDENCE IN HIS BIRTH YEAR. The page was re-read end to end and all three acts on it give the year in the identical words, "del pasado ano cuarenta y tres" - including one for a different couple. The phrase contradicts itself (these acts open "En siete de Enero de mil ochocientos cuarenta y seis", so "el pasado ano" is 1845), and it cannot be literally true, because the two children of Luis and Justiniana on this page would then be born five months apart. So the year here is a formula, not a statement, and nothing outside this page dates Alejandro at all. His birth is UNDETERMINED BETWEEN 29 MAY 1843 AND 29 MAY 1845, the born_est below is the earlier of the two and not a finding, and the safe floor for the marriage of Avelino and Ambrosia is before May 1845. See data/montevideo-1846-lerena-baptisms.tsv. AND HE IS A FOURTH ALEJANDRO. See data/the-three-alejandros.tsv: the enrolment cards of Cajon 985 name an ALEJANDRO MAXIMO LERENA, born Uruguay 1839, whose parents no record here names. Four years apart from this man. NOTHING POSITIVE LINKS THEM and they stay separate rows, but the candidate pool has changed and the table needs re-reading. AND ON 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 A SECOND SON OF THE SAME COUPLE WITH THE SAME FORENAME WAS PROVED TO EXIST ON A PLATE. The Cordon act of 26 December 1877 names 'D. ALEJANDRO M. LERENA ... abuelos paternos D. AVELINO y D.a AMBROSIA TRAIBEL'. THAT IS EITHER THIS MAN OR A BROTHER OF THE SAME NAME, AND THE FIRST IS FAR LIKELIER - families reused a forename when a child died, and nothing here shows the 1846 infant died. The stated ages of Alejandro M. put his birth between March and November 1844; this act offers 29 May 1843 or 1845. The two rows stand until one record joins or separates them. | no public link La Mauricia, Villa de la Union, Montevideo, baptised 7 Jan 1846 - IMAGE READ and FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J</a> |
| Alejandro M. LERENA (m.1 Elisa VILLADEMOROS; m.2 Julia BASSANI) Unplaced · high interest | 1844 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · escribano (notary) · found in Montevideo, later Buenos Aires THE ALEJANDRO M. LERENA OF THE ARMY ENROLMENT CARDS, CAJON 985 - and the M. is on the acts, in the clerk's hand, not only in the index. He appeared in person twice: on 6 November 1886, "parecieron don Alejandro M. Lerena, de cuarenta y dos anos de edad, viudo, escribano, oriental, domiciliado en la calle San Jose N 17"; and again in March 1888, "comparecieron don Alejandro M. Lerena de 43 anos de edad de estado viudo de nacionalidad Oriental". TWO AGES SIXTEEN MONTHS APART, CONSISTENT WITH EACH OTHER, PUT HIS BIRTH BETWEEN 17 MARCH AND 6 NOVEMBER 1844. The tree's "born Uruguay 1839" is five years out on both acts and is a tree value, not a record. HE IS A WIDOWER IN 1886 while Julia Bassani is twenty-two and soltera, so there is an earlier marriage and an earlier death in Montevideo - and a marriage act names the groom's parents, which is now the shortest route to his parentage. THE 1888 ACT IS A PRINTED FORM WHOSE RULED LINE READS "Que es nieta por linea paterna de ______" AND THE LINE IS BLANK. So is the maternal one. The form asked this archive's question and nobody wrote the answer on it. NOT MERGED with Alejandro LERENA TRAIBEL (b. 1843 or 1845, son of Avelino) - the ages miss both of that man's candidate dates by one year, in opposite directions, which cannot choose between them. See data/the-three-alejandros.tsv. MAXIMO IS NOW ATTESTED ON A PLATE, 22 September 2026, and not only in the tree. His son Hector's marriage act of 25 February 1911 at San Carlos, Buenos Aires, names him in the priest's hand as "D. ALEJANDRO MAXIMO [Lerena], natural de la Rep. Oriental". So the bare "M." of the two Montevideo birth acts expands to MAXIMO, and the Alejandro M. Lerena of army Cajon 985 has the same expansion. He was still being named as a living father's name in Buenos Aires in 1911. AND HIS FIRST WIFE MAY BE NAMED AT LAST, 27 September 2026. He is viudo on both Montevideo acts of 1886 and 1888, and this archive has been hunting the marriage that made him one. The Iglesia Matriz act of 29 September 1872 names the godparents of a Lerena Traibel child as 'ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y ELISA VILLADEMOROS, a quienes instruyo' - read off the plate. THE M. IS THE TELL: no other Alejandro in this register carries it, and the archive's separate row 'Alejandro LERENA (m. Elisa VILLARDEMOROS)' has a son christened at the Cordon on 29 May 1873. THIS IS NOT YET A MERGE - the two rows still stand, and data/_person-pairs.txt has been rewritten to say why the old reason for keeping them apart was wrong. A man who is a WIDOWER in 1886 and a husband in 1872 is one man with two wives in sequence, which is the ordinary case and is exactly what this archive mistook for two men. ANSWERED, 27 SEPTEMBER 2026, AND IT IS THE QUESTION THIS ARCHIVE HAS CARRIED SINCE 14 SEPTEMBER. data/the-three-alejandros.tsv called his parentage 'NOT KNOWN ... This is the whole obstacle'. HIS PARENTS ARE AVELINO LERENA AND AMBROSIA TRAIBEL. The Cordon act of 26 December 1877, read off film 007713388 image 02455: 'hija legitima de D. ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y de D.a ELISA [VILLADEMOROS] (hoy finada), orientales. ABUELOS PATERNOS D. AVELINO y D.a AMBROSIA TRAIBEL'. SO THE ALEJANDRO M. LERENA OF ARMY DRAWER CAJON 985 IS A LERENA TRAIBEL - a grandson of Sancho Llerena, and a brother of Josefa, Alberto, Alfredo Justiniano, Ana Rosario and the rest. AND THE WIDOWHOOD IS DATED. Elisa is 'HOY FINADA' on 26 December 1877 and her daughter was born 19 September 1876, so she died inside those fifteen months - which is why he is 'viudo' on both Montevideo acts of 1886 and 1888. WHAT REMAINS IS ONE ROW, NOT ONE QUESTION: this register also holds ALEJANDRO LERENA TRAIBEL, baptised at La Mauricia on 7 January 1846, a son of the same couple with the same forename, whose birth the act puts at 29 May 1843 or 1845 against the 1844 these acts give. Same parents, same name, compatible dates. They are almost certainly one man and are not yet merged; see data/_person-pairs.txt. AND HIS MARRIAGE TO ELISA IS A CONTROLLED NULL, 27 September 2026. Searched under LERENA and under SERENA - the spelling that hid the 1877 act - for a marriage to a Villademoros in Uruguay: nothing. THE CONTROL PASSED IN THE SAME MINUTES: the Montevideo parish marriage of Luis Lerena and Julia Juanico, 19 December 1864 at San Francisco de Asis, returns with the groom's parents attached - so marriages of that era and city ARE indexed, and they DO carry the parents. THE NULL THEREFORE MEANS THE ACT IS NOT IN THE INDEXED CORPUS, NOT THAT IT DOES NOT EXIST. Their eldest known child was born 29 October 1872, so the marriage falls about 1868-1872, most likely at the Cordon. It would name his parents a second time and give his AGE, which is the one thing that would separate the 1843 reading from the 1845. AND A THIRD RECORD PAIRS HIM WITH ELISA VILLADEMOROS, this time in ARGENTINA. His son Alejandro Joaquin married at Bell Ville, Cordoba, in 1907, and the act names the groom's parents as 'ALEJANDRO M LERENA' and 'ELISA VILLADEMORAS'. The Montevideo font of 1872, the Cordon christening of 1877 and now a Cordoba marriage of 1907 all carry the same couple and the same initial. AND HE WAS DEAD BY 20 JUNE 1907, WHICH IS THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF HIS DEATH FROM ANY RECORD. His son Alejandro Joaquin's marriage at San Jeronimo, Cordoba, names the groom 'hijo legitimo de ALEJANDRO M. [LERENA] y ELISA VILLADEMORAS (FINADOS)' - both parents deceased, on the plate. SO HIS DEATH FALLS BETWEEN MARCH 1888, when he appeared in person at Montevideo to register Emilia Alberta, AND JUNE 1907. The family tree's '1903' sits inside that bracket and now has a record-based ceiling for the first time, though the tree's date itself is still only a tree's. AND THE ACT IS A FOURTH INDEPENDENT STATEMENT OF HIS NAME WITH THE M. - Montevideo 1872, the Cordon 1877, Buenos Aires 1911, and now Cordoba 1907. AND ON 9 OCTOBER 2026 HE WAS MERGED WITH THE 'ALEJANDRO LERENA (m. ELISA VILLARDEMOROS)' THIS REGISTER CARRIED SEPARATELY. They were PROVED THE SAME MAN ON 27 SEPTEMBER and kept apart for twelve days afterwards for a reason the pair file states in terms: 'a merge touches slugs, last-attested-alive.tsv, relations.tsv and the CHECKED_PAIRS in tools/consistency.py, and a half-done merge is worse than an honest pair. THIS LINE IS A DEBT, NOT A JUDGEMENT.' The debt is paid. WHAT PROVED IT: the Cordon act of 26 December 1877, film 007713388 image 02455, names 'D. ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y ... D.a ELISA [VILLADEMOROS] (hoy finada)' as the parents of Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria, and gives his own parents as 'D. AVELINO y D.a AMBROSIA TRAIBEL'. Same wife, same initial, one man - and the 1886 act calls him viudo while Julia Bassani is soltera, which is the second marriage this merged name now carries. A SECOND LERENA MARRIED A SECOND VILLADEMOROS, and the two marriages are probably one alliance. He and ELISA VILLARDEMOROS had a son christened at the Cordon on 29 May 1873. In the same decade AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA - documented as a son of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel - married CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS. THREE THINGS TIE THE TWO BAPTISMS TOGETHER: the surname on both mothers; a JOAQUIN standing godfather at each, indexed "Joaquin Requena" on one and "Joaquin Regusa y Garcia" on the other, which is one name and one machine mangling it; and the godmother here is ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS, while Celedonia's mother is ANGELICA MENDEZ - a daughter named for her. THE INFERENCE: two Lerena brothers married two Villademoros sisters, which is the same shape as the two Lerena siblings who married two Cardozo siblings and produced the 1911 dispensation. WHAT IS NOT DOCUMENTED: this act does NOT name his own parents, so he is NOT joined to Alejandro Lerena Traibel here, though the age fits - that man was born 1843 or 1845 and would be twenty-seven or twenty-nine. THE TEST: the two marriage acts, or any record naming this Alejandro's father. AND THE TEST NAMED ABOVE WAS RUN THE SAME EVENING AND CAME BACK EMPTY. LERENA with spouse surname VILLADEMOROS, Uruguay: 6,352 records, and not one of them is a marriage act. Every hit is a parent entry on somebody else's baptism or civil registration. The control is the one that worked two hours earlier: the same query shape on LERENA with spouse JUANICO puts the marriage act of 19 December 1864 at RANK ONE. So the shape finds a marriage when there is one to find. NEITHER VILLADEMOROS MARRIAGE IS IN THE INDEXED RECORD, and the brothers-and-sisters reading stays an inference. It would be settled by the parish marriage books of the Cordon and Union, which have not been walked. THE NULL PUBLISHED AGAINST THIS ROW RESTS ON A CONTROL THAT DID NOT CONTROL FOR THE RIGHT RISK - noted 21 September 2026, and the null is NOT withdrawn. The finding was that LERENA with spouse surname VILLADEMOROS returns 6,352 records and not one marriage act, controlled by LERENA with spouse JUANICO, which put the 1864 marriage at rank one. JUANICO HAS ONE SPELLING AND VILLADEMOROS HAS AT LEAST THREE. This register already holds VILLADEMOROS, VILLARDEMOROS and, from a death registration read today, VILLADEMORO. And on the same day a parent-pair query on this surname returned a ZERO that a single deleted parameter turned into SEVEN. So the control proved the query SHAPE works; it did not prove that this SURNAME is reachable through it. The two marriage acts may be absent from the index, or they may be present under a spelling nobody asked for. Until the Cordon and Union marriage books are walked, the difference is not known - and that is a weaker claim than the one this archive published. READ OFF THE PLATE 27 September 2026, and it settles his birthplace and not his parents. The Cordon act of 29 May 1873 reads 'hijo legitimo de D. ALEJANDRO LERENA [y Da. Elisa Villademoros], ORIENTALES. Padrinos D. JOAQUIN REGUSA y Da. ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS.' THE ACT NAMES NO GRANDPARENTS - this parish's 1873 form does not recite them - so the plate that would have answered the whole question does not. What it does give is ORIENTAL, Uruguayan-born, which matches the 'oriental' of the 1886 and 1888 acts of Alejandro M. Lerena. See the note on that row: the two may be one man. AND THE 1877 ACT SPELLS HIM WITH THE M., AND NAMES HIS PARENTS. 'D. ALEJANDRO M. LERENA ... abuelos paternos D. AVELINO y D.a AMBROSIA TRAIBEL'. THIS ROW AND 'Alejandro M. LERENA (with Julia BASSANI)' ARE THE SAME MAN - the same wife, the same initial, and now the same parents - and they remain two rows only until the merge is done properly. See data/_person-pairs.txt. HIS FIRST MARRIAGE IS FOUND, 11 OCTOBER 2026, AND THE 'M.' IS MAXIMO. He married ELISA VILLADEMOROS at Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, CORDON, Montevideo, on 28 DECEMBER 1871 - a date work-list row 185 had sought since September and had concluded 'must be walked by image'. IT WAS NOT IN THE RECORD INDEX AND IT IS IN THE FULL-TEXT CORPUS, which is a different instrument. The act reads: 'En veinte y ocho de Diciembre de mil ochocientos setenta y uno, el Senor Canonigo D. MARTIN PINERO, con mi consentimiento, autorizo el matrimonio que, DISPENSADAS por el Yltmo. Senor Obispo Vicario Apostolico DOS CONCILIARES PROCLAMAS, publicada una, y previa la confesion sacramental, contrajo in facie Ecclesiae D. ALEJANDRO MAXIMO SERENA, soltero, natural de MONTEVIDEO, hijo de D. AVELINO y de Dona AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, con Dona ELISA VILLADEMOROS, del mismo estado y oriundez, hija de los finados D. PEDRO y Dona ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS. Testigos: el Doctor D. JOAQUIN REQUENA y Dona AMBROSIA T. de SERENA. De que certifico Yo el Parroco, JOSE M. OJEDA.' WHAT IT GIVES: his full name ALEJANDRO MAXIMO; that he was SOLTERO and NATURAL DE MONTEVIDEO; and his parents AVELINO and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL named a second time and independently of the enrolment cards. HIS MOTHER STOOD AS A WITNESS AT HIS WEDDING - 'Dona AMBROSIA T. de SERENA' - so she was living in December 1871. WHAT IT DOES NOT GIVE, AND ROW 185 WANTED IT MOST: HIS AGE. The act states his status and his birthplace and no number, so THE 1843-AGAINST-1845 QUESTION ON THE LA MAURICIA ACT IS UNTOUCHED BY THIS FIND and remains open. 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. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - birth act N 424, Montevideo, 6 November 1886; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR4Z-DDT" rel="noopener">1:1:VR4Z-DDT</a> - IMAGE READ 22 September 2026; film 004596830 image 01806; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - birth act Num 108, Montevideo, March 1888; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR4Z-VVB" rel="noopener">1:1:VR4Z-VVB</a> - IMAGE READ 22 September 2026; film 004596830 image 02145; and named as GODFATHER at the Iglesia Matriz christening of Angelica Maria Lerena Villademoros, 29 September 1872 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DFQ-YF26" rel="noopener">1:1:6DFQ-YF26</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004298263 image 03147; and the Cordon christening of his daughter Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria, 26 December 1877 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-WP5Z" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-WP5Z</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 007713388 image 02455; and Argentina, Cordoba, Catholic Church Records 1557-1974 - his marriage at Inmaculada Concepcion, Bell Ville, Union, Cordoba, 1907; index read 27 September 2026; and named as a deceased parent on his son's marriage act, Cordoba, 20 June 1907 - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004484760 image 00123; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening of Alejandro Joaquin Narciso Lerena, Cordon, Montevideo, 29 May 1873; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-WTXR" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-WTXR</a>; index read 20 September 2026 - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 007713388 image 02091; and the Cordon christening of his daughter Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria, 26 December 1877 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-WP5Z" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-WP5Z</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 007713388 image 02455; and Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE of 28 December 1871 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a>, volume 'Religious Marriage Records January 1866-May 1872' |
| Alfredo Justiniano LERENA Traibel Unplaced | 1856-10-02 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A SON OF AVELINO LERENA AND AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, and a brother of Josefa - found 14 September 2026. Married HERMENEGILDA CAROLINA GAVARRO at the Catedral Basilica de Montevideo on 3 February 1892, aged thirty-five. THE MARRIAGE NEEDED A DISPENSATION FOR CONSANGUINITY - third degree with atingencia to the second - granted personally by MARIANO SOLER, the first Archbishop of Montevideo. He is written GERENA in his own marriage act while his father is written LORENA in the same sentence: a seventh spelling for this family. HIS BAPTISM IS FOUND: 12 March 1858, San Francisco de Asis, with his sister Ana Rosario. It gives his full name ALFREDO JUSTINIANO and his grandparents Sancho Lerena and Maria Fernandez. AND IT RESOLVES A PUZZLE: the JUSTINIANO looked like an echo of Justiniana Lenguas, who married into the other branch - a tidy connection that would have been wrong. He is named for his GODFATHER, JUSTINIANO LAVALLEJA, on the same line of the same act. This row used to end: "His baptismal age of 1858 sits oddly against the 35 he gave at his 1892 marriage, which would imply 1857; ages at marriage are the weakest date in genealogy." THE ODDNESS WAS THIS ARCHIVE'S, NOT THE RECORD'S - 20 September 2026. He was not born in 1858. The act read here on 14 September says so outright, and the sentence was never lifted off the page: "que nacio el dia DOS de OCTUBRE ... cincuenta y seis" - born 2 OCTOBER 1856, and baptised at seventeen months. AND THAT MAKES THE MARRIAGE AGE EXACT. On 3 February 1892 a man born 2 October 1856 is thirty-five, which is precisely what he told the priest. The record and the age never disagreed; this register had written the baptism date into the birth column and then blamed the discrepancy on the record. Re-read off the image 20 September: film 007713686 image 2847, which also confirms the paternal grandparents "Don Sancho Lerena y Dona Maria Fernandez", the maternal "Don Juan Traibel y Dona Ysabel Centeno", and the godparents Justiniano Lavalleja and Dona Polonia Traibel. HIS WIFE'S SURNAME WAS WRONG HERE FOR A WEEK, AND IS CORRECTED OFF THE IMAGE: SHE IS A GAVAZZO, NOT A GAVARRO, and her mother a SUAREZ, not a Juarez. The 1892 act was held from a machine full-text transcript; the image was opened on 21 September 2026 and reads 'hija legitima de Don GERONIMO GAVAZZO y Dona CAROLINA SUAREZ'. The same image confirms what this row already said - 'Don ALFREDO LERENA, soltero, de TREINTA Y CINCO anos de edad'. AND THE END OF HIS LIFE HAS A CEILING AT LAST. Hermenegilda died at Montevideo on 20 June 1940 'de estado VIUDA', so he died between February 1892 and June 1940, aged somewhere between thirty-five and eighty-three. No death record for him has been found. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, marriage of 3 Feb 1892 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K</a>; and his own baptism, San Francisco de Asis, 12 Mar 1858 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a> |
| Alfredo LERENA (b.1909) Unplaced | 1909-05-10 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 10 May 1909 and christened at Santisima Trinidad on 15 December 1909. The index spells the family SERENA with a tilde - 'Sereña' - which is a FOURTH spelling at Trinidad beside Lerena, Serena and Perena. His mother is given as MARIA G. SEREÑA and the father's name is unreadable. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Amabelia LERENA Beloqui (1880-1899) Unplaced | 1880 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A FOURTH CHILD FOR CIPRIANO LERENA AND LAURIANA BELOQUI, found under the PERENA spelling. Born about 1880 at Trinidad and dead on 9 January 1899, at about nineteen. The index writes the father 'Cipriano Lerena Oriental' - the word ORIENTAL caught up into the name, which is the indexer taking a nationality for a surname. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Amador LERENA Pelaez (d. 1937, Durazno) Unplaced | 1901 · Sexta Seccion, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · peluquero · found in Durazno, Uruguay A SECOND CHILD FOR THE COUPLE DISPENSED ON 31 MARCH 1894. His death act at Durazno, 31 January 1937, gives 'AMADOR LERENA PELAEZ... nacido en la SEXTA SECCION DE FLORES, de TREINTA Y CINCO ANOS de edad, de estado soltero, de profesion PELUQUERO, a consecuencia de sincope cardiaco... hijo legitimo de don JUAN LERENA y de dona EDUVIGES PELAEZ, orientales, [ambos] fallecido[s]'. SO BORN ABOUT 1901, a brother of NEPOMUCENO TEOFILO who was baptised at Trinidad in 1905. AND IT DATES HIS PARENTS' DEATHS: both are fallecidos by January 1937, which is the first terminus this archive has for either. He died a bachelor and a barber on Calle Ituzaingo. | record ↗ Durazno. Death Records 1936-1937 - acta of 31 January 1937; image 167, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-DQ4K-7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-DQ4K-7</a> - FULL-TEXT read 10 October 2026 |
| Amelia LERENA Cardozo (m. Abel Conto 1920) Unplaced | 1894 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A daughter of DOROTEO LERENA and ISIDORA CARDOZO, born about 1894, married ABEL CONTO at Santisima Trinidad on 28 February 1920. SHE IS NOT THE AMELIA LERENA OF THE 1903 POCITOS ACT, who was merged into Angelica Maria Lerena Villademoros the same day - that woman was a mother in Montevideo by 1903 and this one was nine years old. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Ana Maria LERENA Razzetti Unplaced | 1921-01-12 · Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Argentine · found in Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026 from a row this register already held. She was named as a child on the row of her father EDUARDO LERENA and MARIA MERCEDES ROZZETTI and had no entry of its own, so a household this archive holds could not be drawn. The citation is the one that row already carried and no new research stands behind this entry. SHE HAS A BIRTH DATE, A PARISH AND A PARTIDO NOW - PLATE READ 11 October 2026. Born 12 January 1921, baptised 19 January 1921 at NUESTRA SENORA DE LOS DESAMPARADOS, by the cura JOSE SERRANO LOPEZ: 'bautizo solemnemente a ANA MARIA que nacio el dia doce de Enero del ano mil novecientos veintiuno, HIJA LEGITIMA de D. Eduardo Lerena y de D.a Maria Mercedes RAZZETTI, domiciliados en ESTE PARTIDO'. Godparents DOMINGO RAZZETTI and JOSEFINA BERTOGLIO. 'HIJA LEGITIMA' MEANS HER PARENTS WERE MARRIED, which is what makes the 1919 Montevideo dispensation worth testing against them. AND THE PLACE THE INDEX GIVES IS WRONG: it normalises the event to 'Buenos Aires City', while its own original-place field says ADOLFO ALSINA and the act says 'este partido'. A partido is a rural district of the PROVINCE, four hundred kilometres from the capital. HER SURNAME IS CORRECTED FROM ROZZETTI TO RAZZETTI on the same plate; /people/ana-maria-lerena-rozzetti redirects here. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records - via the register row of her father Eduardo LERENA; and Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados, partido de Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires - BAPTISM RECORDS 12 Apr 1917 to 19 Feb 1923, the act of 19 January 1921 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN" rel="noopener">3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN</a>, deepzoom apid TH-1-159385-157066-5; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP84-YK8K" rel="noopener">1:1:QP84-YK8K</a> |
| Ana Rosario LERENA Traibel Unplaced | 1855-01-14 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Daughter of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel, baptised at San Francisco de Asis on 12 March 1858 with her brother Alfredo Justiniano. THEY WERE NOT TWINS, AND THIS ROW SAID THEY PROBABLY WERE UNTIL 20 SEPTEMBER 2026. Both acts were re-read off the image that day - film 007713686 image 2847 - and each states its own birth. Hers: "que nacio el dia CATORCE de ENERO ... cincuenta y cinco" - 14 JANUARY 1855. Her brother's: 2 October 1856. They are twenty-one months apart and were carried to the font together, she at three years old and he at seventeen months. "Probably twins" was an inference from a shared baptism date, and the acts refute it. THIS FAMILY BAPTISED IN BATCHES, YEARS LATE, MORE THAN ONCE: Avelino's son Alejandro was christened at La Mauricia in January 1846 among a group of children of various ages, and here are two more, three years and seventeen months old. A granddaughter of Sancho. Her godparents were CONSTANTINO and ANA LAVALLEJA. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713686 image 02847, folio 176, San Francisco de Asis - the two acts of 12 March 1858 that attach the Lerena Traibel branch to Sancho. EVERY NAME ON THEM SURVIVES THE CHECK, word for word. AND HER BIRTH DATE IS NOW READ, NOT TRANSCRIBED: 'que nacio el dia CATORCE DE ENERO de mil ocho cientos cincuenta y cinco, hija legitima de Don Avelino Lerena y de Dona Ambrosia Traibel, NATURALES DE ESTA REPUBLICA.' | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptisms of 12 Mar 1858 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713686 image 02847 |
| Anastasia LERENA Unplaced · of interest | 1877c · Brazil · Brazilian · labores de su sexo · found in San Eugenio, Artigas, Uruguay Indexed as Anastasia SERENA, and the act does not say Serena. At full magnification the capital on her surname is the same letterform the same clerk gives her father Benito eleven lines below, and neither is the S he writes in San Eugenio and San Juan Bautista. 22 years old, married, brasilera. Wife of Honorio ALVAREZ, mother of Juan Ildebel. She is the clearest single demonstration this archive owns of why /name/ had to be written. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), San Eugenio birth act 110 of 2 June 1899 - plate read at 6,000px on 12 October 2026 |
| Andrea Albina LERENA (b.1874, m. Antonio ETCHEBERSE 1906) Unplaced | 1874 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 1874 at Santisima Trinidad, Flores, daughter of VITALIANO LERENA and ANDREA LERENA, and married ANTONIO ECHEBERSE. THE INDEX DATES HER MARRIAGE '26 MARCH 1000', which is not a year - a field this archive has learned to read as damage rather than as information. INDEX-LEVEL. THE ACT IS READ, 12 October 2026, AND IT CORRECTS HER MOTHER AND DATES HER WEDDING. '...el VEINTE Y SEIS DE MARZO [de mil no]vecientos SEIS, previa la informacion juridica, leidas las tres conciliares proclamas SIN NINGUN IMPEDIMENTO NI CANONICO NI CIVIL... autorizo el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo DON ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE, oriental, soltero, de TREINTA Y TRES anos de edad, HIJO [legitimo-struck-out] NATURAL de Don ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE y de Dona FRAILANA VALIENTE, con Dona ANDREA ALBINA LERENA, oriental, soltera, de TREINTA Y DOS anos de edad, HIJA LEGITIMA DE DON VITALIANO LERENA Y DE DONA ANDREA ETCHEBERSE. Los testigos fueron JOSE MARTINEZ y BERNARDO YRIZA[BAL] y para que conste lo firmo.' SO: MARRIED 26 MARCH 1906 AT SANTISIMA TRINIDAD, aged THIRTY-TWO, which puts her birth in 1873-74 and agrees with the index. HER MOTHER IS ANDREA ETCHEBERSE, NOT ANDREA LERENA - see that row. AND THE INDEX'S '26 MARCH 1000' IS 1906, the century simply lost; this archive read that field as damage the day before it was proved to be damage. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS July 1898 to December 1912, the act of 26 March 1906, certificate 26 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72168-24536-85; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-SPKF" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6J-SPKF</a> |
| Andres LERENA Traibel Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A TENTH CHILD OF AVELINO AND AMBROSIA, dated 21 September 2026 from the act itself. FamilySearch indexes him as 'born 16 March 1896, christened 25 November 1896', which is six years after his father died. The act reads: 'En treinta y uno de Diciembre de mil ochocientos sesenta y uno. El Canonigo Dn. JUAN JOSE BRID, bautizo solemnemente a ANDRES, NACIDO EL DIEZ Y SEIS DE MARZO DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y SIETE, hijo legitimo de Dn. Avelino Lerena y de Da. Ambrosia Traibel, ORIENTALES. Padrinos Dn. AVELINO LERENA (HIJO).' Born 16 MARCH 1857 and baptised at four years old, on the last day of 1861 - the same day his brother Juan Arturo was christened at the same parish, aged ten months. HIS GODFATHER IS HIS ELDEST BROTHER, and the parish wrote the disambiguation this archive spent two days arriving at: 'AVELINO LERENA (HIJO)' - Avelino the son, which is Avelino Eduardo, and not his father of the same name. AND HE SHARES A BIRTHDAY WITH A BROTHER: Pedro Alberto Ysabelino was born 16 March 1852, five years to the day before him. That coincidence is what made the index's duplicated '16 March 1896' look like machine noise, and it is not - the index keeps the day and the month and replaces only the year. AND THE YEAR IN THAT ACT CANNOT STAND. THE BIRTH COLUMN IS DELIBERATELY EMPTY, 21 September 2026. The archive's own contradiction gate refused the build the moment this row was written, and it was right: ALFREDO JUSTINIANO WAS BORN 2 OCTOBER 1856 AND ANDRES IS HERE SAID TO BE BORN 16 MARCH 1857 - five and a half months later, to the same mother. Both cannot be true. THE WORDS WERE RE-READ AT DOUBLE MAGNIFICATION BEFORE ANYTHING WAS CONCLUDED and they are not ambiguous: 'mil ochocientos CINCUENTA Y SIETE'. So the fault is not in the reading. THE WEAKER WITNESS IS THIS ONE, AND THE REASON IS THAT IT IS A COPY. Andres's year survives only in an 1896 transcript of an 1861 act - two hands between the font and the page read here. Alfredo's comes from the ORIGINAL register of San Francisco de Asis, and it is corroborated independently: a man born 2 October 1856 is thirty-five on 3 February 1892, which is the age he gave the priest at his own wedding. WHAT IS KEPT: the day and the month, 16 MARCH, and the baptism of 31 December 1861. WHAT IS NOT: the year. He is somewhere between 1857 and 1861 and this archive does not know where. THE TEST, and it is a specific one: the ORIGINAL entry, libro 7o de Bautismos of Nuestra Senora del Carmen del Cordon, pagina 378 - not the 1896 certificate of it. | record ↗ Nuestra Senora del Carmen, el Cordon, Montevideo - libro 7o de Bautismos, read in the 1896 certified copy made under the Ley de 9 de Julio de 1888 - IMAGE READ; film 008166435 image 02852 pagina 378; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DX1-HVKC" rel="noopener">1:1:6DX1-HVKC</a> |
| Angel Custodio LERENA Cardozo (1934-1955) Unplaced | 1934 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 1934 at Trinidad and dead in October 1955, son of DOROTEO LERENA and ISIDORA CARDOZO - the index writing the father 'Doroteo Gerena', which is the G-for-L this register has met before. ANOTHER LERENA-CARDOZO HOUSEHOLD AT TRINIDAD, a generation after Custodio and Ema. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Angel Miguel Avelino LERENA LARRIERA Unplaced | 1898-08-15 · Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Youngest known child of Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera, born 15 August 1898. THE AVELINO IS HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER'S NAME - Avelino Lerena Fernandez, dead eight years when this child was born, and the man whose parentage attaches this whole branch to Sancho. INDEX-LEVEL. THIS ROW SAID GREAT-GRANDFATHER AND IT IS WRONG BY A GENERATION - corrected 11 October 2026. AVELINO LERENA FERNANDEZ IS HIS GRANDFATHER: this child's father is Pedro Alberto Ysabelino Lerena Traibel, and Avelino is that man's father. One step, not two; data/relations.tsv had the edges right while the prose did not. AND THE WHOLE NAME IS NOW READABLE, which is why the slip surfaced. His sister's christening of 1879 names the maternal grandfather MIGUEL LARRIERA. So ANGEL MIGUEL AVELINO carries BOTH OF HIS GRANDFATHERS - his mother's father and his father's father - and is not an echo of a distant ancestor at all. A NAMING PATTERN IS EVIDENCE ONLY WHEN YOU KNOW BOTH SIDES OF IT. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020, Departamento San Jose - index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR41-RW6" rel="noopener">1:1:VR41-RW6</a>; and his christening of 16 June 1899, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D34-WHXT" rel="noopener">1:1:6D34-WHXT</a>; and Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion y San Felipe y Santiago, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS 13 Feb 1879 to 24 Jul 1880, the christening of 13 October 1879 - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N</a> |
| Angelica Maria LERENA Villademoros Unplaced | 1872-04-08 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A THIRD CHILD OF AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA TRAIBEL AND CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, new to this archive 27 September 2026. Born 8 April 1872 and baptised at the Iglesia Matriz on 29 September 1872, between Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre (1866) and the family's later record. The act reads: 'bautizo solemnemente en ella a ANGELICA MARIA, que nacio el ocho de Abril del presente ano, hija legitima de AVELINO LERENA, argentino, y CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, argentina. Abuelos paternos AVELINO y AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, abuelos maternos PEDRO y ANGELICA MENDEZ. Fueron padrinos ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y ELISA VILLADEMOROS, a quienes instruyo.' THE INDEX DATES THIS ACT 1919 AND IT IS 1872 - FORTY-SEVEN YEARS OUT. What the indexer read is the CERTIFICATE: 'expido la presente ... en Montevideo a veintiocho de Septiembre de mil novecientos diez y nueve', signed Ramon Howard at the Basilica Metropolitana. This archive already had the rule for that - a certified copy carries two dates and the index takes the wrong one - and this is the largest gap it has yet produced. SHE MARRIED A ZALDUANDO, found 27 September 2026 the same day she was entered here. The Uruguayan civil index carries her as 'ANGELICA LERMA DE ZALDUANDO', daughter of Celedonia Villademoros and a father the machine renders 'Arabia Larena Lerena' - which is AVELINO LERENA. INDEX ONLY: no image opened, and 'Lerma' is the index's word, not a record's. The marriage itself has not been found and is the next thing to look for. HER HUSBAND MAY ALREADY HAVE BEEN IN THIS REGISTER ALL ALONG, UNDER ANOTHER SURNAME - 11 October 2026. Row 186 asked who the 'Zalduando' of her married name was. The civil register gives him as 'EDUARDO ZALDUANDO POU', dead at Montevideo on 22 August 1913 aged fifty-two (born about 1861), certificate 553, son of JUAN and DOLORES POU; so she was WIDOWED AT FORTY-ONE. It names two children: EDUARDO AVELINO, born about 1901 at La Paz in Canelones, who married Maria Ester Costa there in 1927, and MARIA MARGARITA LUISA. 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. WHAT THIS MEANS FOR HER SPECIFICALLY: the 1903 Pocitos plate gives that same Eduardo's wife as AMELIA Lerena, not Angelica. Either SHE AND AMELIA ARE ONE WOMAN under two readings of one forename, or AMELIA IS A SISTER and the 1913 index has put the wrong sister's name on the act. SHE IS NOT MERGED WITH AMELIA. AND A SEPARATE CAUTION, EARNED THE HARD WAY: the first draft of this work was written onto MARIA ANGELICA JULIA LERENA SALVANACH, born 1886 - the same four names in a different order - by a prefix match on 'Maria Angelica'. The chronology caught it: that woman would have been fifteen when this couple's eldest was born. NAME ORDER IS NOT IDENTITY. Her death year is given as 1952 by the FamilySearch tree (profile GBST-SC4), which is SECONDARY and is recorded here as a lead, not a fact. HER OWN MARRIAGE IS STILL NOT FOUND. BOTH PLATES WERE READ ON 11 OCTOBER 2026 AND THEY SETTLE THE HOUSEHOLD AND OVERTURN WHAT THIS ARCHIVE SAID ABOUT IT THAT MORNING. The surname is ZALDUONDO, not Zalsamendi: the 1903 act heads its entry 'Maria Zalduondo' and names the father 'Eduardo Zalduondo', and the 1913 act says 'ha fallecido Eduardo Zalduando ... era hijo de Juan Zalduondo y de Dolores Pou, fallecidos'. ZALSAMENDI WAS A MISREADING AND IT STOOD THREE WEEKS. AMELIA LERENA IS THIS WOMAN, AND THE ROW THAT HELD HER SEPARATELY SINCE 14 SEPTEMBER IS MERGED HERE. The 1903 Pocitos act makes MARIA MARGARITA LUISA the daughter of Eduardo Zalduondo and 'AMELIA LERENA', with maternal grandparents 'AVELINO y CELIDONIA B. de LERENA'. The 1913 act makes the same Maria Margarita one of THREE CHILDREN OF HIS UNION WITH 'ANGELICA LERENA'. ONE CHILD CANNOT BE INSIDE TWO DIFFERENT UNIONS, SO THE TWO NAMES ARE ONE WOMAN - the alternative, that he married two sisters, is refused by the 1913 act placing Maria Margarita inside the Angelica union. HER PARENTS SETTLE WHICH WOMAN: 'Avelino y Celidonia B. de Lerena' is AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA TRAIBEL and CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, this row's own parents. THE FORENAME CONFLICT IS NOT EXPLAINED AWAY, ONLY OUTVOTED: her 1872 baptism says ANGELICA MARIA and the 1913 act says ANGELICA; only the 1903 priest wrote AMELIA, clearly and at high magnification. 'AMELIA' IS KEPT AS A RECORDED VARIANT, NOT ERASED. HER HUSBAND, FROM HIS OWN DEATH ACT: EDUARDO ZALDUONDO, born at MONTEVIDEO about 1861, JUBILADO (retired) by fifty-two, died 22 August 1913 at calle Juan B. Blanco 9 of angina de pecho, certified by Dr Bordoni Posse, son of JUAN ZALDUONDO and DOLORES POU, BOTH ALREADY DEAD BY 1913. So she was WIDOWED AT FORTY-ONE. The act, read from the image: 'En Montevideo, el dia veinte y dos de Agosto de mil novecientos trece, a las tres de la tarde, por ante mi, EDUARDO J. MORATORIO, Juez de Paz de la 18a seccion del Departamento de la Capital y Oficial del Estado Civil, comparecieron Don AGUSTIN AGNESE, de veinte y ocho anos, soltero, oriental, empleado, y Don CONRADO P. ABAL, de veinte y dos anos, soltero, oriental, empleado, vecino de la calle Colonia 1967; declarando que a las siete de la manana del dia de hoy, y en la calle JUAN B. BLANCO 9, ha fallecido EDUARDO ZALDUANDO, del sexo masculino, de nacionalidad oriental, NACIDO EN MONTEVIDEO, de cincuenta y dos anos de edad, de estado casado y de profesion JUBILADO, a consecuencia de ANGINA DE PECHO, segun consta del certificado del Dr. BORDONI POSSE. Que el finado era hijo de JUAN ZALDUONDO y de DOLORES POU, FALLECIDOS. Asi mismo se hace constar que era casado con ANGELICA LERENA, de cuya union quedan TRES HIJOS llamados: MARIA ELENA, EDUARDO AVELINO y MARIA MARGARITA.' AND THERE ARE THREE CHILDREN, NOT TWO: MARIA ELENA, EDUARDO AVELINO and MARIA MARGARITA [LUISA]. Maria Elena is new to this archive and nothing else is known of her. HER OWN MARRIAGE ACT IS STILL NOT FOUND. HER MARRIAGE IS FOUND, 11 OCTOBER 2026 - THE SAME DAY THE QUESTION WAS ASKED. She married EDUARDO ZALDUONDO by civil act at Montevideo, 4th section, at five in the afternoon on 20 NOVEMBER 1897, act No. 83, folio 42, before the Juez de Paz GALLO PAREJA, the marriage itself recorded in expediente No. 94. SHE WAS LIVING AT PLAZA LIBERTAD No. 9 and he with his parents at calle Convencion No. 226. SHE SIGNED THE ACT HERSELF, 'Angelica Lerena' - her own hand, her own spelling, against an index that renders her 'Lerma', 'Zerena' and 'Lorena'. THE WITNESSES WERE NOT STRANGERS: FERNANDO MORATORIO, fifty, married, of commerce, of calle Uruguay 97 - almost certainly her UNCLE BY MARRIAGE, the husband of Josefa Lerena Traibel, her father's sister - and AGUSTIN RIVA, thirty-eight, married, empleado, of calle Sarandi 166. AND A DATE THAT ALMOST MATCHES: the act says she was born EIGHT APRIL 1871; her baptism says EIGHT APRIL 1872. SAME DAY, SAME MONTH, ONE YEAR APART. The day and month are what identify her and they agree exactly; the year is recorded here as a conflict rather than resolved, since a stated age or year on a marriage act is the party's own account. NO CHILDREN WERE LEGITIMISED: the act's 'Legitiman' line is BLANK, so all three children were born after November 1897. | record ↗ Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening of Angelica Maria, Iglesia Matriz (Basilica Metropolitana), Montevideo, 29 September 1872, libro 7 de Bautismos folio 918; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DFQ-YF26" rel="noopener">1:1:6DFQ-YF26</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004298263 image 03147; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - indexed as a child of Celedonia Villademoros under her MARRIED name; index read 27 September 2026; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of 'Eduardo Zalduando Pou', Montevideo, 22 August 1913, aged 52, certificate 553, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a>, DGS 008165206 image 283 (PLATE NOT OPENED - the viewer demanded a sign-in on 11 October 2026); with index arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NFW-X112" rel="noopener">1:1:6NFW-X112</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB" rel="noopener">1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB</a> for the two children; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - marriage of 'Eduardo Zalduando' and Maria Ester Costa at La Paz in Canelones, 20 December 1927, certificate 30, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X92R-F5N1" rel="noopener">1:1:X92R-F5N1</a>, DGS 008166595 image 207 - indexes read 10-11 October 2026; and San Juan Bautista, Pocitos, Montevideo - baptism of Maria Margarita Luisa, 15 August 1903, folio 344 - <strong>PLATE RE-READ AT FULL RESOLUTION 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; film 007713400 image 02828; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, death act No. 553 of Eduardo Zalduondo, 22 August 1913 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; DGS 008165206 image 283; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899' |
| Angelica Teresa LERENA Unplaced | 1916 · Argentine · found in arr. 1950-10-16 from Montevideo | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship ANNA C |
| Antoinette Septima Lynette LERENA Connected | 1943 · Johannesburg · SA · found in Transvaal Born and died January 1943. Daughter of Roque Luis Armando Lerena. Carries her grandmother MARY SEPTIMA's name - the same naming discipline that put JUAN CARLOS into her uncle's name. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry SA, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 |
| Anton LERENA Connected | 1952 · South Africa · SA · found in South Africa DEATH CORROBORATED BY DOCUMENT, 15 September 2026 - it was tree-only until then. The J193 reads '15127/2013 - Lerena, Anton Armando, 05-05-1952, 5206055175085, 158 London Lane, Knoppieslaagte, Centurion, 3 April 2003'. So he died 3 April 2003 and his estate was advertised ten years later. ONE FIELD IS INTERNALLY INCONSISTENT AND IS NOT SMOOTHED: the typed birth date reads 05-05-1952 while the identity number encodes 1952-06-05. Every other entry on that gazette page agrees with its own number, so the year 1952 is certain and the day is not. Son of Ricardo Juan Carlos Lerena and Doreen May Chappell. His divorce is NAAIRS TPD 1367/1980, Glynnis Margaret Lerena born Bolton. Place field corrected 14 September 2026. | record ↗ Government Gazette, Legal Notices A, 16 August 2013, no. 36738 part 1, page 68 - ESTATE NOTICE READ; plus FamilySearch Family Tree GPW7-42J |
| Antonina LERENA Unplaced | 1910-09-02 · Mal Abrigo, San Jose, Uruguay · Oriental · found in Mal Abrigo, San Jose, Uruguay Born at midnight on 2 September 1910, registered twelve days later by her mother. Hija natural, father unknown, paternal grandparents se ignora - four of the eight fields an act of this form asks for are blank, and the index filled three of them anyway. The index also dates her septiembre de 1879, thirty-one years before she was born. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), Mal Abrigo birth act 98 of 14 September 1910 - index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXM-8S95" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXM-8S95</a>, plate read 12 October 2026 |
| Antonina LERENA (b. c.1862, dau. of Bernabe; m. Serapio Fernandez 1885) Connected | 1862 · Trinidad, Flores · UY · Labores · found in Cerro Colorado, Flores A DAUGHTER OF BERNABE LERENA AND CASIMIRA PELAEZ, named as such in her son's birth act of 1897. She is given there as 'Dona ANTONINA LERENA, Oriental, de treinta y cinco anos' - born about 1862. Married SERAPIO FERNANDEZ on 26 June 1885 under a dispensation of the second grade of consanguinity. SHE IS NOT THE OTHER ANTONINA LERENA OF TRINIDAD, who was already the mother of a thirty-year-old in 1880 and so born about 1830. Two women of one name in one small town, and this archive nearly had one. AND SHE WAS BRIEFLY IN THIS REGISTER TWICE. A row was created for her yesterday from the dispensation ledger alone - 'Antonina LERENA (of Trinidad, m. Serapio Fernandez 1885)' - and a second today from the birth act that named her parents. Merged 9 October 2026, and the duplicate was caught by tools/check-duplicates.py rather than noticed - which is the gate doing in one build what this archive once took three weeks to do by hand. 26 JUNE 1885: dispensed the SECOND GRADE of consanguinity by the EQUAL lateral line to marry DON SERAPIO FERNANDEZ (hijo). EQUAL SECOND DEGREE IS FIRST COUSINS - she and her husband shared a grandparent. AND THE GROOM IS A FERNANDEZ, which is the surname of Sancho Llerena's wife Maria Fernandez and of Avelino Lerena Fernandez. A CONSANGUINITY DISPENSATION IS A STATEMENT ABOUT ANCESTRY. The Church computed the degree before it would dispense, so the entry constrains a pedigree even though it names no parent. The register itself names NO PARENTS - it is the Vicar General's summary ledger, not the expediente. NO BIRTH YEAR IS RECORDED HERE, and one was briefly invented. This row first carried a year reached by assuming an ordinary age at marriage. That is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact, it is what this archive did to William John Taylor on 8 October, and tools/check-duplicates.py caught it the same way - by matching the invented year against real namesakes. The dispensation register gives no age and no birth. AND HER WEDDING DAY MAY NOW BE KNOWN: 15 JULY 1885, three weeks after the dispensation of 26 June. A parish index row carries a marriage of that date at Santisima Trinidad between a SERAPIO FERNANDEZ, thirty, soltero, born 1855 - which fits Serapio hijo - and a Lerena bride the index names SOCORRO, giving her every one of the groom's own attributes. SOCORRO LERENA IS THE GROOM'S MOTHER, NOT HIS BRIDE, so the likeliest reading is that this is THIS woman's marriage with the wrong Lerena in the bride's place. NOT PROVED: the plate has not been opened, and the index gives the bride an age of thirty where this woman would have been about twenty-three. Recorded as a probable date and not as a fact. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Flores, Birth Records 1887-1901 - entry No. 10, Cayetano Alberto Fernandez, born Pintos 7 August 1897; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F</a>, FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1856-1932 - FamilySearch FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-N2MN" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-N2MN</a> |
| Antonina LERENA (the elder, m. Juan PELAEZ) Connected | 1819 · Montevideo, Uruguay · UY · found in Trinidad, Flores A LERENA WHO MARRIED A PELAEZ A GENERATION BEFORE THE OTHERS. On 6 March 1880 at Trinidad, MARIA PELAEZ, thirty, 'hija legitima de Don JUAN PELAEZ [y] de Dona ANTONINA LERENA', married Don Rafael Sanchez, a widower - and Antonina witnessed her own daughter's wedding, with Don Balbino Pelaez. A DAUGHTER OF THIRTY IN 1880 PUTS HER OWN BIRTH NEAR 1830. SO A LERENA MARRIED A PELAEZ AROUND 1845, and Bernabe Lerena married another Pelaez a generation later. That is why the couples of 1885, 1894 and 1913 all needed dispensing: two families had been marrying each other for two generations. HER PARENTS, 9 October 2026, AND SHE IS DRAWN AS A DAUGHTER. The kinship schema on the 1858 Bernabe Lerena expediente puts RAMON LERENA and MARIA GONZALEZ at the apex and runs a line down to ANTONINA LERENA / JUAN PELAES, so she is a daughter of Ramon Lerena and Maria Gonzalez and a SISTER OF ALEJANDRO LERENA. NATURAL DE SAN JOSE, by the same document. AND SHE IS THE MOTHER OF CASIMIRA PELAEZ, who married Alejandro's son Bernabe - which is the whole of the second degree the Archbishop dispensed in 1858. THE TRANSCRIPT WRITES HER 'ANTONINA LORENA' IN THE DIAGRAM AND 'ANTONINA LERENA' FOUR LINES ABOVE IT, IN THE SAME HAND. HER DEATH ACT, READ OFF THE PLATE 10 October 2026 - AND IT CONFIRMS THE 1858 DIAGRAM FROM A CIVIL REGISTER. She died at Cerro Colorado, Sexta Seccion de Flores, on 22 July 1911, on her own estancia, registered on the 28th: 'ANTONINA ISABEL LERENA DE PELAEZ... NACIDA EN MONTEVIDEO, de NOVENTA Y DOS ANOS de edad, de estado viuda... hija legitima de Don RAMON LERENA y de Dona MARIA GONZALEZ, fallecidos'. A PRIEST DREW THAT PARENTAGE IN 1858 AND A JUEZ DE PAZ WROTE IT IN 1911, IN TWO SEPARATE RECORD SYSTEMS. HER AGE CORRECTS THIS ROW: it carried 1830, inferred from a daughter of thirty in 1880; the act states ninety-two, so about 1819. AND HER BIRTHPLACE CONTRADICTS THE 1858 EXPEDIENTE, which calls her and Juan Pelaez 'naturales de SAN JOSE'. SHE WAS BORN AT MONTEVIDEO, which is where Ramon's other children were christened between 1812 and 1821. Recorded as a conflict. HER HUSBAND IS JUAN PEDRO PELAEZ, not simply Juan. AND SHE LEFT FOUR CHILDREN, NAMED: CASIMIRA JOSEFA, MALBINO HIPOLITO, MARIA INOCENCIA and JUAN FABIAN - three of whom this register already held as separate people. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Religious Marriage Records January 1875 - August 1895, act of 6 March 1880; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-V1PJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-V1PJ</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1857-1860 - EXPEDIENTE of Bernabe Lerena to marry Casimira Pelaez, Santisima Trinidad, 15 February 1858, Luciano Bonamino Cura Vicario, WITH A KINSHIP DIAGRAM; image 209, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Flores. Death Records 1888-1917 - acta No. 9 of 28 July 1911, Sexta seccion, before Esteban Indarte; image 271, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Antonino LERENA Cardozo (b.1891) Unplaced | 1891-05-10 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A CHILD OF DOROTEO LERENA AND ISIDORA CARDOZO, born 10 May 1891, found under the PERENA spelling. The index gives a death of 13 August 1879, TWELVE YEARS BEFORE THE BIRTH IT ALSO GIVES - the third such impossibility in this sweep, and it is the index's arithmetic, not this register's. HE SITS BETWEEN AMELIA (c.1894) AND THE REST OF THAT HOUSEHOLD and makes Angel Custodio of 1934 look further out of place still. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Antonio LERENA Diaz (m. Clara Henriette Knof 1924) Unplaced | 1896 · Buenos Aires, Argentina · Argentine · empleado · found in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires Married CLARA HENRIETTE KNOF at Crespo, departamento de Parana, Entre Rios, on 24 October 1924, acta No. 144. 'de veinte y ocho anos, de nacionalidad ARGENTINA, nacido en BUENOS AIRES, domiciliado en VILLA CRESPO, de profesion EMPLEADO'. SO BORN ABOUT 1896 AT BUENOS AIRES - a birthplace the army drawer did not give, which had him only among sons born in La Pampa, Mendoza and Entre Rios. HIS FATHER STOOD AS A WITNESS. AND HE MAY HAVE A BROTHER IN THE SAME DEPARTMENT, found 11 October 2026. A VICENTE LERENA DIAZ keeps the civil register of PUEBLO BRUGO, departamento de PARANA, signing death acts on 11 February 1938 - the same department Antonio married in. NOT ESTABLISHED; see Vicente's row. | record ↗ Libro de matrimonios: Crespo, Entre Rios. Marriage Records 1924 - acta No. 144, 24 October 1924, before Emilio F. Castellot; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026; and Libro de defunciones: Pueblo Brugo, Departamento Parana, Entre Rios - DEATH RECORDS 1938, acta of 11 February 1938 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-3Q4L-P8KV" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-3Q4L-P8KV</a> |
| Antonio LERENA Lemos Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named as a son of Pedro LERENA and Manuela LEMOS in the closing paragraph of his father's death act of 7 November 1896 - 'de cuyo matrimonio existen ... Antonio = Carlos Teodoro = Manuel Antonio'. New to this archive. Nothing else about him is known; no age, and no record of his own. | record ↗ Montevideo civil death registration, acta No. 353 of 7 November 1896, 15a Seccion de la Capital - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-909-72188-82458-0 on 12 October 2026 |
| Armando LERENA Unplaced · high interest | 1884 · Uruguay (nationality "Oriental" on the manifest) · Uruguayan · found in Buenos Aires -> Montevideo THE ONLY OTHER ARMANDO LERENA FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE RIVER PLATE. Entry 28 on a Buenos Aires - Montevideo crossing, January/February 1910: aged 26, married, and the clerk wrote his nationality in the manifest itself as "Oriental" - Uruguayan. Read from the image, not the index. NOT Pablo Armando on the evidence: wrong nationality, two years out on the age, and in 1910 Pablo Armando was at the Cape and did not marry until September 1911. But an Armando Lerena of almost exactly his age, Uruguayan, is the shape a brother or a cousin would have. | no public link Uruguay, Passenger Lists 1888-1980; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPWH-BN11" rel="noopener">1:1:QPWH-BN11</a>, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS73-G9MX-6" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS73-G9MX-6</a> |
| Arturo LERENA (oriental, b. c.1857, father of Eduardo) Unplaced | 1857 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · abogado · found in Montevideo A NEW HEAD OF A MONTEVIDEO HOUSEHOLD, 11 October 2026. Named on his son's marriage act of 11 January 1920 as 'ARTURO LERENA, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, de estado CASADO, de SESENTA Y DOS anos, domiciliado en MONTEVIDEO' - so born about 1857-58, alive and married in January 1920, living in the capital. His wife is EMA REGULES. HE IS NOT ARTURO LERENA GARCIA, who is in this register as a SPANISH journalist with sons surnamed LERENA DIAZ by Amalia Diaz. Nationality separates them on the face of the two acts and they are kept apart; see data/_person-pairs.txt. WHAT HE OPENS: a Lerena born about 1857 in Uruguay, with a son born in Montevideo in 1886, is exactly the generation this archive searches for Juan Carlos - and he is not Juan Carlos, because his son's act names him plainly. HIS OWN PARENTS ARE NOT ON THIS ACT, which is the ordinary limit of a Uruguayan civil marriage: it names the couple's parents and stops. HIS OWN MARRIAGE ACT, FOUND WITHIN THE HOUR - AND IT PUTS HIM IN SANCHO'S HOUSE. 'En VEINTE Y TRES DE JUNIO de mil ochocientos OCHENTA, el Presbitero Don JUAN JOSE BRID, con licencia del Cura Parroco de esta BASILICA MENOR Y CATEDRAL DE MONTEVIDEO, DISPENSADAS LAS TRES CONCILIARES PROCLAMAS por el Ilustrisimo y Reverendisimo Senor Obispo Diocesano DON JACINTO VERA, autorizo... el matrimonio que contrajo el DOCTOR DON ARTURO [L]ERENA, natural de esta Republica, soltero, de VEINTE Y DOS ANOS de edad, HIJO LEGITIMO DE DON AVELINO LERENA Y DONA AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, con DONA EMMA REGULES... de DIEZ Y SEIS ANOS de edad, hija legitima de DON WENCESLAO REGULES y DONA JUSTINIANA MELILLA: fueron testigos el DOCTOR DON AMBROSIO LERENA y Dona Justiniana Melilla de Regules.' SO HE IS A SON OF AVELINO LERENA AND AMBROSIA TRAIBEL - THE HEAD OF THE LERENA TRAIBEL BRANCH, AND SANCHO'S SON. That makes his son EDUARDO a great-grandson of Sancho Llerena, and the Argentine household at Adolfo Alsina a branch of this archive's own trunk rather than a namesake. HE IS A DOCTOR, which no other man in this register is, and he was twenty-two in June 1880 - born about 1857-58, which agrees exactly with the SIXTY-TWO years his son's act gives him in January 1920. AND THE ARCHIVE ALREADY HOLDS A SON OF THAT COUPLE CALLED JUAN ARTURO, born 16 February 1861 - NOT MERGED. A man born in February 1861 was NINETEEN in June 1880, not twenty-two, and this archive has his baptismal date from the Cordon. AN AGE ON A MARRIAGE ACT BENDS BY A YEAR; IT DOES NOT USUALLY BEND BY THREE, and the couple had eleven known children already, so a twelfth named Arturo is not a strain. See data/_person-pairs.txt. A LEAD NOT YET OPENED: the Montevideo civil marriages of 1907-08 carry a 'Dona EMMA LERENA REGULES' with her parents given as 'don Arturo Lerena' and 'Emma Regules' - a daughter, marrying. HE IS A LAWYER, NOT A PHYSICIAN - AND THIS ROW SAID 'DOCTOR' FOR AN HOUR WITHOUT ASKING WHICH KIND. His daughter's marriage act of 9 August 1909 gives him plainly: 'hija de don ARTURO LERENA, de estado casado, DE PROFESION ABOGADO, de nacionalidad oriental, domiciliado en la calle COLONIA 2200'. In Uruguay DOCTOR IS THE STYLE OF AN ABOGADO as much as of a medico, and the 1880 marriage act's 'el Doctor Don Arturo Lerena' carries no more than that. THE OCCUPATION FIELD IS CORRECTED AND SO IS THE INFERENCE DRAWN FROM IT: this archive wrote that the Lerena Traibel were 'a professional household' on the strength of two men called Doctor, which remains true, and said it in a way that suggested medicine, which was never stated. A SECOND CHILD, 12 October 2026: EMMA LERENA REGULES, born 18 May 1885 at SAN JOSE, who married Fermin Carlos de Yeregui at Montevideo on 9 August 1909. SO THE HOUSEHOLD WAS AT SAN JOSE IN 1885 AND AT MONTEVIDEO IN 1886, where his son Eduardo was born on 22 April. THOSE TWO BIRTHS ARE ELEVEN MONTHS APART, which is possible and tight, and is recorded as a tension rather than resolved. AND IN 1909 HE AND HIS WIFE ARE GIVEN AT DIFFERENT ADDRESSES - he at calle Colonia 2200, she at calle Colonia 228 - both 'de estado casado'. The numbers differ by a factor of ten and the likeliest reading is a transcriber's slip rather than a separation; NOT RESOLVED. HIS WHOLE KNOWN SIBSHIP, FROM ONE PARENT-PAIR QUERY - 12 October 2026. Six children by Emma Regules: EMA JUSTINA FELICIA (b. 18 May 1881, San Jose), ARTURO MARIO (b. 9 April 1884, San Jose, who died at Montevideo in 1949), EMMA (b. 18 May 1885, San Jose), EDUARDO (b. 22 April 1886, Montevideo), CORA MARIA AVELINA (b. 8 June 1887, christened at the Union 23 October 1887) and ROBERTO AMBROSIO (b. 1 November 1896, Montevideo). AND TWO OF THOSE NAMES CORROBORATE HIS OWN PARENTAGE WITHOUT A SECOND ACT. The 1880 marriage makes him a son of AVELINO LERENA and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL; his fifth child is AVELINA and his sixth is AMBROSIO. A HOUSEHOLD NAMES ITS CHILDREN FOR ITS OWN PARENTS, and this one did it twice. THE FAMILY MOVED: San Jose from 1881 to 1885, Montevideo from 1886. AND THERE IS A NINE-YEAR GAP, 1887 to 1896, which in a household of this period usually means children this query did not reach - deaths in infancy, or acts indexed under another spelling. HIS DEATH ACT, AND IT IS THE BEST DOCUMENT THIS HOUSEHOLD HAS - 12 October 2026. 'En Montevideo y el dia DOS DE MARZO DE MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y SEIS... declarando que a las DOS HORAS del dia de hoy y en TREINTA Y TRES 269, fallecio ARTURO LERENA, del sexo masculino, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, NACIDO EN MONTEVIDEO, de SETENTA Y OCHO ANOS DE EDAD, de estado casado, DE PROFESION ABOGADO, a consecuencia de [la causa] segun consta del certificado del DOCTOR JORGE CALVETTE... Que el finado era HIJO DE A[V]ELINO [L]ERENA y de AMBROSIA TR[A]IBEL, AMBOS FALLECIDOS... era casado con [E]MA REGULES, de cuyo consorcio quedaron CINCO HIJOS llamados EMA, MARIO, EDUARDO, CORA y ROBERTO.' SO: d. 2 March 1936, at two in the morning, at Treinta y Tres 269, aged 78, a lawyer. The act confirms his parents a second time and confirms the profession correction made the same day. AND IT NAMES FIVE SURVIVING CHILDREN WHERE THE INDEX GAVE SIX. Ema, Mario, Eduardo, Cora and Roberto - which is this register's sibship with ONLY ONE EMA. That does not settle the two daughters born on 18 May, in 1881 and 1885: five surviving of six is what the act would say if one had died. IT DOES TILT IT - see the rows for both women. THE AGE IS THE THIRD INDEPENDENT STATEMENT OF HIS BIRTH YEAR AND THEY ALL AGREE: twenty-two in June 1880, sixty-two in January 1920, seventy-eight in March 1936 - 1857, 1857-58, 1857-58. AGAINST ONE BAPTISM OF A 'JUAN ARTURO' IN FEBRUARY 1861. FAMILYSEARCH'S OWN TREE HAS ALREADY MERGED THEM, attaching this death record to a profile 'Juan Arturo Lerena Traibel, 1861-1936'. THAT IS A TREE, NOT A DOCUMENT, and this register keeps the two apart until an act does the joining. THE DECLARANTS WERE NOT FAMILY: an Italian employee of forty and an oriental of twenty-three, neither named Lerena, which is the ordinary shape of a city death registration and means the ages in it are secondhand. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Canelones - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1917-1924, acta No. 4 of 11 January 1920, Santa Lucia, Segunda Seccion del Departamento de Canelones - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y</a>; and Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS, the act of 23 June 1880 at the Basilica Menor y Catedral de Montevideo (volume catalogued 1887) - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1</a>; and Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - <strong>PARENT-PAIR INDEX QUERY, father ARTURO LERENA and mother EMMA REGULES, run 12 October 2026</strong> - eight records returned; <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Montevideo - DEATH RECORDS 1931-1938, acta No. 8 of 2 March 1936, Tercera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q</a>; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6V-233Y" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6V-233Y</a> |
| Arturo LERENA GARCIA (m. Amalia Diaz) Unplaced · high interest | Spanish · periodista · found in Parana, Entre Rios THE SECOND OF THE FOUR UNTRACED FATHERS OF CAJON 985, AND THE ONE THIS ARCHIVE HAD ALREADY GOT WRONG. The Chilean death registration of his infant son, 18 September 1894, names him 'padre ARTURO LERENA GARCIA' - SO HIS MOTHER WAS A GARCIA, which is the first thing ever held about his parents. AND IT CONFIRMS A WITHDRAWAL: data/cajon-985-origins.tsv first read him as a son of AVELINO LERENA and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL and withdrew it the same day as a conflation with JUAN ARTURO LERENA TRAIBEL (wife Ema Regules). A MAN WRITTEN LERENA GARCIA IS NOT A SON OF AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, so the doubt is now a document. HIS FAMILY MOVED ACROSS THE ANDES AND BACK: La Pampa 1889, VALPARAISO 1893-94, Mendoza 1896, Entre Rios 1897 - and Mendoza is the Argentine city at the foot of the pass to Valparaiso. HE IS NOT PLACED IN A COUNTRY. The Chilean form records nationality for the DECEASED only and never asks where the father was born. THE TEST: his marriage to Amalia Diaz, or an Entre Rios civil registration of one of his other children. HE IS SPANISH AND HE IS A JOURNALIST, 10 October 2026 - AND THAT BREAKS A PATTERN THIS ARCHIVE PUBLISHED THE DAY BEFORE. His son Antonio's marriage at Crespo, Entre Rios, on 24 October 1924 is a printed form with a 'de nacionalidad' blank for each parent, and it reads 'hijo de ARTURO LERENA, de nacionalidad ESPANOLA, de profesion PERIODISTA, y de AMALIA DIAZ, de nacionalidad PERUANA'. HE ALSO STOOD WITNESS AT THAT WEDDING: 'Los testigos Arturo Lerena, de cincuenta y [units digit not read] anos, de profesion Periodista, de estado casado, domiciliado en PARANA' - so born about 1865-1874, and the age is what proves the witness is the father and not the son, who was twenty-eight. SO THE CLAIM THAT EVERY TRACEABLE FATHER IN CAJON 985 IS URUGUAYAN OR MARRIED IN URUGUAY IS BROKEN - he is a Spaniard married to a Peruvian. WHAT SURVIVES IS WEAKER: NOT ONE OF THE FIVE IS ARGENTINE. See data/corrections.tsv. AND HIS MOTHER WAS A GARCIA by the Chilean compound - so a Spanish-born Lerena whose mother's surname is known, which is what /open-questions/ question 5 has been asking for. A THIRD POSSIBLE SON, 11 October 2026: VICENTE LERENA DIAZ, Jefe del Registro Civil of Pueblo Brugo in Entre Rios in 1938 - the department where Antonio married in 1924. NOT ESTABLISHED. IF IT HOLDS, THIS SPANISH JOURNALIST'S SONS PUT DOWN ROOTS IN ONE ARGENTINE DEPARTMENT, which is a shape this archive could test against the Entre Rios registers rather than guess at. | record ↗ Valparaiso, Chile. Death Records September-December 1894 - entry 54, page 28, Circunscripcion de El Almendral; DGS film 004702100 image 19, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-P9FG-8" rel="noopener">3:1:939K-P9FG-8</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Libro de matrimonios: Crespo, Entre Rios. Marriage Records 1924 - acta No. 144, 24 October 1924, before Emilio F. Castellot; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026; and Libro de defunciones: Pueblo Brugo, Departamento Parana, Entre Rios - DEATH RECORDS 1938, acta of 11 February 1938 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-3Q4L-P8KV" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-3Q4L-P8KV</a> |
| Arturo Mario LERENA Regules (1884-1949) Unplaced | 1884-04-09 · Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose Second known child of Arturo Lerena and Emma Regules, born 9 April 1884 in the Departamento de San Jose and named for his father. HE DIED AT MONTEVIDEO ON 6 MAY 1949, registered the next day, and the index gives his wife as MARIA JUANA with a surname it renders 'Aan' - NOT ESTABLISHED. SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OLD, and the longest life this archive can yet trace in Arturo's household. INDEX-LEVEL ON BOTH RECORDS. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - <strong>PARENT-PAIR INDEX QUERY, father ARTURO LERENA and mother EMMA REGULES, run 12 October 2026</strong> - eight records returned; <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Asuncion LERENA Unplaced | 1884 · Uruguay · Oriental · found in Uruguay Daughter of Domingo LERENA and Maria Cristina Araujo, born 1884 and later resident at San Francisco de Asis in Montevideo - and the only place the index gives for her birth is URUGUAY, with no department - so she is NOT evidence of an Artigas family reaching the capital, which is what this row said when it was written. See data/corrections.tsv, 12 October 2026. Index-level; no act opened. Her later residence is given as San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo. | record ↗ FamilySearch record index, Uruguay Civil Registration, Artigas - INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED, surveyed 12 October 2026 |
| Aurora LERENA Fernandez (m. Manuel VAQUERO) Unplaced | 1868 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A FIFTH LERENA WOMAN AT TRINIDAD RECORDED AS A MOTHER, and this one has her parents named - 11 October 2026. Born about 1868, daughter of ALEJANDRO F. LERENA and NATALIA LERENA, married MANUEL VAQUERO. AT LEAST FIVE CHILDREN, all registered at Trinidad: Casto Ceverino (b. 6 July 1891), Delmira Eugenia (13 November 1892), Flora Ecolastica (10 February 1896), Herminia (16 June 1900) and Gerardo Nicasio (14 December 1900). THE LAST TWO CANNOT BOTH BE RIGHT: Herminia and Gerardo are six months apart and were christened on the same day, 7 January 1901, so one birth date is misindexed. Recorded as a conflict rather than smoothed. THE INDEX GIVES HER COMPOUND AS 'LERENA FERNANDEZ' on some entries and 'LERENA LERENA' on others; her mother is named Natalia LERENA, so the second is the likelier truth and the first may be a confusion with the Lerena Fernandez of the elder generation. NOT RESOLVED. INDEX ONLY. AND AN INDEPENDENT QUERY RETURNED HER AGAIN, WITH THE SAME PARENTS - 12 October 2026. A worldwide search for every couple with a LERENA FATHER AND A LERENA MOTHER returned thirty-eight, and she is one of them: 'Aurora Lerena, born 1868, Trinidad, Flores; parents ALEJANDRO F. LERENA and NATALIA LERENA; spouse MANUEL VAQUERO; child ELMIRA VAQUERO'. THAT IS THIS ROW EXACTLY, found by a different route from the Trinidad birthplace sweep that produced it, which is the nearest thing an index gives to corroboration. 'ELMIRA' IS THE DELMIRA EUGENIA ALREADY LISTED HERE, born 13 November 1892 - the index drops the D. AND THIS ROW ALMOST BECAME TWO. Working from the query alone, this archive entered an 'Aurora LERENA (b.1868, dau. of Alejandro F. and Natalia)' and an 'Elmira VAQUERO Lerena' before noticing they were already here. The build refused only because MANUEL VAQUERO collided with himself by exact name; the other two would have passed every gate, because a duplicate under a different spelling is not a duplicate to a name check. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong>; and FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 12 October 2026 |
| Avelina LERENA Unplaced | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires m. Cristobal Canale; daughter Susana Avelina Canale Lerena. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Buenos Aires Catholic Church Records |
| Avelino Carlos LERENA (b.1904, Mendoza) Unplaced · of interest | 1904 · Mendoza · Argentine · func. fiscal, later industrial · found in Mendoza Parents CARLOS LERENA and ADELA CAMIGLIA. Gives a birth and a parentage to the Avelino Carlos who crossed to New York in 1940 and Rio in 1949 and 1953. PLACE FIELD CORRECTED 14 September 2026. This row's 'where found' held a CITATION - "Mendoza; later New York and Rio crossings" - where the atlas expects a PLACE, so this person was missing from the map and appeared on it as a phantom location instead. The citation is kept here; the field now holds a real place. The crossings are not lost: he arrived 1940 (New York), 1949 and 1953 (Rio) - see the CEMLA row for the same man. AND THE TWO ROWS ARE NOW ONE, 20 September 2026. This register carried him twice - once for the Mendoza baptism and once for the CEMLA crossings - while this very note said "see the CEMLA row for the same man." The archive had done the identification and not the merge. AND HIS FORENAME IS NO LONGER ONLY SUGGESTIVE, 9 October 2026. data/cajon-985-origins.tsv noted that AVELINO is 'a Lerena Lenguas and Lerena-Traibel given name - suggestive only'. FOUR YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN, AN AVELINO LERENA STOOD GODFATHER BY PROXY TO HIS SISTER MARIA ADELA at the Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza. SO THERE WAS A REAL AVELINO LERENA IN HIS FATHER'S CIRCLE, AND HE IS LIKELIER NAMED FOR A MAN THAN FOR A FAMILY HABIT. WHICH AVELINO IS NOT ESTABLISHED and is not guessed: this register holds four. | record ↗ Argentina Mendoza Catholic Church Records - baptism 12 Mar 1904, San Nicolas de Tolentino; and CEMLA, three crossings - New York 1940, Rio 1949 and 1953; and Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1899-1901 - baptism of 6 January 1900; DGS film 004597291 image 69, waypoint Q633-3DR, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HF9M-7S" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HF9M-7S</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Avelino Eduardo LERENA Traibel Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A FORK THIS ARCHIVE REFUSED TO CHOOSE IS NOW DECIDED, 20 September 2026. On 16 September a working log found a branch indexed LERENA VILLADEMOROS and set out two readings without picking one: either Avelino Lerena Fernandez (b.1815) married twice, Ambrosia Traibel and then Celedonia Villademoros, or Avelino Eduardo is a SON of his. It is the son. Two separate parish acts give this man's own father as AVELINO SERENA/LERENA with AMBROSIA TRAIBEL named on the record - so he is a child of that marriage, and the Villademoros children are Sancho's great-grandchildren. HE IS THEREFORE A NEW CHILD OF AVELINO AND AMBROSIA, beside Alejandro, Josefa, Ana Rosario, Alfredo Justiniano and Mercedes. He married CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, daughter of Pedro Villademoros and Angelica Mendez. INDEX-LEVEL: both acts are machine-indexed and neither image has been opened here. AND THE TEST NAMED ABOVE WAS RUN THE SAME EVENING AND CAME BACK EMPTY. LERENA with spouse surname VILLADEMOROS, Uruguay: 6,352 records, and not one of them is a marriage act. Every hit is a parent entry on somebody else's baptism or civil registration. The control is the one that worked two hours earlier: the same query shape on LERENA with spouse JUANICO puts the marriage act of 19 December 1864 at RANK ONE. So the shape finds a marriage when there is one to find. NEITHER VILLADEMOROS MARRIAGE IS IN THE INDEXED RECORD, and the brothers-and-sisters reading stays an inference. It would be settled by the parish marriage books of the Cordon and Union, which have not been walked. AND HE HAS MORE CHILDREN THAN THIS ARCHIVE COULD SEE, FOUND 21 September 2026 BY DELETING A SEARCH PARAMETER. A parent-pair query on him with CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS returns ZERO. Dropping the mother's SURNAME and keeping only 'Celedonia' returns SEVEN - including the two christenings this archive already held, which is how the zero was known to be false. The seven add: PEDRO SEGUNDO LERENA VILLADEMOROS, who died at Montevideo on 23 August 1936 aged 66, certificate 150, married to PAULINA PRANDO ALGAR; an AVELINO LERENA who died at Montevideo on 5 January 1914 aged 45, certificate 9, married to CARMEN LORENTE, whose mother is written CELEDONIA VILLADEMORO without the s; and marriage registrations of 1921 for both Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre and Pedro Gualberto. WHETHER THAT IS FOUR CHILDREN OR TWO IS NOT SETTLED AND IS NOT GUESSED HERE. Pedro Segundo's estimated 1870 sits on Pedro Gualberto's birth of 19 October 1869; the 1914 Avelino's estimated 1869 sits four years off Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre's December 1865 - and a man who died in 1914 cannot register a marriage in 1921. The ages come from death certificates and are the weakest field there is. TEST: the two 1921 marriage registrations, which would show which of these men were alive to marry. HE IS ARGENTINO ON THE PLATE, 27 September 2026, and that is new. The Iglesia Matriz act of 29 September 1872 calls him 'AVELINO LERENA, argentino' and his wife 'CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, argentina'. AND IT NAMES HIS PARENTS: 'Abuelos paternos AVELINO y AMBROSIA TRAIBEL' - so his descent from Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel is on a parish act and no longer rests on the index alone. A THIRD CHILD is added from it: Angelica Maria, born 8 April 1872. HE HAS A DEATH AT LAST, AND IT IS IN CANELONES - 11 October 2026. His daughter Angelica's marriage act of 20 November 1897 describes him as 'Don AVELINO, ORIENTAL, FALLECIDO EN CANELONES EN EL ANO DE 1895' - and his widow Celedonia is party to the same act, so the statement is hers. SO HE DIED IN 1895, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CANELONES, not at Montevideo where this archive has always had the family. AND IT BEARS ON A READING THIS ARCHIVE WITHDREW, WITHOUT REVIVING IT. On 22 September the claim that AVELINO LERENA FERNANDEZ - his FATHER - died at “La Paz, Canelones” was withdrawn, because the father died at Montevideo on 22 August 1890. THAT RETRACTION STANDS. But the secondary tree file it came from now looks less like invention and more like A CONFUSION OF FATHER WITH SON: there IS an Avelino Lerena who died in Canelones, and it is this one. THE PRECISE PLACE WITHIN CANELONES IS NOT STATED HERE and nothing in this act says La Paz. THE NEXT RECORD TO FIND IS HIS OWN DEATH ACT, Canelones, 1895. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening of Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre, Union, Montevideo, 5 Mar 1866, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D7Z-JGH2" rel="noopener">1:1:6D7Z-JGH2</a>; and of Pedro Gualberto, Cordon, Montevideo, 15 Jan 1870; index read 20 September 2026; and named as GODFATHER at the Iglesia Matriz christening of Angelica Maria Lerena Villademoros, 29 September 1872 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DFQ-YF26" rel="noopener">1:1:6DFQ-YF26</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004298263 image 03147; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899' |
| Avelino LERENA Fernandez (son of Sancho) Unplaced | 1815 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE HEAD OF THE LERENA TRAIBEL BRANCH, named at last on 14 September 2026. Husband of AMBROSIA TRAIBEL and father of Josefa Lerena Traibel, born 1851. This archive has referred to the Lerena Traibel since its first week without ever placing Avelino. HE IS SANCHO'S SON - SETTLED 14 September 2026 ON A PARISH ACT. An Avelino Lerena stood godfather at the Catedral de Montevideo in 1833 to a child of Justa Pastora Lerena, Sancho's daughter, which is suggestive and no more. No record found here names Avelino's own parents. AND HE IS NAMED IN A PARISH ACT, not only in a death index: the baptisms of his granddaughters at Union on 8 March 1880 give "abuelos maternos AVELINO y AMBROSIA TRAIBEL". A SECOND CHILD FOUND, 14 September 2026: ALFREDO, born about 1857, married at the Catedral Basilica on 3 February 1892 - "hijo legitimo de Don AVELINO LORENA y Dona Ambrosia Traibel". So Avelino and Ambrosia had at least JOSEFA (1851) and ALFREDO (c.1857), and probably MERCEDES, who stood godmother in 1880. TWO BAPTISMS OF 12 MARCH 1858 AT SAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS name the paternal grandparents of his children as SANCHO LERENA and MARIA FERNANDEZ - twice, on one page. So the whole LERENA TRAIBEL line descends from Sancho, and several of its members were already floating unattached in this register: Mercedes Micaela and Clorinda in the dispensation table, and JUAN ARTURO - the man this archive conflated with another Arturo in its first week and had to retract. And the godparents at those two fonts were LAVALLEJA - Justiniano, Constantino and Ana. AND HE NOW HAS DATES, 14 September 2026: BORN 1815, DIED 22 AUGUST 1890 at Montevideo, registered the next day. The registration names his parents Sancho and Maria Fernandez - an INDEPENDENT attestation of the parentage the 1858 baptisms settled, and the first record in this archive to say when Avelino lived. IT ALSO EXPLAINS SOMETHING THE ARCHIVE HAD ONLY NOTED AS ODD. At his son Alfredo's wedding in February 1892 the witness was AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, the mother, where a father would be expected. Avelino had been dead sixteen months. Three records - the 1858 fonts, this registration, and the 1892 marriage - now lock together in one order. The registration spells him LEVENA, an eighth spelling. The image has not been opened, so the dates are SECONDARY; the parentage is PRIMARY from 1858. AND AN ELDEST CHILD, found 14 September 2026 - by correcting one of this archive's own rows. ALEJANDRO, born 29 May 1843, baptised at La Mauricia on 7 January 1846, "hijo legitimo de Avelino Serena y Ambrosia Traibel" - a boy this archive had wrongly recorded as a sixth child of his brother Luis. So Avelino and Ambrosia were married before May 1843, and their known children run ALEJANDRO (1843), JOSEFA (1851), ALFREDO JUSTINIANO and ANA ROSARIO (1858), probably MERCEDES. And the act shows the two brothers standing as godparents for each other's children at the same font on the same morning - Luis and Justiniana for Alejandro, while Luis's own two were christened in the entries just above. AND HE DID NOT MARRY TWICE - DECIDED 20 September 2026. The LERENA VILLADEMOROS branch found on 16 September was left as two readings: a second marriage of his, or a son of his. It is a son. Two parish acts give AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA's own father as Avelino with Ambrosia Traibel on the record, so Avelino Eduardo joins Alejandro, Josefa, Ana Rosario, Alfredo Justiniano and Mercedes as a child of this marriage, and Celedonia Villademoros is a daughter-in-law. NINE CHILDREN, 21 September 2026, where this row listed six. A parent-pair search on Avelino with Ambrosia added four: PEDRO ALBERTO YSABELINO (b. 16 March 1852, and he is the ALBERTO who died in 1921), JUAN ARTURO (b. 16 February 1861), MERCEDES MICAELA (b. 8 May 1863) - who is very likely the Mercedes who stood godmother in 1880 - and MARIA ADELINA, who married Carlos Alberto Fein and died in 1946. With Alejandro, Josefa, Ana Rosario, Alfredo Justiniano and Avelino Eduardo that is nine, and the births run from 1843 to about 1865 - twenty-two years, which is one marriage and not two. A THIRD INDEPENDENT ACT NAMES HIS PARENTS: the 1852 Aguada baptism gives the paternal grandparents as Sancho Lerena and Maria Fernandez, after the two of 1858 and the christening of 1866. AND THE 1852 ACTS CALL HIM AN ORIENTAL: 'orientales los padres' at the Aguada, which agrees with a birth at Montevideo in 1815. The same page then calls SANCHO oriental too, and that one this archive does not accept - see the working log. TEN, WITHIN THE HOUR. ANDRES, born 16 March 1857, was read off the second opening of the same certificate book. And his sons appear as godfathers to his daughters: Avelino Eduardo stood for Andres in 1861, written 'AVELINO LERENA (HIJO)', and an AMBROSIO LERENA - almost certainly the Carlos Ambrosio of the family chart - stood for Maria Adelina in 1865. The births now run 1843, 1851, 1852, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1861, 1863, 1865 with Avelino Eduardo earlier still, which is a single marriage producing a child about every two years for twenty-two years. SEVEN OF HIS CHILDREN LODGED BAPTISMAL CERTIFICATES TOGETHER IN NOVEMBER 1896, and this archive thinks it knows why. Certificates 147 to 153 of one Montevideo book, consecutive, drawn from FOUR different parishes - the Aguada, San Agustin de la Union, San Francisco de Asis and the Cordon - and registered within days of each other: Mercedes Micaela, Josefina, Pedro Alberto Ysabelino, Ana Rosario, Juan Arturo, Andres and Maria Adelina. Grown brothers and sisters do not each happen to want proof of baptism in the same week. That is what proving FILIATION looks like, and their father had died on 22 August 1890. Offered as a hypothesis with a named test: the Montevideo succession and notarial records of 1896. See data/1852-aguada-union-certificates.tsv. AND THE PARISH WAS WRONG, CORRECTED 21 September 2026 OFF THE PLATE. This archive placed these 1880 baptisms at the UNION, which is what the index's place field says. The act itself reads 'con licencia del infrascripto Cura Parroco DE ESTA BASILICA MENOR Y CATEDRAL DE MONTEVIDEO, bautice solemnemente EN ELLA a Maria Carlota'. They were baptised in the CATEDRAL BASILICA, not at the Union. | GRO index — no public per-record link Named as father in the Montevideo death registration of Josefa Lerena Traibel, 3 April 1947 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:617P-WJY6" rel="noopener">1:1:617P-WJY6</a>; and as maternal grandfather in two Catedral Basilica baptisms of 8 Mar 1880 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a>; and as father of the groom in the Catedral marriage of 3 Feb 1892 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K</a>; and TWO baptisms of his children, San Francisco de Asis, 12 Mar 1858, naming his parents - San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptisms of 12 Mar 1858 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a>; and his own MONTEVIDEO CIVIL DEATH REGISTRATION of 23 Aug 1890 - index read, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:62J2-4CNQ" rel="noopener">1:1:62J2-4CNQ</a>, image <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-K796-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-K796-D</a> NOT YET OPENED; and the baptism of his son ALEJANDRO at La Mauricia, Villa de la Union, 7 Jan 1846 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J</a>; and the 1852 Aguada baptism of his son Pedro Alberto Ysabelino - IMAGE READ, film 008166435 image 02850 |
| Avelino LERENA Villademoros (d. 1914) Unplaced | c.1869 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Son of Avelino Eduardo Lerena and Celedonia Villademoros - the index writes her VILLADEMORO, without the final s, which is a fourth spelling of that surname in this register. Died 5 January 1914, at Montevideo, aged 45, certificate 9, and registered the same day. His wife was CARMEN LORENTE. HE IS NOT MERGED WITH AVELINO PEDRO JOAQUIN SILVESTRE, and the reason is a date that will not bend: that brother has a marriage registration of 1921, and a man who died in 1914 does not marry in 1921. The age of 45 would put this man's birth in 1869, four years after his brother's. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Montevideo civil death registration No. 9, 5 January 1914 - index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6BXR-K7NN" rel="noopener">1:1:6BXR-K7NN</a> |
| Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre LERENA Villademoros Unplaced | 1865-12 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Born December 1865 and christened at Union, Montevideo, on 5 March 1866 - the same parish where his cousins the Moratorio girls were baptised fourteen years later. Son of Avelino Eduardo Lerena and Celedonia Villademoros, and a GREAT-GRANDSON OF SANCHO. The act names his grandparents Avelino and Ambrosia Traibel, which is what decides the branch. JOAQUIN REQUENA is named on the record - almost certainly the godfather, and a name out of Uruguayan public life; nothing is claimed of it. Index-level. | no public link Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening, Union, Montevideo, 5 March 1866; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D7Z-JGH2" rel="noopener">1:1:6D7Z-JGH2</a> |
| Benito LERENA Unplaced · of interest | 1854c · Oriental · jornalero · found in San Eugenio, Artigas, Uruguay The declarant on act 110, and the maternal grandfather - not the father, whatever the index says. 45 years old, married, Oriental, a jornalero of the Villa. He could not write: the act closes a ruego de Benito Lerena por no saber firmar. Husband of Maria Cristina, father of Anastasia LERENA. Found only because the sweep asked for a LERENA father against a SERENA mother - a cell no search here had ever run. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), San Eugenio birth act 110 of 2 June 1899 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-DQC1-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-DQC1-2</a>, plate read at apid TH-909-72312-116990-27 on 12 October 2026 |
| Bernabe LERENA (1911 dispensation) Unplaced | 1862 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · hacendado · found in Flores, Uruguay A LERENA BROTHER, found 14 September 2026 in a dispensation that draws its own family tree. Married FLORINDA CARDOZO; father of CUSTODIO LERENA. His sister MARIA LERENA married Florinda's brother ELISEO CARDOZO - so two Lerena siblings married two Cardozo siblings, and in 1911 their children petitioned to marry each other as DOUBLE FIRST COUSINS. Nothing attaches him to any branch in this register. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713362 image 02473 - and the folio is not prose but 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco', TWO KINSHIP DIAGRAMS the priest drew himself to prove the impediment. The diagrams read 'Bernabe Lerena casose con FLORINDA CARDOZO' and 'Florinda Cardozo casada con Bernabe Lerena'. His own father is named at the apex of the first schema and is a person this archive had never held. HE HAS AN AGE, A TRADE, AN ADDRESS AND A DAUGHTER, 9 October 2026. His grandson's birth act of 10 March 1922 names the child's maternal grandparents as 'Don BERNABE LERENA, hacendado, de SESENTA anos de edad, y Dona FLORINDA CARDOZO, de CINCUENTA Y CUATRO anos, casados, orientales y domiciliados en esta Seccion' - so born about 1862, a landholder, living in the Sexta Seccion of Flores and alive in March 1922. AND THE CHILD'S MOTHER, FLORINDA JUANA LERENA, IS HIS DAUGHTER - a sister for Custodio, and the row that joins the 1911 dispensation to the 1913 one. HE IS NOT THE BERNABE OF TRINIDAD, who was born about 1835; twenty-seven years apart. HIS OWN MARRIAGE IS DATED: 22 MARCH 1888 at Santisima Trinidad, where the index gives him born about 1863, son of BERNABE LERENA and CASIMIRA PELAEZ, marrying FLORINDA CARDOSO. Found 11 October 2026, index only. THE DOUBLE WEDDING OF 25 APRIL 1889, found 11 October 2026. On one day at Santisima Trinidad, TWO LERENA SISTERS MARRIED TWO CARDOZO BROTHERS: MARIA LERENA, born about 1867, to ELISEO CARDOSO, and CASIMIRA LERENA, born about 1869, to JUAN BASILIO CARDOSO. Both are daughters of BERNABE LERENA and CASIMIRA PELAEZ. AND THIS IS WHAT THE 1911 DISPENSATION WAS ABOUT. That expediente calls CUSTODIO LERENA and EMA CARDOZO 'double first cousins' and this archive has had the diagrams for weeks without the marriages that produced them. Here they are: a LERENA brother and his LERENA sisters married a CARDOZO sister and her CARDOZO brothers - Bernabe the younger to Florinda Cardozo on 22 March 1888, then Maria and Casimira to Eliseo and Juan Basilio on 25 April 1889. TWO BLOOD PATHS BETWEEN THE NEXT GENERATION, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT 'DOUBLE' MEANS. INDEX ONLY; the acts have not been opened and which Cardozo fathered Ema is not yet shown. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records July-August 1911 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713362 image 02473; and Flores. Birth Records 1916-1925 - act No. 10 of 1922, Anibal Marino Pelaez, born 3 March 1922, Sexta Seccion of Flores; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8</a>, DGS film 008165367 item 6 image 195 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Bernabe LERENA (of Trinidad) Connected | 1835 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores One of the men fathering Lerena children at Trinidad, Flores in the 1870s and 1880s. Wife: Casimira PELAEZ. 4 children 1871-1885. Six or seven men of a rare surname in one small inland town in a handful of years are almost certainly brothers or first cousins - this looks like the founding kindred of the surname in Uruguay. No Pablo and no Armando anywhere in the set. HE HAS AN AGE, AN ADDRESS AND A FIFTH CHILD, 9 October 2026. His grandson's birth act of 1897 gives him as 'Don BERNABE LERENA, Oriental, de sesenta y dos anos, casado, de profesion HACENDADO y vecino de CERRO COLORADO' - so born about 1835, a landholder, and living at Cerro Colorado rather than in Trinidad town. AND THE CHILD'S MOTHER, ANTONINA LERENA, IS HIS DAUGHTER - a fifth to set beside the four this archive had from 1871-1885. A SIXTH CHILD, 9 October 2026: JUAN. The 1905 baptism of Nepomuceno Teofilo at Trinidad gives 'Abuelos paternos: BERNABE y CASIMIRA PELAEZ' for a child of Juan Lerena and Eduviges Pelaez, and his son Juan is Juan Bernardo Lerena Pelaez, born 20 August 1871 - the groom of the 1894 dispensation. FOUR CHILDREN ON 13 SEPTEMBER, A FIFTH YESTERDAY, A SIXTH TODAY, AND EVERY ONE OF THEM FROM A GRANDCHILD'S RECORD. HIS PARENTS, HIS GRANDPARENTS, HIS WEDDING DATE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE, 9 October 2026 - AND A PRIEST'S DRAWING OF THE LOT. His own marriage expediente, Santisima Trinidad, 15 February 1858, calls him 'hijo legitimo de Don ALEJANDRO LERENA y Dona MARGARITA FERNANDEZ, NATURALES DE SAN JOSE y vecinos de esta', seeking to marry su parienta en SEGUNDO GRADO de consanguinidad en linea trasversal, Dona CASIMIRA PELAEZ. AND THE FOLIO CARRIES A KINSHIP SCHEMA THE CURA VICARIO DREW HIMSELF: RAMON LERENA / MARIA GONZALEZ at the apex, with lines down to ALEJANDRO LERENA / MARGARITA FERNANDEZ and ANTONINA LERENA / JUAN PELAES, and below them the two contracting parties. SO ALEJANDRO AND ANTONINA ARE BROTHER AND SISTER, AND BERNABE MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN. AND SOCORRO LERENA IS HIS SISTER, by the expediente of 1855 which gives her the same parents - which closes work-list row 196. THE TRANSCRIPT CALLS HIM 'BERNABE LERESA' AND THE PLATE SAYS LERENA. AND HE IS NOT UNATTACHED, AND HAS NOT BEEN SINCE 17 SEPTEMBER - THIS ROW WAS THE LAST PLACE TO SAY OTHERWISE. data/ramon-lerena-rosario.tsv has carried him as a son of ALEJANDRO LERENA since 17 September and /uruguay/ has drawn it; this row went on saying nothing joined him. THE REGISTER WAS CONTRADICTING THE ARCHIVE'S OWN EVIDENCE FILES FOR THREE WEEKS. See data/corrections.tsv. AND IT IS NOW DOCUMENTED AT PLATE LEVEL, TWICE: his own marriage expediente of 15 February 1858 names him 'hijo legitimo de Don ALEJANDRO LERENA y Dona MARGARITA FERNANDEZ' and carries the priest's schema; and ALEJANDRO'S OWN MARRIAGE ACT OF 16 SEPTEMBER 1825 at San Jose makes Alejandro 'hijo legitimo de RAMON LEREÑA y MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ', natural de la VILLA DEL ROSARIO. SO BERNABE IS A GRANDSON OF RAMON LERENA OF ROSARIO-COLLA, AND A FIRST COUSIN OF CIPRIANO. THE GUESS OF 13 SEPTEMBER IN THIS ROW - that the Trinidad men are 'almost certainly brothers or first cousins' - IS NOW PROVED FOR TWO OF THEM. AND TWO EARLIER DAUGHTERS, FOUND UNDER THE LLERENA SPELLING - 12 October 2026. MARGARITA MEDARDA DEL CORAZON DE JESUS, christened at Trinidad in 1859, and MARIA, born 13 May 1866 and christened on the 25th. THE 1859 CHILD MATTERS MOST: this row's six known children run from 1871, and 1859 sits a year after his marriage expediente of 15 February 1858 - which is where a first child belongs, and is eleven years earlier than anything this archive had. NEITHER IS MERGED WITH ANY MARIA ALREADY HELD. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026; and Flores, Birth Records 1887-1901 - entry No. 10, Cayetano Alberto Fernandez, born Pintos 7 August 1897; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F</a>, FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909 - baptism of 26 November 1905, Lerena Nepomuceno Teofilo, pages 32-33; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F</a>, DGS film 008163893 item 5 image 20 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1857-1860 - EXPEDIENTE of Bernabe Lerena to marry Casimira Pelaez, Santisima Trinidad, 15 February 1858, Luciano Bonamino Cura Vicario, WITH A KINSHIP DIAGRAM; image 209, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825, before Don Joseph Andres Salvatierra, Cura y Vicario Interino; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10 (indexed at 00009), ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - spelling sweeps PERENA, GERENA, LLERENA + Flores, 12 October 2026 |
| Bernabe LERENA (the elder, of the 1911 diagram) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE APEX OF THE FIRST SCHEMA, and a person this archive never held until the plate was opened. The diagram puts him alone at the top, with lines down to BERNABE LERENA and MARIA LERENA - so he is the father of both, and the grandfather of the groom Custodio Lerena. HE EXISTS BECAUSE A PRIEST DREW HIM. No act read here names him otherwise, he has no dates, and the diagram gives him no wife; a kinship schema draws only the line it has to prove. HIS SON CARRIES HIS NAME, which is why the register held a BERNABE LERENA for a week without noticing there were two. And a third Bernabe Lerena sat in this register unattached - the one of Trinidad, Flores, who married Casimira Pelaez. THAT IS NO LONGER TRUE: on 9 October 2026 he was documented as a son of ALEJANDRO LERENA and MARGARITA FERNANDEZ and a grandson of RAMON LERENA and MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ, by his own marriage expediente of 1858 and his father's marriage act of 1825. AND IT DOES NOT TOUCH THIS MAN, 9 October 2026. He is the apex of the 1911 schema, father of a Bernabe who married Florinda Cardozo, and nothing yet joins HIM to Ramon's house. THREE MEN OF THE NAME REMAIN THREE. AND THIS ROW'S CAUTION EARNED ITS KEEP: it said 'the forename is not proof', and the proof, when it came for the other man, was two marriage acts naming parents - not a resemblance. THE SAME STANDARD STILL APPLIES HERE. | no public link Named at the apex of one of the two kinship diagrams in the Lerena-Cardozo dispensation of 1911 - 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco' - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713362 image 02473; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1</a> |
| Candido Jaime LERENA Juanico Unplaced | 1884-09-13 · Montevideo · Uruguayan ("orientales", per the act) · found in Montevideo A SEVENTH CHILD, and the best-documented of them all. Baptised 6 July 1886 at 21 months: "hijo legitimo de Don Luis Lerena Lenguas y de Dona Julia Juanico, orientales". The act names FOUR grandparents - paternal Don Luis and Dona Justiniana Lenguas, maternal Don Candido and Dona Juliana Gonzalez - and his godparents are his own eldest sister Maria Lerena and Don Jaime Herrera, whom she married in this same parish four months later. Named for his maternal grandfather and his godfather. The FamilySearch index of this act was made by a computer and garbled both parents into mothers; the image settles it. HE MARRIED MARIA CONCEPCION MAGARINOS PITTALUGA on 15 February 1922 at Montevideo, certificate No. 35 - daughter of Mateo Magarinos Veira and Amanda Pittaluga. Like his sister Ema Sixta, who married the philosopher Jose Pedro Massera, he married into a prominent Montevideo family. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, baptism act No. 1720, 6 July 1886 - IMAGE READ; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RS-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RS-F</a> |
| Careen Maria LERENA Unplaced · of interest | SA · found in Cape Colony Died 27 June 1947, buried in the Cape. Almost certainly of this family - the Cape Lerenas are one cluster - but no record yet ties her to a parent. Found 10 Sep 2026. HER INTERMENT ENTRY WAS READ ON 8 OCTOBER 2026, and it moves the grave. Maitland Road Cemetery, Record of Interments, page 4706, entry 423. The line reads: surname LERENA, forename as this register has carried it, FE, age 2 WKS, late residence ending '...Victoria R[oa]d'; allotment ROMAN CATHOLIC, Cons. No. 1, GRAVE 7719. THAT IS MARY SEPTIMA TAYLOR'S GRAVE. This archive already held her burial as 'Maitland Road Cemetery interment register p.3215 entry 163, Nov 1935 ... Cemetery no 1, grave 7719A' - the same cemetery, the same allotment, the same number. A baby of two weeks was laid in the grave of a woman who had died twelve years before her. AND IT IS MAITLAND, NOT NEWLANDS. Work-list row 106 records the family's account, from the cemetery office via Cheryl's sister Patricia, of an unmarked grave at NEWLANDS carrying only the word LERENA and holding three people. The register puts these two at MAITLAND ROAD. WHAT IS NOT SETTLED BY THIS PAGE: whether Pablo Armando is there too. He died in 1950 and this opening is 1947, so he is not on it. THE FORENAME COULD NOT BE RESOLVED. The scan is about 1,100 pixels across a whole opening, and at that resolution 'Careen' and 'Carmen' cannot be told apart - CARMEN would be the commoner name in this family by far. The reading this register already carried is kept, and the doubt is recorded rather than resolved in favour of the likelier guess. THE PLATE WAS RE-READ AT FULL RESOLUTION ON 8 OCTOBER 2026 and three things changed. THE GRAVE IS 7719 B, not 7719. Mary Septima is 7719 A and Pablo Armando is 7719 C: this is one plot with lettered places in it, and the register names it 'In Plot of R. P. Lerina'. SHE WAS BURIED IN HIS GRAVE. That is evidence she was his, and it is not proof - a plot holder may bury a grandchild, a servant's child or a lodger's. THE NAME IS CAREEN, NOT CARMEN. The doubt recorded earlier the same day was answered by the clerk's own hand: the letter in dispute is the pointed r he writes in Frederick two lines below, and is not the three-arch m he writes in mary one line below. Carmen was the likelier name and it is not what the page says. AND HER LAST RESIDENCE WAS 42 VICTORIA ROAD, BELLVILLE - not 7 Forth Road, Newlands, where Pablo Armando and his executrix Rose Lilian Theys both lived. Cheryl's reading that Rose Lilian Theys was the mother now has a fact to answer: the child died at an address in a different suburb. THE REST OF THE LINE: Roman Catholic allotment, Cemetery No. 1, depth 3 1/2 feet, officiating Bosman, undertaker Human - and Human & Pitt appears as a firm elsewhere on the same page, which is worth noting beside Mary Septima's undertaker in 1935, L. Pitt, without being pressed into a conclusion. AND THE REGISTER IS NOW EXHAUSTED ON HER PARENTS, 9 October 2026. Every column of the 1947 opening was catalogued from the header row: No | DATE | NAME | SEX | AGE (Years, Months) | LATE RESIDENCE (Town or Village, Street) | [CAUSE OF DEATH - REDACTED by FamilySearch] | DATE OF DEATH | BY WHOM CERTIFIED on the left page, and ALLOTMENT | Cem. No. | No. of Grave | Depth Below Surface | POSITION | Officiating Minister | UNDERTAKER | PARTICULARS OF BURIAL on the right. THERE IS NO INFORMANT COLUMN AND NO PARENT COLUMN. Her 'By whom certified' cell is BLANK; her date of death reads 27 , confirming the index. ONE NEAR MISS WORTH RECORDING: this register DOES name a parent when a child has no name of its own - entry 430 on the same page reads 'Gordon, Child of ...' - so the convention exists and she falls outside it precisely because somebody had named her. THE CAPE CIVIL REGISTRATION IS NOW THE ONLY ROUTE LEFT, and FamilySearch's full-text search does not reach South Africa. | GRO index — no public per-record link South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011; and Maitland Road Cemetery, Record of Interments, page 4706, entry 423 - IMAGE READ 8 October 2026. <strong>IMAGE SUPPLIED</strong> by David, not fetched from a film: there is no DGS number and no ark to give, and the page and entry number above are the locator a reader would use to order the same opening; FamilySearch image group 102346234 ('Maitland Cemetery Volume 19', Cemetery Records 1946-1947), image 208 of 255, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVY-JS81" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVY-JS81</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7Z-K7B8" rel="noopener">1:1:QP7Z-K7B8</a> |
| Carlos A. LERENA (plaintiff, Buenos Aires 1890) Unplaced | commission agent · found in Buenos Aires THE CASE IS NAMED FOR HIM - 'Escalada, Carlos M.; LERENA, CARLOS A.' - so he is a party, not a passer-by. He sued the testamentary estate of DON CARLOS MARIA ESCALADA for money: 'contestando a la demanda entablada por D. CARLOS A. LERENA, SOBRE COBRO DE PESOS'. What he was claiming was 'LA COMISION POR LA COMPRAVENTA a que se refiere', so he was acting as a BROKER ON A SALE and wanted his commission out of a dead man's estate. THE ESTATE'S ANSWER IS A FLAT REFUSAL - the lawyer A. FERREYRA asks the judge to dismiss it with costs, because the claim rests on 'su sola afirmacion', he 'no acompana documento alguno en que conste lo que asevera. NI TAMPOCO PUEDE ACOMPANARLO', the succession having concluded no contract at all. WE DO NOT KNOW WHO WON. 91 images in the file and one read. NOT THE CARLOS LERENA OF MENDOZA who married Adela Camiglia and had Avelino Carlos in 1904 - different city, and a decade too early to be the same working life without evidence; see data/_person-pairs.txt. A LERENA IN BUENOS AIRES COMMERCE IN 1890, which is the decade and the city this archive cares about most, though nothing connects him to Rosario or to Pablo Armando. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Escalada, Carlos M.; Lerena, Carlos A.: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1891, item 11 of 91 images, the answer filed February 1890 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V3DS-X934-6" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V3DS-X934-6</a> |
| Carlos Ambrosio Florencio LERENA LARRIERA Unplaced | San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Son of Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera, christened at San Jose on 22 June 1889. Godparents FRANCISCO SOLANA GRANERA and VICTORIA CROSADE LARRIERA, presumably his mother's sister. HE IS NAMED FOR CARLOS AMBROSIO LERENA TRAIBEL, his father's brother on the family chart - the AMBROSIO LERENA who stood godfather to his aunt Maria Adelina at the Cordon in December 1865. THE INDEX GIVES HIS BIRTH AS 23 FEBRUARY 1726, which is the first year of the collection and not a date. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening, San Jose, 22 June 1889; index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6QQP-842M" rel="noopener">1:1:6QQP-842M</a> |
| Carlos Augusto Federico LERENA Salvanach (b. 9 July 1883) Unplaced · high interest | 1883-07-09 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Retiro, Buenos Aires IMAGE READ 14 September 2026, and two things this row got wrong are now fixed. It called the record a "Retiro BAPTISM"; it is an INFORMACION MATRIMONIAL, the sworn pre-marriage enquiry. And it read the father as ALBERTO, guessing GILBERTO - the act says GILBERTO plainly, so the guess can stop being a guess. "Don Carlos Lerena, natural de la Rep. Oriental, bautizado en la Iglesia de el CORDON, Dep. de Montevideo, de treinta anos, soltero, domiciliado en Pueyrredon 1750, hijo de D. Gilberto Lerena y de Dona Julia Salvanach." He married ROSA MARIA EPPENS. This IDENTIFIES the CEMLA couple 'Carlos Lerena 41 Uruguayan' and 'Rosa M. E. Lerena 39 Argentine' arriving Buenos Aires from Montevideo 27 May 1926 - two independent sources, same couple. AND IT NAMES WHERE HIS BAPTISM IS: the Iglesia del CORDON, Montevideo - a third Montevideo parish for this family, after San Francisco de Asis and the Catedral Basilica. THREE REGISTER ROWS WERE THIS ONE MAN, MERGED 20 September 2026. This archive had him as "Carlos Augusto Federico LERENA" (born 9 July 1883, from Uruguayan civil registration), as "Carlos LERENA Salvanach" (the 1914 informacion matrimonial), and as "Carlos LERENA (b.1885, arr. 1926)" (the CEMLA crossing). The note above had already identified the second with the third - "two independent sources, same couple" - and the rows were never joined. The arithmetic settles the first: the act of 25 March 1914 calls him "de treinta anos", and a man born 9 July 1883 is exactly thirty that March. Same parents, same birthplace, same city, and the CEMLA wife "Rosa M. E. Lerena" is ROSA MARIA EPPENS, whom the act names. And the merge exposed a file disagreeing with the register. The 1914 act calls him SOLTERO at thirty, while data/relations.tsv gave him a wife ADELA CAMIGLIA and a son AVELINO CARLOS baptised at Mendoza in 1904. That contradiction was already settled here and the relations file had not been told: the row for ROSA MARIA EPPENS has said since 14 September that her Carlos is NOT Adela Camiglia's - "two men, one name, and the register now says so on both rows". It said so on the register rows and not on the edges. The Mendoza man now has a row of his own and the edges point at him. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ Informacion matrimonial, Arzobispado de Buenos Aires, Nuestra Senora del Socorro (Retiro), folio 44, 25 March 1914 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-GD76-B" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-GD76-B</a>; and Uruguayan civil registration and baptism giving the birth of 9 July 1883; and CEMLA, arrival Buenos Aires from Montevideo 27 May 1926 |
| Carlos LERENA (of Mendoza, m. Adela CAMIGLIA) Unplaced · high interest | Montevideo, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Mendoza A SECOND CARLOS LERENA, AND THE REGISTER HAS SAID SO SINCE 14 SEPTEMBER WITHOUT GIVING HIM A ROW. He is named with ADELA CAMIGLIA as the parents of AVELINO CARLOS LERENA, baptised at San Nicolas de Tolentino, Mendoza, on 12 March 1904. HE IS NOT CARLOS AUGUSTO FEDERICO LERENA SALVANACH, the son of Gilberto who married Rosa Maria Eppens at Retiro in 1914: that act calls its groom SOLTERO at thirty, and Mendoza is a long way from Buenos Aires. The distinction was made on the Eppens row - "two men, one name" - but the relationship file went on attaching Adela and Avelino to the wrong man until the two rows were merged on 20 September and the disagreement became visible. NOTHING IS KNOWN OF HIM BEYOND THE ACT - not a birth, not a marriage, not a place of origin. HE IS ORIENTAL - URUGUAYAN - AND THAT ANSWERS ONE OF THE FOUR OPEN QUESTIONS ON /open-questions/, 9 October 2026. The baptism of his daughter MARIA ADELA at the Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza on 6 January 1900 calls the parents 'orientales, domiciliados en este Curato'. data/cajon-985-origins.tsv had his origin as 'Not established'. SO FOUR OF THE CAJON 985 FATHERS ARE NOW TRACEABLE AND EVERY ONE IS URUGUAYAN OR MARRIED IN URUGUAY, which is a base rate that bears on Juan Carlos Lerena without naming him. AND AN AVELINO LERENA STOOD GODFATHER TO HIS DAUGHTER, BY PROXY: 'padrinos Domingo Simois por ABELINO LERENA'. This register holds FOUR men of that name and the act gives him no age, no patronymic and no residence - SO HE IS NOT PLACED IN ANY BRANCH, AND THE REASON IS ON THE RECORD: the Arturo Lerena row of that same file was once written as a son of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel and withdrawn the same day as a conflation. THE NAME OF HIS WIFE IS ALSO WRONG IN THIS ROW'S TITLE: the act and the army index both write CARNIGLIA, with an r. AND THE CITY, AN HOUR AFTER THE COUNTRY. His second daughter's baptism of 23 April 1902 is on a PRINTED FORM - 'Partidas de Bautismos de la Parroquia Matriz de Mendoza' - with a 'natural de' blank for each parent, and it reads 'Hija legitima de D. CARLOS LERENA, natural de MONTEVIDEO'. THE 1900 ACT COULD ONLY SAY 'ORIENTALES' BECAUSE IT WAS PROSE; THE 1902 FORM ASKS THE QUESTION. SO HE IS A MONTEVIDEAN IN MENDOZA, and the fourth traceable father of Cajon 985 - none of whom is Argentine. AND A SECOND LERENA STOOD GODPARENT TO A CHILD OF HIS, AGAIN BY PROXY: MERCEDES LERENA DE MARTINEZ, represented by the child's own mother. TWO LERENA GODPARENTS, NEITHER PRESENT - which is what relatives in another country do. | record ↗ Argentina, Mendoza, Catholic Church Records - baptism of Avelino Carlos Lerena, San Nicolas de Tolentino, 12 Mar 1904, naming the parents; and Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1899-1901 - baptism of 6 January 1900; DGS film 004597291 image 69, waypoint Q633-3DR, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HF9M-7S" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HF9M-7S</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1901-1903 - printed-form baptism of 23 April 1902; DGS film 004597291 item 003 image 95, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HFTB-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HFTB-Z</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Carlos Rey LERENA Pelaez Unplaced | 1915-01-18 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 18 January 1915 and christened at Trinidad 6 March 1915. A child of the 1894 couple whose dispensation this archive holds - Juan Bernardo Lerena Pelaez and Eduviges Pelaez, dispensed 31 March 1894 of a second AND third grade of consanguinity accumulated. Parents on the record: Juan Bernardo LERENA Pelaez and Eduviges PELAEZ. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Carlos Teodoro LERENA Lemos Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named as a son of Pedro LERENA and Manuela LEMOS in the closing paragraph of his father's death act of 7 November 1896. New to this archive - and the forename pair is distinctive enough to be searchable, which his brother Antonio's is not. | record ↗ Montevideo civil death registration, acta No. 353 of 7 November 1896, 15a Seccion de la Capital - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-909-72188-82458-0 on 12 October 2026 |
| Carmen Donata LERENA Beloqui Unplaced | 1895-02-17 · Sarandi, El Tala, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born at SARANDI in the section of EL TALA, Flores, on 17 February 1895 at eight in the evening, and registered on 2 March before Geronimo Arroqui, Juez de Paz and Oficial del Estado Civil. Daughter of CIPRIANO LERENA and LAUREANA BELOQUI; granddaughter of MAURICIO LERENA and CASIMIRA MONTANO on one side and of PEDRO BELOQUI and DOROTEA DELGADO on the other. A FOURTH CHILD FOR A COUPLE THIS REGISTER CREDITED WITH THREE, and the act that proved her father's parentage. | record ↗ Flores. Birth Records 1887-1902 - act No. 8 of 2 March 1895, El Tala; image 165, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Carmen LERENA (d. 1841, aged three) Unplaced | 1838 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo SHE IS THE REASON A FIFTH COMPOUND-SURNAME HIT WAS OPENED, AND SHE DISSOLVED IT. The machine index calls her "Carmen Lerena Lerena" - which would be the compound this archive has been hunting, a child of two Lerenas. THE ACT SAYS OTHERWISE. The margin reads simply "Carmen Lerena." and the body "hija legitima de Justo Lerena y de Juana Quinta[na]" - one Lerena parent. The doubling is the same machine behaviour that produced four other false positives on 14 September; this is the first of them checked against the image rather than a transcript. AND THE INDEX IS A YEAR OUT: it gives 1840, the act reads "Mil ochocientos CUARENTA Y UNO". Buried by the cura Santiago Estrazulas, "de edad de tres anos". | no public link Uruguay, registros parroquiales, 1726-2000 - burial of Carmen Lerena, Cementerio del Cordon, Montevideo, 14 August 1841; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXM-CN7Q" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXM-CN7Q</a>, <strong>IMAGE READ</strong> film 007713392 image 2511, 20 September 2026 |
| Carmen LERENA Pelaez Unplaced | c.1877 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Carolina LERENA (de Martinez) Unplaced | Argentine? · found in Buenos Aires and Mendoza The one new Argentine Lerena the full-text sweep produced, followed up 13 September 2026. She married JULIAN MARTINEZ, and had at least two children, Julian and Carlos. She appears as mother of the groom in Buenos Aires civil registration and as mother of the bride in Mendoza parish records - and in Mendoza she is indexed once as CAROLINA LLERENA, the same alternation this archive keeps meeting. Her own birth, parents and origin are unknown, and the Buenos Aires probate of 1892 has still not been opened. MERGED 20 September 2026: this archive had her TWICE. A row created on 10 September as 'Carolina LERENA - mother of a groom, Julian Martinez, nothing else known' was the same woman, found three days before she was followed up. Caught by the new duplicate gate, which flagged the pair on the shared terms argentine, carlos, carolina, civil. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Buenos Aires and Mendoza civil and parish indexes, read 13 Sep 2026; and Argentina, Buenos Aires, Civil Registration 1861-2018 (the 10 Sep 2026 find) |
| Casimira LERENA (m. Juan Basilio CARDOZO 1889) Unplaced | 1869 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SISTER THIS ARCHIVE DID NOT HOLD, found 11 October 2026 in the double wedding of 25 April 1889. Born about 1869, daughter of BERNABE LERENA and CASIMIRA PELAEZ, married JUAN BASILIO CARDOSO at Santisima Trinidad on 25 APRIL 1889 - the same day and the same church as her sister MARIA, who married ELISEO CARDOSO. SHE CARRIES HER MOTHER'S NAME. THE INDEX WRITES HER 'CASIMIRA LERENA LERENA', which would make her mother a Lerena too; her parents on the same record are Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez, so the doubled surname is taken as an indexing artefact and not as a second Lerena parent. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Casto Lindolfo LERENA Beloqui (b.1882) Unplaced | 1882-07-01 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A FIFTH CHILD FOR CIPRIANO AND LAURIANA, found under the GERENA spelling. Born 1 July 1882 and christened at Trinidad on 5 February 1883, the father written 'Cipriano Levena'. CASTO IS A NAME THIS FAMILY USES - Aurora Lerena's eldest was CASTO CEVERINO, born 1891 - which is a habit and not a relationship. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Cayetana Faustina LERENA Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named as the mother of a Luis Lerena registered at Trinidad, Flores in August 1895, with no father stated. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Celidonia B. de LERENA Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named as maternal grandmother in the Pocitos baptism of 15 August 1903, as wife of an AVELINO LERENA. She does not fit the Avelino this archive knows, who was married to Ambrosia Traibel. Recorded unattached; see the note against Amelia Lerena. CONFIRMED ON THE PLATE 21 September 2026, exactly as this row had her: 'Abuelos maternos: AVELINO [Lerena] y CELIDONIA B. de LERENA'. So the awkwardness this row records is real and is not a transcript artefact: there IS an Avelino Lerena married to a Celidonia B. in Montevideo, and he is not the Avelino who married Ambrosia Traibel. The B. is an initial the act does not expand. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Juan Bautista, Pocitos, Montevideo - baptism of 15 Aug 1903 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713400 image 02828, folio 344 |
| Cesar Alberto LERENA Salvanach Unplaced | 1896 · Argentina · Uruguayan/Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Son of Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach, in the Argentine military records 1911-1936 - indexed under the spelling LORENA. ALBERTO echoes his uncle Alberto Octavio Lerena Lenguas. Index-level. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records / Argentine military records, searched on Gilberto as father, 14 Sep 2026 |
| Cipriano LERENA (of Trinidad) Unplaced · high interest | 1853 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores One of the men fathering Lerena children at Trinidad, Flores in the 1870s and 1880s. Wife: Lauriana BELOQUI. 3 children 1875-1891. Six or seven men of a rare surname in one small inland town in a handful of years are almost certainly brothers or first cousins - this looks like the founding kindred of the surname in Uruguay. No Pablo and no Armando anywhere in the set. AND HE IS A SON OF MAURICIO LERENA OF COLLA, 9 October 2026 - WHICH BRIDGES TWO HOUSES THIS ARCHIVE HELD APART. The Flores birth act of his daughter Carmen Donata, 2 March 1895 at El Tala, has him declare in person as 'Don [C]ipriano Lerena de CUARENTA Y DOS anos de edad, casado, oriental, HACENDADO y vecino de esta seccion' - so born about 1853 - with his wife 'Dona Laureana Belo[qui] de TREINTA Y NUEVE anos' and his own parents as 'nieto por linea paterna de MAURICIO, oriental, FALLECIDO, y de CASIMIRA MONTANO de SETENTA Y CUATRO anos de edad, VIUDA'. THAT NAMES HIS WIFE AND BOTH HIS PARENTS IN ONE ACT, which is why the separate row 'Cipriano LERENA Montana' - known only from a 1928 death-registration index - is merged into this one. THE PAIR HAD BEEN SPOTTED AND HELD APART SINCE 21 SEPTEMBER; AN ACT DECIDED IT RATHER THAN A FORENAME. SO THREE CHILDREN ALREADY IN THIS REGISTER - Doroteo Donato, Maria Leonor and Lauriana LERENA Beloqui - ARE GRANDCHILDREN OF MAURICIO LERENA AND CASIMIRA MONTANO, and a fourth, Carmen Donata, is added. HE COULD NOT WRITE: the act records that he 'manifesto no saber escribir' and signed by another's hand. TWO MORE CHILDREN, FOUND UNDER TWO OTHER SPELLINGS - 12 October 2026. AMABELIA, born about 1880 and dead on 9 January 1899, came from the PERENA sweep; CASTO LINDOLFO, born 1 July 1882 and christened 5 February 1883, from the GERENA sweep. THIS ROW HELD THREE CHILDREN AND NOW HOLDS FIVE, and neither of the new two was reachable by searching LERENA. HIS OWN DEATH OF 19 MARCH 1928 IS CONFIRMED a third time by the GERENA sweep, which names his parents MAURICIO and CASIMIRA MONTANO. | record ↗ Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026; and Flores. Birth Records 1887-1902 - act No. 8 of 2 March 1895, Carmen Donata Lerena, El Tala; image 165, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - spelling sweeps PERENA, GERENA, LLERENA + Flores, 12 October 2026 |
| Clorinda LERENA (godmother, 1917-18 volume) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Uruguay Stood godmother with ALEJANDRO LERENA to a FERNANDO, son of FERNANDO MORATORIO and JOSEFA LERENA - which is this archive's own household, Josefa Lerena Traibel (1851-1947) and her husband. The same opening carries a MARIA DOLORES of the same parents. TWO LERENAS AT A FONT AGAIN, and the godfather is most simply ALEJANDRO LERENA TRAIBEL, Josefa's brother - WHICH IS NOT CLAIMED HERE. THE VOLUME'S DATES DO NOT FIT THE HOUSEHOLD: Josefa was born in 1851 and cannot bear children in 1917, so the volume is holding acts older than its label - its own year metadata runs 1871, 1874, 1888, 1918. RECORDED AS A TENSION, NOT RESOLVED. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Uruguay, Baptism Records September 1917-September 1918, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-63KS-GZ6" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-63KS-GZ6</a> |
| Concepcion LERENA (mother of Enrique Carlos, clase 1899) Unplaced · of interest | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires NAMED AS THE ONLY PARENT ON HER SON'S MILITARY FINGERPRINT CARD OF 15 MAY 1917, where the father's field is struck through. ONE OF THE FOUR 'UNTRACED FATHERS' OF CAJON 985 THAT /open-questions/ ASKS STRANGERS ABOUT - AND SHE IS NOT A FATHER. The drawer summary called her '(mother only)' and was right; the index's 'Spouses Carlos' is an artefact. HER SON WAS BORN AT CAPITAL FEDERAL IN 1899 AND CARRIES HER SURNAME, which is what an unmarried mother's child did. NOTHING ELSE IS KNOWN OF HER - no age, no parents, no residence, and no marriage anywhere in the index. | record ↗ Fichas dactiloscopicas: Distrito Militar 3, Argentina. Military Fingerprint Cards 1927-1936 - card of 15 May 1917, matricula 732; DGS film 112925897 image 858, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-MQGG-Y7SR" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-MQGG-Y7SR</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Cora Maria Avelina LERENA Regules (b.1887) Unplaced | 1887-06-08 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Union, Montevideo Born 8 June 1887 and christened at the UNION, Montevideo, on 23 October 1887, daughter of Arturo Lerena and Ema Regules. AVELINA IS HER GRANDFATHER'S NAME IN THE FEMININE - Avelino Lerena Fernandez, the head of the Lerena Traibel branch - and it is one of the two names that corroborate her father's parentage. THE UNION IS THE PARISH WHERE HER GRANDPARENTS' OWN CHILDREN WERE CHRISTENED, which is where this family keeps returning. A PROBABLE DEATH, NOT MERGED: the same query returns a CORA LERENA REGULES who died on 22 October 1956 with these parents - the index also gives her a birth of 1950, which cannot be right for a death in 1956 to parents married in 1880, and is read as a mis-indexed field rather than a person. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - <strong>PARENT-PAIR INDEX QUERY, father ARTURO LERENA and mother EMMA REGULES, run 12 October 2026</strong> - eight records returned; <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Crecencia LERENA Unplaced | 1916 · Spanish · found in arr. 1923-08-15 Child of Felisa. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship DESIRADE |
| Custodio LERENA Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE GROOM of the eleventh Lerena dispensation, 1911. Son of Bernabe Lerena and Florinda Cardozo. Petitioned to marry his DOUBLE FIRST COUSIN Ema Cardozo - the tie runs through both his father's and his mother's side, which is why the petition needed a diagram. They asked to be excused the fee, "pues no pueden satisfacerlos" - a poor Lerena household, in an archive that has spent two days finding generals, judges and hacendados. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713362 image 02473 - and the folio is not prose but 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco', TWO KINSHIP DIAGRAMS the priest drew himself to prove the impediment. AND THE DIAGRAM EXPLAINS HIS NAME. The apex of the second schema is CUSTODIO CARDOZO, his mother's father - so the groom of 1911 is named for the grandfather whose two children's marriages created the impediment he had to petition against. THE DISPENSATION WAS GRANTED AND THEY MARRIED, found 27 September 2026. This archive has held the priest's two kinship diagrams of 1911 without ever knowing the outcome. THEIR DAUGHTER VIOLETA BLANCA WAS BORN 29 OCTOBER 1915 and christened at Trinidad on 16 September 1916. INDEX ONLY - no image opened - but the couple, the place and the surname all match the diagram. THE MARRIAGE ITSELF IS FOUND, 11 October 2026: 18 SEPTEMBER 1911 at Santisima Trinidad, where the index gives him born about 1889, son of BERNABE LERENA and FLORINDA CARDOZO, marrying EMA [CARDOZO]. THIS ARCHIVE HAD INFERRED THE DISPENSATION WAS GRANTED FROM THE BIRTH OF THEIR DAUGHTER IN 1915. NOW THE ACT SAYS SO DIRECTLY - and it was granted within weeks, since the expediente is dated 1911 too. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records July-August 1911 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713362 image 02473; and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - christening of their daughter Violeta Blanca, Trinidad, 16 September 1916; index read 27 September 2026; and FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Domenico LERENA Unplaced | 1869 · Italian · jornalero · found in arr. 1910-08-10 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship ARGENTINA from Santos |
| Domingo LERENA Unplaced · of interest | 1855c · Oriental · found in Uruguay Named as the father of Asuncion LERENA (b.1884) with a wife indexed Maria Cristina Araujo - the same wife-name the index gives Benito LERENA. Either a brother of Benito, or one man recorded under two names, or two households the index has run together. Not resolved, and not to be resolved from an index. No act opened. AND HE IS NOT SHOWN TO BE AT ARTIGAS: this row reached the archive through a departmental place filter that falls back to the country, corrected the same day - the index gives his daughter's birth as 'Uruguay' with no department. See data/corrections.tsv, 12 October 2026. | record ↗ FamilySearch record index, Uruguay Civil Registration, Artigas - INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED, surveyed 12 October 2026 |
| Don Alejandro LERENA (of San Jose de Mayo, 1846) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo HE DID NOT MARRY A LERENA. HE HELD A WOMAN IN SLAVERY, and this row said the first thing for a few hours on 12 October 2026 before the plate was opened. 'En esta Parroquia de S.n Jose a VEINTE Y OCHO DE ABRIL de mil ochocientos CUARENTA Y SEIS, yo D.n FRAN.CO CASTELLO cura vic.o int.o di sepultura en el ANGELORIO al cadaver de CARMELO ANSELMO, HIJO NATURAL DE BARBARA, ESCLAVA DE D.N ALEJANDRO LERENA, murio ayer de enfermedad, de edad de SIETE DIAS, y se le hizo oficio rezado, de que certifico.' SO THE 'COUPLE' WAS AN INDEXER'S READING OF 'ESCLAVA DE D.N ALEJANDRO LERENA'. WHAT IS LEFT, AND IT IS NOT NOTHING: a DON ALEJANDRO LERENA living at SAN JOSE DE MAYO IN APRIL 1846, holding at least one person in slavery. THE ELDER ALEJANDRO LERENA OF THIS REGISTER MARRIED AT SAN JOSE ON 16 SEPTEMBER 1825 and was at Trinidad by 1855 - the right town, the right decade and the right style of address. NOT MERGED, BECAUSE THE ACT NAMES NO WIFE, NO AGE AND NO PARENTS and because this archive has twice today been shown what an index does to a household it half-understands. See data/_person-pairs.txt. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and San Jose de Mayo - RELIGIOUS DEATH RECORDS July 1839 to December 1851, the burial of 28 April 1846 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-J7GN-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-J7GN-C</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72167-155289-86; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXQ-4RD2" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXQ-4RD2</a> |
| Don Luis Eugenio LERENA LENGUAS Unplaced · high interest | 1845-02-09 · Estado Oriental del Uruguay · Uruguayan · HACENDADO (landowner) · found in Rosario, Santa Fe DOCUMENTED, 13 September 2026. "Natural de esta Republica", married Dona Julia Juanico at San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, on 19 December 1864 - act 258, image read - which names him "hijo legitimo de Don Luis y de Dona Justiniana Lenguas". His daughter Laura Adela's baptism of 1869 names the same two as her paternal grandparents, independently. So his parentage is PRIMARY, not the tree assertion it was that morning; and it makes him a brother of GILBERTO JUSTINIANO LERENA LENGUAS, co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book - though THAT brotherhood still rests on published genealogy rather than an act, and is marked secondary on the chart. Five children, all on primary records. Died before 11 July 1910, when his widow's death was registered. NO LINK TO JUAN CARLOS LERENA HAS BEEN SHOWN. HIS DEATH IS FOUND: 24 DECEMBER 1901, at seven in the morning, at the house calle Suarez No. 25 in el Paso del Molino, Montevideo. Act 216. "De nacionalidad oriental, nacido en Montevideo, de cincuenta y seis [anos], de estado casado, y de profesion HACENDADO" - a landowner, which is the first statement of this family's standing anywhere in the archive. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis, certified by Dr Scremini. IT WAS HIDING UNDER A MISSPELLING: FamilySearch indexes him as Luis SERENA Lenguas, so every search under LERENA missed him, including a 1,502-row sweep of Montevideo Lerena deaths run the same morning. He was found by searching for his MOTHER. The act also says his father Luis Lerena was already dead, and that his mother Justiniana Lenguas was ALIVE AT 79 and staying in the same house. HIS OWN BAPTISM IS NOW READ: born 9 FEBRUARY 1843, baptised 7 January 1846 at the Capilla de la Mauricia, Villa de la Union. "Hijo legitimo de Luis Lerena y Justiniana Lenguas, ORIENTALES. Paternos: Francisco y Maria Fernandez. Maternos: Pedro y Carmen Gonzalez." Godparents Juan Lenguas and Maria Fernandez. His death act of 1901 gave his age as 56, implying 1845; the act of his own baptism is the better evidence. A THIRD INDEPENDENT RECORD OF THAT DEATH, 14 September 2026: the Montevideo cemetery office's own return, "Relacion de los individuos que han fallecido en el mes de Diciembre de 1901", lists him against day 24 between Lucrecia Sosa and Emilia Zanola de Sanchez. So he was BURIED AT MONTEVIDEO, and the date now rests on three documents - the civil act, the cemetery roll, and his widow's sworn statement of 1908. Found only by searching the COMPOUND surname. A CONTRADICTION INSIDE THE REGISTER ITSELF, recorded 14 September 2026 and NOT resolved. Luis Eugenio's act says he was born 9 FEBRUARY 1843; his sister Justiniana Mauricia Maxima's act, the entry immediately before his on the same page in the same hand, says she was born 30 JULY 1843. That is FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS between two full siblings, and both cannot be right. Neither is a machine reading: the transcript of each act has been read verbatim, and both say "del pasado ano cuarenta y tres". THE ERROR IS IN THE SOURCE, NOT IN THIS ARCHIVE. Every act on that page is a LATER TRANSCRIPT copied out of a legajo by order of Bishop Jacinto Vera - a clerk working from loose papers three years after the events, who had already written "ano cuarenta y tres" twice on the same page. A carried-forward year is the likeliest explanation and it is a guess. Luis Eugenio's death registration of 1901 gives an age and has been read; testing it against 1843 is the next step. AND THE CONTRADICTION IS RESOLVED THE SAME AFTERNOON - AGAINST HIS OWN BAPTISM ACT. Three facts, two of them already in this archive: (1) his baptism act says he was born 9 February of "el pasado ano cuarenta y tres"; (2) his sister Justiniana Mauricia's act, THE ENTRY IMMEDIATELY ABOVE HIS IN THE SAME HAND, says she was born 30 July 1843 - five and a half months before him, which is impossible; (3) his civil death registration of 24 December 1901 gives his age as FIFTY-SIX, which puts his birth at about 1845. Two independent constraints point to 1845 and only one points to 1843 - and the one is a clerk copying loose papers three years after the fact, who wrote "ano cuarenta y tres" in the entry above this one and again in the entry below. A YEAR CARRIED FORWARD DOWN A COLUMN IS THE ORDINARY WAY THIS ERROR HAPPENS, and it is the only reading under which his sister's date, his own death record and his baptism can all stand. SO THIS ROW NOW CARRIES 9 FEBRUARY 1845. The day and month are secure and are not in question; only the year moved. The act's own words are kept above and in data/1846-la-mauricia-page.tsv, because the source says 1843 and a reader is entitled to see that this archive overruled it and why. THIS IS AN INFERENCE, NOT A DOCUMENT - an age at death is the weakest date in genealogy and this archive has said so in print; it is load-bearing here only because it agrees with a constraint reached independently of it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil death registration No. 216, 24 December 1901 - IMAGE READ; plus Rosario baptism act 1541 (1866) and Montevideo marriage act 258 (1864); and his own baptism, La Mauricia, Villa de la Union, 7 Jan 1846 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J</a>; and the Montevideo Direccion de Cementerios mortality return for December 1901 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-XQ11-BC6G" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-XQ11-BC6G</a> |
| Don Luis LERENA (the godfather) = probably Luis LERENA y Fernandez Unplaced | 1811-02-09 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Rosario, Santa Fe Stood godfather at Rosario in 1866 but did not attend - represented by Don Claudino Campos, which is what one does from the other side of the river. THAT HE IS THE CHILD'S GRANDFATHER IS NOW DOCUMENTED, NOT INFERRED: the Montevideo marriage act of 19 December 1864 names the groom "hijo legitimo de Don Luis y de Dona Justiniana Lenguas", and Laura Adela's baptism of 1869 names "abuelos paternos Don Luis y Dona Justiniana Lenguas" - two acts, independently. What remains SECONDARY is only the equation with LUIS LERENA y FERNANDEZ (1811-1878) of the published trees, and through him the line up to Sancho. The 1866 child's fifth given name is JUSTINIANA, for that grandmother. AND HIS OWN PARENTS ARE NOW IN AN ACT: "Paternos: D. Sancho y Dona Maria Fernandez", from his son Alberto Octavio's baptism of 7 October 1850. The "y Fernandez" of the published trees is his mother's name, and it is correct. Two 1846 transcripts give the father as FRANCISCO instead; they are copies, and the 1850 original is preferred. HIS MARRIAGE ACT IS FOUND AND READ, 14 September 2026 - and it says two things nobody here knew. He married Justiniana Lenguas on 3 MARCH 1842, aged THIRTY and "natural de la Ciudad de Montevideo", so born about 1812. His parents are given as "D. SANCHO y Dona MARIA FERNANDEZ" - the third act to say Sancho, and the earliest. AND HE WAS A WIDOWER: "desposé en SEGUNDAS NUPCIAS ... viudo de Dona CAROLINA". He had a first wife who was dead by March 1842, and this archive has never looked for her or for any children of that marriage. HIS FIRST MARRIAGE IS FOUND TOO: to DONA CAROLINA OLIVA, by petition at Montevideo on 3 SEPTEMBER 1836, signed in his own hand - the only signature of this man anywhere in the archive. He asked to be excused the usual enquiry "en atencion a ser ambos nativos de esta Ciudad, y bastante conocidos". HIS BIRTH IS NOW EXACT: 9 FEBRUARY 1811, and his own baptism act is in this archive for the first time. Iglesia Matriz, Montevideo, 10 February 1811: "bautice solemnemente a LUIS ESCOLASTICO que nacio ayer, hijo legitimo de Don Sancho Llerena natural de Andalucia y de Dona Maria Fernandez natural de Asturias". Padrinos Don Luis Jose Avila y Dona Juana Josefa Guispez; officiating Presbitero Juan Loberas. This row carried c.1812 from an inference; the trees said 1811 and nothing more. It also puts his SECOND forename on record - ESCOLASTICO - which nothing here had. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godfather in Rosario baptism act 1541 (1866), represented by proxy; and HIS OWN MARRIAGE, 3 March 1842 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-V7SM-N" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-V7SM-N</a>; Montevideo, Iglesia Matriz, baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 Feb 1811 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M</a> |
| Dona Isabela LERENA y BASARAN (widow, of Navarrete, Logrono) Unplaced | Spain · Spanish · found in Navarrete, Logrono, Spain THE MOTHER, AND SHE IS A LERENA IN HER OWN RIGHT. 'Dona Isabela Lorena y Basaran, VIUDA, vecina de Navarrete' - given power by her two sons in Buenos Aires, jointly with her son Jose Dolores, over everything the family owns in Spain. The transcript spells her first surname LORENA where it spells her sons' LEERENA and LERENA in the same paragraph, which is this archive's ordinary experience of the name and a reason to read spelling as noise. BASARAN IS BASQUE, as the surname Lerena itself is usually taken to be. HER HUSBAND IS NOT NAMED ON THE ACT - only that she is his widow and that he, too, was a Lerena. SO THE MARRIAGE THAT MADE 'LERENA Y LERENA' IS DOCUMENTED ONLY BY ITS CHILDREN. THIS HOUSEHOLD IS WHY THE ROW MATTERS MORE THAN ITS OWN PEOPLE DO. The brothers sign themselves LERENA y LERENA, so their father was a Lerena AND their mother was a Lerena - and Pablo Armando Lerena's 1908 enrolment card names JUAN CARLOS LERENA and MARIA LERENA. AND THEY ARE THE SIXTH SUCH COUPLE THIS ARCHIVE HAS MET, NOT THE FIRST - a correction to what was written here first. The two Trinidad couples of 1894 and 1913, the 1911 dispensation, Alejandro, and Eloy x Felisa Lerena at San Jose de Flores in 1912 all came before them. SO THE CARD'S DOUBLE SURNAME WAS NEVER IN REAL DOUBT, AND NAVARRETE DOES NOT RESCUE IT. What Navarrete adds is different and smaller: it is the FIRST SUCH HOUSEHOLD OUTSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, the FIRST WHERE THE CHILDREN CARRY IT DOUBLED AS A SURNAME OF RECORD - 'Lerena y Lerena', in their own signatures, not just a coincidence of two parents - and the FIRST TIME THE PRACTICE HAS A PLACE ON A MAP that can be searched. No link to Pablo Armando is claimed - see data/open-questions.tsv. | no public link Registros Consulares: Buenos Aires City - NOTARIAL RECORDS 1900-1901, folio 138, escritura No. 368 of 14 November 1900, CONSULADO DE ESPANA EN BUENOS AIRES - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6</a> |
| Doroteo Donato LERENA Beloqui Unplaced | 1875-12-12 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Cipriano Lerena and Lauriana Beloqui, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Doroteo LERENA (m. Isidora Cardozo) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Father of ANGEL CUSTODIO, born 1934 at Trinidad, with ISIDORA CARDOZO. The index writes him 'Doroteo Gerena'. A 'LORENA TOROTEO' STOOD GODFATHER AT TRINIDAD BETWEEN 1901 AND 1904 beside Luisa Serena, and is most simply this man - NOT MERGED. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Dr Ambrosio LERENA (witness, 1880) Unplaced | Uruguayan · abogado or medico - the title does not say · found in Montevideo A SECOND DOCTOR LERENA, AND HE IS NEW TO THIS ARCHIVE. Witness at the marriage of Dr Arturo Lerena and Emma Regules, Catedral de Montevideo, 23 June 1880: 'fueron testigos el DOCTOR DON AMBROSIO LERENA'. AMBROSIO IS AMBROSIA TRAIBEL'S NAME IN THE MASCULINE, and a man of that name standing witness for a son of Ambrosia Traibel is most simply read as another of her sons - a brother of the groom. NOT PROVED: the act gives him no parents and no age, and this archive does not turn a naming habit into a parent. TWO DOCTORS IN ONE GENERATION OF THIS FAMILY is worth recording on its own: the Lerena Traibel of Montevideo were a professional household by 1880, two generations after Sancho. AND 'DOCTOR' DOES NOT MEAN A PHYSICIAN HERE. Arturo's own daughter's act of 1909 gives Arturo as ABOGADO, so the Doctor on the 1880 act is the style of a lawyer. NOTHING ON THE 1880 ACT SAYS WHICH PROFESSION AMBROSIO FOLLOWED, and this row no longer implies one. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS, the act of 23 June 1880 at the Basilica Menor y Catedral de Montevideo (volume catalogued 1887) - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1</a> |
| Edelma LERENA Recuero Unplaced | 1899-08-20 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 20 August 1899, registered at Trinidad 28 August 1899. One of SEVEN children of this household the archive can now name. Parents on the record: Florencio P. LERENA Fernandez and Juana RECUERO Santa Marta. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Eduardo LERENA (b.1886, m. Maria Mercedes RAZZETTI 1920) Unplaced | 1886-04-22 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · empleado · found in Santa Lucia, Canelones m. Maria Mercedes RAZZETTI; daughter Ana Maria. This row first read both names from the index, which spells the mother 'Rozzetti' - the plate says RAZZETTI and the spelling is corrected below. HIS DAUGHTER'S ACT IS NOW READ OFF THE PLATE, 11 October 2026, and it moves him out of the capital. Ana Maria was born 12 January 1921 and baptised a week later at NUESTRA SENORA DE LOS DESAMPARADOS, PARTIDO DE ADOLFO ALSINA - a rural district in the south-west of Buenos Aires PROVINCE, not the city the index normalises it to. The act calls her 'hija legitima', so he and Maria Mercedes Razzetti were married before January 1921. AND THERE IS AN EDUARDO LERENA IN THIS REGISTER WHO WAS DISPENSED BANNS AT MONTEVIDEO ON 22 DECEMBER 1919 to marry a MARIA MERCEDES - 'RAZZELLO' in that transcript, 'RAZZETTI' on this plate, the same hand read twice. THIRTEEN MONTHS BETWEEN THE DISPENSATION AND THE CHILD. NOT MERGED, AND THE REASON IS NOT DOUBT ABOUT THE ARITHMETIC: no act yet read says this man came from Las Piedras, and this archive has been wrong before about two men of one name. What would settle it: the Montevideo marriage act behind the 1919 dispensation, which will name his parents. HIS OWN MARRIAGE ACT, AND IT ANSWERS EVERY QUESTION THIS ROW HAD - 11 October 2026. 'En Santa Lucia y el dia ONCE DE ENERO DE MIL NOVECIENTOS VEINTE a las nueve, ante mi, VICENTE TELESFORO CAPUTI, Oficial del Estado Civil de la Segunda seccion del departamento de CANELONES, comparecen: don EDUARDO LERENA, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, NACIDO EL DIA VEINTIDOS DE ABRIL DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS OCHENTA Y SEIS EN MONTEVIDEO, de profesion EMPLEADO, domiciliado en esta Villa, HIJO DE ARTURO LERENA, de nacionalidad oriental, de estado casado, de SESENTA Y DOS anos, domiciliado en MONTEVIDEO, y de EMA REGULES, de nacionalidad oriental, de estado casada, de CINCUENTA Y CINCO anos'. SO HE IS URUGUAYAN, BORN IN MONTEVIDEO ON 22 APRIL 1886, AND HIS PARENTS ARE NAMED. AND THE TWO ROWS THIS REGISTER CARRIED FOR HIM ARE ONE MAN, MERGED THE SAME DAY THEY WERE FIRST COMPARED. The other row held a dispensation of conciliar banns at Montevideo on 22 December 1919 to marry 'MARIA MERCEDES RAZZELLO, feligresa de LAS PIEDRAS'. This act marries him to MARIA MERCEDES RAZZETTI three weeks later in the same department. WHAT PROVES IT IS NOT THE NAMES BUT HER PARENTS: the act gives them as DOMINGO RAZZETTI, italiano, and JOSEFINA BERTOGLIO, italiana - and those same two people stood godparents to his daughter Ana Maria at Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires, on 19 January 1921. THE SAME FOUR PEOPLE IN TWO COUNTRIES THIRTEEN MONTHS APART. /people/eduardo-lerena-2 redirects here. WITNESSES: don ALBERTO LANERI, oriental, 27, soltero, electricista, of Montevideo, and don FRANCISCO PERCAR, Spanish, 22, soltero, chauffeur - the transcript signs them 'Alberto Ramirez' and 'Francisco Perez', so their surnames are NOT established. He signs himself 'E. Lerena'. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Buenos Aires Catholic Church Records; and Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados, partido de Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires - BAPTISM RECORDS 12 Apr 1917 to 19 Feb 1923, the act of 19 January 1921 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN" rel="noopener">3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN</a>, deepzoom apid TH-1-159385-157066-5; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP84-YK8K" rel="noopener">1:1:QP84-YK8K</a>; and Canelones - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1917-1924, acta No. 4 of 11 January 1920, Santa Lucia, Segunda Seccion del Departamento de Canelones - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y</a> |
| Eduardo LERENA (godfather, Cordon 1900-02) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Cordon, Montevideo Stood godfather with EMA LERENA to JUAN EDUARDO, son of Juan Silva and Toribia Martinez, at Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, el Cordon, between August 1900 and October 1902. TWO LERENAS AT A FONT AGAIN - the fourth such pair this archive has found in one day, after the Montevideo cathedral in 1879, the Cordon in 1891-92 and the Trinidad volumes. THE CHILD IS NAMED JUAN EDUARDO, which may be for him and may be for his own grandfather; a baptism names a child for whoever the parents choose and the act does not say. THIS REGISTER NOW HOLDS FOUR MEN CALLED EDUARDO LERENA AND NONE OF THEM IS MERGED WITH ANOTHER: the father of Ana Maria Lerena Razzetti in the partido de Adolfo Alsina in 1921; the man dispensed banns at Montevideo in December 1919 to marry at Las Piedras; AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA TRAIBEL of the Villademoros branch; and this one. THE CORDON IS THE PARISH OF THE LERENA TRAIBEL, which makes Avelino Eduardo the nearest candidate and is not an argument - he is 'Avelino Eduardo' on every act this archive has read of him, never 'Eduardo' bare. NOT MERGED, AND THE DATE WITHIN THE VOLUME IS NOT ESTABLISHED: the book runs August 1900 to October 1902 and this was read from the names panel, not the page. WHOSE ACT IT IS, AND WHY THE SILVA HOUSEHOLD IS NOT IN THIS REGISTER. The child is JUAN EDUARDO, son of JUAN SILVA and TORIBIA MARTINEZ, with grandparents Juan Reva and Calixta Acosta, Lucio Martinez and Ines Rodriguez. NONE OF THEM IS ADMITTED, and the same choice was made at the Cordon act of 1891-92 a few hours earlier. The rule in tools/check-people-named.py admits everyone named on an act our person is a party to, and a godparent IS a party - so this is a BOUNDARY THE RULE DOES NOT YET DRAW, recorded here rather than settled quietly: an act of baptism is ABOUT the child's household, and a Lerena standing at the font is a guest at it. Admitting the guests' hosts would fill this register with families no Lerena belongs to. THE HOUSEHOLD IS NAMED HERE IN FULL so that nothing is lost if the rule is later drawn the other way. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS August 1900 to October 1902, the christening of Juan Eduardo Silva - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-KSGK-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-KSGK-8</a> |
| Eleiza (or Eloiza) LERENA LARRIERA Unplaced | Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo THE NINTH CHILD, AND SHE EXISTS ONLY BECAUSE THE IMAGE WAS OPENED. The civil index surfaces eight children of Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera. Their father's death act counts NUEVE HIJOS and names them, and the third name on the list belongs to nobody the index has found: it reads ELEIZA or ELOIZA and this archive cannot choose between them. Read at three times magnification before being written down. A SEARCH FOR HER UNDER ELOISA WAS RUN AND PROVED NOTHING: the query returned a count with rows that ignore the forename, which is the FamilySearch personas behaviour this archive has documented elsewhere and refuses to draw a null from. THE TEST: the Uruguayan civil birth registrations of the Departamento de San Jose between 1879 and 1898, read for a daughter of this couple who is not one of the eight - most likely in the gap between Zelmira Carlota, 4 November 1880, and Alberto Julian, 17 August 1883. | no public link Named as a daughter in the Montevideo death registration of her father Alberto Lerena, act No. 246 of 2 March 1921 - IMAGE READ; film 008165205 image 01604; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-26FM" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-26FM</a> |
| Elida Pilar LERENA Recuero Unplaced | 1897-10-17 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 17 October 1897, registered at Trinidad 25 October 1897. Parents on the record: Florencio P. LERENA Fernandez and Juana RECUERO Santa Marta. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Elidia Margarita LERENA Cardozo Unplaced | 1897-03-12 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 12 March 1897, registered at Trinidad 20 March 1897. Her parents are the DOROTEO LERENA and ISIDORA CARDOZO whose household the Trinidad sweep found; a sister AMELIA married Abel Conto on 28 February 1920. Parents on the record: DOROTEO LERENA and Isidora CARDOZO. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Elisa LERENA Unplaced | 1887 · Spanish · found in arr. 1913-06-03 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INFANTA ISABEL from Barcelona |
| Eloy LERENA (natural de Espana, m. Felisa LERENA) Unplaced | 1886 · Spain · Spanish · found in Buenos Aires NEW TO THIS ARCHIVE 11 OCTOBER 2026, AND HE MAKES A FIFTH LERENA-MARRIED-A-LERENA COUPLE. The act: 'PARROQUIA Y VICARIA DE SAN JOSE DE FLORES. Numero 461, Ano de 1912. En diez de Noviembre del ano del Senor mil novecientos doce, el Presbitero Don ANTONIO JENARA, por el infrascrito Cura de esta Parroquia, bautizo solemnemente, puso oleo y crisma a JUANA, que nacio el dia veinte y cinco de Junio del ano de mil novecientos doce, hija legitima de D. ELOY LERENA, natural de ESPANA, de veinte y seis anos de edad, y de Dona FELISA LERENA, natural de Espana, de veinte y un anos de edad.' Godparents GREGORIO LERENA and ROSA DEFENARI. SO: born in SPAIN about 1886, and in Buenos Aires by June 1912 at the latest. HIS WIFE IS ALSO A LERENA, which this register has now met five times - the 1894 and 1913 Trinidad couples, the 1911 dispensation, Alejandro F. x Natalia, and this one. FOUR OF THE FIVE ARE URUGUAYAN AND RURAL; THIS ONE IS SPANISH AND URBAN, which is worth noticing before anyone explains the pattern by the smallness of a parish. HE IS NOT ON ANY CEMLA PASSENGER LIST THIS ARCHIVE HOLDS, so how he reached Argentina is unknown. FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; the image itself has not been opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Parroquia y Vicaria de San Jose de Flores, Comuna 7, Buenos Aires City - BAPTISM No. 461 of 10 November 1912 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G6VB-K" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G6VB-K</a> |
| Ema Justina Felicia LERENA Regules (b.1881) Unplaced | 1881-05-18 · Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose The eldest known child of Arturo Lerena and Emma Regules, born 18 May 1881 in the Departamento de San Jose - eleven months after her parents married at the Catedral de Montevideo. HER NAMES ARE HER MOTHER'S AND HER GRANDMOTHER'S: EMA for Emma Regules, JUSTINA for Justiniana Melilla. SHE SHARES A BIRTHDAY WITH HER SISTER EMMA, born 18 May 1885 - see that row; the two are not merged and the coincidence is not explained. INDEX-LEVEL: the act has not been opened. AND HER FATHER'S DEATH ACT NAMES ONLY ONE EMA. On 2 March 1936 the surviving children are given as 'EMA, MARIO, EDUARDO, CORA y ROBERTO' - five, where this register holds six. IF SHE AND HER SISTER EMMA ARE TWO WOMEN, ONE OF THEM WAS DEAD BY 1936; if they are one, the count is exact. THE ACT DOES NOT DECIDE IT AND NEITHER DOES THIS ROW. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - <strong>PARENT-PAIR INDEX QUERY, father ARTURO LERENA and mother EMMA REGULES, run 12 October 2026</strong> - eight records returned; <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Montevideo - DEATH RECORDS 1931-1938, acta No. 8 of 2 March 1936, Tercera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q</a>; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6V-233Y" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6V-233Y</a> |
| Ema LERENA (godmother, Cordon 1900-02) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Cordon, Montevideo Stood godmother with EDUARDO LERENA at the Cordon, between August 1900 and October 1902, to Juan Eduardo Silva. The panel writes her 'Ema. Lerena' with the stop, so the forename may be an abbreviation. TWO WOMEN IN THIS REGISTER COULD BE HER AND NEITHER IS CHOSEN: EMA SIXTA LERENA JUANICO, born 21 November 1876, who would be twenty-four to twenty-six and who married the philosopher Jose Pedro Massera; and MARIA EMA LERENA LENGUAS, christened at San Francisco de Asis on 7 October 1857, who would be in her forties. A GODMOTHER OF EITHER AGE IS ORDINARY, the act gives no age and no second surname, and a third Ema cannot be excluded. NOT MERGED. See data/_person-pairs.txt. WHOSE ACT IT IS, AND WHY THE SILVA HOUSEHOLD IS NOT IN THIS REGISTER. The child is JUAN EDUARDO, son of JUAN SILVA and TORIBIA MARTINEZ, with grandparents Juan Reva and Calixta Acosta, Lucio Martinez and Ines Rodriguez. NONE OF THEM IS ADMITTED, and the same choice was made at the Cordon act of 1891-92 a few hours earlier. The rule in tools/check-people-named.py admits everyone named on an act our person is a party to, and a godparent IS a party - so this is a BOUNDARY THE RULE DOES NOT YET DRAW, recorded here rather than settled quietly: an act of baptism is ABOUT the child's household, and a Lerena standing at the font is a guest at it. Admitting the guests' hosts would fill this register with families no Lerena belongs to. THE HOUSEHOLD IS NAMED HERE IN FULL so that nothing is lost if the rule is later drawn the other way. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS August 1900 to October 1902, the christening of Juan Eduardo Silva - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-KSGK-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-KSGK-8</a> |
| Ema Sixta LERENA Juanico Unplaced | 1876-11-21 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Married JOSE PEDRO MASSERA (1866-1942), professor of philosophy at the Universidad de la Republica and later a Colorado senator; their son was the mathematician Jose Luis Massera. The witnesses at her wedding were her sister Maria and her brother-in-law Jaime Herrera - the couple of the 1886 act. Aged thirty-three on the act, so born about 1880; a findmypast index says 1876. She is the "Emma Liseta, 1876, father Luis, mother Julia" copied from a findmypast index on 9 September, four days before the family was identified. Named SIXTA for Sixta Lenguas Gonzalez, her mother's stepmother. HER BIRTH DATE IS NOW SETTLED AT 21 NOVEMBER 1876, not c.1880. Three independent records agree: the civil birth registration of 30 May 1903, the Uruguay Baptisms index, and her christening at the Catedral on 8 January 1881. The c.1880 came from her stated age at marriage in 1913, and ages at marriage are the weakest date in genealogy. HER MARRIAGE DISPENSATION IS FOUND, 14 September 2026, and it is a NINTH Lerena dispensation this archive's own sweep of that register had missed. On 19 June 1913 Jose Pedro Massera petitioned the Provisor to be dispensed "una conciliar proclama" in order to marry "Dona EMA SIXTA LERENA JUANICO, FELIGRESA DE LA METROPOLITANA", the date of the wedding being already fixed - it took place eleven days later. The sweep missed her because its formula was "LERENA FELIGRESA" and her COMPOUND SURNAME sits between those two words. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry La Union marriage register act 90, 30 June 1913 - image read; and the marriage dispensation petition of Jose Pedro Massera, Montevideo, 19 June 1913 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P72J-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P72J-V</a> |
| Emilia Alberta LERENA Bassani Unplaced | 1888-03-16 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo, later Buenos Aires Born at calle Ybirini N 321, Montevideo, at ten past three in the afternoon of the 16th and registered as act Num 108. Daughter of Alejandro M. Lerena and Julia Bassani, "que es hija de los declarantes". THE 16 MARCH IS ON THE ACT, IN THE CLERK'S HAND - "el dia 16 del mes corriente" - AND IS NOT AN INDEX ARTEFACT. That is worth stating here because this register has more than one christening dated 16 March by an indexer working from a certified copy, and this one is not of that kind. The paternal and maternal grandparent lines on the printed form are both left blank. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - birth act Num 108, Montevideo, March 1888; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR4Z-VVB" rel="noopener">1:1:VR4Z-VVB</a> - IMAGE READ 22 September 2026; film 004596830 image 02145 |
| Emilia LERENA Unplaced | 1886 · Spain · Spanish · found in Buenos Aires Nine years old on the 1895 sheet and born in Spain, so she crossed with her parents. Daughter of Leandro LERENA and Lucia LLANOS. Her birthplace on the sheet is a short Spanish place-name this read could not resolve - recorded as unread rather than guessed. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 Argentine National Census, Seccion 18 Subdivision 34, Ciudad de Buenos Aires - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-266-13033-138829-16 on 12 October 2026; and the army enrolment card of Salvador LORENA, Cajon 985 order 666 (Argentina, Military Records 1911-1936) |
| Emilia LERENA Vega (b. c.1832) Unplaced · of interest | 1832c · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A DAUGHTER OF PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA AND VICENTA VEGA, new to this archive. Entered at 18 in household 229 of the Montevideo census of 1850 - libro 264, household 229 - the eldest of the three children on that page. Not the Emilia Lerena b.1886 of Leandro's household, who is three generations later. Nothing else about her is known. THE CENSUS IS THE PADRON OF 1850, NOT c.1833 - CORRECTED 12 OCTOBER 2026. The catalogue lists film 7499042 item by item: item 1 is libro 263, 1843; item 2, where this household sits, is LIBRO 264, 1850. So this birth year moved seventeen years later. And the head of the household, entered at forty, was born about 1810 - not the Pedro Antonio Lerena born 31 July 1793 whom this archive had read him as. Either the census age is badly wrong or the household belongs to a different Pedro A. Lerena married to a different Vicenta Vega; under the neighbouring book, 1843, he would still be born about 1803 and still not be the man of 1793. See data/corrections.tsv. | record ↗ Montevideo, Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 264, the padron of 1850 - film 7499042 item 2, household 229; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX</a>, PLATE READ 12 October 2026; dating confirmed from FamilySearch catalogue koha:1408224; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX</a> |
| Emilio Isidoro LERENA Recuero (b. 1906) Unplaced | 1906-01-02 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores ONE OF THE TWO MEN WORK-LIST ROW 137 HAS CALLED UNWORKED SINCE SEPTEMBER, AND HE IS PLACED. Born 2 JANUARY 1906 and registered at Trinidad on 10 January 1906, son of FLORENCIO P. LERENA FERNANDEZ and JUANA RECUERO SANTA MARTA - the seventh of their children this archive can now name. SO 'EMILIO LERENA' IS NOT A FATHER OF THE SWEEP'S GENERATION BUT A SON OF IT. AND THERE IS A SECOND EMILIO, OLDER, WHO IS NOT HIM - see the row for Emilio LERENA (m. Paula Casares). INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Civil Registration Index Cards 1900-1937 - the EMILIO and ALEJANDRO forename sweeps of work-list row 137, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Emilio LERENA Unplaced | 1900 · Logrono · Spanish · empleado · found in arr. 1930-04-30 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship CONTE ROSSO |
| Emilio LERENA (m. Paula CASARES) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Flores, Uruguay A SECOND EMILIO, AND THE ONE ROW 137 WAS PROBABLY LOOKING FOR. The Uruguayan civil registration index cards 1900-1937 give him as the father of EMILIO DELFINO LERENA and CLOTILDE REINA LERENA, with his wife PAULA CASARES. HE CANNOT BE EMILIO ISIDORO LERENA RECUERO, born January 1906: that man's son would have had to marry as an infant, and Emilio Delfino has a marriage registration at FLORES in 1931. AND EMILIO DELFINO HAS A DEATH REGISTRATION IN THE SAME YEAR AND THE SAME DEPARTMENT, 1931, FLORES - married and dead within one year, if both cards are his. RECORDED AS IT STANDS AND NOT SMOOTHED. AN 'EMILIO LERENA' ALSO APPEARS WITH A WIFE AMALIA SILVA and children surnamed LERENA SILVA; whether that is this man remarried, or a third Emilio, is NOT ESTABLISHED. THE INDEX CARD SERIES CARRIES NO DATES OF BIRTH AND NO AGES, which is precisely why these men cannot yet be separated. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Civil Registration Index Cards 1900-1937 - the EMILIO and ALEJANDRO forename sweeps of work-list row 137, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Emma LERENA REGULES (m. Fermin Carlos de Yeregui 1909) Unplaced | 1885-05-18 · San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · labores · found in Montevideo A DAUGHTER OF ARTURO LERENA AND EMMA REGULES, and a sister of Eduardo - found 12 October 2026. 'Dona EMMA LERENA REGULES... NACIDA EL DIA DIEZ Y OCHO DE MAYO DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CINCO EN SAN JOSE y domiciliada en la Casa Colonia 228, hija de don ARTURO LERENA de estado casado de profesion ABOGADO... y de EMMA REGULES'. She married FERMIN CARLOS DE YEREGUI at Montevideo on 9 August 1909, before the Juez de Paz CESAR SCHIAFFINO. SHE IS NAMED FOR HER MOTHER, and she signs the act 'Emma Lerena Regules'. SHE WAS BORN AT SAN JOSE, HER BROTHER AT MONTEVIDEO ELEVEN MONTHS LATER - a tight interval, recorded as it stands. AND A SISTER SHARES HER BIRTHDAY FOUR YEARS EARLIER, WHICH IS NOT RESOLVED. The same query returns EMA JUSTINA FELICIA LERENA, born 18 MAY 1881 in the Departamento de San Jose - the same day and month as this woman's own birth of 18 May 1885, in the same department, to the same parents. THREE READINGS AND NO EVIDENCE BETWEEN THEM: two daughters genuinely born on one date four years apart; one daughter with a mis-indexed year; or an elder child who died and whose name and birthday were reused, which this register has already met and warned about. NOT MERGED. The 1909 marriage act is explicit that the bride was born in 1885, and it is the only one of the two that has been read as an act. HER FATHER'S DEATH ACT OF 2 MARCH 1936 NAMES FIVE SURVIVING CHILDREN - 'EMA, MARIO, EDUARDO, CORA y ROBERTO' - AND ONLY ONE OF THEM IS AN EMA. This register holds two: this woman, born 18 May 1885, and EMA JUSTINA FELICIA, born 18 May 1881. FIVE SURVIVING OF SIX IS ALSO WHAT THE ACT WOULD SAY IF ONE SISTER HAD DIED, so the count tilts the question without closing it. STILL NOT MERGED. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - <strong>PARENT-PAIR INDEX QUERY, father ARTURO LERENA and mother EMMA REGULES, run 12 October 2026</strong> - eight records returned; <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Montevideo - DEATH RECORDS 1931-1938, acta No. 8 of 2 March 1936, Tercera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q</a>; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6V-233Y" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6V-233Y</a> |
| Enrique Carlos LERENA (clase 1899, Distrito Militar 3) Unplaced · of interest | 1899 · Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires HIS FINGERPRINT CARD, READ OFF THE PLATE 10 October 2026, AND IT CORRECTS THREE THINGS THE INDEX SAYS. 'Las impresiones digitales que aparecen en esta hoja pertenecen al ciudadano LERENA ENRIQUE CARLOS, hijo de [STRUCK THROUGH], de CONCEPCION LERENA, nacido en CAP. FEDERAL, enrolado en el Distrito Militar No 3, clase 1899, Matricula individual No 732, Mayo 15 de 1917', signed Enrique Carlos Lerena. THE INDEX CALLS HIM SERENA; HIS OWN SIGNATURE SAYS LERENA. THE INDEX GIVES HIM A FATHER, 'Carlos'; THE CARD'S FATHER FIELD IS CANCELLED WITH A PEN STROKE - the indexer took CARLOS from his own forename. THE INDEX PUTS HIS BIRTH AT MENDOZA; THE CARD SAYS CAPITAL FEDERAL, and this register's own working file copied the error for four weeks. SON OF CONCEPCION LERENA AND NO RECORDED FATHER. | record ↗ Fichas dactiloscopicas: Distrito Militar 3, Argentina. Military Fingerprint Cards 1927-1936 - card of 15 May 1917, matricula 732; DGS film 112925897 image 858, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-MQGG-Y7SR" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-MQGG-Y7SR</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Enrique Concepcion LERENA (b.1902, child of Bernabe) Unplaced | 1902-12-08 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A CHILD OF BERNABE LERENA, born 8 December 1902 and christened at Santisima Trinidad on 11 March 1903. The index names only the father, as 'Bernabe Serena'. BERNABE OF THE TRINIDAD KINDRED WAS BORN ABOUT 1835, so a child of 1902 would make him sixty-seven - POSSIBLE AND UNLIKELY, and more probably this is a younger Bernabe, perhaps the Juan Bernardo of 1871 under his second forename. NOT MERGED AND NOT ASSIGNED. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Enrique LERENA Juanico Unplaced | 1873 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · empleado · found in Montevideo Died 16 May 1914 at Plaza Libertad 1143, Montevideo, aged forty-one, unmarried. Son of Luis Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil death registration no. 46, 17 May 1914 |
| Enrique Rene LERENA Cardozo (1927-1981) Unplaced | 1927 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SON OF CUSTODIO LERENA AND EMA CARDOZO, found under the SERENA spelling. Born 1927 at Trinidad, died 24 July 1981; the index gives his parents as 'Custodio Lorena' and 'Tina Leardozo'. HIS PARENTS ARE THE COUPLE OF THE 1911 DOUBLE-FIRST-COUSIN DISPENSATION - the knot this archive spent weeks on - and until today it held not one of their children. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Estanislada LERENA (Sarandi 229, 1850) Unplaced · of interest | 1830c · Uruguay · Oriental · found in Montevideo Twenty years old at casa 229 of Calle Sarandi in the padron of 1850, entered as 'Estanislada D.o' - the ditto carrying the surname LERENA - and recorded MORENA. She is one of four adults of colour bearing this family's surname in that house, where the only white person entered is the eleven-year-old Leonarda Lerena. This archive has documented five people it held in slavery, among them BARBARA, 'esclava de D.n Alejandro Lerena' on an act of 1846. Slavery was abolished in Uruguay in 1842, so in 1850 she is legally free. That the surname reached her as Barbara's reached her son is an INFERENCE and is filed as one; the census has no column for condition. What would settle it is a baptism or burial at the Cordon or the Catedral, where the word would be written. | record ↗ Montevideo, Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 264 - the padron of 1850; casa 229 of CALLE SARANDI; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-1961-36718-27970-97 on 12 October 2026 |
| Estefania LERENA (m. Servando GONZALEZ) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo THE SECOND OF ROW 187'S THREE SAN JOSE MOTHERS, AND SHE HAS A WHOLE HOUSEHOLD - 11 October 2026. She married SERVANDO GONZALEZ, and their children are indexed GONZALEZ LERENA: Servando Cecilio, Leopoldo, Francisco, Cesarea, Maria Bernarda, and ESTEFANIA FAUSTA LEOPOLDINA, who has marriage registrations at Campana, Colonia in 1930 and 1932 - two entries for what is probably one woman. THIS IS THE COMPOUND-SURNAME PRINCIPLE WORKING EXACTLY AS THIS ARCHIVE SAYS IT DOES: a father-line search on LERENA cannot see her, because her children are GONZALEZ; only the compound reaches her. AND IT MAY JOIN AN EXISTING THREAD: this register already holds a JUAN CARLOS GONZALEZ LERENA and a file data/gonzalez-lerena.tsv. WHETHER THESE ARE ONE GONZALEZ LERENA FAMILY IS NOT ESTABLISHED and the departments differ - Colonia and Montevideo against San Jose. NOT MERGED. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Faustino LERENA Barragan Unplaced | 1877-03-18 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Fermin Lerena and Paulina Barragan, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. HIS WIFE, HIS SON AND HIS DEATH, FOUND UNDER THE LLERENA SPELLING - 12 October 2026. He married VITERBA P. DE ARRASCAETA, and their son PEDRO was born and died in 1911, the death registered at Flores on 23 February. FAUSTINO HIMSELF DIED ON 1 JUNE 1914, registered the next day, aged about forty. ALL INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026; and FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - spelling sweeps PERENA, GERENA, LLERENA + Flores, 12 October 2026 |
| Felicia Clementina LERENA (m. 1886, Montevideo) Unplaced | 1868 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A DAUGHTER OF THE PEDRO A. LERENA x MANUELA LEMOS HOUSEHOLD that work-list row 187 lists as unplaced - found 11 October 2026. Born about 1868, she married at Montevideo with the registration dated 6 MARCH 1886, and the entry names her mother MANUELA LEMOS. SO THAT HOUSEHOLD HAS TWO CHILDREN FIFTEEN YEARS APART - this woman and MANUEL ANTONIO LERENA, born 31 March 1883. HER HUSBAND'S NAME IS NOT IN THE INDEX ROW READ. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Felicia Leoncia LERENA (dau. of Bernabe and Florinda) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SISTER OF CUSTODIO LERENA, new to this archive 11 October 2026. The Uruguayan civil registration index cards 1900-1937 give her parents as BERNABE LERENA and FLORINDA CARDOZO - the couple married at Santisima Trinidad on 22 March 1888 - with a marriage registration at FLORES in 1931, the bride's spouse recorded 'UNKNOWN'. SO THE 1888 MARRIAGE PRODUCED AT LEAST TWO CHILDREN: Custodio, who needed a dispensation in 1911, and this woman. INDEX ONLY, and the index card series gives neither a day nor a husband. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Felicia LERENA (dau. of Mauricio, m. 19 Dec 1874 San Jose) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo A SECOND CHILD OF THE 1837 COLLA COUPLE, found 11 October 2026 - and she is one of the three 'San Jose mothers' work-list row 187 could not place. She married at the CATEDRAL BASILICA SAN JOSE, San Jose de Mayo, on 19 DECEMBER 1874, and the act names her parents as MAURICIO LERENA and CASIMIRA MONTANA. THAT IS THE COUPLE MARRIED AT COLLA IN 1837, whose son MANUEL married at Trinidad in 1882. So the Rosario-Colla house put children into SAN JOSE as well as FLORES. AND IT EXPLAINS THE ROW 187 PUZZLE: that row records a Lerena woman mothering a child at San Jose in 1875 with no father traceable by a surname search - a woman married in December 1874 would do exactly that, and her children would carry her husband's name, not Lerena. HER HUSBAND'S NAME IS CUT OFF IN THE INDEX ROW AND HAS NOT BEEN READ. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Felicia LERENA Ferreiroz (b. 6 May 1891) Unplaced | 1891-05-06 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Born 6 MAY 1891 at Montevideo and christened 16 MAY 1891, daughter of MANUEL LERENA and JUANA FERREIROZ. SHE IS THE RECORD THAT PUTS THAT HOUSEHOLD BEYOND DOUBT, appearing in both the civil register and the parish baptisms. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Felisa LERENA (arr. 1911) Unplaced | 1893 · Spanish · found in arr. 1911-12-07 Travelling with Gregorio. A CANDIDATE FOR THE FELISA OF A 1912 BUENOS AIRES BAPTISM, found 11 October 2026. The act: 'PARROQUIA Y VICARIA DE SAN JOSE DE FLORES. Numero 461, Ano de 1912. En diez de Noviembre del ano del Senor mil novecientos doce, el Presbitero Don ANTONIO JENARA, por el infrascrito Cura de esta Parroquia, bautizo solemnemente, puso oleo y crisma a JUANA, que nacio el dia veinte y cinco de Junio del ano de mil novecientos doce, hija legitima de D. ELOY LERENA, natural de ESPANA, de veinte y seis anos de edad, y de Dona FELISA LERENA, natural de Espana, de veinte y un anos de edad.' Godparents GREGORIO LERENA and ROSA DEFENARI. AND THIS IS WHERE A CEMLA ARRIVAL MIGHT BECOME A LIFE - BUT IT IS NOT MERGED. This register holds a FELISA LERENA and a GREGORIO LERENA who landed together at Buenos Aires on 7 DECEMBER 1911, off the INDIANA from BARCELONA, and nothing else about either of them. A Felisa and a Gregorio stand in this act eleven months later in a Buenos Aires parish. THE RESEMBLANCE IS REAL AND THE ARITHMETIC IS NOT CLEAN. The act makes Felisa twenty-one, so born about 1891; the 1911 passenger list makes her 1893, two years out - while the archive's OTHER Felisa, who arrived in 1923, is recorded 1891, which matches exactly and belongs to a woman arriving eleven years too late to baptise this child unless she crossed twice. AND THE ROLES DO NOT LINE UP: the 1911 pair travelled together, which usually means husband and wife or brother and sister, but here Gregorio is the GODFATHER and the husband is ELOY, who is not on that passenger list at all. NOTHING IS MERGED. Stated so that the next session tests it rather than inherits it. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INDIANA from Barcelona; and Parroquia y Vicaria de San Jose de Flores, Comuna 7, Buenos Aires City - BAPTISM No. 461 of 10 November 1912 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G6VB-K" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G6VB-K</a> |
| Felisa LERENA (arr. 1923) Unplaced | 1891 · Spanish · ama de casa · found in arr. 1923-08-15 Arrived with four children: Luciano, Crecencia, Juan, Justa. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship DESIRADE from Bilbao |
| Felix LERENA (father of Sancho) Connected | Spain, presumably Andalusia (his son is "natural de Andalucia"; CORDOBA comes from a tree) · Spanish · found in Spain NAMED ON AN ACT, 15 September 2026 - the first time this archive has had a generation above Sancho on anything but a tree. The baptism of their grandson LUIS ESCOLASTICO at the Iglesia Matriz of Montevideo, 10 February 1811, gives "Abuelos paternos FELIZ GERENA y ROSALIA AGUILAR" in the same sentence that calls their son "Don SANCHO LLERENA natural de ANDALUCIA" . GERENA is the machine's G-for-L - a seventh spelling for this family, and the same mangling that produced the still-unresolved "Dona Andugara GERENA" in the Santa Rosa de Lima confirmations at Rosario. He is written FELIZ, the ordinary period spelling of FELIX. WHAT IS STILL NOT KNOWN ABOUT THEM: everything else. No dates, no places, no marriage, no other children. The Geneanet pages carry nothing but the line "Family: Revista 15 IEGU", and one Spanish tree offers Cordoba about 1725 and a marriage about 1753 - all values marked "about", with no source at all, and giving Sancho a birth of ca 1754 that the 1812 padron contradicts. So the PARENTAGE is documented and the PEOPLE are not. The search that follows from this is FELIX LERENA and ROSALIA AGUILAR in CORDOBA and it has not been run against Spanish parish records. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT since 14 September. Film 007713375 image 02410, Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, the baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 February 1811 - the only record in this archive that names Sancho's own parents. AND THE PLATE CORRECTS HIS SURNAME. The machine transcript read the line as 'Abuelos paternos FELIZ GERENA y ROS[A]LIA AGUILAR', and this archive inferred FELIX LERENA from it. The page itself reads 'Ab.s pat.s FELIX LLERENA y Ros[alia Aguilar]' - FELIX, with an X, and LLERENA WITH THE DOUBLE L, in the same hand that writes his son 'Sancho Llerena' two lines above. So the earliest Spanish generation this archive can name spelled it LLERENA. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo, Iglesia Matriz, baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 Feb 1811 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M</a>; plus Geneanet trees citing Revista 15 IEGU - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02410 |
| Fermin LERENA (of Trinidad) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores One of the men fathering Lerena children at Trinidad, Flores in the 1870s and 1880s. Wife: Paulina BARRAGAN. 2 children 1877-1882. Six or seven men of a rare surname in one small inland town in a handful of years are almost certainly brothers or first cousins - this looks like the founding kindred of the surname in Uruguay. No Pablo and no Armando anywhere in the set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Fermin LERENA Barragan (the younger, m.1924) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Flores, Uruguay A FOURTH CHILD FOR FERMIN LERENA AND PAULINA BARRAGAN, named for his father, with a marriage registered in FLORES IN 1924 and the spouse left UNKNOWN by the index card. NOT MERGED WITH HIS FATHER, who is in this register as FERMIN LERENA (of Trinidad): a marriage of 1924 is two generations from the man whose daughter was born in 1875. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Fernando LERENA (23 April - 1 May 1930) Unplaced | 1930-04-23 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 23 April 1930 at Trinidad and dead on 1 May - EIGHT DAYS. The index names one parent, 'Miguel Cadeschi', which is not a reading this archive can use. THE SECOND INFANT OF EIGHT DAYS IN THIS REGISTER, after Carmelo Anselmo of 1846. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Fidel LERENA (m. Maria Ruedas) Unplaced · high interest | found in Montevideo A FIDEL LERENA WITH A WIFE AND A GRANDSON, named on a Montevideo death registration of 1889. "Abuelos paternos FIDEL LERENA y MARIA RUEDAS" - the paternal grandparents of Victor Lerena, who died that year at twenty-eight. FIDEL is a rare forename in this family and appears exactly once elsewhere: Sancho Llerena's son, born about 1799. And this archive worked out only yesterday where that name came from - Don Fidel Rey of Montevideo, godfather at Agustina's baptism in 1795. WHETHER THIS FIDEL IS SANCHO'S SON IS NOT ESTABLISHED. Sancho's Fidel was born about 1799 and the Geneanet trees give him a death in 1822, at twenty-two or twenty-three. For this to be the same man, Pedro would have to be born by 1822 and fathering Victor at about forty. That is tight but possible, and the tree's 1822 is tree-only and has never been tested against a Montevideo burial. The alternative is a second Fidel Lerena at Montevideo, which nothing rules out. Recorded as a branch to test, not as a descent. This row said "THE TEST IS CHEAP AND HAS NOT BEEN RUN: a Montevideo marriage of FIDEL LERENA to MARIA RUEDAS, and a burial for Fidel around 1822." IT WAS RUN ON 20 SEPTEMBER 2026 AND BOTH HALVES CAME BACK EMPTY. No marriage of a Fidel Lerena to a Maria Rueda or Ruedas is indexed for Uruguay - control: the same query shape on Luis and Juanico returns the marriage act of 19 December 1864 as its first result. And no burial of a Fidel Lerena between 1815 and 1840 - control: Rodriguez in that window returns 62,026 records with real burials, so the shelf is not empty. THE SURPRISE IS WHICH WAY IT CUTS. The tree death of 1822 was the one thing that would have kept this Fidel apart from Sancho's son, and it is not in the record either. The two are still NOT merged - an unevidenced death is not evidence of survival - but nothing now separates them except the silence. See data/fs-session-2026-09-20.tsv. THE GRANDSON'S DATES ARE NOW EXACT, 20 September 2026: Victor Lerena, born 1861 at Montevideo, died 10 October 1889 - so the "twenty-eight" this row has carried is right to the year. His father is indexed PEDRO LORENA, which is the spelling the register already holds for him. The test that would settle Fidel himself was attempted on 20 September and could not be run - the API reached for it does not filter on a spouse surname. See data/fs-session-2026-09-20.tsv. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 008165116 image 01442, folio 94 - Montevideo civil death registration No. 622 of 1889. 'Abuelos [paternos] FIDEL LERENA y MARIA RUEDAS' - on the plate, in the same hand that writes Pedro Lerena on the line above. Whether this Fidel is Sancho's son remains unestablished, and nothing on this plate bears on it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil death registration 1889 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008165116 image 01442 |
| Fidel LERENA Fernandez Connected | 1799 · Canelones ("el Canelon") · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo, calle San Juan No 60 ONE OF SANCHO'S SIX CHILDREN LISTED IN THE 1812 PADRON, and the first time any of them has been entered here. The household at calle San Juan No 60 held Sancho "andaluz" 45, Maria Fernandez 36, and six children all "naturales del CANELON" - Juan Agustin 21, Pedro Antonio 19, Agustina 17, Fidel 12, Justa 10 and Dominga 7 - together with Sancho's father-in-law RODRIGO FERNANDEZ, 63, asturiano, and four enslaved people. That all six were born at Canelones is the best support the 1791 marriage venue has, and it comes from a census rather than from a tree. NOT AN ACT: this row rests on a published transcription of a census, reported at second hand through a family tree. The act has not been opened here. Aged 12 in the 1812 padron, so born about 1800; the tree gives 1799 and a death in 1822, at twenty-two or twenty-three. If that death is right he is the only one of Sancho's children this archive can see dying young, and he died in the decade the family were serving the Portuguese occupation at Canelones. The death is tree-only and has not been tested against Montevideo burials. The tree's own prose says the couple had EIGHT children while listing seven, and it omits Dominga, whom the padron and a Canelones act of 1804 both attest - so its child list is incomplete and this row inherits that caution. AND HIS NAME IS EXPLAINED, 15 September 2026. It appears nowhere else in this family and this row could not account for it. His sister Agustina's baptism of 30 August 1795 gives her godfather as DON FIDEL REY, vecino de Montevideo. The child born four years later carries the godfather's name. An inference, not a statement - no act says the boy was named for him - but the coincidence of a rare forename and a recent sponsor in one household is a thin one to explain away. AND THAT DEATH HAS NOW BEEN TESTED AGAINST MONTEVIDEO BURIALS, 20 September 2026: IT IS NOT THERE. A search of Uruguayan deaths 1815-1840 for a Fidel Lerena returns nothing, against a control in the same window - Rodriguez - returning 62,026 records with burials of 1840 and 1844 on the first screen. The 1822 remains tree-only, and is now tree-only having been looked for. It can no longer be used to rule this man out of the 1889 death registration that names a FIDEL LERENA and MARIA RUEDAS as a grandfather and grandmother. | no public link Padron de Montevideo de 1812 (AGN, Fondo ex AGA, L 251), transcribed in Apolant, "Operativo Patagonia" ficha 355 and quoted in the Geneanet tree of jfina; plus that tree's own child list |
| Florencio LERENA (of Trinidad) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores One of the men fathering Lerena children at Trinidad, Flores in the 1870s and 1880s. Wife: Juana RECUERO. 1 child 1891. Six or seven men of a rare surname in one small inland town in a handful of years are almost certainly brothers or first cousins - this looks like the founding kindred of the surname in Uruguay. No Pablo and no Armando anywhere in the set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Florinda Juana LERENA (of Trinidad, m. Vitalino Gregorio Pelaez 1913) Unplaced · high interest | 1891 · Trinidad, Flores · UY · found in Trinidad, Flores FEBRUARY 1913: dispensed the THIRD GRADE of consanguinity by the EQUAL lateral line to marry DON VITALINO GREGORIO PELAEZ. SECOND COUSINS - and a FOURTH LERENA-PELAEZ UNION, the second of them explicitly at TRINIDAD. A CONSANGUINITY DISPENSATION IS A STATEMENT ABOUT ANCESTRY. The Church computed the degree before it would dispense, so the entry constrains a pedigree even though it names no parent. The register itself names NO PARENTS - it is the Vicar General's summary ledger, not the expediente. NO BIRTH YEAR WAS RECORDED HERE UNTIL 9 OCTOBER 2026, and before that one was briefly invented. This row first carried a year reached by assuming an ordinary age at marriage - that year is gone, and the one standing in this row now is a clerk's stated age, not an assumption. That is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact, it is what this archive did to William John Taylor on 8 October, and tools/check-duplicates.py caught it the same way - by matching the invented year against real namesakes. The dispensation register gives no age and no birth. AND NOW SHE HAS PARENTS AND A BIRTH YEAR FROM A RECORD, 9 October 2026. The Flores birth act of 10 March 1922 registers her son and gives her as 'Dona FLORINDA JUANA LERENA, oriental, de TREINTA Y UN anos de edad, de profesion labores de su sexo y domiciliada con su esposo' - born about 1891. HER PARENTS ARE BERNABE LERENA AND FLORINDA CARDOZO, the couple of the 1911 kinship diagram - SO SHE IS A SISTER OF CUSTODIO LERENA, and two full-text finds made three weeks apart are one family. THE INVENTED YEAR WAS WITHDRAWN ON 8 OCTOBER AND A STATED ONE REPLACED IT ON THE 9TH. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1856-1932 - FamilySearch FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NFVV" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NFVV</a>; and Flores. Birth Records 1916-1925 - act No. 10 of 1922, Anibal Marino Pelaez, born 3 March 1922, Sexta Seccion of Flores; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8</a>, DGS film 008165367 item 6 image 195 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Francisco LERENA (b.1890, 1895 census) Unplaced | 1890 · La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Five years old on the 1895 sheet and born at LA PLATA. Son of Leandro LERENA and Lucia LLANOS. With his sister Emilia born in Spain about 1886, he dates the family's emigration to between 1886 and 1890. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 Argentine National Census, Seccion 18 Subdivision 34, Ciudad de Buenos Aires - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-266-13033-138829-16 on 12 October 2026; and the army enrolment card of Salvador LORENA, Cajon 985 order 666 (Argentina, Military Records 1911-1936) |
| Francisco LERENA (b.1891, arr. 1930) Unplaced | 1891 · Spanish · found in arr. 1930-10-25 from Montevideo Travelling with an Argentine-born son, Francisco, aged 7. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INFANTA ISABEL DE BORBON |
| Francisco LERENA (b.1923, arr. 1930) Unplaced | 1923 · Argentine · found in arr. 1930-10-25 Son of the above. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INFANTA ISABEL DE BORBON |
| Gayle LERENA (born PRESTON) Connected | 1950 · Transvaal · SA · found in Johannesburg WIFE OF PIERRE FREDERICK LERENA, and the one of the four the Government Gazette could not reach. On 17 September this archive recorded that her 1999 death rested on a single commercial index row and must not be published as fact, because a wife married in community of property leaves no separate estate to advertise. The cemetery register closed it from a different direction - buried 22 November 1999, registered with her husband and sons. A null correctly refused, and then answered. HER BIRTH YEAR IS NOT SETTLED: the cemetery register gives 1950 and the commercial index gives 1952, and neither is a document stating her birth. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 - burial registration 18 November 1999 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X6S-M48H" rel="noopener">1:1:6X6S-M48H</a> |
| Gervasio LERENA Echeverry Unplaced | 1875-06-19 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Vitalino Lerena and Andrea Echeverry, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Gilberto LERENA (b.1879, arr. 1928) Unplaced · high interest | 1879 · ARGENTINE · comercio · found in arr. 1928-02-27 An ARGENTINE-national Lerena born within three years of Pablo Armando, carrying the Gilberto name of the Stud Book family. Travelling with a son of the same name. CORRECTED 20 September 2026. This row used to end "Not in the 1895 census household of Gilberto (1854)", and that was the only thing holding it apart from another row in this register. It is wrong. Line 6 of that schedule reads Salvanach Lerena, GILBERTO, varon, 17, soltero, R. Oriental - Gilberto's eldest son, seventeen in 1895, so born 1877 or 1878, who is already here as Gilberto LERENA Salvanach (the younger, b.1878). WHAT FITS, NOW THAT THE OBJECTION IS GONE: a birth year one out; Argentine nationality, which the Salvanach son demonstrably holds (Montevideo-born, yet in Argentine military records 1911-1936); Buenos Aires; and a marriage of 19 May 1906, against which a son born 1916 sits naturally - and that son is the estudiante of twelve travelling beside him, whom this row had noted as a curiosity without explaining. DELIBERATELY NOT MERGED. Both rows are index-level, and this archive once conflated two Arturo Lerenas on a forename and an age and retracted the branch within the hour. THE TEST, AND IT IS CHEAP: the Argentine military record carries a date of birth and the CEMLA entry carries marital status. Either one settles it. AND THE SON IS NO LONGER A CURIOSITY, 20 September 2026. Gilberto Lerena Salvanach married CIPRIANA SAENZ PENA on 19 May 1906 and a Capital Federal index names their child "Gilberto de Jesus del Corazon". The son this row noted without explaining is a son that man demonstrably had. IT STILL DOES NOT CLOSE. That child carries no indexed birth year - a search of Argentine Lerena births 1910-1920 returns ten records and none is he - so the twelve-year-old of 1928 remains unmatched by a document. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship CAP. NORTE |
| Gilberto LERENA (b.1916, arr. 1928) Unplaced | 1916 · Argentine · estudiante · found in arr. 1928-02-27 Son of the above. AND A CANDIDATE FOR A NAMED CHILD, 20 September 2026: "GILBERTO DE JESUS DEL CORAZON", son of Gilberto Lerena Salvanach and Cipriana Saenz Pena, on a Capital Federal parish index. DELIBERATELY NOT MERGED AND DELIBERATELY NOT ADDED AS A SECOND ROW - that child has no indexed birth year, so nothing yet ties him to a twelve-year-old estudiante of 1928 beyond his father's name. Writing him in as a new person is exactly the mistake this archive made with Dominga Llerena. See data/gilberto-salvanach-1906.tsv. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship CAP. NORTE |
| Gilberto LERENA (Gilberto Justiniano LERENA LENGUAS) Unplaced · high interest | 1854 · Uruguay · Uruguayan/Argentine · CORREDOR DE COMERCIO (commercial broker), per the 1895 census; breeder and co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book · found in Buenos Aires Co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book; a Group 1 at Palermo renamed for him in 1914. A Lerena at the centre of Argentine thoroughbred breeding, in the right country at the right time - and PABLO ARMANDO TRAINED AND OWNED RACEHORSES. Born Montevideo 24 May 1855, died 8 December 1912. His father is now documented rather than asserted: his brother Luis Eugenio's marriage act of 19 December 1864 names their parents as Don Luis and Dona Justiniana Lenguas. That he and Luis Eugenio are BROTHERS still rests on published genealogy, not on an act, and is marked secondary on the charts. NO PROVEN LINK TO PABLO ARMANDO. HIS PARENTS ARE NOW NAMED, 13 September 2026: LUIS LERENA and JUSTINIANA LENGUAS. Two independent Uruguayan parish records, entered for two different children of his, both give his parents so. That makes him A BROTHER OF LUIS EUGENIO LERENA LENGUAS - the same Montevideo household that produced the one Lerena baptism in Rosario before 1879. The racing dynasty and the Rosario thread are the same family. THE IMAGE IS NOW OPENED, AND IT IS PRIMARY. Act 1447 of 31 October 1886 baptises his daughter Maria Angelica Julia, "hija legitima de Don Gilberto Lerena y de Dona Julia Salvanach, orientales", and names the paternal grandparents "Don LUIS y Dona JUSTINIANA LENGUAS" - the same couple named as Luis Eugenio's parents in his marriage act of 1864 and his death act of 1901. AND THE GODMOTHER IS DONA JULIA JUANICO DE LERENA - Luis Eugenio's own wife, standing at the font for her husband's brother's daughter. The two households are one family acting as one. Written by Martin Perez, the same priest who wrote act 1720 for Candido Jaime that year. AND A SECOND ACT, FROM A DIFFERENT PARISH, SAYS THE SAME, 14 September 2026: the baptism of his son Raul Alfredo Luis at the Catedral Basilica on 10 September 1885 gives "abuelos paternos: Luis y Justiniana Lenguas" and "abuelos maternos: Cristobal y Angela Alvarez" - identical to act 1447, in a different year, a different parish and a different priest's hand. Its godmother is a JOSEFA LERENA otherwise unknown to this archive. HIS HOUSEHOLD IS NOW ASSEMBLED, 14 September 2026: EIGHT CHILDREN by Julia Salvanach - Gilberto (1878), Carlos (1884), Raul Alfredo Luis (1885), Maria Angelica Julia (1886), all born at Montevideo; then Maria Carlota (1890), Luis Felipe (1892), Cesar Alberto (1896) and Horacio Alfredo (1898), at Buenos Aires. THE LAST MONTEVIDEO BAPTISM IS 31 OCTOBER 1886 AND THE FIRST BUENOS AIRES ONE 29 OCTOBER 1890, which brackets the family's crossing between those dates - firmer than the "1887 to 1889" this archive read off census birthplaces. AND JUAN CARLOS IS NOT AMONG THEM. AND THE 1895 CENSUS SCHEDULE, READ AS A HOUSEHOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 14 September 2026, GIVES HIM A TRADE: CORREDOR DE COMERCIO - a commercial broker, aged 41, casado, R. Oriental, catolico. This archive has had him as a breeder, which is what he is remembered for; in his own house he told the enumerator he was a broker. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 Argentine national census, Seccion 21; and baptism act No. 1447 of 31 Oct 1886, San Francisco de Asis - IMAGE READ; and baptism of his son Raul Alfredo Luis, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 10 Sep 1885 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W</a> |
| Gilberto LERENA Salvanach (the younger, b.1878) Unplaced | 1878 · Montevideo · Uruguayan/Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Eldest known son of Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach, found 14 September 2026. Born Montevideo 1878 - so before the family crossed to Buenos Aires - and married 19 May 1906 at Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Recoleta. He also has a Uruguayan marriage registration of 1922 and appears in Argentine military records 1911-1936. Index-level. HE IS ON THE 1895 SCHEDULE, line 6: "Salvanach Lerena, GILBERTO", varon, 17, soltero, R. Oriental - still in his father's Buenos Aires house at seventeen. AND HE IS A CANDIDATE for the Gilberto Lerena, Argentine, born 1879, who landed at Buenos Aires on 27 February 1928 off the CAP. NORTE with a son Gilberto of twelve. Not merged; that row carries the reasoning and names the test. HIS WIFE IS NAMED, 20 September 2026: CIPRIANA SAENZ PENA, married at Nuestra Senora del Pilar on 19 May 1906 - the register carried this marriage with no bride at all. AND THEY HAD A SON GILBERTO, "Gilberto de Jesus del Corazon", on a Capital Federal parish index. His Argentine nationality is now on a record too: military service March 1922, Distrito Militar 2, born 1878 Montevideo. See data/gilberto-salvanach-1906.tsv. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records / Argentine military records, searched on Gilberto as father, 14 Sep 2026 |
| Gregorio LERENA (arr. 1911) Unplaced | 1881 · Spanish · labrador · found in arr. 1911-12-07 Possibly the same man as the Gregorio arriving 1924. A CANDIDATE FOR THE GREGORIO WHO STOOD GODFATHER AT SAN JOSE DE FLORES ON 10 NOVEMBER 1912 - eleven months after he landed off the INDIANA from Barcelona with a Felisa Lerena. The act names him only as 'GREGORIO LERENA' with a godmother ROSA DEFENARI, giving no age, no origin and no parents, so THERE IS NOTHING TO MATCH ON BUT THE NAME, THE CITY AND THE YEAR. NOT MERGED. See the row for Felisa LERENA (arr. 1911) for why the arithmetic is uncomfortable. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INDIANA from Barcelona; and Parroquia y Vicaria de San Jose de Flores, Comuna 7, Buenos Aires City - BAPTISM No. 461 of 10 November 1912 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G6VB-K" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G6VB-K</a> |
| Gregorio LERENA (arr. 1924) Unplaced | 1880 · Spanish · agricultor · found in arr. 1924-01-22 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship REINA VICTORIA EUGENIA |
| Gumersindo LERENA Unplaced | 1898 · Artigas, Uruguay · Oriental · found in Artigas, Uruguay Born 1898, died 8 March 1899, not yet a year old. Son of Benito LERENA and the woman the acts call only Maria Cristina. He died ten weeks before his grandfather walked into the Juzgado de Paz at San Eugenio to register another grandchild. Index-level; the death act has not been opened. | record ↗ FamilySearch record index, Uruguay Civil Registration, Artigas - INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED, surveyed 12 October 2026 |
| Hanson Seko LERENA Unplaced | SA · found in South Africa As above. | no public link SA records |
| Hector Narciso LERENA Bassani Unplaced | 1886-10-29 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · dibujante (draughtsman), 1911 · found in Montevideo, later Buenos Aires Born 29 October 1886 and registered at Montevideo on 6 November, act N 424, page 14. Son of Alejandro M. Lerena and Julia Bassani, "hijo de los declarantes". HE IS THE EVIDENCE THAT THIS FAMILY WAS IN MONTEVIDEO BEFORE IT WAS IN BUENOS AIRES - the Argentine records for these parents begin with a baptism in 1905, nineteen years later. Appears again in Argentine military records 1911-1936 and in Capital Federal parish records, both attached in the FamilySearch tree to the same man, L8GL-F8B. MERGED 22 SEPTEMBER 2026 WITH THE ROW THAT STOOD HERE AS "Hector LERENA" - an Argentine of Buenos Aires who married AMALIA PACHECO and had a daughter Emilia Cecilia on 20 December 1915. They are one man, and the merge is made on the ACT and not on the tree's attachment. The San Carlos marriage of 25 February 1911 was opened: "hijo legitimo de D. ALEJANDRO MAXIMO [Lerena] ... y de dona JULIA BA[SSANI], natural de Italia ... con dona AMALIA PA[CHECO]". THREE THINGS AGREE AT ONCE - the wife the old row carried, the parents this row carries, and the age. He is "de la Rep. Oriental, de veinte y cuatro" on 25 February 1911, which puts his birth between 26 February 1886 and 25 February 1887 and fits 29 October 1886 exactly. AND IT CORRECTS THE INDEX, WHICH HAS HIM BORN 1887 AT ALMAGRO, BUENOS AIRES. The act says ORIENTAL. The indexer defaulted the birthplace to the event place, which is a thing this collection's index does. His trade on the act is dibujante, draughtsman, and he lived at calle Gurruchaga 1388. HE IS ALSO "hijo LEGITIMO" IN 1911, THOUGH HIS MONTEVIDEO BIRTH ACT OF 1886 RECORDS NO MARRIAGE - his father was a widower and his mother soltera. Either Alejandro and Julia married between 1888 and 1911, or the parish wrote the ordinary word. This archive does not know which, and the marriage of those two has not been found. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - birth act N 424, Montevideo, 6 November 1886; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR4Z-DDT" rel="noopener">1:1:VR4Z-DDT</a> - IMAGE READ 22 September 2026; film 004596830 image 01806; and Argentina, Capital Federal, registros parroquiales 1640-1978 - marriage act 491, San Carlos, Buenos Aires, 25 February 1911; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS67-ZFL2" rel="noopener">1:1:XS67-ZFL2</a> - IMAGE READ 22 September 2026; film 004571398 image 00420; and daughter Emilia Cecilia b. 20 Dec 1915, Capital Federal |
| Horacio Alfredo LERENA Salvanach Unplaced | 1898 · Buenos Aires · Uruguayan/Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Youngest known child of Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach, baptised 23 April 1898 at Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Recoleta. ALFREDO echoes his brother Raul Alfredo Luis, whose godfather was Alfredo Costa. Index-level. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records / Argentine military records, searched on Gilberto as father, 14 Sep 2026 |
| Idersio LERENA Araujo Unplaced | 1896 · Artigas, Uruguay · Oriental · found in Artigas, Uruguay Born and died 1896; death registered at Artigas on 19 December. Son of Benito LERENA and a mother the index here calls Cristina Araujo, which is the likeliest reading of her surname. Index-level; no act opened. | record ↗ FamilySearch record index, Uruguay Civil Registration, Artigas - INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED, surveyed 12 October 2026 |
| Irma Antonia LERENA Fernandez Unplaced | 1898-09-13 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 13 September 1898, registered at Trinidad 21 September 1898. Parents on the record: Pedro Segundo LERENA Villademoros and Petrona FERNANDEZ. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Isabel LERENA Barragan (b.1875, m. Juan Rodriguez 1902) Unplaced | 1875 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A THIRD CHILD FOR FERMIN LERENA AND PAULINA BARRAGAN, beside Faustino and Maria Regina. Born about 1875, married JUAN RODRIGUEZ at Santisima Trinidad on 29 January 1902. Found under the LLERENA spelling. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Ismael LERENA (father, Trinidad 1917) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named as the father of MARIA LUISA LERENA, born 4 January 1915 and christened at Trinidad on 19 March 1917, with NO MOTHER INDEXED. HE APPEARS ONCE AND IS NOT PLACED. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep and the Zalduando surname sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Jacinta LERENA Unplaced | 1881 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Entre Rios Born the year before Pablo Armando, in Uruguay. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 census, Federal |
| Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria LERENA Villademoros Connected | 1876-09-19 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE CHILD WHOSE BAPTISM ANSWERED THE ARCHIVE'S OLDEST OPEN QUESTION. Born 19 September 1876 and baptised at the Cordon on 26 December 1877, fifteen months later - and the delay is the point, because her mother had died in between. The act reads: 'El P. D. JOSE BALBI bautizo a JACINTA MERCEDES GREGORIA, nacida el 19 de Sept. ultimo, hija legitima de D. ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y de D.a ELISA [VILLADEMOROS] (HOY FINADA), orientales. ABUELOS PATERNOS D. AVELINO y D.a AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, maternos D. PEDRO y D.a ANGELICA MENDEZ. Padrinos D. HERMENEGILDO FUENTES y D.a MERCEDES MENDEZ.' TWO THINGS THE INDEX GOT WRONG AND THE PLATE GOT RIGHT: it reads the father as 'Alejandro M. SERENA' - the S-for-L this archive has now met five times - and the grandmother as 'Ambrosia TRECIBEL'. Both are LERENA and TRAIBEL in the priest's hand. SHE IS IN BUENOS AIRES IN 1918, WITH A HUSBAND AND A DAUGHTER, 10 October 2026. The Basilica San Jose de Flores baptised BEATRIZ ELIZA DEL CORAZON DE JESUS on 20 January 1918, born 17 November 1917: 'hija legitima de D. EUGENIO MARCOS ABELLA, natural de URUGUAY, de cuarenta y un anos, y de Dona JACINTA LERENA VILLADEMOROS, natural de URUGUAY, de treinta y seis anos, domiciliados en MEMBRILLAR 96'. SO THE VILLADEMOROS BRANCH CROSSED TO BUENOS AIRES - a Montevideo family in a Flores parish of the Argentine capital, which is a different Flores entirely from the Uruguayan department this archive works in. THE AGE DOES NOT AGREE WITH THIS ROW AND IS RECORDED AS A CONFLICT: she is given as thirty-six in January 1918, which is a birth about 1881, where this row carries 19 September 1876 from her baptism - she would be forty-one. A STATED AGE ON A BAPTISM ACT IS THE PARENT'S OWN ACCOUNT AND IS OFTEN SHORT, and this archive does not change a baptismal date on the strength of one. THE IDENTIFICATION RESTS ON THE COMPOUND SURNAME, WHICH IS RARE, AND ON URUGUAYAN BIRTH. | record ↗ Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening of Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria, Cordon, Montevideo, 26 December 1877; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-WP5Z" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-WP5Z</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 007713388 image 02455; and Basilica San Jose de Flores, Buenos Aires City. Baptism Records 1917-1918 - acta No. 446 of 20 January 1918; image 244, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G69G-M3" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G69G-M3</a> - FULL-TEXT read 10 October 2026 |
| Jeffrey LERENA Connected | 1991-01-02 · Transvaal · SA · found in Johannesburg EIGHT YEARS OLD, and born on the same day of the year as his brother - 2 January, five years apart. The register gives his burial rather than his death, on the same registration day as the other three. FOUR CONSECUTIVE ARKS IN ONE REGISTER - 6X6S-M484, M48C, M48H, M48Z. Pierre, Richard, Gayle and Jeffrey were entered together, in a single act of registration, on 18 November 1999. That is structural corroboration on top of the dates, and it is the kind of thing an index loses and a register keeps. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 - burial registration 18 November 1999 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X6S-M48Z" rel="noopener">1:1:6X6S-M48Z</a>; buried 22 November 1999 |
| Jesus LERENA Unplaced | 1860 · Argentina · Argentine · found in Tucuman | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 census, San Miguel de Tucuman |
| Joaquin LERENA (1846-1896, of Trinidad) Unplaced | 1846 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born about 1846 at Trinidad and died there on 3 December 1896. The index gives a parent as 'Juan Real', which is not a reading this archive can use. BORN IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE CARMELO ANSELMO WHO LIVED SEVEN DAYS AT SAN JOSE, and in the decade the Trinidad kindred was forming. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Jose Dolores LERENA y LERENA (of Navarrete, Logrono) Unplaced | Navarrete, Logrono, Spain · Spanish · juez municipal suplente and registrar of Navarrete; propietario · found in Navarrete, Logrono, Spain The brother who STAYED. 'Don Jose Dolores Leerena y Lerena, CASADO y PROPIETARIO, vecino de Navarrete' - named with his mother in the 1900 power of attorney to administer, let, mortgage, sell and if need be litigate over the family's property in Spain. HE IS THE ONE WITH THE LAND AND THE WIFE; HIS BROTHERS WERE SHOP-ASSISTANTS ACROSS AN OCEAN - which is the ordinary shape of a Riojan trading family and the likeliest explanation of the stream of young LERENA men out of Logrono into Buenos Aires commerce in this archive's CEMLA extracts: Martin at 14 in 1907, Jose M. at 16 in 1909, Jose at 16 in 1924, Emilio and Jose Maria in 1930. A LINE OF THE NAME THAT IS NOT THIS FAMILY'S LINE, drawn so it stops being mistaken for one. THIS HOUSEHOLD IS WHY THE ROW MATTERS MORE THAN ITS OWN PEOPLE DO. The brothers sign themselves LERENA y LERENA, so their father was a Lerena AND their mother was a Lerena - and Pablo Armando Lerena's 1908 enrolment card names JUAN CARLOS LERENA and MARIA LERENA. AND THEY ARE THE SIXTH SUCH COUPLE THIS ARCHIVE HAS MET, NOT THE FIRST - a correction to what was written here first. The two Trinidad couples of 1894 and 1913, the 1911 dispensation, Alejandro, and Eloy x Felisa Lerena at San Jose de Flores in 1912 all came before them. SO THE CARD'S DOUBLE SURNAME WAS NEVER IN REAL DOUBT, AND NAVARRETE DOES NOT RESCUE IT. What Navarrete adds is different and smaller: it is the FIRST SUCH HOUSEHOLD OUTSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, the FIRST WHERE THE CHILDREN CARRY IT DOUBLED AS A SURNAME OF RECORD - 'Lerena y Lerena', in their own signatures, not just a coincidence of two parents - and the FIRST TIME THE PRACTICE HAS A PLACE ON A MAP that can be searched. No link to Pablo Armando is claimed - see data/open-questions.tsv. AND WITHIN THE HOUR HE TURNED UP AGAIN, IN SPAIN, FOUR YEARS EARLIER, HOLDING AN OFFICE. A Madrid pension file of 1896 carries a certificate signed 'D. JOSE DOLORES LERENA Y LERENA, JUEZ MUNICIPAL SUPLENTE DE ESTA VILLA, encargado de la Jurisdiccion por ausencia del propietario, Y TAMBIEN [DEL] REGISTRO CIVIL DE LA MISMA'. He certifies an entry from his own book: 'Que en dicho Registro, seccion de DEFUNCIONES, al folio CIENTO NOVENTA Y UNO del tomo [undecimo] se encuentra el acta que dice asi' - the death at Navarrete on 11 NOVEMBER 1895 of Juan Manuel Chavarri Oteyza of Fuenmayor, aged seventy. SO HIS BROTHERS' 'CASADO Y PROPIETARIO' IN 1900 UNDERSTATES HIM: he was the acting magistrate of the town and the man who kept its civil register. THE PEOPLE IN THAT DEATH ACT ARE DELIBERATELY NOT IN THIS REGISTER - not Clemente Huergo, not Chavarri Oteyza, not the judge Jose Maria Briones y Briones, not the secretary Florencio Velasco de la Plaza. He is the official of record and they are the business of his office, which is the boundary in tools/check-people-named.py - and it is the SECOND time in two days that boundary has been applied to a Lerena keeping a register, the first being VICENTE LERENA DIAZ, Jefe del Registro Civil of Pueblo Brugo, Entre Rios, 1938. THREE MEN OF THIS NAME NOW HOLD A REGISTER OR A JURISDICTION IN THREE COUNTRIES: Ramon Lerena, Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad del Partido del Rosario, 1796-1800; Jose Dolores Lerena y Lerena, juez municipal and registrar of Navarrete, 1895-96; Vicente Lerena Diaz at Pueblo Brugo, 1938. NO CONNECTION IS CLAIMED BETWEEN THEM AND THERE IS NO REASON TO THINK ONE EXISTS - a village needs a literate man and these are three different villages a hemisphere apart. It is recorded because it is the kind of coincidence this archive would otherwise mistake for a pattern later, having forgotten it noticed it. WHAT IT OPENS: the Juzgado Municipal of Navarrete kept DEFUNCIONES in numbered volumes - tomo 11 reached folio 191 by November 1895 - so the civil register of the village where Lerenas married Lerenas exists and is described. See data/open-questions.tsv, question 1. | no public link Registros Consulares: Buenos Aires City - NOTARIAL RECORDS 1900-1901, folio 138, escritura No. 368 of 14 November 1900, CONSULADO DE ESPANA EN BUENOS AIRES - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6</a>; and Expediente: Huergo Aragon, Clemente. Huerfano de Juan Chavarri Otayza: Madrid - GOVERNMENT PENSIONS 1896, the certificate issued at Navarrete - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9T3-GZPK-S" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9T3-GZPK-S</a> |
| Jose Julio LERENA Juanico Unplaced | 1879-03-15 · Montevideo, calle Yi 303 · Uruguayan · JUEZ DE PAZ y Oficial del Estado Civil, 1a Seccion de Montevideo (strong, not proved) · found in Montevideo A SIXTH CHILD of Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico, found 13 September 2026. Born 15 March 1879 at Montevideo and not registered until 14 September 1908, when he was 29 - a late registration of the kind a man makes to produce proof of birth for his own wedding, and he does appear on a Montevideo marriage index card for 1908. THE IMAGE IS OPENED. Born at the house calle YI No. 303, and registered in 1908 by HIS OWN MOTHER - Dona Julia Juanico, 64, a widow of calle Buenos Aires 102. The act independently confirms Luis Eugenio's death, "fallecido en esta Ciudad el veinte y cuatro de Diciembre de mil novecientos uno", from a different document written seven years after it. AND IT PLACES JUSTINIANA LENGUAS, AT EIGHTY-SEVEN, RESIDENT IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. AND HE WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY A JUDGE. Thirty-five Montevideo civil marriage acts of 1902-1914 open "Por ante mi JULIO LERENA JUANICO, JUEZ DE PAZ y OFICIAL DEL ESTADO CIVIL de la Primera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo". The compound surname is this family's and no other here; he is the only JULIO among the seven children; and he would be thirty in 1909. STRONG BUT NOT PROVED - no act read so far gives the judge's own parents. And it explains the oddest thing in his record: a man appointed Oficial del Estado Civil needs proof of his own birth rather more than a bridegroom does, which is why his widowed mother swore it before a Juzgado de Paz in September 1908. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil birth registration No. 283 of 1908 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-W97S-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-W97S-F</a>; and thirty-five Montevideo civil marriage acts of 1902-1914 signed "Julio Lerena Juanico, Juez de Paz" - one read in full, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-2SKF-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-2SKF-F</a> |
| Jose LERENA Unplaced | 1908 · Logrono · Spanish · dep. comercio · found in arr. 1924-12-28 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INFANTA ISABEL DE BORBON |
| Jose Loreto LERENA Fernandez Connected | 1806-12-10 · Canelones · Uruguayan · found in Canelones AN EIGHTH CHILD OF SANCHO AND MARIA FERNANDEZ, FOUND 15 September 2026, and he is in no tree and no census. Canelones, 11 December 1806: "bautizo solemnemente a un parvulo de un dia de edad y puso por nombre JOSE LORETO, hijo legitimo de Sancho Lorena y de Maria Fernandez vecinos de esta Villa, fue padrino Jose Martinez de la Vega vecino de Montevideo." He was found only because the surname was searched as LORENA. Under LLERENA and LERENA he does not appear. HE IS NOT IN THE 1812 PADRON, which lists six children and no boy of about five. The likeliest reading is that he died before 1812, which is what a household return's silence usually means about a small child - but no burial has been looked for and none is claimed here. The Geneanet tree's own prose says the couple had EIGHT children while naming seven. He may be the eighth. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, and the transcript had one word wrong. Film 008166571 image 01176. The act reads: 'bautizo solemnemente a un parvulo de un dia de edad y puso por nombre JOSE LORETO, hijo legitimo de SANCHO LERENA y de MARIA FERNANDEZ, VECINOS DE ESTA VILLA. Fue padrino JOSE MARTINEZ DE LA VEGA, vecino de MONTEVIDEO, a quien advirtio la obligacion y parentesco, y yo el Cura y Vicario propio de la expresada Parroquia lo firmo y certifico para que conste.' THIS ROW QUOTED THE TRANSCRIPT AS 'SANCHO LORENA'. THE PLATE SAYS LERENA. That is the fourth assertion about this family's spelling to turn out to be the machine's rather than the scribe's in one day. AND 'VECINOS DE ESTA VILLA' IS WORTH MORE THAN THE SPELLING. In December 1806 Sancho and Maria were RESIDENTS OF CANELONES, not visitors to it - which joins up with Agustina's baptism there in 1795, Dominga's in 1804 and Justa Pastora being called 'natural de Canelones' in 1831. The family lived at Canelones for at least eleven years and had moved to Montevideo, calle San Juan No 60, by the padron of 1812. The godfather was brought from Montevideo, which is the other direction. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Canelones baptism, 11 Dec 1806 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9KR-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9KR-W</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008166571 image 01176 |
| Jose M. LERENA Unplaced | 1893 · Spanish · comerciante · found in arr. 1909-02-25 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship LEON XIII from Barcelona |
| Jose Maria LERENA Unplaced | 1906 · Logrono · Spanish · comercio · found in arr. 1930-04-30 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship CONTE ROSSO |
| Josefa LERENA (godmother, 1885) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A LERENA WOMAN THIS ARCHIVE HAS NEVER MET, found 14 September 2026. She stood godmother to Gilberto Lerena's son Raul at the Catedral Basilica de Montevideo on 10 September 1885, with Alfredo Costa. A woman of the surname at the font of a Lerena child is very likely one of the siblings of that generation - Gilberto had at least five - or a first cousin. Nothing else in this archive names her, and she is worth chasing. NOT A CORRECTION - A CROSS-REFERENCE THIS ROW LACKED, written 20 September 2026. "Nothing else in this archive names her" is still true: no second record names this godmother. But two rows here hold candidates for her and this one sent the reader off to chase somebody already being chased. JOSEFA LERENA TRAIBEL (1851-1947), daughter of Avelino, whose row has called itself a strong candidate for this godmother since 14 September; and "Lerena de L[erena], JOSEFA, 43, viuda", line 4 of Gilberto's 1895 Buenos Aires household, which the household file calls "almost certainly" this woman. AND THE TWO CANDIDATES FIGHT EACH OTHER, which no row here has said. The 1895 enumerator writes wives as [maiden surname] "de L." - Lenguas de Lerena, Salvanach de Lerena - so line 4 is a woman born a Lerena who married a Lerena. But Josefa Lerena Traibel married a MORATORIO, on a parish act, and would have been written "Lerena de Moratorio". So either the "de L." reading is wrong, or the 1895 widow and the Traibel daughter are two different women - and at most one of the two can be this godmother. Three rows, one name, and no act joining any two of them. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named at the baptism of Raul Alfredo Luis Lerena, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 10 Sep 1885 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W</a> |
| Josefa LERENA de L. Unplaced | 1852 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Buenos Aires Widow; kin of Gilberto (1854), probably sister or sister-in-law. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 census, same section/subdivision |
| Josefa LERENA TRAIBEL (1851-1947) Unplaced | 1851-02-10 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo DAUGHTER OF AVELINO LERENA AND AMBROSIA TRAIBEL - which places the LERENA TRAIBEL branch this archive has named since its first week. Died 2 April 1947 at Montevideo, aged NINETY-SIX. A STRONG CANDIDATE for the Josefa Lerena who stood godmother at the Catedral in 1885 and for the "Lerena de L. Josefa, 43, viuda" in Gilberto's 1895 Buenos Aires household - the ages agree within a year. DELIBERATELY NOT MERGED WITH THEM: this archive conflated two Arturo Lerenas in the same week and had to retract a branch within the hour. See data/josefa-lerena-candidates.tsv for what fits and what is untested. AND SHE MARRIED A MORATORIO, NOT A LERENA - NOW ON A PARISH ACT. Uruguayan civil registration names a Josefa Lerena as mother of Josefa, Eduardo and Maria MORATORIO LERENA, "Spouses: Fernando Moratorio", and the FamilySearch tree attaches that woman to this one. The marriage records are index-level and real; the link between the two women is a TREE ATTACHMENT and therefore SECONDARY. THE TREE ATTACHMENT IS NO LONGER NEEDED: the baptisms of her daughters MARIA CARLOTA and MARIA DE LAS MERCEDES MORATORIO LERENA at the Catedral Basilica de Montevideo on 8 March 1880 name the parents "Fernando Moratorio y Josefa Lerena" and the maternal grandparents "AVELINO y AMBROSIA TRAIBEL". So the Moratorio wife and the daughter of Avelino are one woman, on a document. AND HER CLAIM ON THE 1895 WIDOW IS WEAKER THAN THIS ROW MAKES IT SOUND, 20 September 2026. The enumerator writes wives as [maiden surname] "de L.", so his "Lerena de L." married a LERENA - and this woman married a MORATORIO, which the sentence above establishes from a parish act. Either the reading of the abbreviation is wrong, or the 1895 widow is somebody else. The two candidacies this row claims - the 1885 godmother and the 1895 widow - are not equally strong, and nothing here had said so. SHE HAS A BIRTH DAY, 21 September 2026: 10 FEBRUARY 1851. Her own baptismal act was found and read: 'bautice solemnemente a una nina a quien puse por nombre JOSEFINA LERENA, que nacio el DIEZ DE FEBRERO DEL ANO PROXIMO PASADO, hija legitima de Avelino Lerena y Ambrosia Traibel'. The act is of 1852; the archive had her year from her 1947 death registration, which is age-derived, and now has the day from the record of her christening. Godparents Don Miguel Carlos Correa de Lemus and Josefa Corbelle de Lemus; priest Domingo Ereno. AND HER NAME AT THE FONT IS JOSEFINA, NOT JOSEFA - which matters to every search that has been run on her. See data/1852-aguada-union-certificates.tsv. AND HER BAPTISM HAS A DAY TOO, within the hour: 5 DECEMBER 1852. The opening of her act sits on the previous image, 02849, where the archive had not looked: 'Jose Heimen, Cura Vicario de esta Parroquia de San Agustin en la Villa de la Union, certifica: que en el LIBRO PRIMERO DE BAUTISMOS AL FOLIO 212 se halla una partida del tenor siguiente: En cinco de Diciembre de mil...' - and the sentence finishes 'ochocientos cincuenta y dos' at the top of image 02850. So she was born 10 February 1851 and baptised at twenty-two months. Her certificate is No. 148 of seven the family lodged together in November 1896. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil death registration No. 10, 3 April 1947 - index read; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:617P-WJY6" rel="noopener">1:1:617P-WJY6</a>, image <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-DPLX" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-DPLX</a>; and the baptisms of her two daughters, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 8 Mar 1880 (this archive placed it at the UNION until 21 Sep 2026, on the index's place field; the act says 'esta Basilica menor y Catedral'), ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a>; and her own baptism at San Agustin de la Union, 1852, read in the 1896 certified copy - IMAGE READ; film 008166435 image 02850 |
| Juan Agustin LERENA Fernandez Connected | 1791 · Canelones ("el Canelon") · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo, calle San Juan No 60 THE ELDEST, AND HE MATTERS FOR A SECOND REASON. ONE OF SANCHO'S SIX CHILDREN LISTED IN THE 1812 PADRON, and the first time any of them has been entered here. The household at calle San Juan No 60 held Sancho "andaluz" 45, Maria Fernandez 36, and six children all "naturales del CANELON" - Juan Agustin 21, Pedro Antonio 19, Agustina 17, Fidel 12, Justa 10 and Dominga 7 - together with Sancho's father-in-law RODRIGO FERNANDEZ, 63, asturiano, and four enslaved people. That all six were born at Canelones is the best support the 1791 marriage venue has, and it comes from a census rather than from a tree. NOT AN ACT: this row rests on a published transcription of a census, reported at second hand through a family tree. The act has not been opened here. THE 1812 PADRON GIVES HIM AS 21, so born about 1791 - the year of his parents' marriage. AND HE RESOLVES A MISREADING THIS ARCHIVE MADE AGAINST ITSELF. At the Montevideo baptism of 15 May 1812 the godparents are written "DON JUAN AGUSTIN SERENA y DONA AGUSTINA PERENA". This archive argued that "Juan Agustin cannot be Sancho's son, who would be a child in 1812" and talked itself out of the reading. He was twenty-one, and his sister Agustina was seventeen. The two names at that font are his and hers, and the child baptised was very likely their first cousin. So SERENA and PERENA are the machine's S-for-L again - the sixth time on this family. The tree gives his birth as 1792; the padron implies 1791. Both are kept. | no public link Padron de Montevideo de 1812 (AGN, Fondo ex AGA, L 251), transcribed in Apolant, "Operativo Patagonia" ficha 355 and quoted in the Geneanet tree of jfina; plus that tree's own child list |
| Juan Arturo LERENA Traibel Unplaced | 1861-02-16 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A SON OF AVELINO AND AMBROSIA, AND HE NOW HAS A BIRTH DATE: 16 FEBRUARY 1861. Christened at the Cordon on 31 December 1861. This archive has known the name since its first week and for the worst reason - it conflated him with the ARTURO LERENA of army drawer Cajon 985, who married Amalia Diaz, and had to retract. He is not that man. The family chart gives him 1861-1936 and a marriage to ISIDORA EMMA REGULES; the dates here come from the parish index, the marriage does not, and neither image has been opened. INDEX-LEVEL. HE WAS NOT CHRISTENED ALONE, 21 September 2026. His brother ANDRES, born 16 March 1857, was baptised at the same parish on the same 31 December 1861, by the same Canonigo JUAN JOSE BRID - whose name stands in the index of this record too, as 'Juan J. Brid'. Juan Arturo was ten months old that day and Andres was four. The certificate of Andres's act is on film 008166435 image 02852, libro 7o de Bautismos pagina 378, so Juan Arturo's own act is a page or two away on the same book and has not been pulled. | record ↗ Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening, Cordon, Montevideo, 31 December 1861; index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-X999" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-X999</a> |
| Juan Bernardo LERENA Pelaez Unplaced · high interest | 1871-08-20 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. AND HE IS THE GROOM OF THE 1894 DISPENSATION. On 31 March 1894 a Juan Lerena was dispensed the SECOND grade AND the THIRD grade of consanguinity, both accumulated, DE OFICIO, to marry Dona EDUVIGES PELAEZ of MERCEDES. This register carried that man as a separate row for a day. THE BAPTISM OF HIS SON JOINS THEM, 9 October 2026: 'Lerena Nepomuceno Teofilo', born 13 October 1905, 'hijo legitimo de Juan Lerena y Eduviges Pelaez. Abuelos paternos: BERNABE y CASIMIRA PELAEZ'. HE IS THE ONLY JUAN AMONG THAT COUPLE'S CHILDREN, so the parents name him. THE PAIR FILE DECLARED THE TWO ROWS DIFFERENT PEOPLE ON 9 OCTOBER because the dispensation row then had 'no age, no birth and no parents'. It has parents now; see data/corrections.tsv. TWENTY-TWO AT HIS DISPENSATION, THIRTY-FOUR AT HIS SON'S BAPTISM. WHY HE NEEDED DISPENSING: his mother is a PELAEZ and Eduviges's father is a PELAEZ - if Casimira Pelaez and Juan Pelaez were brother and sister, the couple were first cousins, which is what an equal second degree means. THE THIRD DEGREE IS A SECOND BLOOD PATH AND IS NOT YET FOUND. | record ↗ Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026; and Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909 - baptism of 26 November 1905, Lerena Nepomuceno Teofilo, pages 32-33; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F</a>, DGS film 008163893 item 5 image 20 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Juan Carlos LERENA Connected | Argentine · found in Rosario, Santa Fe GENERATION 0. FATHER OF PABLO ARMANDO. Named on his son's 1908 ficha de enrolamiento. His name survives in the Cape: Pablo Armando's eldest son was RICARDO JUAN CARLOS LERENA, b. 6 Jan 1920, and a grandson of the same names died in infancy in the Transvaal. | record ↗ Argentine army enrolment card, image group #112342450 img 665 |
| Juan Fernando LERENA Diaz (d. 1894, Valparaiso) Unplaced | 1893 · Chile · Chilean · found in Valparaiso, Chile DIED AT TEN MONTHS OF PNEUMONIA, at one in the afternoon on 18 September 1894, at 81 Victoria, El Almendral, Valparaiso, and was buried at Playa Ancha. Entry 54, page 28. nacionalidad: CHILENA, estado parvulo. HIS AGE CORRECTS THE INDEX: FamilySearch estimates his birth at 1894 from the death year; ten months on 18 September 1894 is a birth about NOVEMBER 1893, and the year entered here is that. HE IS THE FIRST PERSON IN THIS REGISTER BORN IN CHILE, and his act is the first this archive has read from that country. | record ↗ Valparaiso, Chile. Death Records September-December 1894 - entry 54, page 28, Circunscripcion de El Almendral; DGS film 004702100 image 19, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-P9FG-8" rel="noopener">3:1:939K-P9FG-8</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Juan Jose LERENA Unplaced | 1876 · Logrono · Spanish · comercio · found in arr. 1920, 1928, 1929 Made the crossing at least three times. AND A MAN OF HIS NAME, HIS PROVINCE AND HIS TRADE IS DOCUMENTED IN BUENOS AIRES IN 1900 - 11 October 2026. The Spanish consulate's notarial register holds a power of attorney granted by 'los hermanos Don Prudencio Benito y Don JUAN JOSE LERENA Y LERENA, mayores de edad, SOLTEROS, DEPENDIENTES, naturales de NAVARRETE, provincia de LOGRONO, vecinos de esta Capital'. EVERY ATTRIBUTE THIS ROW HAS, THAT ACT HAS TOO: the forename pair, the province, soltero, the commercial trade, residence in Buenos Aires, and an age that fits - a man born 1876 was 24 in November 1900, which is what 'mayor de edad, soltero, dependiente' describes. NOT MERGED, AND THIS IS THE STRONGEST UNMERGED CANDIDACY IN THIS REGISTER. CEMLA records a birthplace by PROVINCE, NOT VILLAGE, so 'Logrono' does not confirm Navarrete, and Juan Jose is a common pair of names. The archive keeps the two rows apart for the same reason it kept Vicente Lerena Diaz apart, and says so rather than quietly collapsing them. IF THEY ARE ONE MAN, HE WAS A BACHELOR SHOP-ASSISTANT IN BUENOS AIRES AT 24 AND STILL A BACHELOR IN TRADE, CROSSING TO SPAIN, AT 52. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, three crossings; and Registros Consulares: Buenos Aires City - NOTARIAL RECORDS 1900-1901, folio 138, escritura No. 368 of 14 November 1900, CONSULADO DE ESPANA EN BUENOS AIRES - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6</a> |
| Juan Jose LERENA y LERENA (of Navarrete, Logrono; Buenos Aires 1900) Unplaced | 1876 · Navarrete, Logrono, Spain · Spanish · dependiente · found in Buenos Aires One of two brothers granting a power of attorney at the SPANISH CONSULATE in Buenos Aires on 14 November 1900, to let their mother and married brother run the family property back in Navarrete. 'Mayor de edad, soltero, dependiente, natural de Navarrete, provincia de Logrono, vecino de esta Capital', inscribed at the consulate as number 951 of that year's roll. The birth year is inferred from 'mayor de edad' and from the candidacy below, not stated on the act. SEE 'Juan Jose LERENA' - a bachelor of this name, province and trade, born 1876, who CEMLA lands at Buenos Aires in 1920, 1928 and 1929. NOT MERGED. THIS HOUSEHOLD IS WHY THE ROW MATTERS MORE THAN ITS OWN PEOPLE DO. The brothers sign themselves LERENA y LERENA, so their father was a Lerena AND their mother was a Lerena - and Pablo Armando Lerena's 1908 enrolment card names JUAN CARLOS LERENA and MARIA LERENA. AND THEY ARE THE SIXTH SUCH COUPLE THIS ARCHIVE HAS MET, NOT THE FIRST - a correction to what was written here first. The two Trinidad couples of 1894 and 1913, the 1911 dispensation, Alejandro, and Eloy x Felisa Lerena at San Jose de Flores in 1912 all came before them. SO THE CARD'S DOUBLE SURNAME WAS NEVER IN REAL DOUBT, AND NAVARRETE DOES NOT RESCUE IT. What Navarrete adds is different and smaller: it is the FIRST SUCH HOUSEHOLD OUTSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, the FIRST WHERE THE CHILDREN CARRY IT DOUBLED AS A SURNAME OF RECORD - 'Lerena y Lerena', in their own signatures, not just a coincidence of two parents - and the FIRST TIME THE PRACTICE HAS A PLACE ON A MAP that can be searched. No link to Pablo Armando is claimed - see data/open-questions.tsv. | no public link Registros Consulares: Buenos Aires City - NOTARIAL RECORDS 1900-1901, folio 138, escritura No. 368 of 14 November 1900, CONSULADO DE ESPANA EN BUENOS AIRES - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6</a> |
| Juan LERENA Unplaced | 1920 · Spanish · found in arr. 1923-08-15 Child of Felisa. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship DESIRADE |
| Juan Pablo LERENA Unplaced | Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios One of only two Lerena baptisms indexed in all Argentina - and in the same town as the Larena kindred above. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Baptisms 1645-1930, bapt. 1891 |
| Juana Alejandra LERENA Echeverry Unplaced | c.1873 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Vitalino Lerena and Andrea Echeverry, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Juana de las Nieves LERENA (dau. of Olegaria) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Daughter of OLEGARIA LERENA, baptised with HER MOTHER'S SURNAME AND NO FATHER NAMED. The only record of either woman. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Juana LERENA (b. 25 June 1912, Buenos Aires) Unplaced | 1912-06-25 · Buenos Aires · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Born 25 JUNE 1912 and baptised at SAN JOSE DE FLORES on 10 NOVEMBER 1912, act No. 461, hija legitima of ELOY LERENA and FELISA LERENA, both naturales de Espana. Godparents GREGORIO LERENA and ROSA DEFENARI. SHE IS THE FIRST ARGENTINE-BORN CHILD OF THE SPANISH LERENAS THIS ARCHIVE HAS FOUND - every other Spanish Lerena here is a name on a passenger list and nothing more. FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Parroquia y Vicaria de San Jose de Flores, Comuna 7, Buenos Aires City - BAPTISM No. 461 of 10 November 1912 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-G6VB-K" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-G6VB-K</a> |
| Juana Maria LERENA (b.1879, child of Fermin) Unplaced | 1879-04-09 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 9 April 1879 and christened at Trinidad on 26 December 1879, the index naming one parent only: FERMIN, without a surname. FERMIN IS NOT A FORENAME THIS REGISTER HAS MET. INDEX-LEVEL. HER FERMIN IS NAMED NOW, AND IT TOOK A SECOND SPELLING. This row was entered from the SERENA sweep with one parent, 'Fermin', and no surname. The LLERENA sweep of the same town returns a household FERMIN LERENA and PAULINA BARRAGAN with children Faustino, Maria Regina, Isabel and a younger Fermin - and that couple is already in this register. SO SHE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY THEIRS, AND IS NOT MERGED INTO THE HOUSEHOLD ON AN ALMOST. What would settle it: her christening act of 26 December 1879, which will name the mother the index dropped. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - spelling sweeps PERENA, GERENA, LLERENA + Flores, 12 October 2026 |
| Justa LERENA Unplaced | 1921 · Spanish · found in arr. 1923-08-15 Child of Felisa. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship DESIRADE |
| Justa Pastora LERENA (daughter of Sancho) Unplaced | Canelones · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo / Canelones A DAUGHTER OF SANCHO LLERENA AND MARIA FERNANDEZ, and so a SISTER OF DON LUIS LERENA - found 14 September 2026 and previously unknown to this archive. Named in the Cordon baptism of her son on 13 December 1831 as "Justa Pastora Lerena, natural de CANELONES", wife of Manuel Zeferino Barros of Pernambuco. Her son's godparents were the PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC and his wife. A SECOND CHILD, October 1833, at the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion - and its act names her parents FRANCISCO LERINA and Maria Fernandez, where her first child's act of 1831 said SANCHO LLERENA. She is the person through whom the alternation became visible. Her second child's godparents were ABELINO and DOMINGA LERENA. HER MARRIAGE IS NOW DATED: 3 NOVEMBER 1830, at the Cordon - to MANUEL BARROS, with her parents given as Sancho Llerena and Maria Fernandez and her birthplace as Canelones. Which puts THIRTEEN MONTHS between the wedding and the font at which FRUCTUOSO RIVERA stood godfather to her first child, in the same parish, on 13 December 1831. The index has been read and the image has not, so the date is SECONDARY; her parentage is PRIMARY from the 1831 act. AND THE ACT ITSELF IS NOW READ, not merely its index. "En tres de Noviembre de mil ochocientos treinta, precedidas informacion de libertad de MANUEL ZEFERINO BARROS natural de PERNAMBUCO, hijo legitimo de Jose [P]olanda de Barros y de Ana Maria Cabalgante, sobre el Matrimonio que libremente quiere contraer con JUSTA PASTORA LLERENA, NATURAL DE CANELONES, RESIDENTE EN EL CORDON, hija legitima de SANCHO LLERENA y de MARIA FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS." THREE GAINS IN ONE SENTENCE: she was already living at the Cordon before she married there; her mother's matronymic TRESGUERRAS is on a document for the first time; and the date is no longer index-level. The parish is DAMASO ANTONIO LARRANAGA'S - he is marrying another couple on the same page. A SECOND CHILD OF HERS IS FOUND, and her own father is written FRANCISCO on his act. AURELIO EUSEBIO BARROS LERENA, born 14 September 1833 and baptised at the Catedral on 19 October, with her own brother and sister - ABELINO LERENA and DOMINGA LERENA - as his godparents. So she has two documented children by Manuel Zeferino Barros: Juan Facundo Frutuoso (1831) and Aurelio Eusebio (1833). AND THE TWO ACTS DISAGREE ABOUT WHERE SHE WAS BORN: 1831 calls her 'natural de CANELONES', 1833 'natural de MONTEVIDEO'. Two acts, two years apart, one parish. Neither is preferred here, though Canelones has the support of her sister Dominga's baptism there in 1804. Her father is written 'Fran.co Lerenas' on the 1833 act - see the note on Sancho's row and /hypotheses/, where the SANCHO-OR-FRANCISCO question is set out in full. It is not a stray datum: it is the third Francisco attestation, and as of 21 September the only one a human has read off the plate. A THIRD CHILD, AND THE SET NOW LOOKS LIKE A SET: 21 September 2026. HILARIO, baptised at Canelones on 19 April 1835, joins JUAN FACUNDO FRUTUOSO (1831) and AURELIO EUSEBIO (1833) - three sons by Manuel Zeferino Barros at roughly two-year intervals, and at every one of the three fonts the godparents are her own brothers and sisters: Frutuso Ribera - President Fructuoso Rivera, spelled the priest's way - and Bernardina Fragoso in 1831 were the exception, Abelino and Dominga Lerena stood in 1833, and Pedro Antonio Lerena and Vicenta Vega in 1835. AND THE PLACES MOVE WITH HER: Cordon in 1831, the Catedral in 1833, back to CANELONES in 1835. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen la Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo, baptism of 13 Dec 1831 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2</a>; and her own MARRIAGE, Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo, 3 Nov 1830 - index read, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9PT-MQTQ" rel="noopener">1:1:X9PT-MQTQ</a>, FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3WZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3WZ-8</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713388 image 00726, folio 133 |
| Justina LERENA (godmother, Trinidad 1891) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named as godmother at the Santisima Trinidad, Flores, in April 1891. The TRINIDAD KINDRED is already in this register and she may be one of them under another spelling - see data/trinidad-flores-kindred.tsv. Found 14 September 2026. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, and her name is there in the priest's hand: '... Martinez y JUSTINA LERENA, a quienes adverti el parentesco espiritual y demas obligaciones; y por verdad firmo.' Film 008164291 image 00303, folio 170 - the Trinidad, Flores baptism register, 'Mes de Mayo de 1891'. She is spelled LERENA with a single L, as the Flores registers spell this family throughout. WHAT THE PLATE DOES NOT GIVE, because the act runs onto the previous folio: the child, the parents, and the day of the month. Only the closing clause is on this image, and the co-godparent is a MARTINEZ whose forename is on the other side of the leaf. TEST: image 00302 of the same film. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Santisima Trinidad, Flores - baptisms 1889-1894 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-NQ7J-9" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-NQ7J-9</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008164291 image 00303, folio 170 |
| Justiniana Mauricia Maxima LERENA LENGUAS Unplaced | 1843-07-30 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo IMAGE READ 13 September 2026, and her full name is JUSTINIANA MAURICIA MAXIMA - indexed merely as "Justinia". Named for her mother, and for the Capilla de la Mauricia where she was christened. Her act names the maternal grandparents as "el GENERAL D. PEDRO LENGUAS y Carmen Gonzalez" - the rank, which no other record here gives. A CONTRADICTION INSIDE THE REGISTER ITSELF, recorded 14 September 2026 and NOT resolved. Luis Eugenio's act says he was born 9 FEBRUARY 1843; his sister Justiniana Mauricia Maxima's act, the entry immediately before his on the same page in the same hand, says she was born 30 JULY 1843. That is FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS between two full siblings, and both cannot be right. Neither is a machine reading: the transcript of each act has been read verbatim, and both say "del pasado ano cuarenta y tres". THE ERROR IS IN THE SOURCE, NOT IN THIS ARCHIVE. Every act on that page is a LATER TRANSCRIPT copied out of a legajo by order of Bishop Jacinto Vera - a clerk working from loose papers three years after the events, who had already written "ano cuarenta y tres" twice on the same page. A carried-forward year is the likeliest explanation and it is a guess. Luis Eugenio's death registration of 1901 gives an age and has been read; testing it against 1843 is the next step. HER BIRTH YEAR IS SOFTER THAN IT LOOKS, 20 September 2026. "30 July 1843" comes from the phrase "del pasado ano cuarenta y tres", and every act on that opening carries the same phrase, including one for a different couple - so it is a formula written three times, not three independent dates. Hers may well be the true one; no record outside that page says so. This matters beyond her own row: her date was used on 14 September as one of three reasons to move her brother Luis Eugenio from 1843 to 1845. That conclusion still stands, but on his death act alone - the only leg external to this page. | no public link La Mauricia, Villa de la Union, Montevideo, baptised 7 Jan 1846 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS62-J</a> |
| Justo LERENA (of the Cordon) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A LERENA FATHER THIS ARCHIVE HAD NEVER MET, found 20 September 2026. Named on the burial act of his daughter Carmen at the Cementerio del Cordon on 14 August 1841: "hija legitima de Justo Lerena y de Juana Quinta[na]", read off the image. So he was a married man with a three-year-old in Montevideo in 1841, which puts his own birth somewhere around 1810 or earlier. NOTHING TIES HIM TO SANCHO. Sancho had a daughter JUSTA born about 1802 and the forename echoes; that is an echo and not an argument. The 1812 padron lists six children and no Justo, but the published child lists for that couple are demonstrably incomplete - the prose claims eight and names seven, and omits Dominga, whom a census and an act both attest - so he can be neither placed nor excluded. He was found by a search for something else entirely: a sweep of Uruguayan deaths 1815-1840 looking for Fidel. | no public link Uruguay, registros parroquiales, 1726-2000 - burial of Carmen Lerena, Cementerio del Cordon, Montevideo, 14 August 1841; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXM-CN7Q" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXM-CN7Q</a>, <strong>IMAGE READ</strong> film 007713392 image 2511, 20 September 2026 |
| Laura Adela LERENA Juanico Unplaced | 1868-06-27 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A FIFTH CHILD of Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico, unknown to this archive until 13 September 2026. Born 27 June 1868, baptised 3 March 1869. Her baptism is the best record in the Montevideo file: it names BOTH SETS OF GRANDPARENTS - Don Luis and Dona Justiniana Lenguas; Don Candido and Dona Juliana Gonzalez - and her godparents were Don Candido Juanico and Dona Sixta Lenguas. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, Libro 34 de Bautismos folio 271, bapt. 3 Mar 1869; civil transcription of 1902 read at image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-XSMB-7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-XSMB-7</a> |
| Lauriana LERENA Beloqui Unplaced | c.1891 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Cipriano Lerena and Lauriana Beloqui, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Leandro LERENA Unplaced · high interest | 1857 · Segovia, Spain · Spanish · fabricante de aceite · found in Buenos Aires HE IS THE LEANDRO LORENA THAT THIS ARCHIVE PUBLISHED AS A TRUE NULL ON 10 OCTOBER. 38 years old on the sheet, married, Espanol, born at SEGOVIA - a Spanish origin this archive has not met elsewhere - literate, and working as F.te de Aceite, an oil maker or dealer. Husband of LUCIA LLANOS, who is the only name the census sheet and the army card share. The null held because a spouse-pair query is structurally blind to a census, which records no marriage relationship at all - and because the card spells him LORENA and the census LERENA. See data/leandro-llanos-identified.tsv and the correction of 12 October 2026. SETTLED THE SAME DAY BY AN ACT: the San Cristobal baptism of 20 December 1896 names both parents together - LEANDRO LERENA, 42, and LUCIA LLANOS, 34, both natural de Espana, living at Calle Pichincha 929 - so the census household and the army card are one family. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 Argentine National Census, Seccion 18 Subdivision 34, Ciudad de Buenos Aires - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-266-13033-138829-16 on 12 October 2026; and the army enrolment card of Salvador LORENA, Cajon 985 order 666 (Argentina, Military Records 1911-1936); and the baptism of their son Salvador, San Cristobal, Buenos Aires, 20 December 1896 - PLATE READ 12 October 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNMH-FJ3" rel="noopener">1:1:XNMH-FJ3</a> |
| Leon Jose LERENA Unplaced | 1892 · Cayasta, Santa Fe · Argentine · found in Cayasta, Garay, Santa Fe The only Lerena baptism indexed in Argentina outside Entre Rios. The apparent link to the Larena household in the same village is a transcription artefact - see notes/cayasta-and-gualeguaychu.md. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Baptisms 1645-1930, bapt. 1892, father Jose |
| Leonarda Margarita LERENA Vega Unplaced | 1837-02-20 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Daughter of Pedro Antonio Lerena and Vicenta Vega, born 20 February 1837 and baptised at the Catedral on 4 July. A granddaughter of Sancho. Her godparents were her uncle DON LUIS LERENA and his first wife DONA CAROLINA ORIBE - the act that gives that marriage its true surname. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713376 image 01498, Catedral de Montevideo - the baptism of 4 July 1837, signed RAMON DE BARBERA. EVERY READING IN THIS ROW SURVIVES THE PLATE, word for word: 'En cuatro de Julio de mil ochocientos trein[ta y siete]: Yo el infrascripto Tt.e bautize ... que nacio el VEINTE DE FEBRERO ULTIMO, hija leg.a de D. PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA ... nat.l del CERRO LARGO. Abuel[os] p[aternos] D. SANCHO y D.na MARIA FERNANDEZ. Mat[ernos] D. Ro[mualdo Vega] ... Padrin[os] D. LUIS LERENA y D.na CAROLINA ORIBE.' The margin writes her LERENA with a single L, where the 1811 and 1831 acts write the grandfather LLERENA with two. AND SHE IS ABSENT FROM HER PARENTS' HOUSE IN 1850, WHICH IS NOW A QUESTION RATHER THAN A DATING ARGUMENT. Montevideo household 229 - re-dated on 12 October 2026 to the padron of LIBRO 264, 1850 - lists Pedro A. Lerena, Vicenta Vega and three children, and she is not among them. This archive formerly offered her absence as proof the census was earlier than 1837. That inference is withdrawn: film 7499042 carries no padron before 1843 at all. At the padron of 1850 she would be thirteen and should be in the house. FOUND THE SAME EVENING, AND SHE IS IN THE SAME PADRON. She is entered at casa 229 of CALLE SARANDI, blanca and oriental, aged eleven where thirteen would be right - an ordinary census age. Her parents are at a DIFFERENT casa 229, on another street: two houses of the same number in one padron, which is why 'household 229' was never an identifier. And she is the only white person in that house: the four adults with her - Estanislada 20, Sinforiano 19, Manuela 60 and Rosa 46 - all carry the surname by ditto, three are recorded morena, and Manuela's patria is AFRICA. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo, baptism of 4 July 1837 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 01498; and the padron of 1850, casa 229 of CALLE SARANDI - index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMKF-FR3W" rel="noopener">1:1:XMKF-FR3W</a>, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z</a>, PLATE READ 12 October 2026 |
| Lola LERENA Excluded | 1873 · Italy · Italian · found in Isla Martin Garcia Italian-born; the name is coincidental. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 census |
| Lucas LERENA Unplaced | SA · found in South Africa Evidence that South Africa holds at least two unconnected Lerena populations. | no public link SA records; m. Rachel Maleka |
| Luciano LERENA Unplaced | 1914 · Spanish · found in arr. 1923-08-15 Child of Felisa. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship DESIRADE |
| Luis Felipe LERENA Salvanach Unplaced | 1892 · Buenos Aires · Uruguayan/Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Son of Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach, baptised 30 December 1892 at Inmaculada Concepcion, Constitucion, Buenos Aires. Named LUIS, for his grandfather Don Luis Lerena. Index-level. AND THE CENSUS ROW WAS HIM, MERGED 20 September 2026. This register also held "Luis F. LERENA", born 1893 at Buenos Aires, "son of Gilberto (1854)" - which is this boy under the initial the enumerator wrote. The arithmetic is exact: a child baptised on 30 December 1892 is TWO in a census taken in 1895, and two is what the schedule gives him. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records / Argentine military records, searched on Gilberto as father, 14 Sep 2026; and the 1895 Argentine census, Gilberto's household, "Lerena, LUIS F., 2" |
| Luis LERENA (son of Cayetana Faustina) Unplaced | 1895-08-19 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Cayetana Faustina Lerena; no father named, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Luis LERENA (son of Luis Lerena Lenguas) Unplaced | 1872 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Died 12 December 1897, at Montevideo, aged twenty-five, unmarried. "Hijo legitimo de Luis Lerena Lenguas y Julia Juanico." | no public link Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion burial, 13 Dec 1897 |
| Luisa LERENA Alvarez (m. Clemente Bueno 1915) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A DAUGHTER OF PEDRO GUALBERTO LERENA VILLADEMOROS AND ROSAURA ALVAREZ, both already in this register - the index writes her father 'Gualberto Lorenay'. She married CLEMENTE BUENO at Trinidad on 15 March 1915. SHE IS A SISTER OF ALEJANDRO ESTEBAN LERENA ALVAREZ, the only child of that couple this archive held. AND SHE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY THE 'LUISA SERENA' who stood godmother at Trinidad between 1901 and 1904 and the LUISA SERENA whose son RAMON PAULINO was christened in 1908 - NONE OF THOSE ARE MERGED HERE. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Manuel LERENA (son of Mauricio, m. Jacinta Marina 1882) Unplaced | 1856 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SON OF MAURICIO LERENA AND CASIMIRA MONTANO, found 11 October 2026 - and he matters because of WHOSE son he is. Born about 1856, he married JACINTA MARINA at Santisima Trinidad in April 1882. His parents are given on the act as MAURICIO LERENA and CASIMIRA MONTANA. THAT IS THE COLLA-ROSARIO COUPLE MARRIED IN 1837 - so a child of the Rosario house was living, and marrying, at TRINIDAD in FLORES by 1882. THIS IS A SECOND THREAD BETWEEN THE ROSARIO-COLLA HOUSE AND THE TRINIDAD KINDRED, alongside the bridge already held in data/colla-trinidad-bridge.tsv, and it is independent of it. INDEX ONLY; the act has not been opened and his birthplace is the index's word, not a record's. THE CIVIL REGISTRATION OF THE SAME MARRIAGE IS FOUND, 11 October 2026, AND IT CONFIRMS HIS PARENTS OUTRIGHT. The index carries him as 'MANUEL LERENA MONTANA', born 1856, married 1 APRIL 1882 and registered 20 April 1882, 'hijo de MAURICIO LERENA y CASIMIRA MONTANA', to JACINTA MERINA SANTOS. THE COMPOUND SURNAME LERENA MONTANA IS THE PROOF - it carries his mother's name and it is not something an indexer invents. BUT THE TWO RECORDS DISAGREE ABOUT WHERE. The parish act is at SANTISIMA TRINIDAD, FLORES; the civil registration is at SAN JOSE. Those are different departments. RECORDED AS A CONFLICT AND NOT RESOLVED - a civil registration can be filed where a party resided rather than where the ceremony was, and neither act has been opened. AND HE HAS A FULLER NAME AND A SON: his son's 1910 marriage registration at Florida gives the father as 'MANUEL DOROTEO' and the mother as 'JACINTA', so he is MANUEL DOROTEO LERENA and the boy is MANUEL VICENTE LERENA MARINO. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong>; and FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the MANUEL LERENA sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Manuel LERENA Leonard (m. Juana Galarza 1890) Unplaced | 1866 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo HE ANSWERS HALF OF WORK-LIST ROW 187, found 11 October 2026. Born about 1866, son of PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA and TERESA LEONARD, he married JUANA GALARZA on 19 FEBRUARY 1890 at Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, CORDON, Montevideo, and died at Montevideo on 1 APRIL 1926, registered the next day. WHY THIS MATTERS TO ROW 187: that row holds a findmypast household of 'MANUEL x JUANA FERREIROZ', Montevideo 1891 - a child baptised the year after this wedding, to a Manuel and a Juana, in the same city. THE TWO ARE PROBABLY ONE COUPLE AND 'FERREIROZ' IS PROBABLY A MISREADING OF GALARZA, which is the kind of error this archive has catalogued many times. NOT MERGED: the surnames are not close enough to assert it, the findmypast transcript has not been re-read, and neither act has been opened. THE TEST IS CHEAP: open the 1891 baptism and read the mother's surname. THAT HYPOTHESIS WAS WEAKENED WITHIN THE HOUR AND IS WITHDRAWN AS STATED. A search on the forename FELICIA turned up the 1891 child herself - FELICIA LERENA, born 6 May 1891 and christened 16 May 1891 at Montevideo - in TWO SEPARATE COLLECTIONS, the civil register and the parish baptisms, and BOTH NAME THE MOTHER 'JUANA FERREIROZ'. One index mangling a surname is ordinary; two independent records agreeing on it is evidence that the surname IS Ferreiroz. SO MANUEL x JUANA FERREIROZ IS PROBABLY A DIFFERENT COUPLE FROM MANUEL LERENA LEONARD x JUANA GALARZA, and the resemblance was only the forename Juana and the city. THE TEST IS UNCHANGED AND NOW MATTERS MORE: open the 1891 baptism. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the MANUEL LERENA sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Manuel Vicente LERENA Marino (m. 1910, Florida) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Florida, Uruguay Son of MANUEL DOROTEO LERENA and JACINTA [MERINA], married in 1910 at FLORIDA, per the Uruguayan civil registration index cards 1900-1937, where his bride is recorded 'UNKNOWN'. HE CARRIES THE BRANCH OF THE 1837 COLLA COUPLE INTO A THIRD DEPARTMENT: his grandparents married at Colla, his father at Trinidad in Flores with a civil entry at San Jose, and he at Florida. INDEX ONLY, and the index card series gives neither a date nor a spouse. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the MANUEL LERENA sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Manuela LERENA Unplaced | Argentine? · found in Rosario, Santa Fe m. Diego Roman. The other early Lerena presence in Rosario itself. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Santa Fe Catholic Church Records - daughter Carmen bapt. 1918, Santa Rosa de Lima |
| Manuela LERENA (b. in AFRICA; Sarandi 229, 1850) Unplaced · high interest | 1790c · Africa · found in Montevideo SIXTY YEARS OLD, AND THE PADRON GIVES HER PATRIA AS AFRICA. Entered at casa 229 of Calle Sarandi in 1850 as 'Manuela D.o', the ditto carrying the surname LERENA, and recorded CASADA. Born about 1790, she would have been carried across the Atlantic as a child or a young woman, and she is the oldest person in the house by twenty years. She is the first African-born person this archive has been able to NAME in connection with this family - the others are known only as 'Barbara, esclava', or by a forename on a baptism. Her married state means there is a husband somewhere in this padron or in the parish registers. Nothing about her condition is claimed from a census that has no column for it; what would settle it is a parish act. | record ↗ Montevideo, Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 264 - the padron of 1850; casa 229 of CALLE SARANDI; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-1961-36718-27970-97 on 12 October 2026 |
| Manuela LERENA (mother of Nicolas, 1869) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores The only parent named at the christening of NICOLAS at Trinidad in 1869. A mother alone on a baptism usually means a natural child. NEW TO THIS REGISTER. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Margarita LERENA (godmother, Trinidad 1891-1905) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A LERENA WOMAN WHO STOOD SPONSOR AT TRINIDAD, to Aurora Pelaez Lerena, in the confirmation register of 1891-1905. SHE IS NOT MARGARITA FERNANDEZ, the wife of Alejandro Lerena the elder, who was of the apex generation and would be long dead. AND SHE IS NOT IDENTIFIED WITH ANY MARGARITA IN THIS REGISTER. The entry gives her no age, no husband and no parents - a sponsor line is a name and a role and nothing else. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Confirmation Records October 1891-November 1905 - image 5, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-F3QH-N" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-F3QH-N</a> - FULL-TEXT read 10 October 2026 |
| Margarita LERENA Gazo (b.1873, m. Carlos Patraso 1899) Unplaced | 1873 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A DAUGHTER OF ISAAC LERENA AND ADELAIDA GAZO, born about 1873, married CARLOS PATRASO at Santisima Trinidad on 27 May 1899. The index writes her father 'Isaac Perena' and her mother 'Adelaida Gorzo'. A SISTER OF MARIA LUISA LINA LERENA GAZO, whom this archive has held since September. A MARGARITA LERENA STOOD GODMOTHER AT TRINIDAD IN THE 1889-94 VOLUME beside a Juan Lerena - NOT MERGED. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Margarita Medarda del Corazon de Jesus LERENA Pelaez (chr.1859) Unplaced | 1859 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A DAUGHTER OF BERNABE LERENA AND CASIMIRA PELAEZ, christened at Trinidad in 1859, found under the LLERENA spelling. That is EARLIER THAN ANY CHILD OF THEIRS THIS ARCHIVE HELD - the known six run from 1871 - and it sits just after their marriage expediente of 15 February 1858, which is exactly where a first child belongs. THE LONG DEVOTIONAL NAME IS THE PERIOD'S HABIT AND NOT A CLUE. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Maria Adela LERENA Carniglia Unplaced | 1899 · Mendoza, Argentina · Argentine · found in Mendoza, Argentina Baptised at the IGLESIA MATRIZ DE MENDOZA on 6 January 1900 by the cura Dr. J. Juan Jordan: 'le puse por nombre MARIA ADELA, es hija legitima de D. CARLOS LERENA y ADELA CARNIGLIA, orientales, domiciliados en este Curato'. HER GODFATHER WAS AN AVELINO LERENA, WHO DID NOT COME: 'padrinos Domingo Simois POR ABELINO LERENA y Lucia L. de Simois', and the two Simois signed the book. THE CLERK GIVES NO MONTH OF BIRTH: 'nacio el quince del ano pasado' - the fifteenth of some month in 1899. THE FORMULA IS LEFT INCOMPLETE RATHER THAN FINISHED FOR HIM, and the birth year is the only part of it this register will carry. | record ↗ Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1899-1901 - baptism of 6 January 1900; DGS film 004597291 image 69, waypoint Q633-3DR, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HF9M-7S" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HF9M-7S</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Maria Adelina LERENA LARRIERA Unplaced | 1879-07-06 · Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo 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. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020, Departamento San Jose - index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR41-7VM" rel="noopener">1:1:VR41-7VM</a>; and her christening of 13 Oct 1879, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-QYK9" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-QYK9</a>; and Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion y San Felipe y Santiago, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS 13 Feb 1879 to 24 Jul 1880, the christening of 13 October 1879 - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS34-N</a> |
| Maria Adelina LERENA Traibel (de FEIN) Unplaced | 1865-08-13 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE NINTH CHILD OF AVELINO AND AMBROSIA, found 21 September 2026. Her Montevideo death registration of 20 November 1946, certificate 48, names her father AVELINO LERENA and her mother AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, her husband CARLOS ALBERTO FEIN and a son JORGE FEIN. THE BIRTH YEAR IN THIS COLUMN IS NOT A FINDING. The registration gives her birth as 1861 and her birthplace as Montevideo; the family chart gives 1865-1946. THE 1861 CANNOT EASILY BE RIGHT, and what rules it out is her own brother. Juan Arturo was born 16 February 1861 on his baptismal act, so a sister born in 1861 would have to have been born in the last six weeks of it. The year on a death registration is age-derived and is the weaker of the two, so c.1865 is entered and flagged. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: her own baptism, which has not been looked for. THE BIRTH YEAR IS NO LONGER A GUESS, 21 September 2026: SHE WAS BORN 13 AUGUST 1865. Her own baptismal act was found on the second opening of the same certificate book and read: 'En treinta y uno de Diciembre de mil ochocientos sesenta y cinco. El Canonigo Dn. Juan Jose Brid, bautizo solemnemente a MARIA ADELINA, NACIDA EL TRECE DE AGOSTO ULTIMO, hija legitima de Dn. Avelino Lerena y de Da. Ambrosia Traibel, Orientales. Padrinos Dn. AMBROSIO LERENA y Da. CARLOTA MUNOZ.' So the 1861 on her death registration is wrong by four years, and the reasoning that flagged it was right for the right reason - her brother Juan Arturo was born in February 1861 and no sister could be. AND A SECOND RECORD OF HER IS THE SAME ACT. FamilySearch also indexes a 'MARTA ADELINA, born 13 August 1918, christened Montevideo 9 May 1919', with godparents Ambrosio Lorena and Carlota Munoz - the same two names and the same 13 August. It is this baptism certified a second time, on a different film, and dated by the index to that certificate. One act, two films, and two index entries fifty-three years apart. | record ↗ Nuestra Senora del Carmen, el Cordon, Montevideo - libro 7o de Bautismos, read in the 1896 certified copy made under the Ley de 9 de Julio de 1888 - IMAGE READ; film 008166435 image 02852 pagina 379; and Montevideo civil death registration No. 48, 20 November 1946 - index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-QJ6F" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-QJ6F</a> |
| Maria Angelica Julia LERENA Salvanach Unplaced | 1886 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Daughter of Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach, baptised 31 October 1886 at San Francisco de Asis, act 1447 - the act that put Gilberto's parentage on a document. Her godmother was Dona Julia Juanico de Lerena, her father's brother's wife. AND THE CENSUS ROW WAS HER, MERGED 20 September 2026. This register also carried her as "Maria A. LERENA", a census initial with the note "daughter of Gilberto (1854)". The merge was blocked until the image was read: this file had her age as SIX, and baptised 31 October 1886 does not fit six. The schedule says EIGHT, and it does. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptism act No. 1447, 31 Oct 1886 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W</a>; and the 1895 Argentine census, Gilberto's household |
| Maria Antonieta LERENA LARRIERA Unplaced | 1894-06-08 · Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Daughter of Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera, born 8 June 1894. She married on 26 December 1925 and the registration is indexed under the compound MARIA ANTONIETA LERENA LARRIERA, which is how the Uruguayan registry writes a woman with both parents' surnames - the same compound form that this archive tests the central question against. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020, Departamento San Jose - index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR41-KW2" rel="noopener">1:1:VR41-KW2</a>; christening 28 Apr 1895, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D34-WMKG" rel="noopener">1:1:6D34-WMKG</a>; marriage registration 26 Dec 1925, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KX7-TXLT" rel="noopener">1:1:6KX7-TXLT</a> |
| Maria Carlota LERENA Salvanach Unplaced | 1890 · Buenos Aires · Uruguayan/Argentine · found in Buenos Aires THE FIRST CHILD OF THIS FAMILY BAPTISED IN ARGENTINA - 29 October 1890, Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Recoleta. Her baptism and her sister Maria Angelica Julia's at Montevideo on 31 October 1886 BRACKET THE FAMILY'S MOVE across the river to between those two dates. Index-level. AND THE CENSUS ROW WAS HER, MERGED 20 September 2026. This register also carried her as "Maria C. LERENA", a census initial with the note "daughter of Gilberto (1854)". The merge was blocked until the image was read: this file had her age as SIX, and baptised 29 October 1890 does not fit six. The schedule says SIX, and it does. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records / Argentine military records, searched on Gilberto as father, 14 Sep 2026; and the 1895 Argentine census, Gilberto's household |
| Maria Consuelo LERENA LARRIERA Unplaced | 1892-12-30 · Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Daughter of Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera, born 30 December 1892 and christened thirteen months later. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020, Departamento San Jose - index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR41-6XL" rel="noopener">1:1:VR41-6XL</a>; and her christening of 29 Jan 1894, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Q7D-PFW2" rel="noopener">1:1:6Q7D-PFW2</a> |
| Maria Cristina (LERENA by marriage) Unplaced | 1856c · Brazil · Brazilian · labores de su sexo · found in San Eugenio, Artigas, Uruguay 43 years old on the act, married, brasilera, living in the Villa with her husband Benito LERENA. The act gives her no surname at all - she is named only as Dona Maria Cristina, which is how the index came to hand her the surname of the man beside her. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), San Eugenio birth act 110 of 2 June 1899 - plate read 12 October 2026 |
| Maria E. C. LERENA Unplaced | 1869 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Buenos Aires THE CONTRADICTION THIS ARCHIVE FLAGGED AGAINST ITSELF IS RESOLVED, 14 September 2026, by reading the census schedule as a household. The row used to say "Daughter of Gilberto (1854)" with a birth of 1869 - which would have made him FIFTEEN, and was flagged as impossible. The schedule shows her SOLTERA at 26 in a house that also holds JOSEFA, a widow of 43. She is not Gilberto's daughter. Most likely Josefa's daughter or Gilberto's sister. All the census says is that she was in the house; "daughter" was this archive's reading of a household. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 census, Gilberto's household |
| Name | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Maria E. LERENA Unplaced | 1890 · Buenos Aires · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Daughter of Gilberto (1854). | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 census, Gilberto's household |
| Maria Elena LERENA (m. 1906, mixed religion) Unplaced · of interest | Montevideo · UY · found in Montevideo 10 NOVEMBER 1906, entry N. 8741: dispensed the impediment of RELIGION MIXTA to marry DON GUILLERMO [surname read as Repetto or Reprecho and not settled]. MIXED RELIGION MEANS ONE PARTY WAS NOT CATHOLIC - and this is a family this archive has only ever met inside Catholic registers. No kinship impediment, so nothing here constrains her ancestry. NO BIRTH YEAR IS RECORDED HERE, and one was briefly invented. This row first carried a year reached by assuming an ordinary age at marriage. That is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact, it is what this archive did to William John Taylor on 8 October, and tools/check-duplicates.py caught it the same way - by matching the invented year against real namesakes. The dispensation register gives no age and no birth. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1856-1932 - FamilySearch FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NVZ8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NVZ8</a> |
| Maria Elena LERENA Pelaez (b.1910) Unplaced | 1910-07-22 · Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SECOND DAUGHTER OF JUAN BERNARDO LERENA PELAEZ AND EDUVIGES PELAEZ, born 22 July 1910 and registered on the 30th. NOT THE 'MARIA ELENA LERENA (m. 1906, mixed religion)' already in this register, who married four years before this child was born. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Maria Ema LERENA LENGUAS Unplaced | 1857-06-27 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A sister of Luis Eugenio, christened 7 October 1857 at San Francisco de Asis - the parish where he married seven years later. Luis Eugenio named a daughter EMA; this is very likely the aunt she was named for. Indexed as "Maria Ema Serena Lenguas". | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, found by searching the MOTHER, 13 Sep 2026 |
| Maria Ines LERENA LARRIERA (de GARDONE) Unplaced | Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Daughter of Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera, named for her mother, and married to a GARDONE. She died 22 January 1922, at Montevideo, less than eleven months after her father. Nothing here gives her age, so it is not known whether she outlived him by months as a young woman or as a middle-aged one. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Montevideo civil death registration, 22 January 1922 - index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TDD-K6GS" rel="noopener">1:1:6TDD-K6GS</a> |
| Maria Josefina LERENA Unplaced | 1918-03-02 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 2 March 1918, christened at Trinidad 4 May 1918. HER MOTHER IS NOT INDEXED and her father RODOLFO BERNARDO LERENA is otherwise unknown to this archive - a name that appears once and is not placed. Parents on the record: Rodolfo Bernardo LERENA and no mother indexed. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Maria Juana (wife of Arturo Mario LERENA Regules) Unplaced | found in Montevideo Named as the wife of ARTURO MARIO LERENA REGULES on his death registration of 7 May 1949 at Montevideo. HER SURNAME IS NOT ESTABLISHED: the index renders it 'Aan', which is not a Uruguayan surname and is almost certainly a truncation. ENTERED BECAUSE A MARRIAGE THIS ARCHIVE HOLDS SHOULD BE DRAWABLE, and no more is claimed than the marriage itself. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - <strong>PARENT-PAIR INDEX QUERY, father ARTURO LERENA and mother EMMA REGULES, run 12 October 2026</strong> - eight records returned; <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Maria Julia Margarita Josefa Emirena Justiniana LERENA Juanico (m. HERRERA) Unplaced | 1865-10-08 · Rosario, Santa Fe · Argentine (of Uruguayan parents) · found in Rosario, then Montevideo The only LERENA baptised at Rosario between 1731 and 1901 - and now followed to the end of the story. Born 8 October 1865, baptised at Rosario 17 February 1866 to Don Luis Lerena Lenguas and Dona Julia Juanico, "naturales del E. Oriental". On 3 November 1886, aged 21, she married Don Jaime Herrera at San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, MONTEVIDEO - the act naming her parents again, in a second country, twenty years later. She went home. NOT the Maria Lerena who was Pablo Armando's mother: that woman had a son in February 1882, when this one was sixteen and four years from marrying someone else. HER SURNAME IS CORRECTED HERE, 14 September 2026, and an act says so. This register called her LERENA LENGUAS - which is her FATHER'S compound, not hers. Her father was Luis Lerena Lenguas; her mother was Julia Juanico; so she is LERENA JUANICO, exactly as her siblings Ema Sixta and Candido Jaime are already named on their own rows here. She was the odd one out and nothing had caught it. THE EVIDENCE IS THE ACT READ TODAY: at her sister Ema Sixta's wedding on 30 June 1913 the witnesses are written "Don Jaime Herrera y Dona Maria Perena Juanico de Herrera" - her own compound, in her own lifetime, with PERENA the machine's usual mangling of LERENA on this family. IT ALSO MATTERED FOR THE CHECKING: the compound-surname sibling test keys on the two surnames in a row's name, so while she read LERENA LENGUAS she was being grouped with her father's generation instead of with her own brothers and sisters. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, and the citation on this row needed explaining rather than correcting. Film 007713384 image 00700, folio 492, act No. 90 of the Union marriage register: 'MASSERA, Jose Pedro = con = EMMA SIXTA LERENA. El TREINTA DE JUNIO de mil novecientos TRECE ... el Presbitero Monsenor Don EUSEBIO DE LEON, con licencia del ... Iglesia Metropolitana ...' SO ACT 90 IS HER SISTER'S WEDDING, NOT HERS - which this register knew, because Ema Sixta's own row carries the same act. This row cites it because she is IN it. THE PLATE CONFIRMS IT AND CONFIRMS HER MARRIED NAME: 'Don LUIS LERENA ... FUERON TESTIGOS, do[na] ... JUANICO DE HERRERA' - she signs as a Herrera wife, which is the only thing on any plate read here that supports the '(m. HERRERA)' in her own row's title. A CITATION THAT LOOKS WRONG AND IS NOT: the act number belongs to her sister and the row is right to name it, because a witness clause is where a married woman's surname gets written down. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Rosario baptism, Libro 15 folio 229, act 1541, bapt. 17 Feb 1866; Montevideo marriage, San Francisco de Asis, act 1879, 3 Nov 1886; and La Union religious marriage register act 90, 30 June 1913 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T7P2-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T7P2-W</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713384 image 00700, folio 492 |
| Maria Leonor LERENA Beloqui Unplaced | c.1877 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Cipriano Lerena and Lauriana Beloqui, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Maria LERENA Connected | Argentine · found in Rosario, Santa Fe RESOLVED - SHE IS PABLO ARMANDO'S MOTHER. Not 'of Salta': the card gives the birthplace as Rosario de Santa Fe. See generation 0 of the direct line. Her maiden name is still unknown - the card writes her as Maria Lerena, the father's own surname. | record ↗ Argentina Military Records 1911-1936 |
| Maria LERENA (m. Eliseo CARDOZO) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE FIRST DOCUMENTED MARIA LERENA OF ROUGHLY THE RIGHT GENERATION THIS ARCHIVE HAS FOUND - and recorded so that she is RULED OUT ON THE RECORD rather than left lying about. Sister of Bernabe Lerena; married ELISEO CARDOZO; mother of EMA CARDOZO, who was of marriageable age in 1911, so a birth in the 1850s or 1860s. That is the right window for the Maria Lerena named as Pablo Armando's mother on his 1908 enrolment card - and she is almost certainly NOT that woman, because she married a CARDOZO where Pablo Armando's mother stands beside JUAN CARLOS LERENA. This archive has twice built on a Maria it had not pinned down; this one is pinned down. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713362 image 02473 - and the folio is not prose but 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco', TWO KINSHIP DIAGRAMS the priest drew himself to prove the impediment. 'Maria Lerena casose con Eliseo Cardozo' - on the plate, in both diagrams. HER MARRIAGE HAS A DATE AT LAST: 25 APRIL 1889 at Santisima Trinidad, and she was born about 1867, daughter of Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez. THE DOUBLE WEDDING OF 25 APRIL 1889, found 11 October 2026. On one day at Santisima Trinidad, TWO LERENA SISTERS MARRIED TWO CARDOZO BROTHERS: MARIA LERENA, born about 1867, to ELISEO CARDOSO, and CASIMIRA LERENA, born about 1869, to JUAN BASILIO CARDOSO. Both are daughters of BERNABE LERENA and CASIMIRA PELAEZ. AND THIS IS WHAT THE 1911 DISPENSATION WAS ABOUT. That expediente calls CUSTODIO LERENA and EMA CARDOZO 'double first cousins' and this archive has had the diagrams for weeks without the marriages that produced them. Here they are: a LERENA brother and his LERENA sisters married a CARDOZO sister and her CARDOZO brothers - Bernabe the younger to Florinda Cardozo on 22 March 1888, then Maria and Casimira to Eliseo and Juan Basilio on 25 April 1889. TWO BLOOD PATHS BETWEEN THE NEXT GENERATION, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT 'DOUBLE' MEANS. INDEX ONLY; the acts have not been opened and which Cardozo fathered Ema is not yet shown. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records July-August 1911 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-GS3N-1</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713362 image 02473; and FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Maria LERENA (of Trinidad, m. Maximo Pelaez 1885) Unplaced · high interest | 1869 · Trinidad, Flores · UY · found in Trinidad, Flores 26 JUNE 1885, THE SAME DAY AS ANTONINA: dispensed the THIRD GRADE of consanguinity WITH ATTINGENCY TO THE SECOND, by the UNEQUAL lateral line, to marry DON MAXIMO PELAEZ. 'With attingency to the second' means TWO SEPARATE BLOOD PATHS AT ONCE - the families were tied twice over. TWO LERENA WOMEN OF TRINIDAD DISPENSED IN ONE SITTING, one to a Fernandez and one to a Pelaez. A CONSANGUINITY DISPENSATION IS A STATEMENT ABOUT ANCESTRY. The Church computed the degree before it would dispense, so the entry constrains a pedigree even though it names no parent. The register itself names NO PARENTS - it is the Vicar General's summary ledger, not the expediente. NO BIRTH YEAR WAS RECORDED HERE UNTIL 9 OCTOBER 2026, and before that one was briefly invented. This row first carried a year reached by assuming an ordinary age at marriage - that year is gone, and the one standing in this row now is a clerk's stated age, not an assumption. That is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact, it is what this archive did to William John Taylor on 8 October, and tools/check-duplicates.py caught it the same way - by matching the invented year against real namesakes. The dispensation register gives no age and no birth. AND NOW SHE HAS A BIRTH YEAR FROM A RECORD, 9 October 2026. The Flores birth act of 10 March 1922 names the child's paternal grandparents as 'Don MAXIMO PELAEZ, oriental, FALLECIDO, y Dona MARIA LERENA, oriental, VIUDA, de CINCUENTA Y TRES anos de edad, de profesion labores de su sexo y domiciliada en esta Seccion (Cuchilla de Villas-Boas)' - so born about 1869, married at about sixteen, and a widow by 1922. THE INVENTED YEAR WAS WITHDRAWN ON 8 OCTOBER AND THE REAL ONE ARRIVED ON THE 9TH, from a clerk who wrote her age down. AND SHE HAS A SON: VITALINO GREGORIO PELAEZ, born about 1888, who in 1913 needed his own dispensation to marry a Lerena. THE TRANSCRIPT READS HER SURNAME 'SERENA' AND THE PLATE READS 'LERENA', four lines from a 'Lerena' the same transcriber got right. | record ↗ Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1856-1932 - FamilySearch FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-N2MN" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-N2MN</a>; and Flores. Birth Records 1916-1925 - act No. 10 of 1922, Anibal Marino Pelaez, born 3 March 1922, Sexta Seccion of Flores; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8</a>, DGS film 008165367 item 6 image 195 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Maria LERENA Pelaez (b.1866, dau. of Bernabe) Unplaced | 1866-05-13 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores ANOTHER DAUGHTER OF BERNABE AND CASIMIRA, born 13 May 1866 and christened at Trinidad on the 25th. NOT MERGED WITH EITHER MARIA LERENA THIS REGISTER ALREADY HOLDS - the one who married Maximo Pelaez in 1885 is given as born about 1869, and the one who married Eliseo Cardozo is Bernabe's daughter by the double wedding of 1889. A THIRD MARIA IN ONE HOUSEHOLD IS POSSIBLE AND TWO OF THEM BEING ONE IS LIKELIER, and an index will not decide it. See data/_person-pairs.txt. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Maria Luisa LERENA Unplaced | 1880 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Buenos Aires Daughter of Gilberto (1854). | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 census, Gilberto's household |
| Maria Luisa Lina LERENA Gazo Unplaced | 1875-09-23 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Ysaac Lerena and Adelaida Gazo, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Maria Mercedes LERENA (godmother, Cordon 1891-92) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Cordon, Montevideo Stood godmother with ADOLFO LERENA to Balvina Maria, daughter of Manuel Cabrera and Balvina Valdivia, at Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, el Cordon, between January 1891 and July 1892. The transcriber writes her 'Maria Mercedes Lerenas'. TWO LERENAS AT A FONT TOGETHER ARE USUALLY KIN, and she carries no married name, so brother and sister is the likeliest reading. NOT PROVED, AND DELIBERATELY NOT MERGED WITH ANY OF THE FOUR MERCEDES ALREADY IN THIS REGISTER: MERCEDES MICAELA LERENA TRAIBEL, born 1863, daughter of Avelino and Ambrosia; MERCEDES LERENA, godmother at the Catedral in March 1880, thought to be a sister of Josefa; MERCEDES LERENA who married Luis P. Marquez in July 1883 and would by 1891 be writing herself de Marquez; and MERCEDES LERENA DE MARTINEZ, godmother at Mendoza in 1902. THE NAME MERCEDES RUNS THROUGH THIS FAMILY HARD ENOUGH THAT IT SEPARATES NOBODY, and the act gives her no age, no parents and no second surname. See data/_person-pairs.txt. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - BAPTISM RECORDS January 1891 to July 1892, the christening of Balvina Maria Cabrera - <strong>FULL-TEXT NAMES PANEL READ 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-KSWC-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-KSWC-H</a> |
| Maria Mercedes LERENA Carniglia Unplaced | 1902-03-10 · Mendoza, Argentina · Argentine · found in Mendoza, Argentina A THIRD CHILD OF CARLOS LERENA AND ADELA CARNIGLIA, returned by the same parent-pair query that found Maria Adela. INDEX ONLY - THE ACT HAS NOT BEEN OPENED, so she carries no date and no godparents here. AND THAT ACT IS THE CHEAPEST NEXT STEP ON HER FATHER: a second Mendoza baptism may give what the first does not - his own parents, or the place he was *natural de* rather than merely *oriental*. HER ACT IS READ, 9 October 2026, AND IT WAS THE CHEAPEST NEXT STEP THIS ARCHIVE NAMED ON HER FATHER - IT PAID. Born 10 March 1902 in the city of Mendoza, baptised 23 April 1902 at the Parroquia Matriz by the Pbro. Miguel [Falancia]. 'Hija legitima de D. CARLOS LERENA, natural de MONTEVIDEO, y de Dona ADELA CARNIGLIA, natural de MONTEVIDEO.' PADRINOS: D. EDUARDO CARNIGLIA and Dona MERCEDES LERENA DE MARTINEZ, the latter representada por Adela S. de Carniglia. SHE IS NAMED FOR HER GODMOTHER. | record ↗ Argentina, Mendoza, Catholic Church Records 1665-1975 - index entry, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVN9-3S53" rel="noopener">1:1:QVN9-3S53</a> - read 9 October 2026; and Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1901-1903 - printed-form baptism of 23 April 1902; DGS film 004597291 item 003 image 95, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HFTB-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HFTB-Z</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Maria Regina LERENA Barragan Unplaced | 1882-04-09 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Fermin Lerena and Paulina Barragan, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Martin LERENA Unplaced | 1893 · Spanish · comerciante · found in arr. Buenos Aires 1907-07-14 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship AMSTELLAND from Coruna |
| Mauricio LERENA (b. c.1836, of the First Section of Flores) Unplaced · of interest | 1836 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · hacendado · found in Flores, Uruguay A SECOND MAURICIO LERENA, AND HE IS NOT THE MAN WHO MARRIED AT SAN JOSE IN 1837. He signs as a witness on a Flores death act of May 1886: 'D. MAURICIO LERENA de CINCUENTA anos de edad, oriental, casado, hacendado... vecino de esta Seccion', and the signature MAURICIO LERENA is in his own hand. THE AGE WAS READ OFF THE PLATE BECAUSE THE TRANSCRIPT GARBLES IT TO 'VEINCUENTA', and the age is the whole of what separates these two men. FIFTY IN 1886 IS A BIRTH ABOUT 1836, where the other Mauricio married in February 1837. NOT ENTERED AS HIS SON: 1836 is before that marriage, so either the stated age is loose in the ordinary way - which it often is - or they are not father and son. THE DISTINCTION IS CARRIED, NOT RESOLVED. AND HE COULD WRITE, WHERE CIPRIANO LERENA COULD NOT. | record ↗ Flores. Death Records 1886-1887 - witness, First Section, May 1886; image 8, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-QHVC" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-QHVC</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Mauricio LERENA (of Colla/Rosario, m. Casimira Montano 1837) Connected | c.1815 · Colla (Rosario, Colonia) · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo THE PATRIARCH THIS ARCHIVE HAD RESEARCHED BUT NEVER MADE A PERSON. His marriage of 3 February 1837 at San Jose de Mayo gives birthplace COLLA - the old name of ROSARIO, COLONIA - father RAMON, mother MARIA GONZALES, wife CASIMIRA MONTANO (her parents Jose Montano and Ignacia Barredo). His children account for San Jose, Flores and Florida, with Salto and Montevideo besides - that is the finding of row 120 - and until today he existed here only inside other people's notes. TIER: INDEXED, not image-read. Not attached to Sancho's line by anything. AND THE PARENT-PAIR QUERY NAMES HIS CHILDREN, 21 September 2026. Searching MAURICIO LERENA and CASIMIRA MONTANO as a pair returns twelve Uruguayan records where either name alone returns a crowd. One is explicit: CIPRIANO LERENA MONTANA, whose 1928 death registration at Flores names both parents, and who is now in this register. FOUR MORE ARE CANDIDATES AND ARE NOT ENTERED: Manuel Lerena Montana (m. 20 April 1882, San Jose, b.1856), Ignacia Lerena (m. 27 April 1882, Trinidad, b.1864), Clara Lerena de Pallares (d. 3 March 1925, b.1848) and Ignacia Serena Leren de Dolz (d. 12 March 1921, b.1865). They match on the pair query but their own entries do not name the parents, and this archive does not enter a child on a query shape alone. The dates fit a marriage of 1837. AND A POSSIBLE BROTHER AND SISTER, 9 October 2026. If his parents Ramon Lerena and Maria Gonzales are the Ramon Lerena and Maria Gonzalez drawn at the apex of the 1858 Trinidad schema, then ALEJANDRO LERENA and ANTONINA LERENA of Trinidad are his siblings, and his children reaching Flores are cousins of the whole Trinidad kindred rather than strangers to it. STILL NOT MERGED. THE ACT IS READ OFF THE PLATE, 9 October 2026, AND THIS ROW'S OWN CAVEAT IS DISCHARGED. It carried 'TIER: INDEXED, not image-read' since 21 September. The plate - Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records 1825-1859, image 87 - reads: 'En esta Parroquia de San Jose a tres de Febrero de mil ochocientos treinta y siete... Don MAURICIO LERENA, natural de la VILLA DEL COLLA, hijo legitimo de Don RAMON y de Dona MARIA GONZALEZ, con Dona CASIMIRA MONTANO, natural de esta Villa, hija legitima de Don JOSE y Dona IGNACIA BARREDO'. Teniente de cura Fray Froylan Mellid; certified by Jose Joaquin Reyna; witnesses Don Vicente Muniz and Dona CLARA LEDENA - so written, and NOT CLAIMED HERE AS A LERENA though the resemblance is obvious. HE WAS DEAD BY MARCH 1895, when his granddaughter's birth act calls him fallecido. AND A SECOND MAURICIO LERENA EXISTS: a man of fifty - read off the plate - signing as a witness in the First Section of Flores in May 1886. This man married in 1837 and cannot be he. NOT ENTERED AS HIS SON: an age of fifty in 1886 is a birth about 1836, which is before this marriage, so either the stated age is loose in the ordinary way or the two are not father and son. AND HIS BROTHER'S ACT IS NOW READ TOO, 9 October 2026. ALEJANDRO LERENA, natural de la VILLA DEL ROSARIO, married at the same church twelve years earlier - 16 September 1825 - and his act gives the same parents, RAMON LEREÑA and MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ. TWO BROTHERS, TWO ACTS, ONE PARISH, BOTH BORN IN THE ROSARIO-COLLA DISTRICT. AND IT SETTLES WHICH SIDE THE TRINIDAD KINDRED HANGS FROM: Alejandro's son is BERNABE, his own is CIPRIANO, and the two are first cousins. | record ↗ Uruguay, Marriages, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F21B-SZ5" rel="noopener">1:1:F21B-SZ5</a>; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act of 3 February 1837; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 87, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67KL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67KL</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825, before Don Joseph Andres Salvatierra, Cura y Vicario Interino; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10 (indexed at 00009), ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Mercedes LERENA (godmother, 1880) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo ANOTHER LERENA WOMAN, found 14 September 2026 - very likely a SISTER OF JOSEFA and so another daughter of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel. She stood godmother with Juan Arechaga to Maria de las Mercedes Moratorio Lerena at the Catedral Basilica de Montevideo on 8 March 1880 - and the child carries her name. Nothing else in this archive names her. 'NOTHING ELSE IN THIS ARCHIVE NAMES HER' IS NO LONGER TRUE, 21 September 2026. A sister of Josefa of exactly this name is now documented: MERCEDES MICAELA LERENA TRAIBEL, born 8 May 1863, christened at the Union on 25 September 1866, daughter of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel. THE TWO ROWS ARE NOT MERGED, AND THE REASON IS AGE. This godmother stood at a font in March 1880, when Mercedes Micaela was sixteen. That is possible and not impossible, and the surname, the parish and the family are all right - the niece is even named for her. But a sixteen-year-old godmother is an inference, and the act that would settle it is the 1880 baptism itself, whose full-text transcript this archive has read without recovering the godmother's age or parentage. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713378 image 02598, folios 411-412, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - the two baptisms of 8 March 1880. Priest RAFAEL YEREGUI. THE TEST NAMED IN THIS ROW HAS NOW BEEN RUN, AND IT DOES NOT SETTLE ANYTHING. The row said the 1880 act 'would have to give her age or her parents' before she could be joined to Mercedes Micaela Lerena Traibel. The plate was read on 21 September 2026 and it gives NEITHER - only 'fueron padrinos JUAN [Arechaga] y MERCEDES LERENA, a quienes instruyo'. So the two rows stay apart, and the reason is now a read page rather than an unopened one. AND THE PARISH WAS WRONG, CORRECTED 21 September 2026 OFF THE PLATE. This archive placed these 1880 baptisms at the UNION, which is what the index's place field says. The act itself reads 'con licencia del infrascripto Cura Parroco DE ESTA BASILICA MENOR Y CATEDRAL DE MONTEVIDEO, bautice solemnemente EN ELLA a Maria Carlota'. They were baptised in the CATEDRAL BASILICA, not at the Union. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named at the baptisms of Maria Carlota and Maria de las Mercedes Moratorio Lerena, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 8 Mar 1880 (this archive placed it at the UNION until 21 Sep 2026, on the index's place field; the act says 'esta Basilica menor y Catedral'); ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598 |
| Mercedes LERENA (m. Luis P. Marquez 1883) Unplaced · of interest | Montevideo · UY · found in Montevideo 9 JULY 1883: dispensed two conciliar banns for her marriage to DON LUIS P. MARQUEZ. Feligresa de la CATEDRAL - the Montevideo cathedral parish, which is the trunk this archive works. Born about 1860 on the ordinary assumption of a woman marrying in 1883; no birth record found. NO KINSHIP IMPEDIMENT, so nothing here constrains her ancestry. NO BIRTH YEAR IS RECORDED HERE, and one was briefly invented. This row first carried a year reached by assuming an ordinary age at marriage. That is a guess wearing the clothes of a fact, it is what this archive did to William John Taylor on 8 October, and tools/check-duplicates.py caught it the same way - by matching the invented year against real namesakes. The dispensation register gives no age and no birth. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1856-1932 - FamilySearch FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NNV3" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NNV3</a> |
| Mercedes LERENA de MARTINEZ (godmother, Mendoza 1902) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A LERENA WOMAN MARRIED TO A MARTINEZ, godmother to MARIA MERCEDES LERENA CARNIGLIA at Mendoza on 23 April 1902 - and SHE DID NOT COME: she was representada por Adela S. de Carniglia, the child's own mother. THE CHILD IS NAMED FOR HER. A GODPARENT WHO MUST BE REPRESENTED LIVES SOMEWHERE ELSE, and the child's father is natural de Montevideo, which is the likeliest somewhere else - THOUGH THE ACT DOES NOT SAY SO AND IT IS NOT ASSERTED HERE. NOT IDENTIFIED WITH ANY MERCEDES LERENA IN THIS REGISTER, of which there are three at Montevideo, nor with CAROLINA LERENA (de MARTINEZ), who is already here as the wife of JULIAN MARTINEZ - a Lerena-Martinez marriage under a different forename. THE ACT GIVES HER NO AGE, NO FATHER AND NO TOWN. See data/_person-pairs.txt. | record ↗ Santiago Apostol y San Nicolas (Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza), Baptism Records 1901-1903 - printed-form baptism of 23 April 1902; DGS film 004597291 item 003 image 95, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-HFTB-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:939X-HFTB-Z</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Mercedes Micaela LERENA Traibel Unplaced | 1863-05-08 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo BORN 8 MAY 1863, christened at the Union on 25 September 1866 - daughter of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel, with the paternal grandparents given as SANCHO and MARIA FERNANDEZ and the maternal as 'Dos Juan' - the machine's reading of DON JUAN Traibel - and Ysabel Centeno. Her godparents were ADOLFO DE LAPUENTE and MERCEDES MENDEZ DE LA FUENTE, for whom she is named, which is this family's habit four times over. SHE IS THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR THE MERCEDES LERENA WHO STOOD GODMOTHER AT THE UNION IN MARCH 1880 to her sister Josefa's daughter - who was in turn named Maria de las Mercedes for her. She was sixteen then, which is young and not impossible; the rows are kept apart until an act joins them. The dispensation table here records a MERCEDES LERENA who married DON LUIS P. MARQUEZ at the Catedral on 9 July 1883, identified there as this woman - and an unmarried Mercedes Lerena in 1880 is what that marriage date requires. INDEX-LEVEL: the image of her christening has not been opened. NO LONGER INDEX-LEVEL, 21 September 2026 - THE ACT ITSELF WAS FOUND AND READ. Her certificate is No. 147 in the same 1896 book that holds six of her brothers and sisters: 'ella a MERCEDES MICAELA, QUE NACIO EL OCHO DE MAYO DEL ANO MIL OCHOCIENTOS SESENTA Y TRES, hija legitima de Dn. Avelino Lerena y Da. Ambrosia Traibel, orientales. Abuelos paternos Dn. SANCHO y Da. MARIA FERNANDEZ; abuelos maternos Dn. JUAN y Da. YSABEL CENTENO. Padrinos Dn. ADOLFO DE LAPUENTE y Da. MERCEDES MENDEZ DE LA FUENTE, a quienes advirtio. Por verdad lo firmo. INOCENCIO M. YEREQUI.' The index had the date right and the archive can now say why it believes it. And 'Dos Juan' in the index is settled: the act reads 'Dn. Juan'. | record ↗ Union, Montevideo - baptism read in the 1896 certified copy No. 147, made under the Ley de 9 de Julio de 1888 - IMAGE READ; film 008166435 image 02849; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening, Union, Montevideo, 25 September 1866; index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D7Z-KHLR" rel="noopener">1:1:6D7Z-KHLR</a> |
| Natalia Elena LERENA Recuero Unplaced | 1891-07-27 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Florencio Lerena and Juana Recuero, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Natalia LERENA (m. Alejandro F. LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named with her husband ALEJANDRO F. LERENA as a parent of AURORA LERENA on the Trinidad civil registrations of Aurora's children. SHE IS A LERENA MARRIED TO A LERENA, which is why her daughter is indexed 'Aurora Lerena Lerena'. NOTHING ELSE IS KNOWN - no parents, no dates, no act opened. AND SHE IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH NATALIA ELENA LERENA RECUERO, born 27 July 1891 at Trinidad to Florencio and Juana Recuero, who is a generation younger. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Nemecio Ramon LERENA (b.1870) Unplaced | 1870-08 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Christened at Trinidad on 24 April 1870 with a birth given as August 1870 - AGAIN A BIRTH AFTER ITS OWN CHRISTENING, the second such pair in this sweep. Parents given as PETRONA AGUILAR and MAURICIO PERES. NOT ASSIGNED TO MAURICIO LERENA OF COLLA, whose wife was Casimira Montano. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Nepomuceno Teofilo LERENA Unplaced | 1905-10-13 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores THE CHILD WHOSE BAPTISM ANSWERED THE 1894 DISPENSATION. Born 13 October 1905 and baptised at Santisima Trinidad on 26 November 1905 by the Teniente Cura David Giordano. 'hijo legitimo de Juan Lerena y Eduviges Pelaez. Abuelos paternos: BERNABE y CASIMIRA PELAEZ. Maternos: JUAN y EDUVIGES FLORENCIO (fallecida)'. Godparents Alejandro Pelaez and Ramona Pelaez. THE MARGIN HEADING IS IN THE PRIEST'S HAND AND READS LERENA, where the machine transcript of the body reads 'Juan Leresa' - the S-for-L trap in a new costume. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909 - baptism of 26 November 1905, pages 32-33; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F</a>, DGS film 008163893 item 5 image 20 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Nicolas LERENA (b.1869, son of Manuela) Unplaced | 1869-12-08 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Christened at Trinidad in February 1869, the index giving his birth as 8 December 1869 - WHICH IS AFTER HIS CHRISTENING AND CANNOT BE RIGHT. One of the two dates is wrong and the act would say which. His only named parent is MANUELA SERENA, a mother alone. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Nuno Fernando LERENA Connected | 1924-10-06 · Cape Town · SA · found in Cape Town Son. David's grandfather. PLACE FIELD CORRECTED 14 September 2026. This row's 'where found' held a CITATION - "SA records" - where the atlas expects a PLACE, so this person was missing from the map and appeared on it as a phantom location instead. The citation is kept here; the field now holds a real place. AND HE WAS AT SCHOOL AT RONDEBOSCH IN 1936, established 8 October 2026. Three printed Testimonials of Application and Diligence from MARIST BROTHERS, ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, BELMONT PARK, RONDEBOSCH, each made out to Master N. Lerena and signed by the Principal, Bro. Vital: 1 June 1936 (608 good marks against an opponent's 578, form's highest 690), 1 October 1936 (458 against 415, highest 523) and 1 November 1936 (715 against 708, highest 1045). HE IS THE ONLY N. LERENA OF SCHOOL AGE IN THIS FAMILY - born 6 October 1924, so eleven turning twelve across the three. WHAT THEY ADD: the first evidence of any Lerena's schooling; the family placed at Rondebosch in the twelve months after his mother died at Observatory in November 1935; and a Roman Catholic education, which sits beside the Corpus Christi baptisms and the Roman Catholic allotment of grave 7719. AND EVERY FIGURE WAS CONFIRMED when David put the scans in the archive later the same day: the 608 of June and the 715 of November, the two digits this archive had flagged as least certain, both held. The certificates are published on /family-papers/. AND HE IS IN A SOUTH AFRICAN LAND RECORD, found 9 October 2026 - the first this archive has found for anybody in this family. The transcript reads '... Cologne Road . Description of Property ... No. 245 ... Sq. Roods 6,600 Sq. Feet . Huno Fernando Lerena 6. 10. 1924 . Purchase Amount'. 'Huno' IS THE TRANSCRIBER'S NUNO, and 6.10.1924 IS HIS BIRTH DATE TO THE DAY, which is what identifies the entry as his. WHAT IT DOES NOT YET GIVE: the town. Cologne Road, lot 245, 6,600 square feet and a transferor read as 'Gough Cooper' are all the transcript offers, and the plate has not been opened. NOTE WHAT THIS DOES AND DOES NOT OVERTURN: /south-africa/ says a search of the deeds registers returns no land at all - that was said of PABLO ARMANDO, is still true of him, and was never tested on his sons. A SECOND PROPERTY, 9 October 2026, read off the plate. Beside lot 245 in Cologne Road (6,600 sq ft) he holds 'No. 210 ... 14,560 Sq. Feet ... Transferor: T/SHIP OWNERS ... Transferee: NUNO FERNANDO LERENA. 6.10.24', under a street written LENDIN - SO WRITTEN, AND NOT RESOLVED; THIS ROW READ IT 'LONDON' FOR AN HOUR AND THAT IS WITHDRAWN - transfer 2257(7) dated 22 August 1953. BOUGHT FROM THE TOWNSHIP OWNERS, which is how a new township sells its first stands. THE TRANSCRIBERS CALLED HIM 'HUNO' ON ONE FOLIO AND 'JAN FERNANDO' ON THE OTHER; THE CLERK WROTE NUNO BOTH TIMES, PLAINLY. AND THE DATE BESIDE HIS NAME IS AN IDENTITY DATE, NOT A TRANSFER DATE: this folio carries the transfer date in its own column (22.8.53), so 6.10.24 is his birth date - which the 1950 estate and death notice 6746/71 held before either land record was found. AND THE TOWNSHIP IS PLACED, FROM THIS ARCHIVE'S OWN FILES: his death notice MHG 6746/71, read 16 September 2026, gives his residence as '24 LEIDEN ROAD, GERDVIEW, GERMISTON', and COLOGNE ROAD IS A STREET IN GERDVIEW. SO HE BOUGHT TWO STANDS IN THE TOWNSHIP HE LIVED AND DIED IN, whose streets are named for Dutch and German cities - Leiden, Weert, Cologne. AND THAT SCHEME IS WHAT EXPOSED THE MISREADING: 'London' did not belong to it. HIS DEATH NOTICE ALSO NAMES NO PARENTS: father and mother are both blank, marked only 'Deceased' - so the one document of his that could have named PABLO ARMANDO does not. | record ↗ 1950 estate; death notice 6746/71; and three Marist Brothers testimonials, St Joseph's College, Belmont Park, Rondebosch, 1936 (family papers, supplied 8 October 2026); and Land Records: South Africa, Farm Records 1895-1955 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-F7NW-L7PV" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-F7NW-L7PV</a>, full-text transcript read 9 October 2026; and Land Records: South Africa, Farm Records 1895-1955 - lot 210, London Street, transfer 2257(7) of 22 August 1953; image 216, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-N7NW-G375" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-N7NW-G375</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Olegaria LERENA (mother of Juana de las Nieves) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo THE THIRD OF ROW 187'S SAN JOSE MOTHERS, AND THE ONLY ONE WHO STILL HAS NO HUSBAND. A forename search returns exactly ONE RECORD IN THE WHOLE URUGUAYAN CORPUS: she is the mother of JUANA DE LAS NIEVES LERENA in Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900. THE CHILD CARRIES THE MOTHER'S SURNAME, WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NO FATHER IS NAMED ON THE ACT. NOTHING ELSE IS KNOWN - no date on the search row, no place, no parents of her own. Unlike Felicia and Estefania, who both turn out to have husbands, OLEGARIA REMAINS WHAT ROW 187 CALLED HER. INDEX ONLY; the act has not been opened and opening it is the obvious next step. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, Baptisms 1750-1900 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the three San Jose Lerena mothers of work-list row 187, searched by forename 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Pablo Armando LERENA (Robert Paul; "Bob") Connected | 1882-02-22 · Rosario, Argentina · Argentine · trainer / racehorse owner · found in Cape Town Generation 1. David's great-grandfather. PLACE FIELD CORRECTED 14 September 2026. This row's 'where found' held a CITATION - "SA + Argentine records" - where the atlas expects a PLACE, so this person was missing from the map and appeared on it as a phantom location instead. The citation is kept here; the field now holds a real place. WHERE HE IS BURIED IS SETTLED, 8 October 2026. Entry 327 of the Maitland Road Cemetery Record of Interments, page 339: LERENA, Robert Paul, M.E., aged 76, late residence Newlands, 7 Forth Road - the address on his death certificate - Roman Catholic allotment, Cemetery No. 1, grave 7719 C, depth 8 feet, position Bott, officiating Father Plotton, undertaker Goodall & Wms. The last column reads 'In Plot of R. P. Lerina'. SO THE PLOT WAS HIS. Not a space allotted at need: a grave held in his own name, which his wife had been buried in fifteen years before him and an infant three years before him. AND THE WHOLE GRAVE WAS READ ON 8 OCTOBER 2026. Maitland (Woltemade) Road Cemetery, Cemetery No. 1, Roman Catholic allotment, GRAVE 7719 - and the register calls it 'In Plot of R. P. Lerina', his own plot. Three burials, in order: 7719 A Mary Septima, 51, buried 16 Nov 1935 (p.3215 entry 163); 7719 B Careen Maria, two weeks old, died 27 June 1947 (p.4706 entry 423); 7719 C Robert Paul himself, 76, died 19 March 1950 (p.339 entry 327). THE DEATH CERTIFICATE SAID MAITLAND AND THE FAMILY SAID NEWLANDS, and the certificate was right - 'intended place of burial' turned out to be the actual one. AND IT WAS INDEXED AS 'ROBERT PAUL LESINA', which is why no search for LERENA had ever found it. That is the seventh machine misreading of this surname this archive has documented. IT WAS FOUND BY NOT SEARCHING FOR THE SURNAME AT ALL: given name 'Robert Paul', death year 1950, collection only - 663 results, and he was the first. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Argentine passport 1940; SA death cert 1950; and Maitland Road Cemetery, Record of Interments, page 339 entry 327 - IMAGE READ 8 October 2026, FamilySearch image group 102346236 ('Maitland Cemetery Volume 21', Cemetery Records 1949-1951), image 93 of 252, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVY-JS18" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVY-JS18</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPW2-W48F" rel="noopener">1:1:QPW2-W48F</a> |
| Paolo LERENA Unplaced | 1891 · Italian · labrador · found in arr. 1913-12-09 An Italian "Paolo" Lerena - the only Pablo/Paolo of the surname in the whole CEMLA index. Born c.1891, so NOT our man, who was already in South Africa. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship BATAVIA from Genova |
| Paula Modesta LERENA Pelaez Unplaced | c.1875 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Paulina LERENA Unplaced | 1895 · Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires Eight months old when the census was taken - the sheet records her age as 8 meses and her birthplace as portena. Daughter of Leandro LERENA and Lucia LLANOS. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 Argentine National Census, Seccion 18 Subdivision 34, Ciudad de Buenos Aires - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-266-13033-138829-16 on 12 October 2026; and the army enrolment card of Salvador LORENA, Cajon 985 order 666 (Argentina, Military Records 1911-1936) |
| Pedro A. LERENA (the younger, declarant 1896) Unplaced · of interest | Montevideo · Uruguayan · empleado · found in Montevideo The first declarant on his father's death act of 7 November 1896, soltero and empleado: 'y que el primer declarante es hijo del fallecido'. The third Pedro of the line in a row - his grandfather Pedro Antonio, his father Pedro, and himself. A Pedro Antonio Lerena born 1875 died at Montevideo on 24 October 1903 with his mother given as Manuela Lemas, and is very likely this man - index-level, and not merged here. | record ↗ Montevideo civil death registration, acta No. 353 of 7 November 1896, 15a Seccion de la Capital - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-909-72188-82458-0 on 12 October 2026 |
| Pedro Alberto Ysabelino LERENA Traibel (the ALBERTO of 1852-1921) Unplaced | 1852-03-16 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A SON OF AVELINO LERENA AND AMBROSIA TRAIBEL THIS ARCHIVE HAD SEEN AND NEVER DATED, 21 September 2026. The 14 September working log already listed 'Pedro Alberto Isabelino' among the Lerena Traibel, off the index, and left him there. THE INDEX SAYS HE WAS BORN IN 1896, WHICH IS SIX YEARS AFTER HIS FATHER DIED. The act itself says otherwise: 'El veinte y uno de Noviembre de 1852 ... bautice solemnemente a PEDRO ALBERTO YSABELINO, que nacio el diez y seis de Marzo del mismo ano, a las once y media del dia, hijo legitimo de AVELINO LERENA y de AMBROSIA TRAIBEL'. He was born 16 MARCH 1852 and baptised at eight months. What the index dated 1896 is the CERTIFIED COPY, issued that year from libro 1o de Bautismos folio 135. HIS GODFATHER WAS HIS UNCLE: PEDRO ANT.o LERENA, with VICENTA VEGA - and the boy is named for him, as YSABELINO is for his grandmother Ysabel Centeno. Grandparents on the act: Sancho Lerena and Maria Fernandez, Juan Traibel and Ysabel Centeno. AND HE IS THE ALBERTO LERENA OF THE 1921 DEATH REGISTRATION - Montevideo, died 1 March 1921, certificate 246, father Avelino Lerena, mother Ambrosia Treibel, wife MARIA INES LARRIERA. That registration gives his age as 69 against a birth of 16 March 1852, which makes him 68 by three weeks; an age at death is the weakest field on any certificate and the identification does not rest on it. THE IDENTIFICATION IS AN INFERENCE, NOT AN ACT: no record read here writes 'Pedro Alberto Ysabelino' and 'Alberto' on the same page. What joins them is the parents, the year and the name. See data/1852-aguada-union-certificates.tsv. AND HE HAD EIGHT CHILDREN, IN A DEPARTMENT THIS BRANCH WAS NEVER KNOWN TO REACH - found 21 September 2026 by asking for him and his wife as a PAIR. Alberto Lerena with Maria Ines Larriera returns sixteen Uruguayan records, and they are eight children born in the DEPARTAMENTO DE SAN JOSE between 1879 and 1898: MARIA ADELINA (1879), ZELMIRA CARLOTA (1880), ALBERTO JULIAN (1883), CARLOS AMBROSIO FLORENCIO (bapt. 1889), MARIA CONSUELO (1892), MARIA ANTONIETA (1894), ANGEL MIGUEL AVELINO (1898) and MARIA INES, who died at Montevideo in 1922. ZELMIRA WAS ALREADY IN THIS REGISTER, entered on 14 September and written off as 'NOT ours'. She is his daughter. THREE OF THE EIGHT CARRY NAMES OUT OF THE HOUSEHOLD AT THE AGUADA - his sister Maria Adelina, his brother Carlos Ambrosio, and his father Avelino. That is corroboration and not evidence; the evidence is the death registration. All eight are INDEX-LEVEL. THE IMAGE WAS OPENED THE SAME DAY IT WAS CALLED AN ERRAND, and the weak link is now PRIMARY. Act No. 246, film 008165205 image 01604. He died at six in the morning of 1 March 1921, at the calle JUAN PAULLIER, Montevideo, and the act gives him as 'de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, NACIDO EN MONTEVIDEO, de SESENTA Y NUEVE ANOS de edad, de estado casado, de profesion RENTISTA, a consecuencia de CARCINOMA DE LA VEJIGA, segun consta del certificado del Dr. LUSSICH', and then: 'Que el finado era hijo de AVELINO LERENA, fallecido, y de AMBROSIA TREIBEL, fallecida.' BORN AT MONTEVIDEO - which is where Pedro Alberto Ysabelino was baptised, at the Aguada, and NOT where his own children were born. The declarants were not family: JUAN MIRAMONTE, fifty, of 18 de Julio, and PEDRO FERNANDEZ, forty-eight, of Cerrito 230. AND THE ACT COUNTS HIS CHILDREN: 'era casado con Maria Ines Larriera, de cuya union quedan NUEVE HIJOS llamados: Maria Adelina, Zelmira, ELEIZA, Alberto, Carlos, Maria Ines, Maria Consuelo, Maria Antonieta y Miguel Avelino.' Eight of the nine were already found in the civil index; the third is a daughter no index here has matched, and her name is not securely read - ELEIZA or ELOIZA. The age of 69 is fifteen days early against a birth of 16 March 1852, which is what an age given by two neighbours looks like. RENTISTA is a fact about this branch nothing else here records: by 1921 it lived on property income. | record ↗ Vice Parroquia de Nuestra Senora del Carmen, la Aguada, Montevideo - baptism of 21 Nov 1852, libro 1o de Bautismos folio 135, read in the CERTIFIED COPY issued in 1896 - IMAGE READ at full resolution 21 Sep 2026; film 008166435 image 02850, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2SSK-G" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2SSK-G</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DXB-SSGW" rel="noopener">1:1:6DXB-SSGW</a>; and Montevideo civil death registration No. 246, 1 March 1921 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008165205 image 01604, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-26FM" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-26FM</a>, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LD5-X4PR" rel="noopener">1:1:6LD5-X4PR</a> |
| Pedro Antonio LERENA (son of Sancho) Unplaced | 1793-07-31 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo ANOTHER SON OF SANCHO LLERENA AND MARIA FERNANDEZ, and so another BROTHER OF DON LUIS - found 14 September 2026. "D. PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA natural de esta", with "Abuelos Paternos: D. Sancho y Dna Maria Fernandez" named at his daughter's baptism on 4 July 1837. He married DONA VICENTA VEGA of Cerro Largo. His brother Luis and Luis's wife Carolina Oribe stood godparents to the child. HIS BAPTISM ACT IS FOUND, 15 September 2026, and it carries two things about his FATHER that nothing else did. Canelones, 1 August 1793: "El Capellan del REGIMIENTO DE INFANTERIA DE BUENOS AYRES Don Bartolome Munoz; bautizo puso oleo y crisma a PEDRO ANTONIO DE LA SSMA TRINIDAD que nacio ayer, hijo legitimo del SOLDADO DRAGON SANCHO LERENA, y de Maria Fernandez, fueron Padrinos Don Antonio Aleman, y su mujer Dona Gregoria Ribero." Born 31 July 1793 - this archive had only the year, from a tree, and an age of 19 in the 1812 padron. His full baptismal name is PEDRO ANTONIO DE LA SANTISIMA TRINIDAD. His father is called SOLDADO DRAGON - a dragoon - where every other record says only soldado. AND THE PRIEST IS THE CHAPLAIN OF THE REGIMIENTO DE INFANTERIA DE BUENOS AIRES - the exact unit whose Libros Castrenses, 1781-1814, are filmed as FamilySearch DGS 7713373. That makes the military registers the first place to look for Sancho's 1791 marriage rather than a hopeful one, because that regiment's chaplain was demonstrably serving this family at Canelones two years after it. A SECOND RECORD OF HIM, AND IT IS FIFTEEN YEARS LATER, found 21 September 2026. He stood godfather with his wife Vicenta Vega at the baptism of PEDRO ALBERTO YSABELINO LERENA at the Aguada on 21 November 1852 - his brother Avelino's son, and a boy given his own name. He was fifty-nine. Until this act the archive held him only through his daughter's baptism of 1837 and had nothing that showed him alive after it. It also shows the two brothers keeping company: Avelino asked Pedro Antonio to the font, as he and Luis had stood for each other's children at La Mauricia in 1846. HOUSEHOLD 229 IS NO LONGER READ AS HIS, from 12 October 2026. That census was dated c.1833 from his age there and then used to confirm the identification - a circle. The enumeration is the padron of LIBRO 264, 1850, and a head entered at forty in 1850 was born about 1810, not 1793; under the film's only earlier book, 1843, he would be born about 1803. What still stands on its own evidence is his marriage to a Vicenta Vega - the Catedral baptism of 4 July 1837 and both of them standing godparents at the Aguada on 21 November 1852. So either household 229 belongs to a different Pedro A. Lerena married to a different Vicenta Vega, or one of these records is badly wrong about an age. Published unresolved. See data/corrections.tsv. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo, baptism of 4 July 1837 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H</a>; Canelones baptism, 1 Aug 1793 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-WH52" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-WH52</a>; and as godfather at the Aguada, 21 Nov 1852 - IMAGE READ; film 008166435 image 02850 |
| Pedro Gualberto LERENA Villademoros Unplaced | 1869-10-19 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Born 19 October 1869 and christened at the IGLESIA DEL CORDON, Montevideo, on 15 January 1870 - which is the third Montevideo parish this family uses, after San Francisco de Asis and the Catedral, and the one named in his cousin Carlos's 1914 marriage enquiry. Son of Avelino Eduardo Lerena and Celedonia Villademoros; married in Uruguay in 1921. Index-level. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening, Cordon, Montevideo, 15 January 1870; and Uruguay Civil Registration Index Card 1900-1937, marriage registration 1921 |
| Pedro LERENA Unplaced · high interest | 1842c · Italy · Italian · labrador · found in Jesus Maria, San Jose, Uruguay An ITALIAN-BORN LERENA farming in the department of San Jose - 68 years old in 1910, married, labrador of Jesus Maria. Indexed as Pedro GERENA, and as the father rather than the grandfather. Husband of Juana CAMACHO, father of Ramona LERENA. He is why this archive can no longer separate the Italian stock of the name from its own by country alone: here the two are in the same department, under the same spelling, a generation apart. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), Mal Abrigo birth act 98 of 14 September 1910 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-DSWM-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-DSWM-M</a>, plate read at apid TH-909-70122-59400-71 on 12 October 2026 |
| Pedro LERENA Arrascaeta (b. and d. 1911) Unplaced | 1911 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born and dead in 1911, son of FAUSTINO LERENA and BITERVA DE ARRASCAETA, the death registered at Flores on 23 February 1911. THE THIRD INFANT IN THIS REGISTER TO DIE IN THE YEAR OF HIS BIRTH, after Carmelo Anselmo of 1846 and Fernando of 1930. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Pedro LERENA Vega (b. c.1834) Connected | 1834c · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A SON OF PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA AND VICENTA VEGA, new to this archive, and named for his father. Entered at 16 in household 229. The index reads him as 'Pedro a. Serena' - so the index entry that looks like his father is in fact HIM. Nothing else about him is known. AND ON 12 OCTOBER 2026 A CANDIDATE DEATH - AT MONTEVIDEO, WHICH IS WHERE HE SHOULD BE. A 'Pedro a Lerena' died 6 November 1896 aged 69 and was registered the next day as certificate 353 in Montevideo. Death Records 1896, with his father given as Pedro A. Lerena and his mother as VICENTA DE LA VEGA - the same parents, and the same peculiar 'Pedro a' name-form this row already notes. His spouse is MANUELA LEMOS, and a second death, of a Pedro Antonio Lerena born 1875, names the same Manuela as his mother - so the identification would also hand him a wife and a son. This row first said the death was at ARTIGAS. It is not; that came from a place filter that falls back to the country, corrected the same day. NOT MERGED AND NOT TIERED. The two birth years disagree by a decade (c.1817 from an age of 16 in the census, 1827 from an age at death), and both are age-derived estimates rather than dates. The two birth years still disagree by a decade and both are age-derived, so it is not merged. But Montevideo is the city the census put him in, which makes the fit better than the Artigas reading did, not worse. Settled only by the death act itself, which has not been opened. AND THE SAME EVENING THE OTHER END OF IT TURNED UP. The 1896 death gives his spouse as MANUELA LEMOS - and this register entered a Manuela LEMOS on 11 October, wife of an unidentified 'Pedro A. LERENA', with children Felicia Clementina (b. c.1868) and Manuel Antonio (b. 31 March 1883), under an explicit note that which Pedro she married was not settled. Two questions asked from opposite ends meet on one record. And the age: a man born 1827 fathers a child in 1883 at fifty-six, one born 1817 at sixty-six - so the death record's estimate fits the children better than the census one, which is the reverse of how this row weighted them earlier today. Opening the 1896 death act is now the cheapest thing that would attach a whole Montevideo line to this archive's trunk. AND THE ACT WAS OPENED THE SAME EVENING. Acta 353: he died at five in the afternoon of 6 November 1896 at calle Rivera No. 163, of tisis pulmonar, certified by Dr Vitale, before Vicente Carricaonde, Juez de Paz of the 15th section. The act reads: 'nacido en Montevideo', 'de sesenta y nueve anos de edad', 'hijo legitimo de Don PEDRO A. LERENA, oriental, fallecido, y de Dona VICENTA DE LA VEGA, oriental, fallecida'. His wife is named as Dona Manuela, oriental, 53, and the children as Antonio, Carlos Teodoro and Manuel Antonio, with the first declarant - Don Pedro A. Lerena, soltero, empleado - declared to be the dead man's son. SO THE ATTACHMENT IS NO LONGER A CANDIDATE: the act names his parents. What is now in doubt is the CENSUS DATE. Sixty-nine in 1896 means born about 1827, and a man born in 1827 is six in 1833, not sixteen - he is sixteen in 1843. Either household 229 is later than this archive dates it, or the sixteen-year-old is a different son of the same couple. THE CENSUS IS THE PADRON OF 1850, NOT c.1833 - CORRECTED 12 OCTOBER 2026. The catalogue lists film 7499042 item by item: item 1 is libro 263, 1843; item 2, where this household sits, is LIBRO 264, 1850. So this birth year moved seventeen years later. And the head of the household, entered at forty, was born about 1810 - not the Pedro Antonio Lerena born 31 July 1793 whom this archive had read him as. Either the census age is badly wrong or the household belongs to a different Pedro A. Lerena married to a different Vicenta Vega; under the neighbouring book, 1843, he would still be born about 1803 and still not be the man of 1793. See data/corrections.tsv. | record ↗ Montevideo, Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 264, the padron of 1850 - film 7499042 item 2, household 229; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX</a>, PLATE READ 12 October 2026; dating confirmed from FamilySearch catalogue koha:1408224; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX</a>; and FamilySearch record index, Uruguay Civil Registration - MONTEVIDEO, Death Records 1896, certificate 353, death registered 7 November 1896, volunteer-indexed - INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED, found 12 October 2026; Montevideo civil death registration, acta No. 353 of 7 November 1896, 15a Seccion de la Capital - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-H39V-V</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-909-72188-82458-0 on 12 October 2026 |
| Pedro Ricardo LERENA Fernandez Unplaced | 1903-05-27 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 27 May 1903, registered at Trinidad 28 May 1903. One of three children of this household the sweep found. Parents on the record: Pedro Segundo LERENA Villademoros and Petrona FERNANDEZ. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Pedro S. LERENA (of Tejera, Durazno, 1915) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Durazno, Uruguay A LITERATE LERENA AT TEJERA, in the Segunda Seccion of Durazno, in 1915. He appears on at least two birth acts of that year, signing at the request of declarants who could not write - 'manifestando Don Sinforiano Gonzalez no saber firmar, lo hace a su ruego Don Pedro J. [S.] Lerena' - and signs again beside the habitual witnesses Domingo and Saturnino Cardozo. THAT IS A MAN OF SOME LOCAL STANDING: signing for a neighbour is what a schoolmaster, a police officer or a storekeeper did. HE WAS FOUND BY ACCIDENT - a compound search for 'Lerena Cardozo' matched his surname against a Cardozo witness on the same act, which is a false positive of the technique and is recorded as one in data/false-zeros.tsv. THE MIDDLE INITIAL IS WRITTEN S. ONCE AND J. ONCE IN THE SAME TRANSCRIPT, and neither has been read off the plate. NOTHING CONNECTS HIM TO ANY BRANCH IN THIS REGISTER. | record ↗ Durazno. Birth Records July 1914-December 1915 - signatory on acts at Tejera, Segunda seccion; images 49 and 75, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-M9R6-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-M9R6-K</a> - FULL-TEXT read 10 October 2026 |
| Pedro Segundo LERENA Villademoros Unplaced | c.1870 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A GRANDSON OF AVELINO LERENA FERNANDEZ, and this archive could not see him until a search parameter was deleted. Son of Avelino Eduardo Lerena and Celedonia Villademoros; died at Montevideo on 23 August 1936 aged 66, registered the next day, certificate 150. His wife was PAULINA PRANDO ALGAR. HE MAY BE PEDRO GUALBERTO LERENA VILLADEMOROS UNDER A DIFFERENT SECOND FORENAME, and the rows are kept apart. Pedro Gualberto was born 19 October 1869 and christened at the Cordon on 15 January 1870; an age of 66 in August 1936 gives a birth in 1869 or 1870. Same parents, same year, same first name, different second name - which is either one man written twice or two brothers, and in this family brothers HAVE shared a birthday. TEST: the 1921 marriage registration indexed for Pedro Gualberto. INDEX-LEVEL. | record ↗ Montevideo civil death registration No. 150, 24 August 1936 - index read 21 September 2026; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS5R-6F82" rel="noopener">1:1:XS5R-6F82</a> |
| Pierre Frederick LERENA Connected | 1948-05-10 · Transvaal · SA · found in Johannesburg A SON OF RICARDO JUAN CARLOS LERENA and a grandson of Pablo Armando. Born 10 May 1948; DIED 12 NOVEMBER 1999, the same day as his wife and both his sons. The family tree carried those three deaths with zero citations - data/gedcom-graded.tsv says so in terms - and the Johannesburg cemetery register confirmed them to the day. FOUR CONSECUTIVE ARKS IN ONE REGISTER - 6X6S-M484, M48C, M48H, M48Z. Pierre, Richard, Gayle and Jeffrey were entered together, in a single act of registration, on 18 November 1999. That is structural corroboration on top of the dates, and it is the kind of thing an index loses and a register keeps. HE WAS NOT A PERSON IN THIS ARCHIVE UNTIL 9 OCTOBER 2026, though his death had been researched, sourced and published on /south-africa/ since September. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 - burial registration 18 November 1999 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X6S-M484" rel="noopener">1:1:6X6S-M484</a>; and Government Gazette estate 20821, 28 January 2000 |
| Pio C. LERENA Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores NO BIRTH DATE IS INDEXED. Son of an ALEJANDRO of the Trinidad orbit and SEVERA FERNANDEZ - the index writes her HERNANDEZ. If that is Alejandro Lerena the younger, who married Severa Fernandez at Trinidad in December 1854, then Pio is a son of that marriage. NOT ESTABLISHED, and the sweep row says so. Parents on the record: ALEJANDRO LERENA (the younger) and Severa FERNANDEZ. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Prudencio Benito LERENA y LERENA (of Navarrete, Logrono; Buenos Aires 1900) Unplaced | Navarrete, Logrono, Spain · Spanish · dependiente · found in Buenos Aires The elder-named of the two brothers in the consular power of attorney of 14 November 1900 - 'mayor de edad, soltero, dependiente', consular registration number 950. PRUDENCIO BENITO IS A RARE FORENAME PAIR AND A GOOD ONE TO SEARCH: anything of it in the Buenos Aires registers after 1900 is this man and almost nobody else. THIS HOUSEHOLD IS WHY THE ROW MATTERS MORE THAN ITS OWN PEOPLE DO. The brothers sign themselves LERENA y LERENA, so their father was a Lerena AND their mother was a Lerena - and Pablo Armando Lerena's 1908 enrolment card names JUAN CARLOS LERENA and MARIA LERENA. AND THEY ARE THE SIXTH SUCH COUPLE THIS ARCHIVE HAS MET, NOT THE FIRST - a correction to what was written here first. The two Trinidad couples of 1894 and 1913, the 1911 dispensation, Alejandro, and Eloy x Felisa Lerena at San Jose de Flores in 1912 all came before them. SO THE CARD'S DOUBLE SURNAME WAS NEVER IN REAL DOUBT, AND NAVARRETE DOES NOT RESCUE IT. What Navarrete adds is different and smaller: it is the FIRST SUCH HOUSEHOLD OUTSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, the FIRST WHERE THE CHILDREN CARRY IT DOUBLED AS A SURNAME OF RECORD - 'Lerena y Lerena', in their own signatures, not just a coincidence of two parents - and the FIRST TIME THE PRACTICE HAS A PLACE ON A MAP that can be searched. No link to Pablo Armando is claimed - see data/open-questions.tsv. | no public link Registros Consulares: Buenos Aires City - NOTARIAL RECORDS 1900-1901, folio 138, escritura No. 368 of 14 November 1900, CONSULADO DE ESPANA EN BUENOS AIRES - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-G3XJ-XCR6</a> |
| Prudencio LERENA Unplaced | 1884 · Spanish · jornalero · found in arr. 1920-10-25 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INFANTA ISABEL DE BORBON |
| Ramon LERENA Unplaced | 1892 · Argentina · Argentine · found in Tucuman | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 census, San Miguel de Tucuman |
| Ramon LERENA (of Rosario-Colla, fl. 1794-1820) Connected | Rosario / Colla, Colonia · Uruguayan · counted cattle for a widow in 1794; Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad del Partido del Rosario by 1796 · found in Rosario / Colla, Colonia Father of Mauricio, and the head of the Rosario-Colla household. NOT the Ramon LERENA born 1892 in Argentina who is also in this register - two different men, and the register now says so on both rows. A standing warning of this archive attaches here: the tree's Gabino of Flores is given as a son of Ramon Llerena Cubas and Margarita Leal, which may or may not be this Ramon. Untested, and deliberately not merged. AND A CANDIDATE OF THE FIRST ORDER ARRIVED 9 October 2026. The Trinidad expedientes of 1855 and 1858 give the head of the Trinidad kindred as RAMON LERENA married to MARIA GONZALEZ, with children ALEJANDRO and ANTONINA, both naturales de SAN JOSE. THIS ROW IS RAMON LERENA MARRIED TO MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ, NAMED AS MAURICIO'S PARENTS ON A MARRIAGE AT SAN JOSE DE MAYO IN 1837. SAME COUPLE'S NAMES AND SAME GENERATION. If it is one couple, the Trinidad kindred attaches to the Rosario-Colla house and Alejandro and Antonina are Mauricio's siblings. NOT MERGED, AND DELIBERATELY SO: the 1837 act is INDEXED and not image-read, MARIA GONZALEZ is a common name, and this archive does not join two families on a matching couple alone. THE TEST: the 1837 San Jose act off the plate, or a baptism of Alejandro, Antonina or Mauricio naming Ramon. See data/trinidad-founding-kindred.tsv. AND THE CLAIM OF A SHARED PLACE OF ORIGIN IS WITHDRAWN, 9 October 2026, by the plate that was supposed to confirm it. This archive wrote that the 1837 act and the 1858 expediente give the same origin. THEY DO NOT. The 1837 act, read off the plate, says Mauricio was 'natural de la Villa del COLLA'; the 1858 expediente says the Trinidad Lerenas are 'naturales de SAN JOSE'. DIFFERENT BIRTHPLACES. What is shared is narrower and must be said narrowly: Mauricio was MARRIED at San Jose de Mayo, and the Trinidad Lerenas were BORN there. See data/corrections.tsv. AND A SECOND DESCENT LINE REACHED TRINIDAD, 9 October 2026. His son Mauricio's son CIPRIANO is now proved by a birth act to be one of the men fathering Lerena children at TRINIDAD in the 1870s and 1880s. SO TWO OF THOSE TRINIDAD MEN DESCEND FROM A 'RAMON LERENA AND MARIA GONZALEZ' BY TWO INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTS - Bernabe through the 1858 kinship schema, Cipriano through the 1837 marriage act and the 1895 birth act. THAT IS CONVERGENCE RATHER THAN A NAME MATCH, AND IT IS STILL NOT PROOF: two couples can share two names. THE TEST NOW: a baptism of Alejandro or Antonina at San Jose, or any record naming this Ramon with more than one child. AND THE IDENTIFICATION IS NOT A CANDIDATE AND WAS NEVER ONE - THIS ROW SAID SO ALL MORNING AND WAS WRONG TO. data/ramon-lerena-rosario.tsv has held since 17 September that Alejandro and Mauricio are his sons and Bernabe and Cipriano his grandsons. AND ON 9 OCTOBER HIS SON'S MARRIAGE ACT WAS READ OFF THE PLATE: act No. 17 of 16 September 1825 at San Jose - 'desposé... a ALEXANDRO LEREÑA, natural de la VILLA DEL ROSARIO, hijo legitimo de RAMON LEREÑA y de MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ, con MARGARITA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, natural de esta Villa, hija legitima de JUAN FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ y de BARBARA SOTURA'; godparents MARCOS DE LEON GONZALEZ and MARIA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ. THAT IS THE FULL FORM 'MARIA JOSEFA' IN A PRIEST'S HAND, MATCHING THIS ROW'S WIFE EXACTLY. THE TRANSCRIPT READS 'RAMON PEREÑA'; THE PLATE READS LEREÑA. A RAMON LERENA HOLDING OFFICE, SIGNING HIS OWN NAME, ON A DATED DAY IN 1800 - found 11 October 2026 inside a Buenos Aires probate file. The transcript: 'Asi lo proveyo, y firmo Don RAMON LERENA, ALCALDE DE LA SANTA HERMANDAD DEL PARTIDO DEL ROSARIO, a seis dias del mes de Noviembre del ano mil ochocientos. RAMON LERENA. En dicho dia, mes y ano, Yo Don RAMON LERENA, Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad, notifique la providencia antecedente a Dona CELESTINA GONZALEZ en su persona, de que certifico A FALTA DE ESCRIBANO PUBLICO NI REAL, POR NO HABERLO EN ESTA JURISDICCION. RAMON LERENA.' SO: an ALCALDE DE LA SANTA HERMANDAD - a rural magistrate of the Spanish countryside jurisdiction - of a PARTIDO DEL ROSARIO, acting on 6 NOVEMBER 1800 in the estate of DON CLEMENTE GARCIA, notifying his widow DONA CELESTINA GONZALEZ about inventories of goods left to a minor. AND HE WROTE. He signs twice and certifies in his own hand because there was no notary in the district - which is a plain statement about how thinly governed that country was, and a contrast worth drawing with SANCHO LLERENA, who nine years earlier could not sign his name. IS IT THIS MAN? THE DATE FITS EXACTLY AND THE PLACE IS INDICATED BUT NOT PROVED. This row has him flourishing c.1800-1820 at ROSARIO, and the file elsewhere mentions a 'vecindad del partido ORIENTAL', which points at the Banda Oriental and so at ROSARIO ORIENTAL in Colonia - this row's own Rosario. BUT THERE IS ALSO A PARTIDO DEL ROSARIO ON THE ARGENTINE SIDE, the probate was administered at Buenos Aires, which had viceregal jurisdiction over both banks, and THE OCR AROUND THE WORD 'ORIENTAL' IS BROKEN - the sentence cannot be read whole. NOT MERGED INTO THIS ROW AS FACT. THE TEST IS CHEAP AND NAMED: read further in the same file, where an alcalde's jurisdiction is normally stated in full, and check whether the Partido del Rosario it means is the Oriental one. 249 images, item 12 of image group #107093472, and only this frame has been read. THE PLACE IS SETTLED, AND BY THE COURT'S OWN WORDS - 11 October 2026, hours after this row said it was indicated and not proved. The providencia that set the whole business going is at image 22, and it addresses 'El Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad del PARTIDO DEL ROSARIO, EN LA OTRA BANDA ORIENTAL de este [Rio]' - so the Rosario is URUGUAYAN, not the Argentine Rosario and not Villa del Rosario in Cordoba. AND THE WIDOW IS 'VECINA DEL COLLA'. This row has called him 'of Rosario-Colla' since the archive's early weeks, on the strength of the 1858 kinship diagram. THE COURT PUTS HIM IN EXACTLY THAT PLACE, HOLDING OFFICE THERE, IN 1800. WHAT HE WAS DOING, across five weeks: JOSE RIERA, Alcalde Ordinario de Segundo Voto and Juez de Menores of Buenos Aires, ordered him to inventory the estate of DON CLEMENTE GARCIA because the widow DONA CELESTINA GONZALEZ was RESISTING it - she had 'pasado a segundas nupcias, teniendo hijo menor'. On 14 October 1800 Ramon went to her house with JUAN DE URDINARAN and FRANCISCO PEREZ DE CEBALLOS and notified her in the presence of her second husband; on the 15th he began at 'la nominada Villa del Rosario'; on 6 November he decreed and signed; on the 11th he went again with Perez de Ceballos, BARTOLOME PARTIA and ANDRES PAIS; and on the 12th the appraisal continued before NICOLAS YRIGOYEN as witness. THROUGHOUT HE CERTIFIES 'A FALTA DE ESCRIBANO PUBLICO NI REAL, POR NO HABERLO EN ESTA JURISDICCION' and signs his own name. AN OBSERVATION THAT IS NOT AN ARGUMENT: the 1858 diagram puts RAMON LERENA and MARIA GONZALEZ at the apex, and the woman at the centre of this file is a GONZALEZ of the Colla. GONZALEZ IS ONE OF THE COMMONEST SURNAMES IN THE RIO DE LA PLATA AND NO CONNECTION IS CLAIMED. HIS OFFICE GOES BACK FOUR YEARS FURTHER, AND BEFORE IT THERE IS A CAREER - 11 October 2026. 1796: a second probate, that of MANUEL CHABO and MARIA MARTA AGAICHU, closes 'Lo proveyo, mando y firmo D. RAMON LERENA, ALCALDE DE LA SANTA HERMANDAD DEL PARTIDO DEL ROSARIO, a veintiocho dias del mes de OCTUBRE DE MIL SETECIENTOS NOVENTA Y SEIS anos'. SO HE HELD THE OFFICE AT LEAST 1796-1800, NOT MERELY IN THE ONE YEAR THIS ARCHIVE HAD. 1794, AND HE IS NOT THE MAGISTRATE YET - THIS IS THE FIND THAT MATTERS. In the earlier file on the same estate, the alcalde of the day walks out to 'la ESTANCIA del finado Don CLEMENTE GARCIA' and there 'parecieron ante mi y testigos Don GERONIMO ALONSO y Don RAMON LERENA, SUJETOS NOMBRADOS POR LA VIUDA PARA CONTAR Y TASAR EL GANADO Y CABALLOS de dicha estancia'. They were told of the appointment, accepted, swore separately to do it faithfully, and signed. SO IN 1794 HE IS A MAN A WIDOW PICKS TO COUNT HER CATTLE, AND BY 1796 HE IS THE MAGISTRATE OF THE DISTRICT. That is the only thing resembling a biography this archive holds for anyone of this family before 1850 - not a birth, a marriage or a death, but a trade, a reputation and a rise. AND IT TELLS US WHAT HE WAS GOOD FOR: livestock. A man called in to value cattle and horses on an estancia is a man who knew stock, which is the ordinary competence of the Banda Oriental countryside and the likeliest reason the Santa Hermandad - a rural constabulary - wanted him. WHAT HE PRESIDED OVER IN 1796 IS NOT PRETTY, and is recorded because it is the only case of his this archive has read other than the Garcia estate: the Chabo petition argues that Maria Marta Agaichu gave her husband a power of attorney without understanding it - 'la pobre muchacha criada sin instruccion al lado de sus padres INDIOS GUARANIES, ignorando en todo lo que se le perjudica en el poder que le dio a su marido, TAL VEZ ATEMORIZADA'. THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT IN THIS REGISTER AND SHOULD NOT BE - he was the official, not a party, which is the boundary written into tools/check-people-named.py the same day. | record ↗ Named as the groom's father in the 1837 San Jose marriage; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F21B-SZ5" rel="noopener">1:1:F21B-SZ5</a>; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act of 3 February 1837; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 87, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67KL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67KL</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825, before Don Joseph Andres Salvatierra, Cura y Vicario Interino; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10 (indexed at 00009), ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z942" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z942</a>; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina; and Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1794, item 11 of 119 images - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3</a>; and Chabo, Manuel; Agaichu, Maria Marta: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1796 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3H9-B91P-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C3H9-B91P-F</a> |
| Ramona LERENA Unplaced · of interest | 1886c · Oriental · found in Mal Abrigo, San Jose, Uruguay Indexed as Ramona SERENA; the margin of her daughter's act reads LERENA. 24 years old and SOLTERA when she walked into the Juzgado de Paz at Mal Abrigo on 14 September 1910 to register her own daughter, born twelve days earlier - hija natural de la declarante y de padre desconocido, with the paternal line entered as se ignora. Daughter of Pedro LERENA and Juana CAMACHO. | record ↗ Uruguay, Civil Registration (cc=1837849), Mal Abrigo birth act 98 of 14 September 1910 - plate read 12 October 2026 |
| Raul LERENA Unplaced | 1885-07-10 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Buenos Aires Son of Gilberto (1854) and Julia Selvanach. HIS BAPTISM IS NOW READ, 14 September 2026: born 10 July 1885, baptised at the Catedral Basilica de Montevideo on 10 September, "hijo legitimo de Gilberto Lerena y Julia Salvanach, orientales". So the "Raul Lerena, b.1885 Montevideo" of the 1895 Buenos Aires census and the child at the Montevideo font are one boy - the census and the register agree. Godparents Alfredo Costa and Josefa Lerena. He married EMMA R. GABARRET - intended marriage recorded 16 November 1915 at Nuestra Senora del Socorro, Retiro, Buenos Aires. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, baptised 10 Sep 1885 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W</a>; plus the 1895 Argentine national census |
| Rhena May LERENA Connected | 1913 · SA · found in Braamfontein, Johannesburg Roque Luis Armando's second wife, m. 12 Mar 1966 as his widow. b.1913, d. 1 April 1998, buried Braamfontein. It was she who signed his 1973 death notice "R. M. Lerena", which is why it gives his father as "Roberto". | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records |
| Ricardo Juan Carlos LERENA Connected | 1920-01-06 · Cape Town · SA · trainer · found in Cape Town Son. PLACE FIELD CORRECTED 14 September 2026. This row's 'where found' held a CITATION - "SA records" - where the atlas expects a PLACE, so this person was missing from the map and appeared on it as a phantom location instead. The citation is kept here; the field now holds a real place. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site 1950 estate addendum |
| Richard LERENA Connected | 1986-01-02 · Transvaal · SA · found in Johannesburg THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. Born 2 January 1986; died 12 November 1999, the same day as his father, his mother and his brother. The tree carried the date without a source; the cemetery register confirms it. FOUR CONSECUTIVE ARKS IN ONE REGISTER - 6X6S-M484, M48C, M48H, M48Z. Pierre, Richard, Gayle and Jeffrey were entered together, in a single act of registration, on 18 November 1999. That is structural corroboration on top of the dates, and it is the kind of thing an index loses and a register keeps. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 - burial registration 18 November 1999 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X6S-M48C" rel="noopener">1:1:6X6S-M48C</a> |
| Rieta Maria LERENA Connected | 1936 · Johannesburg · SA · found in Transvaal Died 28 Aug 1937, as an infant. Daughter of Roque Luis Armando Lerena and Roseline Wilhelmina Forbes. SHE HAS A DEATH DATE AT LAST, 8 October 2026. Died 28 AUGUST 1937, aged 1, at 6a ROBINSON STREET, MAYFAIR, JOHANNESBURG; the register names her parent as Rogue Louis Armando Lerena. UNTIL TODAY SHE WAS GRADED 'BIRTH ONLY - a floor, not an attestation' on a bare 1936 taken from a tree. THE ADDRESS IS NEW TO THIS ARCHIVE. AND HER AGE IS NOT TAKEN FROM THE 'AGE' FIELD - see data/roque-infants-civil-deaths.tsv on why that field cannot be trusted for infants here. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry SA, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954; and South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:78S6-Y62M" rel="noopener">1:1:78S6-Y62M</a> |
| Risilio Maria LERENA Cardozo (b.1917) Unplaced | 1917-09-26 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SECOND CHILD OF CUSTODIO LERENA AND EMMA CARDOZO. Born 26 September 1917 and christened at Santisima Trinidad on 6 December 1917, the index giving the father as 'Custodio Levena'. THE FORENAME IS READ 'RISILIO' AND IS NOT ESTABLISHED - Rosilio, Basilio and Rufilio are all possible in that hand. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Roberto Ambrosio LERENA Regules (b.1896) Unplaced | 1896-11-01 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo The youngest known child, born 1 November 1896 at Montevideo and registered on the 7th. AMBROSIO IS HIS GRANDMOTHER'S NAME IN THE MASCULINE - Ambrosia Traibel - and it is also the name of the DOCTOR DON AMBROSIO LERENA who stood witness at his parents' wedding in 1880. SO THE NAME RUNS IN THE HOUSE TWICE OVER, which is an argument that Ambrosio the witness was a brother of Arturo and is not a proof of it. NINE YEARS SEPARATE HIM FROM THE SISTER ABOVE, and this archive does not know what fills the gap. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 and Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 - <strong>PARENT-PAIR INDEX QUERY, father ARTURO LERENA and mother EMMA REGULES, run 12 October 2026</strong> - eight records returned; <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Rodolfo Bernardo LERENA (father, Trinidad 1918) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Named as the father of MARIA JOSEFINA LERENA, born 2 March 1918 and christened at Trinidad on 4 May 1918, with NO MOTHER INDEXED. HE APPEARS ONCE AND IS NOT PLACED. The forename pair RODOLFO BERNARDO is new to this register, though BERNARDO runs through the Trinidad kindred - Juan Bernardo Lerena Pelaez, the two Bernabes. NOT ATTACHED TO ANYONE. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep and the Zalduando surname sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Roque Luis Armando LERENA Connected | 1905-11-25 · Cape Town · SA · retired railwayman · found in Cape Town Eldest son. PLACE FIELD CORRECTED 14 September 2026. This row's 'where found' held a CITATION - "SA records" - where the atlas expects a PLACE, so this person was missing from the map and appeared on it as a phantom location instead. The citation is kept here; the field now holds a real place. AND HE IS ON A UNION VOTERS' ROLL, found 9 October 2026 by a route this archive had never used. FamilySearch's FULL-TEXT search reads the words on unindexed images; the roll gives 'STEMDISTRIK POLLING DISTRICT NO. 770 ... 1491 Lerena, Roque Luis Armando', between Leibbrandt and Le Riche in a strictly alphabetical list. He was twenty to twenty-six across the years this roll covers. THESE ROLLS CARRY AN ADDRESS AND A TENURE - the same page's columns run Owner, Sole Tenant, Joint Tenant, Medehuurder - but the OCR cannot be aligned to the names, so his address needs the plate read by eye. A first-class lead on where he was living before Bloemfontein in 1932. AN ADDRESS, A TRADE AND A TENURE, 9 October 2026 - AND THE PLATE READ BY EYE BECAUSE THE OCR COULD NOT ALIGN THE COLUMNS. On a second roll of polling district 770 he is voter 1399 and the printed line reads 'Lerena, Roque Luis Armando ... 14 FLORENCE VILLAS ... FIREMAN ... O ... SOLE TENANT ... E'. HE IS THE SOLE TENANT OF HIS OWN ADDRESS AT ABOUT TWENTY-TWO. AND THE DISTRICT HAS A NAME NOW: one line of the same page carries 'Louis Botha Hostel, OBSERVATORY' and the street column runs Lower Main Rd, Trill Rd, Scott Rd, Arnold St and Salt River - so district 770 is OBSERVATORY and SALT RIVER, Cape Town. HIS FATHER WAS A HORSE-DEALER AND A TRAINER; HE WENT TO THE RAILWAY. The lines around his read Loco. Cleaner, Engine-driver, Signalman, Porter, Checker, Guard and Shunter, so 'Fireman' here is almost certainly a LOCOMOTIVE fireman - an inference from the company on the page, not from the word, which alone could mean a fire brigade. | record ↗ Corpus Christi Wynberg baptism; estate 1518/73; and Voter Records: South Africa, Voting Records 1925-1931 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-GQVF-S7YT-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-GQVF-S7YT-8</a>, full-text transcript read 9 October 2026; and Voter Records: South Africa, Voting Records 1925-1931 - polling district 770, Fiscal Division of the Cape, voter 1399; image 606, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-GQVF-S7YR-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-GQVF-S7YR-K</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Rosa LERENA (Sarandi 229, 1850) Unplaced · of interest | 1804c · Uruguay · Oriental · found in Montevideo Forty-six years old and CASADA at casa 229 of Calle Sarandi in the padron of 1850, entered as 'Rosa D.o' - the ditto carrying the surname LERENA. The fourth of the adults in that house to bear it. Married, like Manuela, so there is a husband to find. See data/sarandi-229-1850.tsv; the inference about the surname is filed as an inference, not as a finding. | record ↗ Montevideo, Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 264 - the padron of 1850; casa 229 of CALLE SARANDI; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-1961-36718-27970-97 on 12 October 2026 |
| Rosario Fulgencia LERENA Echeverry Unplaced | c.1877 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Vitalino Lerena and Andrea Echeverry, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Salvador LERENA (b.1896) Connected | 1896-09-21 · San Cristobal, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires BORN 21 SEPTEMBER 1896 and baptised at San Cristobal on 20 December, the act naming D.n LEANDRO LERENA, 42, natural de Espana, and D.a LUCIA LLANOS, 34, natural de Espana, domiciled at Calle Pichincha 929. Godparents Salvador Angulo, 23, and Catalina Martinez, 27, both Spanish. This act closes the identification that rested on a fitted birth year this morning: the army card's LORENA is the census's LERENA, and its 'Lucio Llanos' is LUCIA. He is the child missing from the 1895 census sheet because he had not yet been born. | record ↗ Libro de Bautismos de la Parroquia de San Cristobal, Buenos Aires, 1896, certificate 288 - index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNMH-FJ3" rel="noopener">1:1:XNMH-FJ3</a>, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9396-XRWL-G" rel="noopener">3:1:9396-XRWL-G</a>, PLATE READ 12 October 2026; and the army enrolment card, Cajon 985 order 666 (Argentina, Military Records 1911-1936) |
| Sara Esmeralda LERENA Fernandez Unplaced | 1900-11-03 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 3 November 1900, registered at Trinidad 5 November 1900 and christened there 23 April 1901 - so she appears in BOTH the civil register and the parish books, which is how the sweep caught her twice. Parents on the record: Pedro Segundo LERENA Villademoros and Petrona FERNANDEZ. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Sebastiana LERENA Unplaced | 1886 · Spanish · found in arr. 1913-12-03 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INFANTA ISABEL from Barcelona |
| Severa LERENA (m. Doroteo Rodriguez) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A LERENA MOTHER AT TRINIDAD, new to this register. Named with DOROTEO RODRIGUEZ as the parents of a child baptised between 1917 and 1920. SEVERA IS A NAME THIS FAMILY ALREADY USES - Alejandro Lerena the younger married a SEVERA FERNANDEZ in 1854 - and that is a naming habit, not a relationship. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Santisima Trinidad, Baptism Records March 1917-April 1920, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-FQ8W-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-FQ8W-H</a> |
| Sinforiano LERENA (Sarandi 229, 1850) Unplaced · of interest | 1831c · Uruguay · Oriental · found in Montevideo Nineteen years old at casa 229 of Calle Sarandi in the padron of 1850, entered as 'Sinforiano D.o' - the ditto carrying the surname LERENA - and recorded with the same colour as Estanislada. One of four adults bearing this family's surname in a house whose only white entry is a child of eleven. See data/sarandi-229-1850.tsv. The inference about how the surname reached him is filed as an inference. | record ↗ Montevideo, Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 264 - the padron of 1850; casa 229 of CALLE SARANDI; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-89ZP-B99S-Z</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-1961-36718-27970-97 on 12 October 2026 |
| Socorro LERENA (m. Serapio Fernandez the elder) Unplaced · high interest | 1832 · Uruguay · UY · Propietaria · found in Trinidad, Flores A LERENA WOMAN ENTIRELY NEW TO THIS ARCHIVE, and she explains a dispensation. Her grandson's birth act of 1897 gives her as 'Dona SOCORRO LERENA, Oriental, de sesenta y cinco anos, propietaria y domiciliada en TRINIDAD' - born about 1832, a widow and a property owner in her own right. SHE IS THE MOTHER OF SERAPIO FERNANDEZ, who in 1885 married ANTONINA LERENA, daughter of BERNABE LERENA. SO LERENA BLOOD RUNS DOWN BOTH SIDES OF THAT MARRIAGE, which is why the Archbishop had to dispense a second grade of consanguinity in the equal lateral line. IF SOCORRO AND BERNABE ARE BROTHER AND SISTER THE COUPLE ARE FIRST COUSINS, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THAT DEGREE MEANS - BUT HER OWN PARENTS ARE NOT NAMED HERE AND THE LINK IS INFERRED, NOT PROVED. HER PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS, 9 October 2026, AND WORK-LIST ROW 196 IS CLOSED. The EXPEDIENTE of her own marriage - Trinidad, August 1855 - has a sworn witness name four generations: she is a daughter of Don ALEJANDRO LERENA and Dona MARGARITA FERNANDEZ and a granddaughter of Don RAMON LERENA and Dona MARIA GONZALEZ. BERNABE LERENA'S OWN EXPEDIENTE OF 1858 NAMES THE SAME PARENTS FOR HIM - SO SOCORRO AND BERNABE ARE BROTHER AND SISTER, AND THE 1885 DISPENSATION IS EXPLAINED BY A DOCUMENT RATHER THAN AN INFERENCE. HER MARRIAGE WAS ITSELF DISPENSED, in the SECOND grade by the transverse line - first cousins - and the degree runs on the FERNANDEZ side: her mother is a FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ and her husband's father is MANUEL FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ. THE PETITION CALLS HER 'UNA POBRE INDOTADA' living beside her parents on the work of her hands. AND HER FULL NAME IS MARIA DEL SOCORRO, from a Trinidad baptism of 25 January 1849 where she stands godmother - about seventeen on the age her grandson's 1897 act gives her, which corroborates 1832 from a second direction. A SENTENCE WAS PUT ON THIS ROW EARLIER TODAY AND IS WITHDRAWN THE SAME DAY. It said her marriage was dated 15 July 1885 from a parish index row reading 'Socorro Lerena, Bride, married Serapio Fernandez'. THAT CANNOT BE THIS WOMAN. The index record gives its bride as thirty years old, SOLTERA, born 1855; this Socorro was born about 1832 and in 1885 was a WIDOW with a grown son - the Serapio Fernandez who married that June. A woman cannot be the groom's mother and his bride. AND THE INDEX RECORD BETRAYS ITSELF WHEN IT IS OPENED. It gives the bride THE GROOM'S OWN ATTRIBUTES, ITEM FOR ITEM: age thirty, born 1855, born at Santisima Trinidad, resident at Santisima Trinidad, single - every field identical to his. THAT IS NOT A BRIDE. IT IS ONE PARTY'S DETAILS COPIED ONTO A LERENA NAME THE PARSER FOUND ELSEWHERE ON THE PAGE - and the Lerena name on that page is hers, because she is the groom's mother. SO THE LIKELIEST READING: the act of 15 July 1885 is the marriage of SERAPIO FERNANDEZ (hijo) to ANTONINA LERENA, dispensed three weeks earlier on 26 June 1885, and the computer index has put the groom's mother in the bride's place. NOT PROVED - THE PLATE HAS NOT BEEN OPENED - and a third Socorro Lerena cannot be formally excluded. HER OWN MARRIAGE REMAINS UNDATED. | record ↗ Flores, Birth Records 1887-1901 - entry No. 10, Cayetano Alberto Fernandez, born Pintos 7 August 1897; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F</a>, FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1855-1857 - EXPEDIENTE of Serapio Fernandez to marry Socorro Lerena, Trinidad, August 1855, witness Jose Maria Guerrero; images 26-27, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-23PV-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-23PV-K</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Teresa Maria Eva LERENA Pelaez (b.1911) Unplaced | 1911-06-17 · Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A DAUGHTER OF JUAN BERNARDO LERENA PELAEZ AND EDUVIGES PELAEZ, born 17 June 1911 and registered on the 26th. Her parents are the couple of the 1894 DISPENSATION, and this archive held no child of theirs. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Venancio LERENA Fernandez (m. 1885) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SON OF ALEJANDRO LERENA THE YOUNGER AND SEVERA FERNANDEZ, and the first child of that marriage this archive has found. Married at Santisima Trinidad on 24 April 1885, the index giving his parents as 'Severa Fernandez' and 'Alejandro Lerma'. His bride is rendered 'Venancia Arisen', which is not a reading this archive can use - and a Venancio marrying a Venancia is the kind of symmetry an index invents, so it is flagged rather than believed. THE 1854 MARRIAGE OF HIS PARENTS IS ALREADY HELD HERE, under the SERENA spelling. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Vicenta LERENA Vega (b. c.1838) Unplaced · of interest | 1838c · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A DAUGHTER OF PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA AND VICENTA VEGA, new to this archive, and named for her mother. Entered at 12 in household 229. Indexed as 'Vicenta Serena', and she is the DAUGHTER, not the wife. Nothing else about her is known. THE CENSUS IS THE PADRON OF 1850, NOT c.1833 - CORRECTED 12 OCTOBER 2026. The catalogue lists film 7499042 item by item: item 1 is libro 263, 1843; item 2, where this household sits, is LIBRO 264, 1850. So this birth year moved seventeen years later. And the head of the household, entered at forty, was born about 1810 - not the Pedro Antonio Lerena born 31 July 1793 whom this archive had read him as. Either the census age is badly wrong or the household belongs to a different Pedro A. Lerena married to a different Vicenta Vega; under the neighbouring book, 1843, he would still be born about 1803 and still not be the man of 1793. See data/corrections.tsv. | record ↗ Montevideo, Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 264, the padron of 1850 - film 7499042 item 2, household 229; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX</a>, PLATE READ 12 October 2026; dating confirmed from FamilySearch catalogue koha:1408224; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX</a> |
| Vicente LERENA DIAZ (Registro Civil, Pueblo Brugo 1938) Unplaced | Argentine · Jefe del Registro Civil · found in Pueblo Brugo, Entre Rios A LERENA HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE, 138 YEARS AFTER THE LAST ONE THIS ARCHIVE FOUND. He keeps the civil register of PUEBLO BRUGO, Departamento Parana, Provincia de ENTRE RIOS, and the acts open and close in his name: 'En Pueblo Brugo ... a once de Febrero de mil novecientos treinta y ocho, ANTE MI VICENTE LERENA DIAZ, de Registro Civil, comparecio ...' and 'Ante mi: VICENTE LERENA DIAZ. Es conforme con la partida que tengo a la vista.' THE CANDIDACY, STATED AND NOT ASSERTED: ARTURO LERENA GARCIA x AMALIA DIAZ had sons surnamed LERENA DIAZ, two of whom this register holds - JUAN FERNANDO, dead at ten months at Valparaiso in 1894, and ANTONIO, born about 1896 at Buenos Aires, WHO MARRIED AT CRESPO, DEPARTAMENTO DE PARANA, ENTRE RIOS, ON 24 OCTOBER 1924. Vicente keeps the civil register of PUEBLO BRUGO, DEPARTAMENTO DE PARANA, ENTRE RIOS, fourteen years later. A RARE COMPOUND, THE SAME SMALL DEPARTMENT, AND THE RIGHT GENERATION. NOT MERGED: the act gives him no parents and no age. The test is his own birth or marriage act, or any Lerena Diaz entry in the Crespo and Parana civil registers. THE PEOPLE IN THE ACTS HE SIGNED ARE NOT IN THIS REGISTER AND SHOULD NOT BE. Felix Velazquez, a day-labourer of thirty, and an infant Blanca Dora Albornoz are strangers to this family; he recorded their deaths because that was his job. SEE THE BOUNDARY ON tools/check-people-named.py: an official of record is admitted, the business of his office is not. | no public link Libro de defunciones: Pueblo Brugo, Departamento Parana, Entre Rios - DEATH RECORDS 1938, acta of 11 February 1938 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-3Q4L-P8KV" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-3Q4L-P8KV</a> |
| Victor LERENA (d.1889, alpargatero) Unplaced · of interest | 1861 · Uruguay · Uruguayan ("oriental") · alpargatero · found in Montevideo, calle Corrales 36 A WHOLE BRANCH OF LERENAS THIS ARCHIVE HAD NEVER SEEN, found 15 September 2026 by searching FIDEL rather than the surname. His death registration: "ha fallecido VICTOR LERENA de nacionalidad oriental de veinte y ocho anos de edad, de estado soltero y de profesion ALPARGATERO, a consecuencia de TUBERCULOSIS PULMONAR ... el finado era hijo [de] PEDRO LORENA y JOSEFA SEGUEIRA, orientales, FINADOS. Abuelos paternos FIDEL LERENA y MARIA RUEDAS; maternos Jose Seguera y Ramona." He died in hospital at twenty-eight, single, of tuberculosis, and the declaration was made DE OFICIO - by the authorities, not by family. An alpargatero is a maker of rope-soled shoes. Every other Lerena this archive has placed in Montevideo is a hacendado, a juez de paz, a major or a senator's family. This is the same surname at the other end of that city. WHETHER THIS FIDEL IS SANCHO'S SON IS NOT ESTABLISHED. Sancho's Fidel was born about 1799 and the Geneanet trees give him a death in 1822, at twenty-two or twenty-three. For this to be the same man, Pedro would have to be born by 1822 and fathering Victor at about forty. That is tight but possible, and the tree's 1822 is tree-only and has never been tested against a Montevideo burial. The alternative is a second Fidel Lerena at Montevideo, which nothing rules out. Recorded as a branch to test, not as a descent. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 008165116 image 01442, folio 94 - Montevideo civil death registration No. 622 of 1889. THE ACT GIVES A CAUSE OF DEATH THE TRANSCRIPT NEVER CARRIED: 'a consecuencia de TUBERCULOSIS PULMONAR, segun consta del certificado medico'. His trade is confirmed in the priest's - the registrar's - own hand: ALPARGATERO. And the registration is 'de oficio', an official declaration rather than one made by kin, which is why no relative signs it. THE ACT RUNS TO THREE GENERATIONS: 'el finado era hijo de PEDRO LERENA y JOSEFA SEGUEIRA, orientales, FINADOS. Abuelos [paternos] FIDEL LERENA y MARIA RUEDAS: MATERNOS JOSE SEGUEIRA y RAMONA...' | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil death registration 1889 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008165116 image 01442 |
| Violeta Blanca LERENA Cardozo Unplaced | 1915-10-29 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores SHE IS THE PROOF THAT THE 1911 DISPENSATION WAS GRANTED, and she has had no person page since 27 September. Born 29 October 1915 and christened at Trinidad on 16 September 1916, daughter of the double first cousins the Cura Vicario diagrammed twice in 1911. HER EXISTENCE IS THE ARGUMENT - this archive could not find the grant and inferred it from her birth, and the marriage act of 18 September 1911 has since confirmed it. Parents on the record: CUSTODIO LERENA and EMA CARDOZO. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv, entered as people 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Vitaliano LERENA (m. Andrea ETCHEBERSE) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores HE IS REAL AND HIS MARRIAGE IS NOT WHAT THIS ARCHIVE PUBLISHED THAT MORNING. Entered as half of a Lerena-married-a-Lerena couple on an index reading; his daughter's marriage act names him 'DON VITALIANO LERENA' and his wife 'DONA ANDREA ETCHEBERSE'. '...el VEINTE Y SEIS DE MARZO [de mil no]vecientos SEIS, previa la informacion juridica, leidas las tres conciliares proclamas SIN NINGUN IMPEDIMENTO NI CANONICO NI CIVIL... autorizo el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo DON ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE, oriental, soltero, de TREINTA Y TRES anos de edad, HIJO [legitimo-struck-out] NATURAL de Don ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE y de Dona FRAILANA VALIENTE, con Dona ANDREA ALBINA LERENA, oriental, soltera, de TREINTA Y DOS anos de edad, HIJA LEGITIMA DE DON VITALIANO LERENA Y DE DONA ANDREA ETCHEBERSE. Los testigos fueron JOSE MARTINEZ y BERNARDO YRIZA[BAL] y para que conste lo firmo.' SO WHAT SURVIVES IS STILL WORTH HAVING: a VITALIANO LERENA at SANTISIMA TRINIDAD, FLORES, with a daughter born about 1874 and married there in 1906 - in the town this archive has worked hardest, and in none of its sweeps. VITALIANO IS A RARE FORENAME AND REMAINS THE BEST THING TO SEARCH ON. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS July 1898 to December 1912, the act of 26 March 1906, certificate 26 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72168-24536-85; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-SPKF" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6J-SPKF</a> |
| Vitalino LERENA (of Trinidad) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores One of the men fathering Lerena children at Trinidad, Flores in the 1870s and 1880s. Wife: Andrea ECHEVERRY. 3 children 1873-1877. Six or seven men of a rare surname in one small inland town in a handful of years are almost certainly brothers or first cousins - this looks like the founding kindred of the surname in Uruguay. No Pablo and no Armando anywhere in the set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Ysaac LERENA (of Trinidad) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores One of the men fathering Lerena children at Trinidad, Flores in the 1870s and 1880s. Wife: Adelaida GAZO. 2 children 1874-1875. Six or seven men of a rare surname in one small inland town in a handful of years are almost certainly brothers or first cousins - this looks like the founding kindred of the surname in Uruguay. No Pablo and no Armando anywhere in the set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Ysidro Gregorio LERENA Pelaez Unplaced | 1885-05-09 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Child of Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez, baptised or registered at Trinidad, Flores. Part of the Trinidad kindred - the densest concentration of the surname on earth. Not ours: there is no Pablo and no Armando in the whole set. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Zelmira Carlota LERENA LARRIERA (m. Adolfo CORDERO) Unplaced | 1880-11-04 · Departamento San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo TESTED AND PLACED, 14 September 2026 - and she is NOT ours. Born 4 NOVEMBER 1880 in the Departamento de SAN JOSE, daughter of ALBERTO LERENA and MARIA INES LARRIERA; married ADOLFO CORDERO at Montevideo on 28 FEBRUARY 1901; died at Montevideo 4 JANUARY 1945. Children ADOLFO ANGEL FAUSTINO (b.1905, the San Jose baptism that found her), MARIA ZELMIRA (b.1903, d.1984) and MARIA EUGENIA. She was flagged because the shape was right - a Uruguayan Lerena woman married to an Argentine in the decade this archive cares about. The shape was right and the substance is not: she has a father, a birthplace and a date, and none of them touches Pablo Armando. BUT HER FATHER IS WORTH A SECOND LOOK, AND IS NOT MERGED. ALBERTO LERENA, fathering a daughter in 1880, would be the right age to be ALBERTO OCTAVIO LERENA LENGUAS - born Montevideo 22 March 1850, son of Luis and Justiniana, and so a grandson of Sancho. He would be thirty. NOTHING JOINS THEM but a forename and an age, which is precisely the evidence that produced the two Arturos. If it held, Zelmira would be a great-granddaughter of Sancho - and that is a hypothesis to test, not a line to draw. 'SHE IS NOT OURS' IS RETRACTED, 21 September 2026. SHE IS OURS. This row named the one test that would change its own verdict - who her father Alberto Lerena was - and guessed ALBERTO OCTAVIO LERENA LENGUAS. IT IS THE OTHER GRANDFATHER. Alberto Lerena's own Montevideo death registration of 2 March 1921, certificate 246, names his wife MARIA INES LARRIERA and his parents AVELINO LERENA and AMBROSIA TREIBEL. So her father is PEDRO ALBERTO YSABELINO LERENA TRAIBEL, baptised at the Aguada on 21 November 1852, and ZELMIRA IS A GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF SANCHO - which is what this row said would follow if the link held. It held by a different route. THE LINK IS ONE RECORD AND IT IS INDEX-LEVEL: the 1921 image has not been opened, and that is now an errand. See data/alberto-lerena-larriera.tsv. AND THE LINK IS NO LONGER INDEX-LEVEL. Within the hour the 1921 image was opened - film 008165205 image 01604 - and it names her father's parents as AVELINO LERENA and AMBROSIA TREIBEL in his own hand-written act, and names HER among his nine children: 'Maria Adelina, ZELMIRA, Eleiza, Alberto, Carlos, Maria Ines, Maria Consuelo, Maria Antonieta y Miguel Avelino'. The chain from her to Sancho now rests on an image at every step that matters. AND HER MARRIAGE IS FOUND, 9 October 2026. Entry N. 7057, 1 FEBRUARY 1901: the Archbishop dispensed DON ADOLFO CORDERO the impediment of THIRD GRADE of consanguinity WITH ATTINGENCY TO THE SECOND, by the unequal lateral line, with which he was declared bound to DONA ZELMIRA CARLOTA LERENA, feligresa de la METROPOLITANA. SHE MARRIED A BLOOD RELATIVE, AND THAT IS A FACT ABOUT HER ANCESTRY RATHER THAN HER LIFE - the Church computed the degree before it would dispense, so the entry constrains her pedigree even though it names no parent. THIS ARCHIVE ONCE WROTE HER OFF as 'tested and placed - and she is not ours', and corrected that; here she is on a record of her own. AND HER MARRIAGE ACT WAS READ IN FULL ON 9 OCTOBER 2026, and it moves the date. Headed 'Matrimonio de Cordero y Lorena': on 28 FEBRUARY 1904 at the Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Lourdes, La Union, before Bishop Ricardo Jara, she married D. ADOLFO MAXIMO CORDERO - soltero, ARGENTINO, MEDICO, twenty-eight, of SAN JOSE, legitimate son of D. ADOLFO M. CORDERO and Dona CASIMIRA CHAVARRIA. She is soltera, oriental, TWENTY years old, of CALLE CERRO LARGO 230, and hija legitima de D. Alberto [S]erena y Dona Maria Ines Larriera. THIS REGISTER SAYS SHE MARRIED IN 1901 AND THE ACT SAYS 1904 - same day, same month. The book runs 1902-1934 and the entry above it is dated May 1902, so 1901 is impossible and the act is primary. The dispensation of 1 February 1901 cleared them three years before they married. AND HER AGE DOES NOT FIT EITHER: twenty in February 1904 means born about 1883-84, not 4 November 1880. Both are recorded and neither is preferred. HER PARENTS ARE NOW ON A PRIMARY RECORD rather than an index - and the act writes her father SERENA and her mother, as a witness four lines later, LERENA. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Jose de Mayo - baptism of 12 April 1905 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-Z7WR-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-Z7WR-1</a>; and Uruguayan civil registration - her birth of 4 Nov 1880, her marriage of 28 Feb 1901 and her death of 4 Jan 1945 - indexes read 14 Sep 2026; and Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1856-1932 - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NXGJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-NXGJ</a>, FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026; and La Union, Montevideo - Religious Marriage Records 1902-1934, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-TWWY-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-TWWY-Y</a> - FULL-TEXT transcript read 9 October 2026 |
| Anna LERINA Excluded | 1868 · Italian · ama de casa · found in arr. 1889-03-15 Same party; same narrowed reasoning. Aged 21 in 1889 and single - fourteen when Pablo Armando was born. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship ADELAIDE LAVARELLO |
| Annunziata LERINA Excluded | 1872 · Italian · ama de casa · found in arr. 1889-03-15 Same party; same narrowed reasoning. Aged 17 in 1889 - ten when Pablo Armando was born. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship ADELAIDE LAVARELLO |
| Laurensa LERINA Excluded | 1830 · Italian · agricultor · found in arr. 1889-03-15 EXCLUSION RE-EXAMINED 13 Sep 2026 and NARROWED. She cannot be anyone sought: arriving 1889, aged 59, seven years after Pablo Armando was born at Rosario, in a party containing no Juan Carlos and no Maria. THAT is the reason, and it rests on facts in the index. The older note also asserted that 'LERINA here is an Italian surname, not a variant of the Spanish Lerena' - a claim about the NAME rather than the people, made without opening the manifest, and of exactly the kind that got the Armando Lorena card wrong. It is withdrawn as a reason; the exclusion stands on the dates alone. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship ADELAIDE LAVARELLO from Genova |
| Savina LERINA Excluded | 1834 · Italian · ama de casa · found in arr. 1889-03-15 Same party; same narrowed reasoning. Aged 55 in 1889; cannot be Maria Lerena, who had a son at Rosario in 1882 and appears on his 1908 enrolment card. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship ADELAIDE LAVARELLO |
| Andres LERMA (witness, 1909) Unplaced | 1863 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · abogado · found in Montevideo The second witness at the Yeregui-Lerena Regules marriage, 9 August 1909: 'de CUARENTA Y SEIS ANOS de edad, de estado casado, de profesion ABOGADO, de nacionalidad oriental, domiciliado en la calle 25 DE MAYO 436' - so born about 1863. HIS SURNAME IS NOT ESTABLISHED: the transcript gives 'Lerma' in the body and something like 'Andherenal' in the signature line. TWO LAWYERS STOOD WITNESS, which is what a lawyer's daughter's wedding looks like. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a> |
| Lucia LLANOS (LERENA by marriage) Unplaced · high interest | 1863c · Spain · Spanish · found in Buenos Aires THE NAME THAT JOINS TWO RECORDS THIS ARCHIVE HELD SEPARATELY FOR TWO DAYS. 32 years old on the 1895 census sheet, married, Spanish, literate. Wife of Leandro LERENA; mother of Emilia, Francisco, Paulina and - the year after this census - SALVADOR. She is named on her son's army card as Lucio Llanos, which is how the archive came to search for her and find nothing: she was never entered in this register, so the household on the sheet and the household on the card had no name in common to meet on. SETTLED THE SAME DAY BY AN ACT: the San Cristobal baptism of 20 December 1896 names both parents together - LEANDRO LERENA, 42, and LUCIA LLANOS, 34, both natural de Espana, living at Calle Pichincha 929 - so the census household and the army card are one family. | record ↗ 1895 Argentine National Census, Seccion 18 Subdivision 34, Ciudad de Buenos Aires - image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XX67-Q4K</a>, PLATE READ at apid TH-266-13033-138829-16 on 12 October 2026; and the army enrolment card of Salvador LORENA, Cajon 985 order 666 (Argentina, Military Records 1911-1936); and the baptism of their son Salvador, San Cristobal, Buenos Aires, 20 December 1896 - PLATE READ 12 October 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XNMH-FJ3" rel="noopener">1:1:XNMH-FJ3</a> |
| Alejandrina LLERENA (madrina, Buenos Aires 1910) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires A LLERENA WOMAN WHO SIGNED HER OWN NAME. She stood godmother at the baptism of Juan Carlos Llerena at San Nicolas, Buenos Aires in 1910, and the signature at the foot of the form is hers: 'Alejandrina Llerena'. She was invisible until the plate was opened - the machine transcript this archive worked from did not carry her. A Llerena at the font of a Llerena child is very likely kin to the father, and nothing on the act says how. Nothing else here names her. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Parroquia de San Nicolas, Buenos Aires - baptism of Juan Carlos Llerena, 1910 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 004571164 image 00201, folio 370; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-GD9T-LM" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-GD9T-LM</a> |
| Baldomero LLERENA Unplaced | 1851 · Cordoba · Argentine · found in Cordoba, Argentina Son of Francisco Llerena and Rafaela Daraz; m. Margarita Correas. Children Sahara, Carlos, Julia Rosa; also Amalia by Leonarda Pereyra. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Marriage 16 Feb 1876, Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion |
| Bartolome LLERENA Unplaced · of interest | 1824 · Cordoba · Argentine · JORNALERO (day labourer) · found in ROSARIO, Santa Fe, Seccion 2a Still the ONLY person of this surname found in Rosario before 1882. Age 45, MARRIED, born Cordoba - so 58 in 1882. BUT the image shows him lodging among twelve unrelated individuals (washerwomen, labourers, a carpenter, a Spanish shopkeeper) with NO WIFE OR CHILDREN beside him. A day labourer, not a horseman. Surname reads LLERENA with the double L. THE ARK IS NOW RECORDED, 13 September 2026: 3:1:S3HT-XK5S-TP. Line 4 of the schedule, re-opened and checked: "Llerena / Bartolome / 45", the surname written with a DOUBLE L exactly as this archive has always read it. Note for anyone following the old citation: the film's own ?i=86 is NOT this page - the viewer's image numbering and the numbering recorded here do not agree, and ?i=86 lands on an Aguirrebarrena household with no Llerena on it. A SECOND ROW FOR HIM WAS REMOVED 20 September 2026. 'Bartolome LLERENA - Cordoba origin' was never a person: its own note read 'Cross-reference: the Rosario 1869 man was born in Cordoba' and its source read 'See the Cordoba Llerena family below'. A cross-reference is not a human being, and it was sitting in the register being counted as one. Caught by the duplicate gate on identical birth years of 1824. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1869 National Census, film 004331984 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XK5S-TP" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XK5S-TP</a> |
| Camilo LLERENA Unplaced · of interest | 1842 · Santa Fe · Argentine · found in Nogoya, Entre Rios A Santa Fe-born Llerena living in Entre Rios - the province of the large Gualeguaychu Larena kindred. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1869 census |
| Celina LLERENA Clavijo Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Uruguay Death registered 11 May 1917. Indexed under the compound LLERENA CLAVIJO. No birth found. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - parent-pair query on PEDRO LLERENA and SOFIA CLAVIJO, run 21 September 2026; index read |
| Dominga Josefa LLERENA Fernandez (b.1804) Unplaced | 1804-05-13 · Canelones · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A DAUGHTER OF SANCHO LLERENA AND MARIA FERNANDEZ, and now dated: born 13 May 1804 at Canelones, baptised two days later. "Una parvula de dos dias nacida, a la cual puso por nombre Dominga Josefa, hija legitima de Sancho Llerena y de Maria Fernandez; fueron los padrinos Joseph Ponteceli y Agueda Rivero, TODOS VECINOS DE LA MISMA VILLA." She is the DOMINGA LERENA who stood godmother at the Catedral de Montevideo in October 1833 to her sister Justa Pastora's child - aged twenty-nine. The archive guessed "almost certainly her sister or cousin"; she is the sister. A SISTER OF DON LUIS LERENA. A CAUTION ADDED 14 September 2026, AND NOT RESOLVED. Two indexed records name a Dominga, daughter of Sancho and Maria Fernandez, with DIFFERENT HUSBANDS: one "Dominga Lorena" married to ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ with a son Domingo (ark 1:1:6D7C-5X1Y), and one "Dominga Llarena" married to ANTONIO RUIZ DE CARVALLO with a daughter Lucinda Gregoria (ark 1:1:6DF7-HZPR). The image arks are adjacent, so the two acts are near neighbours in one register. That is either ONE WOMAN WHO MARRIED TWICE, ONE MAN WHOSE NAME IS WRITTEN TWO WAYS, or TWO SISTERS OF THE SAME FORENAME - and this archive has been caught by exactly that shape twice, with the two Arturos and the three Josefas. Both husbands being ANTONIO is suggestive and is not proof. NEITHER IMAGE OPENED; NOTHING MERGED INTO THIS ROW. See data/sancho-children-complete.tsv. Note also that a DONA DOMINGA CARVALLO stood godmother at a Lerena font in 1850, which makes the CARVALLO husband worth reading rather than assuming. THE CAUTION ABOVE IS NOW HALF ANSWERED - ON AN ACT, the same afternoon it was written. The Catedral baptism of 12 May 1827 reads: "Lucinda Gregoria del Corazon de Jesus, que nacio en veinte y cuatro de Abril ultimo, hija legitima del CAPITAN DON ANTONIO RUIZ DE CARVALLO, y de DONA DOMINGA LLERENA DE CARVALLO. Nieta Paterna del MAYOR DON JOAQUIN RUIZ DE CARVALLO y de la finada Dona Juana Suarez; MATERNA DE SANCHO LLERENA Y DE DONA MARIA FERNANDEZ." So Sancho's daughter Dominga married a CAPTAIN, son of a MAJOR - and the godfather was EXCELENTISIMO SENOR GENERAL DON FRANCISCO DE PAULA MAGGESI. A second general at a Lerena font. AND IT IDENTIFIES A WOMAN THIS ARCHIVE COULD NOT PLACE: the "DONA DOMINGA CARVALLO" who stood godmother at Alberto Octavio Lerena's baptism in 1850 is almost certainly this woman - Dominga Llerena de Carvallo, standing for her brother's son. Not merged, because the 1850 act gives her only as Carvallo; but the two rows should be read together. THE OTHER DOMINGA RECORD - the one naming a husband ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ and a son DOMINGO - IS STILL UNRESOLVED and its image is still unopened. One woman twice married, or a sister of the same name. AND THEN FULLY RESOLVED, an hour later, BY OPENING THE SECOND IMAGE. The Catedral act of 25 October 1840 reads: "bautice solemnemente a DOMINGO que nacio el cuatro de Agosto del presente ano, hijo legitimo de D. ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DE CARBALLO, natural de la PROVINCIA DEL RIO GRANDE, y de Dona DOMINGA LERENA, natural del Estado Oriental. Nieto paterno de D. JOAQUIN RODRIGUEZ y de Dona JUANA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO, ambos naturales de la COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, y por parte materna de D. SANCHO LERENA y de Dona MARIA FERNANDEZ." THE TWO HUSBANDS ARE ONE MAN. "Antonio Rodriguez" and "Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo" are the same Antonio DE CARVALLO, whose first surname the registers write RUIZ in 1827 and RODRIGUEZ in 1840, and whose father is JOAQUIN in both. THERE IS ONE DOMINGA, AND SHE IS THIS ONE. Her known children are LUCINDA GREGORIA (b. 24 April 1827) and DOMINGO (b. 4 August 1840) - thirteen years apart, so there are almost certainly others between them. TWO DISCREPANCIES RECORDED RATHER THAN SMOOTHED: 1827 makes Antonio a CAPITAN and his father a MAYOR and names the mother DONA JUANA SUAREZ, "la finada"; 1840 gives no ranks, makes Antonio a native of RIO GRANDE in Brazil with parents from the COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, and names the mother DONA JUANA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO. A devotional epithet and a surname can belong to one woman - Juana del Espiritu Santo Suarez - and that is a reading, not a finding. AND SHE IS IN THE 1836 CENSUS, found 20 September 2026: household 114, 'Dominga Serena', 28, Montevideo, CASADA, with D. Antº R. Carballo - her husband Capitan Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo - entered Continente, casado, HACENDADO, and two unmarried daughters, LUCINDA (the Lucinda Gregoria baptised 12 May 1827) and DOMINGA CARBALLO, named for her mother. The census gives her age as 28 against her baptism of 13 May 1804, which would make her 32 - four years out, on an age a householder gave. A third daughter, JOSEFA CARBALLO, was born and lived in RIO DE JANEIRO and married Miguel Carlos Lemus of Rio at San Francisco de Asis on 24 July 1862 (ark 1:1:X9PN-PYNH) - so this family spent time in Brazil, which is ground this archive has never touched. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones, baptism of 15 May 1804 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y</a>; and named as godmother at the Catedral de Montevideo, Oct 1833; and the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo, baptism of her daughter Lucinda Gregoria, 12 May 1827 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2</a>; and the Catedral baptism of her son Domingo, 25 Oct 1840 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L</a>; and the 1836 MONTEVIDEO CENSUS, household 114 - image read 20 September 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NBJF" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NBJF</a> |
| Dr LLERENA (curador, Buenos Aires courts 1889) Unplaced | abogado · found in Buenos Aires A LERENA PRACTISING IN THE BUENOS AIRES COURTS, AND HE IS NOT THE WORD 'HERENCIA'. This archive's worklist carried him as a one-line snippet with a warning attached, because in that corpus lerena is very often the transcriber's reading of herencia. He is real. The Agente Fiscal's opinion in the Feliciano Aguirre probate reads: '...no lo hace el DOCTOR LERENA si la intervencion del CONSUL ESPANOL en este estado del juicio es o no oportuna. Lo que debe resolverse es si el nombramiento del CURADOR DON LLERENA es o no arreglado a derecho. Al simple pedido de [Contreras] de f.46, el Juzgado nombra CURADOR AL DOCTOR LLERENA, sin oir a este Ministerio... hubiera dictaminado que se librase nuevo oficio al Senor CONSUL DE ESPANA, para que si deseare intervenir en este juicio lo hiciere dentro de un termino perentorio.' SO: A LAWYER APPOINTED CURADOR OF AN ESTATE, AND THE FISCAL IS COMPLAINING THAT THE COURT APPOINTED HIM WITHOUT ASKING THE MINISTRY OR THE SPANISH CONSUL. The consul's interest means the deceased was most likely a Spanish subject. THE SAME PASSAGE SPELLS HIM BOTH LERENA AND LLERENA, twice each, in one hand - which is the single clearest demonstration in this register that the two spellings are one name. AND HE IS NOT A PHYSICIAN. 'Doctor' before a curador is the style of an ABOGADO, the same lesson this archive learned about Arturo Lerena of Montevideo earlier the same day. A 'DOCTOR LERENA' RECURS IN THIS COURT ACROSS A DECADE - the Regidor probate of 1890, Villaverde-Duportal 1894 and Foz 1897 all carry the phrase and NONE OF THEM HAS BEEN OPENED. NOT MERGED WITH CARLOS A. LERENA, the commission agent who sued the Escalada estate in the same courts in February 1890: one is a party suing, the other an officer of the court, and nothing joins them but a surname and a city. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Aguirre, Feliciano: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1889, the Agente Fiscal's dictamen - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSTZ-396J-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSTZ-396J-K</a> |
| Francisco LLERENA (arr. 1923-25) Unplaced | 1891 · Spanish · marinero · found in arr. 1923, 1925 Second crossing with an Argentine-born infant son. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, two crossings |
| Francisco LLERENA (Cordoba, m. Rafaela Daraz) Unplaced · of interest | Argentine · found in Cordoba, Argentina m. Rafaela Daraz; father of Baldomero (b.1851). Of the generation of Bartolome Llerena, b.1824 Cordoba - plausibly a brother. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Cordoba Catholic Church Records 1557-1974 |
| Gabino L. LLERENA Unplaced | Rosario, COLONIA, URUGUAY · Uruguayan · found in Rosario, Colonia, Uruguay CORRECTED: his 'Rosario' is ROSARIO, COLONIA, URUGUAY, not Rosario de Santa Fe. Every other person on the record is Uruguayan - Solis Grande, Maldonado, Punta Carretas, Cordon Montevideo. Ramon Llerena appears with him, most likely his father. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records - marriage, soltero |
| Gloria LLERENA Unplaced | 1896 · Logrono · Spanish · domestica · found in arr. 1940-12-03 With sons Augusto M. and Orlando M. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship CABO DE BUENA ESPERANZA |
| Isabel LLERENA Clavijo Unplaced | 1895-11-14 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Uruguay Birth registered 14 November 1895. THE COMPOUND IS THE EVIDENCE: she is indexed LLERENA CLAVIJO, which names both parents in the surname itself. A death registration of 2 June 1915 for an "Isabel Llerena" is very probably hers and is not merged here - the index gives it without the compound. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - parent-pair query on PEDRO LLERENA and SOFIA CLAVIJO, run 21 September 2026; index read |
| Jose LLERENA (arr. 1910) Unplaced | 1887 · Spanish · jornalero · found in arr. 1910-10-19 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship SINAI from Bilbao |
| Jose LLERENA (arr. 1911) Unplaced | 1862 · Spanish · tenedor de libros · found in arr. 1911-02-02 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship CADIZ |
| Jose LLERENA (arr. 1926) Unplaced | 1887 · Logrono · Spanish · carpintero · found in arr. 1926-11-30 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship INFANTA ISABEL DE BORBON |
| Jose Ma. LLERENA Unplaced | 1873 · Madrid · Spanish · abogado · found in arr. 1940-10-24 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship CABO DE HORNOS |
| Josefina LLERENA Unplaced · of interest | 1868 · ARGENTINE · propietaria · found in arr. 1918, 1926, 1931 An Argentine woman of property who crossed at least three times, single throughout. Born 1868. | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, three crossings |
| Juan Carlos LLERENA (b. Buenos Aires 1910) Unplaced | 1910-07-16 · Buenos Aires · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires A JUAN CARLOS LLERENA, AND HE IS NOT THE ONE. Born 16 July 1910 and baptised at the Parroquia de San Nicolas, Buenos Aires; son of RAFAEL LLERENA and MARIA CARLOTA AMADEO LASTRA. Pablo Armando Lerena was born at Rosario in 1882 and his father is named JUAN CARLOS LERENA on the enrolment card of 1908. This child was two years old in 1908. He is entered because this archive's central question is a name, and a name turns up: the useful thing a register can do is hold the ones that have been ruled out, with the reason on the row. His godmother was ALEJANDRINA LLERENA, who signed the act herself. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Parroquia de San Nicolas, Buenos Aires - baptism of Juan Carlos Llerena, 1910 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 004571164 image 00201, folio 370; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-GD9T-LM" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-GD9T-LM</a> |
| Lucrecia LLERENA Unplaced | Argentine · found in Cordoba, Argentina m. Vicente Campellone. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Cordoba Catholic Church Records |
| Luis Alejandro LLERENA Unplaced | 1903 · Rosario · Argentine · found in Rosario, Santa Fe Son of Luis Llerena and Clementina Baranda. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Baptism 1903, Santa Rosa de Lima, Rosario |
| Luis LLERENA Unplaced | Argentine? · found in Rosario, Santa Fe m. Clementina Baranda. One of the FIRST LERENAS EVER FOUND LIVING IN ROSARIO. Too late to be Pablo Armando's parents, but the first evidence the surname existed in the city. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Santa Fe Catholic Church Records - son Luis Alejandro bapt. 1903, Santa Rosa de Lima |
| Maria LLERENA Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Colonia, Uruguay m. Antonio Medero; daughter Petrona Medero. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records |
| Maria LLERENA (Espanola, 60, head of Casa 2) Unplaced · high interest | Spain · Spanish · found in Montevideo A SPANISH-BORN LLERENA WOMAN OF SIXTY, KEEPING HER OWN HOUSE IN MONTEVIDEO. Entered at the head of Casa 2 as 'Maria Llerena - 60 anos - Espanola', with MANUEL, 20, 'Africana' and ROSA, 12, 'Oriental' under her, both with a ditto where a surname would go. Sancho was andaluz and 45 in 1812, so she stands in his generation or the one above it - which is the generation this archive cannot get past. ATTACHED TO HIM BY NOTHING. And the census year is NOT established, so her '60' cannot yet be turned into a birth year. | record ↗ Uruguay census, Casa 2; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9ZR-NYGP" rel="noopener">3:1:3QSQ-G9ZR-NYGP</a> |
| Pedro LLERENA Unplaced · of interest | Uruguayan · found in Colonia, Uruguay m. Sofia Clavijo. Fathering a daughter in 1884, so precisely the generation that could have fathered a son in 1882. AND HE HAS FIVE MORE CHILDREN, found 21 September 2026 by a PARENT-PAIR QUERY. Searching PEDRO LLERENA and SOFIA CLAVIJO as a pair returns six Uruguayan civil registrations where searching either name alone returns a crowd: ISABEL (b. 14 Nov 1895), CELINA (d. 11 May 1917), TELMA (b. 2 May 1900), TOMASA CANTIDIA (b. 12 Feb 1903) and SUSANA, whom this archive already held. Four of them are indexed under the compound LLERENA CLAVIJO, which names both parents in the surname itself. Index-level; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Civil Registration - daughter Susana b.1884 |
| Rafael LLERENA Unplaced | Argentine · found in Cordoba, Argentina m. Rosario Moyano. Of Bartolome's generation. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina Cordoba Catholic Church Records |
| Rafael LLERENA (Buenos Aires, b. c.1881) Unplaced · of interest | 1881 · Argentina · Argentine · found in Buenos Aires, Calle Cerrito 535 AN ARGENTINE-BORN LLERENA HOUSEHOLD IN BUENOS AIRES, found 15 September 2026 and new to this archive. "bautizo solemnemente ... a JUAN CARLOS que nacio el dia diez de Julio del ano mil novecientos diez, hijo legitimo de D. RAFAEL LLERENA natural del Pais de veinte y nueve anos de edad, y de Dona MARIA CARLOTA AMADEO LASTRA natural del Pais de veinte y siete anos, domiciliados en Calle Cerrito 535." His son is called JUAN CARLOS - which is why this record surfaced at all, in a search for Pablo Armando's father. The son is NOT that man: he was born in 1910. But the FATHER is the kind of person this archive has been looking for - a Llerena born in Argentina about 1881, within a year of Pablo Armando, living in central Buenos Aires. Nothing connects him here. He is recorded as a lead, not a relative. He sits beside the other unresolved Argentine namesake already in this register, Gilberto Lerena b.1879 who landed in 1928. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, and it is a printed form, filled in, at the PARROQUIA DE SAN NICOLAS, BUENOS AIRES, ANO DE 1910. Film 004571164 image 00201, folio 370. THE CHILD IS A JUAN CARLOS. 'bautizo solemnemente a JUAN CARLOS LLERENA, que nacio el dia DIEZ Y SEIS DE JULIO del ano mil novecientos diez, hijo legitimo de D.r D. RAFAEL LLERENA, natural del PAIS, de VEINTE Y NUEVE anos de edad, y de D.a MARIA CARLOTA AMADEO LASTRA, natural del Pais, de VEINTE Y SIETE anos de edad.' So this row's estimate of c.1881 is confirmed by the act - twenty-nine in July 1910 - and the double L is his own, in a Buenos Aires parish in 1910. WHY IT MATTERS, AND WHY IT IS NOT WHAT THE ARCHIVE IS LOOKING FOR: this act creates a JUAN CARLOS LLERENA at Buenos Aires, and Juan Carlos Lerena is the name on Pablo Armando's 1908 enrolment card. This child was born in 1910. Pablo Armando was born in 1882. The child cannot be his father and is not claimed to be. He is recorded so that the next search which turns up a Juan Carlos Llerena in Buenos Aires meets a dated row rather than a fresh hope. AND THE ACT NAMES A SECOND LLERENA WOMAN: the madrina signed it herself, in her own hand, 'Alejandrina Llerena' - and a literate woman signing a Buenos Aires parish register in 1910 is the kind of person who leaves other records. The padrino signs 'A. Lastra', which is the mother's family. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Nicolas de Bari, Retiro, Buenos Aires, baptism of his son, 30 Aug 1910 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939D-GD9T-LM" rel="noopener">3:1:939D-GD9T-LM</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 004571164 image 00201, folio 370 |
| Ramon LLERENA Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Rosario, Colonia, Uruguay Most likely Gabino's father. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records - named on Gabino's marriage |
| Sancho LLERENA Aguilar Unplaced | 1767 · Andalusia, Spain (the 1812 padron says "andaluz"; CORDOBA comes from the trees, which cite Apolant ficha 355) · Spanish · soldado dragon (the 1793 act; "soldado" on the census) · found in Montevideo, Calle San Juan NOW PARTLY PRIMARY. The Uruguayan census records him at Calle San Juan, Montevideo, aged 45, birthplace "ANDALUZIA", with MARIA FERNANDEZ on the line below - image opened and read. Six further indexed records name the same wife and the same children while spelling him LLERENA, LERENA, SANCIO LLERENA, D. SANCHO LERENA and LORENA. So the alternation is in the RECORDS, not in a tree. That they are all one man is still an inference, and Cordoba specifically still rests on the tree alone. ORIGINALLY RECORDED AS SECONDARY. The founder of the Montevideo Lerenas on the tree's account: a soldier from Cordoba who married Maria Josefa Fernandez Tresguerras at Canelones, 8 January 1791. His name is spelled BOTH Lerena and Llerena across forty years of Uruguayan registers, and once - in 1828 - "Sancho de Llerena". The acts have NOT been opened here. HE IS NOW ON AN ACT, 13 September 2026, and no longer only on an index and a published tree. Act 585 of 7 October 1850 names the paternal grandparents of Alberto Octavio Lerena as "D. SANCHO y Dona MARIA FERNANDEZ" - so Sancho really is the father of Don Luis Lerena, and the descent this archive marked SECONDARY is upgraded. A DISCREPANCY RECORDED AGAINST IT: two 1846 acts for other children of the same couple give the paternal grandfather as FRANCISCO, not Sancho. Those 1846 entries are LATER TRANSCRIPTS copied out of a legajo ("asi consta del Legajo conservado en este Archivo, mandado trasladar por el Sr. Obispo"), while the 1850 act is a contemporaneous parish entry - so the copy loses to the original. Everything else in both sets agrees. AND A THIRD ACT NAMES HIM, 14 September 2026 - the earliest yet. His son's marriage of 3 March 1842 gives the groom as "hijo legitimo de D. SANCHO y Dona Maria Fernandez". Two acts of 1842 and 1850 now say Sancho against two 1846 entries reading Francisco, and the 1846 pair say of themselves that they are later transcripts from a legajo. AND A FOURTH RECORD, THE EARLIEST OF ALL: his son's own marriage petition of 3 September 1836, in Luis's hand and over Luis's signature - "hijo legitimo de D. SANCHO LERENA y de Dona Maria Fernandez". Four records now name him, across 1836, 1842 and 1850. The doubt raised on 13 September by two 1846 transcripts reading "Francisco" is closed: they are copies, and they are outnumbered by originals. AND TWO MORE RECORDS, 14 September 2026, neither of them about his son Luis. (1) He is named maternal grandfather - "SANCHO LLERENA y MARIA FERNANDEZ" - in the Cordon baptism of 13 December 1831, at which the godfather was DON FRUCTUOSO RIVERA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, with his wife Dona Bernardina Fragoso. (2) He appears in person as a sworn witness in a marriage investigation at Canelones: "presento por testigo en esta Vicaria a SANCHO LLERENA, a quien se le recivio juramento". Five records now name him. AND THEN THE QUESTION REOPENED, the same afternoon. The Catedral baptism of Justa Pastora's SECOND child, October 1833 - an ORIGINAL act, not a transcript - names her parents "Maternos: FRANCISCO LERINA y Maria Fernandez". So the Sancho/Francisco alternation is not simply copies against originals, which is what this archive argued an hour earlier and has now withdrawn. The one thing constant in every record is the wife, MARIA FERNANDEZ. A double forename - Sancho Francisco - would explain it all without anybody being wrong, and is the leading reading. See data/sancho-or-francisco.tsv; his own marriage act would settle it and has never been opened. AND THE "AGUILAR" IN HIS NAME HERE IS UNATTESTED. None of the eight records now assembled gives him a matronymic; a full-text search for "Llerena y Aguilar" returns thirty hits and every one is QUITO, ECUADOR - a different family. Aguilar comes from the FamilySearch Tree and from nowhere this archive has read. Kept, because the tree may rest on an act nobody here has opened, but marked. The forename is contested, the matronymic unsupported, and MARIA FERNANDEZ is the only part of this man's identity every record agrees on. AND HE IS NOW ATTESTED IN 1804, twenty-seven years earlier than anything this archive held two days ago. At Canelones on 15 May 1804 his daughter DOMINGA JOSEFA is baptised "hija legitima de SANCHO LLERENA y de MARIA FERNANDEZ"; in the confirmation list of the same year he stands godfather to "Jose, ESCLAVO DE MANUEL LOPEZ"; and in the marriage-investigation files he gives evidence under oath. Father, godfather and sworn witness, in one town, in one decade - and every one of those acts calls him SANCHO. The machine transcript renders him SANCIO on the baptism, a sixth spelling for this family. AND THEN BACK ANOTHER FIFTEEN YEARS, on 14 September 2026: HE IS IN MONTEVIDEO IN 1789. At the Iglesia Matriz on 30 June 1789 the godparents of Juana, daughter of "NICOLAS BENTENO, INDIO NATURAL DE LA CIUDAD DEL TUCUMAN, y de Leonarda Correa de Buenos Ayres", are "SANCHO LLERENA y Juliana Josefa Cornejo". He is about twenty-two, unmarried, and in Montevideo two years before the marriage his tree places at Canelones in 1791. And it is the second time this archive has found him sponsoring at the margins of colonial society: in 1804 he stood godfather to an ENSLAVED MAN, and here to the daughter of an indigenous man from Tucuman. Twice, fifteen years apart. THE TALLY IS ALSO REDONE, AND THE ARCHIVE HAD BEEN COUNTING IT WRONG. Fourteen records now name him: ten SANCHO, four FRANCISCO. But THREE OF THE FOUR FRANCISCOS ARE THE SAME PAGE - La Mauricia, 7 January 1846, one clerk writing three acts on one morning out of one legajo. They are one witness, not three. The Sanchos come from nine separate occasions across sixty-one years, in four parishes and two towns, and twice with the man himself present. So the evidence is not ten to four. It is nine independent occasions against two, and both of the two describe him at second hand by clerks who never met him. A DOUBLE FORENAME REMAINS THE LEADING READING and explains everything without anyone being wrong - but this archive can no longer call the question evenly balanced. AND HIS WIFE'S FULL NAME IS NOW ON AN ACT: her daughter's marriage of 3 November 1830 calls her "MARIA FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS". This archive carried that matronymic from a PUBLISHED TREE and marked it secondary; the tree was right, about something no index gives. Which is a point in favour of that same tree's other unverified claim - that they married at CANELONES on 8 JANUARY 1791. That act has still never been opened. And 'AGUILAR' is STILL unattested across all fourteen records. AND ON 14 SEPTEMBER 2026, GENEANET SUPPLIES THE ONE THING THIS ROW HAS BEEN CALLING UNATTESTED ALL DAY. Two Spanish archive indexes - the Index des mariages catholique de Grenade and Spain, Marriages 1565-1950 - carry a marriage of SANCHO LERENA y ARMENTA to ANA MARIA DE AGUILAR, in the DIOCESE OF GRANADA, between 1725 and 1775. A son of that couple would be styled LERENA y AGUILAR - which is exactly the name the trees give this man. So the matronymic is not a tree's invention but a real Spanish naming rule, and it points at a GRANDMOTHER. NOT ADOPTED: the index has been read and the image has not, the date range is a fifty-year span, and no record yet joins that couple to a son born in 1767. But it turns an unattested word into a testable claim in a named diocese, and it is the first thing this archive has ever had that could document this family in SPAIN. GRANADA also sits against the trees' CORDOBA - one of them, ckurti, says ZUHEROS, CORDOBA - while the census says only ANDALUZIA, which both satisfy. AND FOUR TREES GIVE HIM A DEATH IN 1832, where this archive has no death date at all; if true, his son's marriage petition of 1836 names a dead man, which is ordinary. Tree-only, and recorded as a thing to test against Montevideo burials. AND ON 14 SEPTEMBER 2026 THE GRANADA ACT ITSELF WAS FOUND - BUT READ THE NEXT SENTENCE BEFORE CREDITING THIS ROW WITH IT. The birthplaces below belong to a man in SPAIN in 1754, NOT to the Sancho of this row, and nothing yet joins the two. This archive very nearly wrote the Spanish Cordoba into the Uruguayan Sancho's birthplace field on the strength of it; the field above still says CORDOBA COMES ONLY FROM A TREE, and that is still true of THIS man. FamilySearch ark 1:1:C9WG-BGW2 indexes the marriage of SANCHO DE LERENA Y ARMENTA to ANA MARIA DE AGUILAR at SANTA ANA, GRANADA on 17 NOVEMBER 1754 - the fifty-year span reduced to a day - and it gives the groom's BIRTHPLACE AS CORDOBA and his parents as SANCHO DE LERENA Y VELASCO and MARIA ANTONIA DE ARMENTA Y GUEBARA , with the bride the daughter of FRANCISCO DE AGUILAR and BEATRIS FRANCO of La Malaha. That resolves a tension in the SPANISH record - the Geneanet trees said CORDOBA and the marriage index said GRANADA, and both were right, because he was born at one and married at the other. It does NOT reach across the Atlantic. The Uruguayan census's "ANDALUZIA" for the man in this row remains the only birthplace evidence this archive has for HIM, and it is compatible with Cordoba, Granada and much else besides. The image is marked IMAGE UNAVAILABLE and has NOT been opened. AND THE COMPOUND IS NO LONGER A TREE'S HABIT. A Madrid notarial act of 27 March 1790 (ark 3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-N7RV) is signed, in the signature position between the witnesses and the notary, "JUAN DE LERENA Y AGUILAR" - one man, that compound, in the right family and generation, in a Madrid where Sancho de Lerena y Armenta was a vecino from 1766 to 1808. BUT NOT ONE RECORD JOINS ANY OF THEM TO THIS MAN. A controlled search for children of that couple in Spain returned a genuine null (control: 12 results), and the exact-phrase search for "Sancho de Lerena y Aguilar" returned an UNCONTROLLED "(0)" immediately before FamilySearch blocked the session - which is not evidence and is not recorded as a null. So "Aguilar" stays exactly where it was: a strong lead with a Spanish family behind it now instead of nothing, and still unattested in all fourteen Uruguayan records. The place to look for a 1767 baptism is MADRID, not Granada - the earlier errand said "the same diocese" and was written before the Madrid residence was known. See data/1754-granada-act.tsv. AND THEN, THE SAME DAY, THE GRANADA READING WAS WITHDRAWN - BY THE VERY TREE THAT SUPPLIES "AGUILAR". The jfina Geneanet tree, one of the four this archive cites for the form "Lerena y Aguilar", gives this man's parents as FELIX LERENA and ROSALIA AGUILAR, born Cordoba about 1767, citing APOLANT, "Operativo Patagonia" (Montevideo 1970), FICHA 355. So AGUILAR is his MOTHER'S SURNAME - ordinary Spanish naming - and not a grandmother from Granada. The morning's inference, that the compound must descend from the 1754 Granada couple, was a naming rule applied to a name whose actual owner is recorded elsewhere; and the controlled null against that couple is explained rather than puzzling. The Spanish search that matters now is FELIX LERENA and ROSALIA AGUILAR at CORDOBA, which is not the search that was run. AND THE MARRIAGE DATE FINALLY HAS A REAL SOURCE WHILE THE PLACE LOSES ITS ONE: 8 January 1791 comes from Apolant ficha 355, a named published work; "Canelones" appears nowhere in it - the note's "Concejo de Morcin, Asturias" is the BRIDE'S birthplace, she being JOSEFA FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS b.1778 at Morcin, an ASTURIAN of the Operativo Patagonia convoy, daughter of RODRIGO FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS and ROSA FERNANDEZ. Canelones remains the strong inference because the 1812 padron lists all six children as "naturales del Canelon", the eldest 21. THE 1812 PADRON ALSO HOLDS WHAT THIS ROW DID NOT: calle San Juan No 60, Sancho "andaluz" 45, Maria Fernandez 36, children Juan Agustin 21, Pedro Antonio 19, Agustina 17, Fidel 12, Justa 10 and DOMINGA 7 - all "naturales del Canelon" - his father-in-law RODRIGO FERNANDEZ, 63, asturiano, living in the house, and FOUR ENSLAVED PEOPLE (AGN, Fondo ex AGA, L 251). See data/apolant-ficha-355.tsv. AND ON 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 HIS PARENTS ARRIVED ON AN ACT, WHICH CLOSES THE LAST WEAK JOINT IN THIS ROW. At the Iglesia Matriz of Montevideo on 10 February 1811, at the baptism of his son LUIS ESCOLASTICO, the act names him "Don SANCHO LLERENA natural de ANDALUCIA" and his parents "Abuelos paternos FELIZ GERENA y ROSALIA AGUILAR" - GERENA being the machine's G-for-L, a seventh variant for this family. Until that morning FELIX LERENA and ROSALIA AGUILAR rested on ONE un-consulted journal article reported at second hand through one tree, and this row said so. They are now on a parish act written while he was alive and standing at his own son's font. ANDALUCIA IS ALSO NOW ON AN ACT and no longer only on the 1726-1858 census. CORDOBA IS STILL ON NO ACT and remains what the trees say, citing Apolant ficha 355. AND THE TALLY OF HIS SPONSORSHIPS IS WRONG IN THIS ROW AND IS CORRECTED, 15 September 2026. It says he stood godfather at the margins of colonial society "twice, fifteen years apart" - the indigenous man's daughter in 1789 and an enslaved man in 1804. It is at least FOUR times, and three of them on one day. Three further pages of the 1804 Canelones confirmations name him as padrino, including "Joseph Jimenez ESCLAVO DE DON LUIS JIMENEZ. P. Sancho Llerena" - a different enslaved man with a different owner from the Jose, esclavo de Manuel Lopez, already recorded here. The pattern is now too consistent to read as chance. A NEW CHILD IS ALSO ADDED: JUSTA PASTORA, baptised at Canelones on 9 August 1800, born three days earlier - this archive had her only from her 1830 marriage and from the padron's rough age of 10. That act transcribes the mother as 'MARIA RODRIGO', which is not her name in any of the other fourteen records. The most economical reading is that a clerk wrote her father's forename - RODRIGO Fernandez - and that only became visible once the 1811 act named him. The image has not been opened and the discrepancy is left standing. AND ON 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 THREE MORE ACTS ARRIVED, BECAUSE THE NAME WAS FINALLY SEARCHED WITH ONE L. Every full-text sweep here had been run on SANCHO LLERENA. "Sancho LERENA" returns three Canelones baptisms that were not among them. HIS RANK: the 1793 act calls him "el SOLDADO DRAGON Sancho Lerena" - a dragoon, where the census says only soldado. HIS REGIMENT, BY IMPLICATION: that act was performed by "el Capellan del REGIMIENTO DE INFANTERIA DE BUENOS AYRES Don Bartolome Munoz" - the same regiment whose Libros Castrenses of 1781-1814 are filmed as DGS 7713373. His 1791 marriage may well be in those military books, and the reason to look is now documented rather than hopeful. HIS WIFE IS CALLED TERESA: at a Canelones baptism of 27 October 1805 the godparents are "SANCHO LERENA y MARIA TERESA FERNANDEZ de este Pueblo" - the trees give her as Maria Josefa (TERESA) Fernandez Tresguerras and this archive had marked those forenames tree-only. AND THE SPONSORSHIP COUNT RISES AGAIN, to five. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT since 14 September. Film 007713375 image 02410, Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, the baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 February 1811 - the only record in this archive that names Sancho's own parents. 'hijo legitimo de D.n SANCHO LLERENA nat.l de ANDALUCIA' - read off the plate, not off a transcript. The double L is the priest's own, in 1811. THE 1833 ACT THAT CALLS HIM FRANCISCO WAS READ OFF THE PLATE, 21 September 2026 - and that is the whole of what this archive gained today on the question. Film 007713376 images 01176-01177: the Catedral baptism of 19 October 1833, for Justa Pastora's son Aurelio Eusebio, gives the maternal grandparents as 'Fran.co Lerenas y M.a Fernandez'. Until today that reading was a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT - the page and data/sancho-or-francisco.tsv both record it as 'FRANCISCO LERINA', machine-read. A human has now read it off the plate, so the single most important FRANCISCO attestation is no longer possibly a machine artefact. THIS ROW SAID SOMETHING ELSE FOR ABOUT AN HOUR AND IT WAS WRONG. It called the Francisco a priest's slip, said 'every other record this archive has read off a plate calls him SANCHO', and put the count at 'one act against five'. All three are false, and the archive's own file and /hypotheses/ already said so: the 1846 La Mauricia acts were READ OFF THE IMAGE by this archive and say FRANCISCO; the count is SIX saying Sancho against THREE saying Francisco; and the readings split ACROSS methods, not along them - the machine read Sancho in 1831 and Francisco in 1833, this archive read Francisco off 1846 and Sancho off 1836, 1842 and 1850. THE ARCHIVE'S POSITION, WHICH THIS ROW NOW MATCHES: a DOUBLE FORENAME - Sancho Francisco or Francisco Sancho - is the reading that requires nobody to be wrong. What is constant across seventy years and both forenames is the wife: MARIA FERNANDEZ, in every single record. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT is his own marriage act, said by the tree to be Canelones, 8 January 1791, and never opened. HE SPEAKS, 11 OCTOBER 2026 - AND IT IS THE FIRST TIME THIS ARCHIVE HAS HEARD HIM. Every other record of Sancho holds him as a father, a father of the bride, a spouse or an 'other'. Here he is A SWORN WITNESS GIVING TESTIMONY IN HIS OWN VOICE, in the marriage investigation of FLORENTINO GOMEZ before the Juzgado Eclesiastico of Canelones, notary JOSEPH DEL RIOS. The transcript: 'Seguidamente, continuando su informacion, Florentino Gomez presento por testigo en esta Vicaria a SANCHO LLERENA, a quien se le recibio juramento ... el compareciente dijo: Que con motivo de haber andado el declarante EN LA LINEA DE VITORIA algunos anos, que conocio en aquel parage a Florentino Gonzalez, y por el trato y conocimiento que uno y otro han tenido en todo el tiempo que el que declara se ha mantenido en la dicha linea, jamas le oyo decir al nominado Florentino que hubiese empenado su palabra con otra ninguna mujer, ni que tenga algun impedimento publico ni secreto con la que pretende casarse.' SO HE HAD SPENT SOME YEARS IN SOMETHING CALLED 'LA LINEA DE VITORIA' BEFORE THIS DEPOSITION, long enough to know a man well there. WHAT THAT PLACE IS, THIS ARCHIVE DOES NOT KNOW AND WILL NOT GUESS. A 'linea' in the Rio de la Plata is ordinarily a military frontier line; Vitoria is also the capital of Alava in the Basque country and a common place name in Brazil and Spain. IT IS NOT EVIDENCE FOR THE 'BASQUE OR EXTREMADURAN' QUESTION UNTIL SOMEBODY ESTABLISHES WHICH LINEA IS MEANT, and saying so is the point of writing it down. HIS AGE IS NOT ON THIS FRAME. The witness before him ends 'dijo ser mayor de cuarenta y ocho anos', which is where a deposition states it, and Sancho's declaration is cut by the edge of the image. THE NEXT FRAME OF THIS FILE SHOULD CARRY HIS AGE AND HIS SIGNATURE, AND IT HAS NOT BEEN OPENED. IDENTIFICATION: a Sancho Llerena deposing at the Vicaria of Canelones in a file series of 1776-1806, in the parish where this man married on 8 January 1791, with no second Sancho Llerena known in the country. TAKEN AS HIM, AND THE REASONING IS STATED RATHER THAN ASSUMED. THE NEXT FRAME WAS OPENED THE SAME HOUR, AND IT ANSWERS A DIFFERENT QUESTION THAN THE ONE ASKED. HIS AGE IS NOT THERE. The deposition before his closes in the standard form - 'dijo ser mayor de cuarenta y ocho anos, y no la firmo porque dijo no saber escrivir' - so the file states ages when it has them, and FOR SANCHO IT SIMPLY DOES NOT. That is a property of the document, not a failure of the search, and it is written down so nobody opens this frame again hoping. WHAT IT DOES GIVE IS SMALLER AND SHARPER: SANCHO LLERENA COULD NOT WRITE. His declaration continues onto the next frame and ends '... que dijo NO SABER ESCRIVIR, y la firmo su merced conmigo el presente Notario, que lo doy fe. Ante mi, JOSEPH DEL RIOS, Notario Eclesiastico.' The judge signed in his place. THIS ARCHIVE HAS HELD HIM SINCE ITS FIRST WEEK AND HAS NEVER BEFORE KNOWN ANYTHING ABOUT THE MAN HIMSELF - only whose father and whose husband he was. He was a man who had spent years on a frontier line, who was trusted to swear to another man's freedom to marry, and who could not sign his own name. THE EXPEDIENTE ENDS by decreeing that neither it nor the conciliar proclamas produced any canonical impediment, and that the marriage of FLORENTINO GOMEZ and ANA GOMEZ should proceed. A NOTE ON HOW THE FRAME WAS REACHED, because it cost three wrong attempts: the image ark pins one image and ?i=N IS IGNORED WHEN AN ARK IS PRESENT. The route that worked was the viewer's own image-number box - this file is image 340 of 457, DGS 008166573 ITEM 8 - and a /search/film/008166573?i=341 query would have landed on item 001 and the wrong volume, which is a trap this archive has already recorded once. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry URUGUAY CENSUS 1726-1858, household 59 - image read; plus six indexed Uruguayan church and civil records; and NAMED IN AN ACT: the baptism of his grandson Alberto Octavio Lerena, 7 Oct 1850, S. Agustin, pueblo de la Restauracion - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZSZQ-J</a>; and his son's marriage petition of 3 Sep 1836 - IMAGE READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-J331-G" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-J331-G</a>; and as maternal grandfather in the Cordon baptism of 13 Dec 1831, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2</a>; and as a sworn witness in the Canelones marriage-investigation files 1776-1806, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W</a>; and at CANELONES in 1804 as a father (baptism of Dominga Josefa, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y</a>) and as a godfather (confirmation records, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-2</a>); and the Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, baptism of 30 June 1789 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X74C-2</a>; and the Catedral baptism of his granddaughter Lucinda Gregoria, 12 May 1827 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2</a>; and his daughter Justa Pastora's marriage act of 3 Nov 1830 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3WZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3WZ-8</a>; Montevideo, Iglesia Matriz, baptism of Luis Escolastico, 10 Feb 1811 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X7F6-M</a>; Canelones baptism of Justa Pastora, 9 Aug 1800 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W92K-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W92K-Q</a>; and three further Canelones confirmation pages of 1804 - arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-5" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-5</a>, 73KF-W and 73LG-X; Canelones baptisms of Pedro Antonio 1 Aug 1793 (ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-WH52" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-WH52</a>), Agustina Ramona 30 Aug 1795 (ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-M</a>) and the Rafael Gabino sponsorship of 27 Oct 1805 (ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9K5-6" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9K5-6</a>) - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02410; and the Catedral de Montevideo baptism of 19 Oct 1833, which names him FRANCISCO - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026, film 007713376 images 01176-01177; and Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE INVESTIGATION FILES 1776-1806, the expediente of Florentino Gomez - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W</a>; the SAME FILE, frame 341 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W8CY" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W8CY</a>; DGS 008166573 item 8, images 340-341 of 457 |
| Susana LLERENA Unplaced | 1884 · Uruguayan · found in Uruguay Daughter of Pedro Llerena and Sofia Clavijo. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Civil Registration, d. 30 Nov 1908 |
| Telma LLERENA Unplaced | 1900-05-02 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Uruguay Birth registered 2 May 1900, daughter of Pedro Llerena and Sofia Clavijo. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - parent-pair query on PEDRO LLERENA and SOFIA CLAVIJO, run 21 September 2026; index read |
| Teresa LLERENA Unplaced | 1853 · Spanish · labores · found in arr. 1911-11-04 | CEMLA results are not addressable — search the surname at cemla.com/buscador/ CEMLA, ship ARAGUAYA |
| Tomas LLERENA Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Colonia, Uruguay m. Maria Morales. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Civil Registration - daughter Vicenta b.1861 d.1927 Carmelo |
| Tomasa Cantidia LLERENA Unplaced | 1903-02-12 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Uruguay Birth registered 12 February 1903, daughter of Pedro Llerena and Sofia Clavijo. The second forename is the index's - CANTIDIA is more likely CANDIDA, and is left as read. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - parent-pair query on PEDRO LLERENA and SOFIA CLAVIJO, run 21 September 2026; index read |
| Vicenta LLERENA MORALES Unplaced | 1861 · Uruguayan · found in Carmelo, Colonia, Uruguay Daughter of Tomas Llerena and Maria Morales. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Civil Registration, d. 22 Feb 1927 |
| Petrona LOPEZ (wife of Juan LARENA) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026, from a row this register already held. The archive named JUAN LARENA of Gualeguaychu as her husband and did not hold her as a person, so the marriage was written down and could not be drawn. The citation is the one already carried by that row; no new research stands behind this entry, and nothing is claimed here beyond the marriage itself. He heads the largest documented Larena kindred in Argentina. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Entre Rios, Civil Registration 1833-1965 - via the register row of her husband Juan LARENA of Gualeguaychu |
| Agustin LORENA Unplaced | 1829 · Lima, PERU · Peruvian · OJALATERO (tinsmith) · found in Rosario, Santa Fe IMAGE READ 13 September 2026, and it changes what he is. Head of a household of six on one schedule of the 1869 Rosario census. The clerk wrote the surname LORENA - single L, and the second letter is unmistakably an O. He is recorded of nationality LIMA, with the provincia column left BLANK because he is not Argentine. A PERUVIAN TINSMITH. His five children are Argentine, born in Cordoba. No wife on the schedule though he is recorded married. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1869 National Census, Rosario - IMAGE READ 13 Sep 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L</a> |
| ARMAND[O] LORENA (as machine-indexed) = Pablo Armando LERENA Connected | 1882-02-22 · Rosario, Santa Fe · Argentine · found in Argentina RESOLVED - THIS IS PABLO ARMANDO HIMSELF. The image was opened on 10 Sep 2026 and the card reads 'Clase de 1882 / LERENA - Pablo Armando / hijo de Juan Carlos Lerena y de Maria Lerena / Nacido en Rosario de Santa Fe / Oficina enroladora de CAPETOWN'. The machine index had dropped 'Pablo', moved him 1,400 km to Salta, turned Lerena into Lorena, and made a second surname 'Serena' out of the printed word SERIE on the next line. Every one of the four objections logged against this candidate was an artefact of the transcription. Kept in the register under its indexed name so the false trail stays visible. | record ↗ Argentina Military Records 1911-1936 (machine-indexed) - IMAGE READ 10 September 2026; FamilySearch image group 112342450, "Cajon 985 (Lera)", image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-MQL4-NQWN" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-MQL4-NQWN</a>. <strong>THE IMAGE NUMBER IS DELIBERATELY NOT CITED:</strong> the viewer's image-number box and the underlying arks do not stay in step across loads, so the ark is the only fixed locator - see data/cajon-985-scan.tsv. |
| Feliz LORENA Unplaced | 1866 · Cordoba · Argentine · found in Rosario, Santa Fe Son of Agustin Lorena; aged 3 at the 1869 Rosario census. The schedule writes him Felix. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1869 National Census, Rosario - IMAGE READ 13 Sep 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L</a> |
| Geronima LORENA Unplaced | 1854 · Cordoba · Argentine · CONFITERA (confectioner) · found in Rosario, Santa Fe Daughter of Agustin Lorena. Aged 15 in 1869, so 28 in 1882. Recorded with a trade of her own at fifteen. Same verdict as her brother. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1869 National Census, Rosario - IMAGE READ 13 Sep 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L</a> |
| Guillermo LORENA Unplaced | 1853 · Cordoba · Argentine · tinsmith (ditto of his father) · found in Rosario, Santa Fe Son of Agustin Lorena, the Peruvian tinsmith. Aged 16 in 1869, so 29 in 1882 - which is why he was flagged. But the household is Peruvian-headed, Cordoba-born, and spelled LORENA with an O. Set down rather than pursued: not excluded by arithmetic, only by everything else about him. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1869 National Census, Rosario - IMAGE READ 13 Sep 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L</a> |
| Maria LORENA Unplaced | 1868 · Cordoba · Argentine · found in Rosario, Santa Fe Daughter of Agustin Lorena; aged 1 at the 1869 Rosario census. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1869 National Census, Rosario - IMAGE READ 13 Sep 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L</a> |
| Mercedes LORENA Unplaced | 1860 · Cordoba · Argentine · found in Rosario, Santa Fe Daughter of Agustin Lorena, the Peruvian tinsmith; aged 9 at the 1869 Rosario census. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1869 National Census, Rosario - IMAGE READ 13 Sep 2026, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-XK5Q-L</a> |
| Pedro LORENA (father of Victor, d. before 1889) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named on his son's death registration of 1889 as already dead - "el finado era hijo [de] PEDRO LORENA y JOSEFA SEGUEIRA, orientales, FINADOS". His own parents are given: FIDEL LERENA and MARIA RUEDAS. The surname is written LORENA for him and LERENA for his son and his father in the same sentence, which is this family's ordinary behaviour in the records. WHETHER THIS FIDEL IS SANCHO'S SON IS NOT ESTABLISHED. Sancho's Fidel was born about 1799 and the Geneanet trees give him a death in 1822, at twenty-two or twenty-three. For this to be the same man, Pedro would have to be born by 1822 and fathering Victor at about forty. That is tight but possible, and the tree's 1822 is tree-only and has never been tested against a Montevideo burial. The alternative is a second Fidel Lerena at Montevideo, which nothing rules out. Recorded as a branch to test, not as a descent. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 008165116 image 01442, folio 94 - Montevideo civil death registration No. 622 of 1889. THIS ROW'S CLAIM ABOUT THE SPELLING IS WRONG, AND THE PLATE SHOWS IT. The row said the surname 'is written LORENA for him and LERENA for his son and his father in the same sentence'. In the body of the act he is written LERENA, exactly like his son and his father: 'era hijo de PEDRO LERENA y Josefa Segueira'. LORENA is the MARGIN heading - 'Num. 622 Victor Lorena' - which is the clerk's index entry, not the sentence. So the family's ordinary confusion of L and Ll and Lor is real, but this particular instance of it was the archive reading a margin as though it were the text. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo civil death registration 1889 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008165116 image 01442 |
| Carmen LORENTE Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of the Avelino Lerena who died at Montevideo in January 1914, son of Avelino Eduardo and Celedonia Villademoros. Nothing else in this archive names her. | no public link Named as the wife in the Montevideo death registration of Avelino Lerena, 5 January 1914 - index read; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6BXR-K7NN" rel="noopener">1:1:6BXR-K7NN</a> |
| Eduardo MACHIAVELLO (Oficial del Estado Civil, Montevideo 1938) Unplaced | Uruguayan · Oficial del Estado Civil · found in Montevideo Registrar of the 11a seccion of Montevideo, who married Juan Ribero and Victorina Serena on 4 January 1938. THE OFFICE IS RECORDED AND THE BUSINESS OF THE OFFICE IS NOT. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1938, acta No. 2 of 4 January 1938, 11a seccion del Departamento de Montevideo, before Eduardo Machiavello - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-70652-64458-41; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TH5-4T7K" rel="noopener">1:1:6TH5-4T7K</a> |
| Dona Andrea MAESTRE Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of Vicenta Vega; named as maternal grandmother at the Catedral baptism of 4 July 1837. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713376 image 01498, Catedral de Montevideo - the baptism of 4 July 1837, signed RAMON DE BARBERA. Named on the plate as maternal grandmother of Leonarda Margarita, beside her husband Romualdo Vega. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo, baptism of 4 July 1837 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 01498 |
| Exmo Sr General Don Francisco de Paula MAGGESI Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo GODFATHER at the Catedral de Montevideo on 12 May 1827 to Lucinda Gregoria Ruiz de Carvallo, a granddaughter of Sancho Llerena. A general, styled Excelentisimo Senor. This archive now has FRUCTUOSO RIVERA at a font in 1831, an ORIBE bride in 1836, LAVALLEJA godparents in 1858, GENERAL PEDRO LENGUAS as a grandfather, and GENERAL MAGGESI here in 1827. No relationship to any of them is claimed; what is recorded is the company this family kept at its christenings. 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. THE THIRD FAMOUS NAME THIS ARCHIVE CHECKED TODAY, AND THE THIRD TO HOLD. The act reads 'Fueron padrinos EL EXMO. SR. GRAL. [Don Francisco de Pa]ULA MAGGESI y D.a Carolina Amalia'. A machine that meets a name out of the history books will write it whether or not the page says so - that is how FRUCTUOSO RIVERA got printed over the 1831 act's own FRUTUSO RIBERA. Here, as with the Lavallejas of 1858, the page really does say it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo - baptism of 12 May 1827 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 00601 |
| MARIA MERCEDES (daughter of Juana, enslaved) Connected | 1812-09-24 · Montevideo · found in Montevideo BORN INTO SLAVERY IN THIS FAMILY'S HOUSEHOLD, 24 September 1812. "bautice solemnemente a MARIA MERCEDES, que nacio antes de ayer, NEGRA ESCLAVA DE DON SANCHO LERENA Y DE DONA MARIA FERNANDEZ, hija de JUANA. Madrina Catalina Martinez." She was born in the same month the padron was taken that counted four enslaved people in that house and named none of them. Nothing is known of what became of her. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713375 image 02628, folio 136, Montevideo Catedral - the baptism of 26 September 1812. READ OFF THE PLATE, and every word of this row holds: 'bautice solemnemente a MARIA MERCEDES, que nacio ANTES DE AYER, hija de JUANA, negra esclava de D.n Sancho Lerena y de D.a Maria Fernandez: MADRINA CATALINA MARTINEZ, a quien instrui; y por verdad lo firme.' Born 24 September 1812, baptised at two days old. AND THE PLATE CARRIES A TRAP THIS ARCHIVE WALKED PAST. The act IMMEDIATELY BEFORE hers, on the same opening, baptises ANOTHER MARIA MERCEDES on 25 September 1812 - 'hija de TERESA ABELLEYRA, negra esclava de D.n RAMON ABELLEYRA'. Two enslaved girls of the same name, in two households, on consecutive days, on one page. This register also holds a TERESA enslaved in Sancho's household, from the padron - a different woman, from a different document, and the two must not be run together. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo Catedral baptism, 26 Sep 1812 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X757-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X757-D</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02628 |
| Carlos MARTINEZ Lerena Unplaced | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires / Mendoza Child of Julian Martinez and Carolina Lerena, Mendoza parish records. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Buenos Aires and Mendoza civil and parish indexes, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Catalina MARTINEZ (madrina, 1812) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother to a child born into slavery in Sancho Llerena's household - 'MADRINA CATALINA MARTINEZ, a quien instrui'. She is entered because she is the only person the record puts beside Maria Mercedes who was not her owner, and because this register names the godparents of every other child on its pages. WHO SHE WAS IS NOT KNOWN: the act gives her no title - no Dona - which in this book usually marks a woman who is not of the propertied class, and it gives her no husband, no origin and no relationship to the household. Nothing else in this archive names her. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godmother at the baptism of Maria Mercedes, daughter of Juana, Montevideo Catedral, 26 September 1812 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713375 image 02628; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X757-D" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X757-D</a> |
| Jose MARTINEZ (witness, Trinidad 1906) Unplaced | found in Trinidad, Flores Witness at the marriage of Antonio Etcheberse and Andrea Albina Lerena, Santisima Trinidad, 26 March 1906, with BERNARDO YRIZABAL. A COMMON NAME, NAMED ONCE, and not to be joined to any other Martinez in this register. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS July 1898 to December 1912, the act of 26 March 1906, certificate 26 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72168-24536-85; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-SPKF" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6J-SPKF</a> |
| Jose MARTINEZ DE LA VEGA Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather to Sancho's eighth known child at Canelones on 11 December 1806, and expressly 'VECINO DE MONTEVIDEO' where the parents are 'vecinos de esta Villa'. He was found only when the plate was opened; the machine transcript this archive worked from did not carry him into the register. A godfather fetched from the capital to a country parish is a connection, not a neighbour - but what kind of connection this act does not say, and nothing else in this archive names him. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godfather at the Canelones baptism of Jose Loreto Lerena Fernandez, 11 December 1806 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008166571 image 01176; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9KR-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9KR-W</a> |
| Julian MARTINEZ (husband of Carolina Lerena) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires / Mendoza Married Carolina Lerena; named on his children's records in Buenos Aires and Mendoza. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Buenos Aires and Mendoza civil and parish indexes, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Julian MARTINEZ Lerena Unplaced | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires / Mendoza Child of Julian Martinez and Carolina Lerena, Buenos Aires civil registration. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Buenos Aires and Mendoza civil and parish indexes, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Lorenzo MARTINEZ de Olalla (named by the widow, 1794) Unplaced | found in Colla 'Sujeto nombrado por Dona Celestina Gonzalez' to accompany the alcalde to her late husband's estancia in 1794. He signed the act. NAMED ONCE; not pursued. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1794, item 11 of 119 images - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3</a> |
| Antonio MEDERO (husband of Maria LLERENA) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Colonia, Uruguay ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026, from a row this register already held. The archive named MARIA LLERENA as his wife and did not hold him as a person, so the marriage was written down and could not be drawn. The citation is the one already carried by that row; no new research stands behind this entry, and nothing is claimed here beyond the marriage itself. Their daughter Petrona Medero is named on her row and is not yet entered either. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records - via the register row of his wife Maria LLERENA |
| Petrona MEDERO Llerena Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Colonia, Uruguay ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026 from a row this register already held. She was named as a child on the row of her mother MARIA LLERENA and ANTONIO MEDERO and had no entry of its own, so a household this archive holds could not be drawn. The citation is the one that row already carried and no new research stands behind this entry. She carries her mother's line into a Colonia household this archive has never followed. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Catholic Church Records - via the register row of her mother Maria LLERENA |
| Dona Justiniana MELILLA (de REGULES) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of EMMA REGULES, and a witness at her daughter's wedding on 23 June 1880 - 'fueron testigos el Doctor Don Ambrosio Lerena y Dona Justiniana Melilla de Regules'. A MOTHER AS A FORMAL WITNESS IS UNUSUAL ENOUGH TO BE WORTH NOTING, and this register has met it once before: Ambrosia Traibel witnessed her own son's wedding in February 1892. HER DAUGHTER WAS SIXTEEN, which may be the whole explanation. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS, the act of 23 June 1880 at the Basilica Menor y Catedral de Montevideo (volume catalogued 1887) - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1</a> |
| Dona Mercedes de MELIS (viuda de Yeregui) Unplaced | Uruguayan · labores · found in Montevideo Mother of FERMIN CARLOS DE YEREGUI, named at his marriage of 9 August 1909 as 'de estado VIUDA, de profesion labores', living with her son at calle Zabala 164. HER HUSBAND WAS ALREADY DEAD. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a> |
| Angelica MENDEZ de VILLADEMOROS (d. before Dec 1871) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of ELISA, CELEDONIA and probably ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS. Named as ANGELICA MENDEZ on her granddaughter's baptism of 29 September 1872 and as 'Dona ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS' - the married form - on her daughter Elisa's marriage act of 28 December 1871, where she and her husband are both 'los finados'. SO SHE WAS DEAD BY DECEMBER 1871, which is the fact that rules her out as the Angelica Villademoros who stood godmother in May 1873 and forces that woman to be a third daughter. NO RECORD OF HER OWN. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE of 28 December 1871 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a>, volume 'Religious Marriage Records January 1866-May 1872' |
| Jacinta MERINA Santos (m. Manuel Lerena Montano 1882) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Wife of MANUEL [DOROTEO] LERENA MONTANO, married 1 APRIL 1882. The parish index calls her 'JACINTA MARINA', the civil index 'JACINTA MERINA SANTOS', and her son's 1910 marriage registration simply 'JACINTA' with the boy surnamed LERENA MARINO. THREE SPELLINGS OF ONE WOMAN - MARINA, MERINA, MARINO - AND SANTOS MAY BE A SECOND SURNAME OR MAY BE THE INDEX RUNNING TWO FIELDS TOGETHER. Not resolved; no act opened. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the MANUEL LERENA sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Dona Casimira MONTANO (wife of Mauricio LERENA) Unplaced · of interest | 1821 · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Wife of Mauricio, and the mother of the generation that spread across the interior. Her parents are named on the act: JOSE MONTANO and IGNACIA BARREDO. Her children appear in the Flores and Montevideo death registrations as 'LERENA MONTANA', which is how this family was first recognised at all. A BIRTH YEAR, AN ADDRESS AND A WIDOWHOOD, 9 October 2026. Her granddaughter's birth act of 2 March 1895 gives her as 'CASIMIRA MONTANO de SETENTA Y CUATRO anos de edad, VIUDA, oriental, labores, y domiciliada en la ciudad SAN JOSE DE MAYO, CALLE ARENAL NUMERO 240' - so born about 1821 and still at San Jose de Mayo fifty-eight years after she married there. AND IT DATES HER HUSBAND'S DEATH: MAURICIO IS 'FALLECIDO' IN MARCH 1895. SHE ALSO BURIED A SEVEN-DAY-OLD DAUGHTER: ABDONA IGNACIA, 7 August 1850, at San Jose. | record ↗ Bride on the 1837 San Jose marriage; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F21B-SZ5" rel="noopener">1:1:F21B-SZ5</a>; and Flores. Birth Records 1887-1902 - act No. 8 of 2 March 1895, Carmen Donata Lerena, El Tala; image 165, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-334D-Z</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Jose MONTANO (father of Casimira MONTANO) Unplaced | San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo Father of Casimira Montano, named on the marriage act of 3 February 1837 at San Jose: she is 'hija legitima de Don JOSE y Dona IGNACIA BARREDO'. READ OFF THE PLATE 9 October 2026, where this register had him from an index. NO SURNAME IS WRITTEN FOR HIM ON THE ACT - it is taken from his daughter's, which is the ordinary form of these entries and not an extra source. | record ↗ Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records 1825-1859 - act of 3 February 1837; DGS film 008143329 image 87, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67KL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67KL</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Angela Francisca MONTESDEOCA (m. Pedro Perena) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Mother of the ANTONINO PERENA who married at Trinidad on 9 February 1906. The index puts her name in BOTH the mother's field and the bride's - 'Spouses Angela Francisca Monterdesca' - which is the same schema failure that married Alejandro Lerena to the woman he held in slavery. THE BRIDE'S REAL NAME IS NOT KNOWN. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Eduardo J. MORATORIO (Juez de Paz, 18a seccion) Unplaced | Uruguayan · Juez de Paz y Oficial del Estado Civil · found in Montevideo The Juez de Paz of the 18th section of the Capital who wrote and signed EDUARDO ZALDUONDO's death act on 22 August 1913. A NOTE AGAINST A TEMPTING INFERENCE: this register holds MORATORIO LERENA children and a FERNANDO MORATORIO who married Josefa Lerena Traibel. NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THIS OFFICIAL AND THAT FAMILY IS ESTABLISHED - Moratorio is not rare in Montevideo and a Juez de Paz signs whatever comes before him. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo death act No. 553 of 22 August 1913 - PLATE READ 11 October 2026; DGS 008165206 image 283 |
| Fernando MORATORIO (the elder) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of Fernando Moratorio and husband of Nicolasa Torres; named as paternal grandfather at the two Union baptisms of 8 March 1880. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713378 image 02598, folios 411-412, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - the two baptisms of 8 March 1880. Priest RAFAEL YEREGUI. Named on the plate as paternal grandfather of both girls: 'abuelos paternos FERNANDO y NICOLASA TORRES'. AND THE PARISH WAS WRONG, CORRECTED 21 September 2026 OFF THE PLATE. This archive placed these 1880 baptisms at the UNION, which is what the index's place field says. The act itself reads 'con licencia del infrascripto Cura Parroco DE ESTA BASILICA MENOR Y CATEDRAL DE MONTEVIDEO, bautice solemnemente EN ELLA a Maria Carlota'. They were baptised in the CATEDRAL BASILICA, not at the Union. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named at the baptisms of Maria Carlota and Maria de las Mercedes Moratorio Lerena, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 8 Mar 1880 (this archive placed it at the UNION until 21 Sep 2026, on the index's place field; the act says 'esta Basilica menor y Catedral'); ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598 |
| Fernando MORATORIO (the younger) Unplaced | 1847 · Uruguayan · comercio · found in Montevideo HE WAS MISSING FROM THIS REGISTER WHILE HIS PARENTS, HIS WIFE AND BOTH HIS DAUGHTERS WERE IN IT. Entered 28 September 2026, found by asking which people the register NAMES but does not HOLD. Husband of JOSEFA LERENA TRAIBEL (1851-1947), Avelino and Ambrosia's daughter, and father of MARIA CARLOTA and MARIA DE LAS MERCEDES MORATORIO LERENA, baptised together at the Catedral Basilica on 8 March 1880 - the twins settled on the plate, both acts reading 'que nacio el veinte y cuatro de Febrero ultimo'. His own parents are named on those same acts as the paternal grandparents: FERNANDO MORATORIO the elder and NICOLASA TORRES. HE IS THE JOINT THE WHOLE MORATORIO BRANCH HANGS FROM, and for six months it hung from nothing. HE WITNESSED HIS NIECE-BY-MARRIAGE'S WEDDING, 20 November 1897 - found 11 October 2026. The act names 'Don FERNANDO MORATORIO, de CINCUENTA anos de edad, de estado casado, de profesion COMERCIO, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, domiciliado en la calle URUGUAY No. 97' as the first witness at the marriage of ANGELICA MARIA LERENA VILLADEMOROS, who is the daughter of his wife's brother. FIFTY IN 1897 GIVES HIM A BIRTH YEAR OF ABOUT 1847, which fits a man married to Josefa Lerena Traibel, born 1851. THE IDENTIFICATION IS ON AGE, PLACE, STATUS AND THE FAMILY TIE, NOT ON THE NAME ALONE - his father of the same name is a generation older - but it is not proved, and the act does not name his wife. HE IS ALSO THE REASON THE MORATORIO SURNAME RECURS IN THIS REGISTER: the Moratorio Lerena children are his. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - the two baptisms of 8 March 1880, folios 411-412 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899' |
| Maria Carlota MORATORIO Lerena Unplaced | 1880-02-24 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Daughter of Fernando Moratorio and Josefa Lerena Traibel, baptised at the Catedral Basilica de Montevideo on 8 March 1880 with her sister. "PROBABLY TWINS" IS AN UNTESTED INFERENCE AND IS FLAGGED AS ONE, 20 September 2026. It rests on nothing but a shared baptism date, and that reasoning was disproved elsewhere in this family on the same day: Ana Rosario and Alfredo Justiniano Lerena Traibel were baptised together at San Francisco de Asis in 1858 and were born twenty-one months apart. The test is cheap and unrun: the full-text transcript of these two acts should state each girl's own birth date, as the 1858 pair do. A granddaughter of Avelino Lerena. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713378 image 02598, folios 411-412, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - the two baptisms of 8 March 1880. Priest RAFAEL YEREGUI. THE TEST THIS ROW NAMED AS CHEAP AND UNRUN HAS BEEN RUN, AND 'PROBABLY TWINS' IS CONFIRMED. The act states her own birth: 'que nacio el VEINTE Y CUATRO DE FEBRERO ultimo'. Her sister's act, on the facing folio, states the same day. THEY ARE TWINS, born 24 FEBRUARY 1880 and carried to the font twelve days later. Her godparents were FRANCISCO AZANOLA and MANUELA OTONDO - not, as this archive half-assumed, the same pair as her sister's. The act also gives the paternal grandparents FERNANDO and NICOLASA TORRES and the maternal AVELINO and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, and calls the parents 'orientales'. AND THE PARISH WAS WRONG, CORRECTED 21 September 2026 OFF THE PLATE. This archive placed these 1880 baptisms at the UNION, which is what the index's place field says. The act itself reads 'con licencia del infrascripto Cura Parroco DE ESTA BASILICA MENOR Y CATEDRAL DE MONTEVIDEO, bautice solemnemente EN ELLA a Maria Carlota'. They were baptised in the CATEDRAL BASILICA, not at the Union. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named at the baptisms of Maria Carlota and Maria de las Mercedes Moratorio Lerena, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 8 Mar 1880 (this archive placed it at the UNION until 21 Sep 2026, on the index's place field; the act says 'esta Basilica menor y Catedral'); ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598 |
| Maria de las Mercedes MORATORIO Lerena Unplaced | 1880-02-24 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Daughter of Fernando Moratorio and Josefa Lerena Traibel, baptised at the Catedral Basilica de Montevideo on 8 March 1880 with her sister. Her godmother was MERCEDES LERENA, for whom she is named. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713378 image 02598, folios 411-412, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - the two baptisms of 8 March 1880. Priest RAFAEL YEREGUI. SHE AND HER SISTER WERE BOTH BORN 24 FEBRUARY 1880 - read off both acts. 'que nacio el veinte y cuatro de Febrero ultimo, hija legitima de Fernando Moratorio y Josefa Le[rena] ... fueron padrinos JUAN [Arechaga y Mercedes] LERENA'. So the twins reading is right here and was wrong in 1858, where Ana Rosario and Alfredo Justiniano were carried to the same font twenty-one months apart. Same family, same habit of batch-baptism, and the shared date means something in one case and nothing in the other - which is exactly why it had to be read rather than assumed. AND THE PARISH WAS WRONG, CORRECTED 21 September 2026 OFF THE PLATE. This archive placed these 1880 baptisms at the UNION, which is what the index's place field says. The act itself reads 'con licencia del infrascripto Cura Parroco DE ESTA BASILICA MENOR Y CATEDRAL DE MONTEVIDEO, bautice solemnemente EN ELLA a Maria Carlota'. They were baptised in the CATEDRAL BASILICA, not at the Union. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named at the baptisms of Maria Carlota and Maria de las Mercedes Moratorio Lerena, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 8 Mar 1880 (this archive placed it at the UNION until 21 Sep 2026, on the index's place field; the act says 'esta Basilica menor y Catedral'); ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598 |
| Maria Dolores MORATORIO Lerena Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Uruguay A THIRD DAUGHTER FOR FERNANDO MORATORIO AND JOSEFA LERENA TRAIBEL, beside Maria Carlota and Maria de las Mercedes, both baptised at the Catedral in 1880. The panel gives her grandparents as FERNANDO and NICOLASA TORRES on one side and AVELINO and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL on the other - which is exactly this archive's own line. NO DATE SURVIVES THE INDEX ENTRY and the volume's label cannot be trusted for it; see the row for Clorinda Lerena. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Uruguay, Baptism Records September 1917-September 1918, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-63KS-GZ6" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-63KS-GZ6</a> |
| Rosario MOYANO (wife of Rafael LLERENA) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Cordoba, Argentina ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026, from a row this register already held. The archive named RAFAEL LLERENA of Cordoba as her husband and did not hold her as a person, so the marriage was written down and could not be drawn. The citation is the one already carried by that row; no new research stands behind this entry, and nothing is claimed here beyond the marriage itself. NOT the Rafael Llerena of Buenos Aires, who married Maria Carlota Amadeo Lastra; this register holds both and they are different men. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Cordoba, Catholic Church Records - via the register row of her husband Rafael LLERENA |
| Miguel MUGULAR (m. Carmen LERENA 1914) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married CARMEN LERENA on 7 FEBRUARY 1914; the index gives her born about 1878, daughter of Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez. THE SURNAME IS ODD AND MAY BE MANGLED - MUGUERZA, MUJICA and AGUILAR are all likelier than MUGULAR in this parish. NOT RESOLVED. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Don Carlos NAVIA Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Witness, with Dona Ambrosia Traibel, at the marriage of Alfredo Lerena Traibel and Hermenegilda Carolina GAVAZZO, 3 February 1892. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026. Film 007713383 image 02601, folio 340 - the Catedral Basilica marriage of 3 February 1892. His name is on the plate at the end of the act, in the witness clause beside Dona Ambrosia Traibel - the groom's mother standing witness where a father would be, because Avelino had been dead sixteen months. The same plate corrected three surnames on this page of the register: the bride is a GAVAZZO and her mother a SUAREZ, not the "Gavarro" and "Juarez" a machine gave. His own name survives unchanged. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, marriage of 3 Feb 1892 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713383 image 02601 |
| Jose M. OJEDA (parroco, Cordon 1871) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · parroco · found in Montevideo The Cura of Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor at the Cordon who certified the marriage act of 28 December 1871 - 'De que certifico Yo el Parroco, JOSE M. OJEDA' - and who also certified the two acts either side of it in the same register. HIS HAND IS THE ONE THIS ARCHIVE IS READING for the Cordon in those years. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - marriage of 28 December 1871 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a> |
| Buenaventura OLIVERA (m. Luisa Lerena) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Father of RAMON PAULINO, christened at Santisima Trinidad on 4 November 1908, with LUISA SERENA. The index reads him 'Buenaventura Olinievera', which is OLIVERA with a stutter. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Juan Pedro OLIVERA Lerena (b.1909) Unplaced | 1909-05-13 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A SECOND CHILD FOR BUENAVENTURA OLIVERA AND LUISA LERENA, born 13 May 1909 and christened at Santisima Trinidad on 20 November, found under the GERENA spelling. THIRTEEN MONTHS AFTER HIS BROTHER RAMON PAULINO, who was christened under SERENA. ONE HOUSEHOLD, TWO SPELLINGS, TWO SWEEPS. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Ramon Paulino OLIVERA Lerena (b.1908) Unplaced | 1908-04-10 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Born 10 April 1908 and christened at Santisima Trinidad on 4 November 1908, son of BUENAVENTURA OLIVERA - the index reads 'Buenaventura Olinievera' - and LUISA SERENA. IF THAT LUISA IS THE ONE WHO MARRIED CLEMENTE BUENO IN 1915, THIS CHILD IS SEVEN YEARS EARLIER AND BY A DIFFERENT MAN - which is possible and is not asserted. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Dona Carolina ORIBE (1st wife of Don Luis Lerena) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo HER SURNAME IS ORIBE, AND THIS ARCHIVE RECORDED IT WRONG TWICE. She was written here as Carolina OLIVA, from the 1836 marriage petition and from FamilySearch's index of it - which says Oliva, and which is where the reading came from. The Catedral baptism of 4 July 1837, a different book in a different hand, names her "Dna CAROLINA ORIBE" standing godmother with her husband to his brother's child. The 1836 petition was then re-opened and magnified: it reads ORIBE there too, with a clear b. And the published genealogy this archive has always tiered as SECONDARY said all along that Don Luis married firstly a daughter of an ORIBE. It was right. She married Luis Lerena at Montevideo in September 1836, was ALIVE IN JULY 1837, and was dead by March 1842 when he remarried "en segundas nupcias". ORIBE is one of the great Uruguayan names - Manuel Oribe was President 1835-1838 and founder of the Blancos - but NOTHING READ HERE MAKES HER HIS KIN. Oribe is a surname, not a proof, and no record yet names her parents. PLACE FIELD CORRECTED 14 September 2026. This row's 'where found' held a CITATION - an empty placeholder - where the atlas expects a PLACE, so this person was missing from the map and appeared on it as a phantom location instead. The citation is kept here; the field now holds a real place. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Marriage petition of 3 September 1836, Arquidiocesis de Montevideo - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-J331-G" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-J331-G</a>; and named as his deceased first wife in the act of 3 March 1842; and named with her husband as godmother in the Catedral baptism of 4 July 1837 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H</a> |
| Dr. D. Juan Ciriaco OTAEGUI (priest, 1833) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · presbitero · found in Montevideo The priest who performed the baptism of Aurelio Eusebio Barros Lerena at the Catedral de Montevideo on 19 October 1833 and signed the act. This archive names the priest of every act it has read off a plate - Martin Perez in 1858, Juan Lloberas in 1811, Benito Alonso Covian in 1831, Ramon de Barbera in 1837, Rafael Yeregui in 1880 - because a signature dates and authenticates an act, and because a priest's hand is what a machine transcript is least able to read. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de Montevideo, baptism of 19 October 1833 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 images 01176-01177; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKW-T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKW-T</a> |
| Jose (esclavo de Manuel Lopez, confirmed 1804) Unplaced | Canelones · Uruguayan · found in Canelones Confirmed at Canelones in 1804 with SANCHO LLERENA as his godfather. The act names him as this archive's sources name the enslaved of that place and time - a forename and an owner, "Jose, esclavo de Manuel Lopez" - and he is entered here under it because leaving him out would be a second erasure. Slavery was legal in the Banda Oriental in 1804. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 008165032 image 00505 - the Canelones confirmation list of 1804, a page of one-line entries. HIS LINE SURVIVES THE CHECK WORD FOR WORD: 'JOSE ESCLAVO DE MAN.L LOPEZ PADRINO SANCHO LLERENA'. It is one line on a page of one-line entries, and it is the whole of what any record gives him. SANCHO IS SPELLED LLERENA HERE, with the double L - as in the 1811 and 1831 acts, and against the LERENA of 1837 and 1858. The entries around him have the same shape - a forename, a parent or an owner, a godfather - so the form of his entry is the register's, not a slight peculiar to him. What is peculiar to him is that where the others are named 'hijo de', he is named 'esclavo de'. | no public link Canelones confirmation records 1804 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008165032 image 00505 |
| Josefa in Gilberto's 1895 household (b. c.1852) Unplaced | c.1852 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Buenos Aires ALMOST CERTAINLY THE JOSEFA LERENA WHO STOOD GODMOTHER TO GILBERTO'S SON RAUL at the Catedral de Montevideo on 10 September 1885 - a woman this archive met and could not place. The 1895 census finds her in Gilberto's own Buenos Aires household: "Lerena de L. Josefa, m, 43, VIUDA, R. Oriental". Born about 1852, so of his generation. THE FORM OF HER NAME IS 'LERENA DE L.' On the two lines above her the enumerator writes married women as [maiden surname] de L. - Lenguas de Lerena, Salvanach de Lerena. If he is consistent, SHE WAS BORN A LERENA AND MARRIED A LERENA. That is the exact pattern behind this archive's standing question - whether Maria Lerena, named on Pablo Armando's enrolment card, was a Lerena by birth. Stated as a reading of an abbreviation in an enumerator's hand, not as a fact: her own marriage record would settle it and has not been looked for. CORRECTED WITHIN THE HOUR: THE 'DE LERENA' READING IS WITHDRAWN AS EVIDENCE. Uruguayan civil registration carries a JOSEFA LERENA married to FERNANDO MORATORIO, and FamilySearch's tree attaches her to Josefa Lerena Traibel 1851-1947 - the same candidate. If that is this woman, "de L." is the enumerator's shorthand for the LERENA HOUSEHOLD rather than her husband's surname, and this entry says nothing about a Lerena-Lerena marriage. The letter was read right; the inference was not. See data/josefa-lerena-candidates.tsv. AND THE WITHDRAWAL IS NOW ON A DOCUMENT RATHER THAN A TREE. The 1880 baptisms of Josefa Lerena's daughters name her husband Fernando Moratorio and her parents Avelino and Ambrosia Traibel. If this census woman is that Josefa - she is 43 here against a birth of 1851, and a VIUDA where a later record calls Fernando Moratorio "fallecido" - then "de L." is the enumerator's shorthand for the LERENA HOUSEHOLD and nothing more. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, National Census 1895, Ciudad de la Capital, Seccion 21, Manzana 15 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DZTW-9S9" rel="noopener">3:1:S3HT-DZTW-9S9</a>; and named as godmother at the Catedral de Montevideo, 10 Sep 1885, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-BQZD-W</a> |
| Maria Joaquina (mother of Joaquin Costales) Unplaced | found in Montevideo Named as the mother of JOAQUIN COSTALES on his marriage of 25 May 1865. NO SURNAME ON THE ACT - the index renders her 'Maria Joaquina Joaquina', which is the schema filling a blank with what it already had. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Manuela OTONDO Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother, with Francisco Azanola, at the baptism of Maria Carlota Moratorio Lerena on 8 March 1880. OTONDO is a Basque name, as ARECHAGA is - the man who stood at her twin sister's font the same morning. Nothing is claimed of either beyond the fact that this Montevideo family's godparents in 1880 were Basque and Italian by name where a generation earlier they had been Lavalleja and Rivera. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godparent at the baptisms of 8 March 1880, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a> |
| Andres PAIS (witness, Rosario 1800) Unplaced | found in Colla Accompanied RAMON LERENA to the inventory on 11 NOVEMBER 1800 and signed as a witness; the transcript also writes him 'Andres Pays'. INDEX-LEVEL ONLY beyond that. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina |
| Gallo PAREJA (Juez de Paz, 4a seccion, 1897) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · Juez de Paz y Oficial del Estado Civil · found in Montevideo The Juez de Paz and Oficial del Estado Civil of the FOURTH SECTION of the Capital who wrote and signed the marriage act of 20 November 1897. Not kin and not claimed as kin - he is here because this archive records the officials whose hands it reads, and because KNOWING WHICH SECTION A FAMILY MARRIED IN IS HOW THE NEXT RECORD IS FOUND. The Zalduondo household was in the 4th section in 1897 and the 18th by 1913. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899' |
| Bartolome PARTIA (witness, Rosario 1800) Unplaced | found in Colla Named with ANDRES PAIS and FRANCISCO PEREZ DE CEBALLOS as accompanying RAMON LERENA on 11 NOVEMBER 1800. THE SURNAME IS UNCERTAIN - the transcript gives 'Don Bartolo. Partia', which may be BARTOLOME PARTIA, or a mangling of PARTE, BERTIA or similar. NOT RESOLVED. THE SURNAME IS PROBABLY GARCIA, AND THIS ROW'S NAME IS PROBABLY WRONG - 11 October 2026. Image 29 names the two sworn appraisers as 'Don BARTHOLO GARCIA y ANDRES BRIVAQUI', who took an oath before Ramon Lerena to value the estate faithfully. 'Don Bartolo. Partia' AT IMAGE 26 IS ALMOST CERTAINLY THE SAME MAN - the same forename, in the same room, on the same business, five days apart. IF SO HE IS A GARCIA APPRAISING A GARCIA ESTATE, which is ordinary in a small district and is worth noticing. NOT RENAMED YET: the archive does not rename a person on a probable reading of a mangled transcript, and the two frames have not been compared on the plate. THE TEST IS TO OPEN IMAGE 26 AND IMAGE 29 AS IMAGES. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina |
| Carlos PATRASO (m. Margarita Lerena 1899) Unplaced | found in Trinidad, Flores Married MARGARITA LERENA at Santisima Trinidad on 27 May 1899. The surname is given once and PATRASO, PATRASSO and PETRAZZO are all possible readings. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep SERENA + place FLORES, URUGUAY, 290 results, first 100 read 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Anibal Marino PELAEZ Unplaced | 1922-03-03 · Sexta Seccion, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Flores, Uruguay THE CHILD THE 1922 ACT EXISTS TO REGISTER, and the reason this archive can name four of his grandparents. Born at his father's house, Cala de la Cordobesa, on 3 March 1922 at half past ten at night, and registered on the 10th. Son of Vitalino Gregorio Pelaez and Florinda Juana Lerena; grandson of Maximo Pelaez and Maria Lerena on one side and Bernabe Lerena and Florinda Cardozo on the other. LERENA BLOOD ON BOTH SIDES, WHICH IS THE WHOLE STORY OF TRINIDAD IN ONE CHILD. | record ↗ Flores. Birth Records 1916-1925 - act No. 10 of 1922, Sexta Seccion of Flores; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8</a>, DGS film 008165367 item 6 image 195 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Antonio Eusebio PELAEZ Unplaced | Cuchilla de Villas Boas, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · jornalero · found in Cuchilla de Villas Boas, Flores Died at TWENTY, unmarried, of intestinal obstruction, on his father's estancia at Cuchilla de Villas Boas, certified by Dr J. C. Camon; the first declarant was his brother. Son of MALVINO PELAEZ and a daughter of Alejandro Lerena the younger. HIS DEATH ACT IS IN THIS REGISTER BECAUSE OF ITS GRANDPARENTS, NOT ITS SUBJECT - it names four of them and places three families at once. NO BIRTH YEAR, FOR THE SAME REASON AS HIS FATHER'S ROW: the act's date was not read. | record ↗ Flores. Death Records 1888-1917 - death of Antonio Eusebio Pelaez at Cuchilla de Villas Boas; image 303, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q62K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q62K</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026 |
| Aurora PELAEZ Lerena (confirmed, Trinidad 1891-1905) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Confirmed at Santisima Trinidad in the same sitting as her brother Luis, entered under the ditto marks as a child of BALBINO PELAEZ and ALEJANDRINA LERENA, with MARGARITA LERENA as her sponsor. NO DATE IS GIVEN PER ENTRY. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Confirmation Records October 1891-November 1905 - image 5, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-F3QH-N" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-F3QH-N</a> - FULL-TEXT read 10 October 2026 |
| Dona Casimira PELAEZ (wife of Bernabe LERENA) Unplaced | 1841 · Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married into the Trinidad Lerena kindred. BELOQUI, ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ are Basque surnames - evidence about the community these Lerenas married into, which bears on the Basque-or-Extremaduran question without settling it. AND SHE HAS AN AGE AT LAST, 9 October 2026 - 'Dona CASIMIRA PELAEZ, Oriental, de cincuenta y seis anos, casada, de profesion labores, domiciliada con su esposo' in her grandson's birth act of 1897, so born about 1841. Her daughter ANTONINA married a FERNANDEZ whose own mother was a LERENA, and the couple had to be dispensed a second grade of consanguinity. A SIXTH CHILD, 9 October 2026: JUAN. The 1905 baptism of Nepomuceno Teofilo at Trinidad gives 'Abuelos paternos: BERNABE y CASIMIRA PELAEZ' for a child of Juan Lerena and Eduviges Pelaez, and her son Juan is Juan Bernardo Lerena Pelaez, born 20 August 1871 - the groom of the 1894 dispensation. FOUR CHILDREN ON 13 SEPTEMBER, A FIFTH YESTERDAY, A SIXTH TODAY, AND EVERY ONE OF THEM FROM A GRANDCHILD'S RECORD. HER PARENTS AND HER WEDDING, 9 October 2026. The 1858 expediente calls her 'hija legitima de Don JUAN PELAES y Dona ANTONINA LERENA, naturales de SAN JOSE y vecinos de esta' - SO HER MOTHER IS THE ELDER ANTONINA LERENA, ALREADY IN THIS REGISTER, and Casimira is a sister of MARIA PELAEZ and of MALVINO PELAEZ. SHE MARRIED HER FIRST COUSIN: her mother Antonina and his father Alejandro are the two children drawn under Ramon Lerena on the priest's schema. HER FULL NAME IS CASIMIRA JOSEFA, 10 October 2026, from her mother's death act of 1911, which lists the four surviving children of Antonina Isabel Lerena and Juan Pedro Pelaez. SHE WAS ALIVE IN JULY 1911. | record ↗ Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026; and Flores, Birth Records 1887-1901 - entry No. 10, Cayetano Alberto Fernandez, born Pintos 7 August 1897; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-333J-F</a>, FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909 - baptism of 26 November 1905, Lerena Nepomuceno Teofilo, pages 32-33; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F</a>, DGS film 008163893 item 5 image 20 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1857-1860 - EXPEDIENTE of Bernabe Lerena to marry Casimira Pelaez, Santisima Trinidad, 15 February 1858, Luciano Bonamino Cura Vicario, WITH A KINSHIP DIAGRAM; image 209, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Flores. Death Records 1888-1917 - acta No. 9 of 28 July 1911, Sexta seccion, before Esteban Indarte; image 271, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Eduviges PELAEZ (m. Juan Lerena 1894) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores THE BRIDE OF THE 1894 DISPENSATION, given there as of MERCEDES and dispensed the SECOND grade AND the THIRD grade of consanguinity, accumulated, DE OFICIO, to marry Don Juan Lerena on 31 March 1894. HER PARENTS ARE NAMED BY HER SON'S BAPTISM, 9 October 2026: JUAN PELAEZ and EDUVIGES FLORENCIO, her mother already dead by 1905. SHE IS AT TRINIDAD ON 1 APRIL 1894, standing proxy godmother with Malvino Pelaez at the baptism of Luisa Mariana, daughter of Rafael Sanchez and Maria Pelaez - the day after the dispensation was granted at Montevideo. THAT IS A GRANT DATE, NOT A WEDDING DATE, AND NO JOURNEY IS READ INTO IT. NO BIRTH YEAR IS RECORDED ANYWHERE AND NONE IS INVENTED HERE. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909 - baptism of 26 November 1905, pages 32-33; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69Q5-F</a>, DGS film 008163893 item 5 image 20 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Juan Fabian PELAEZ (son of Juan Pedro PELAEZ and Antonina LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores THE FOURTH CHILD, AND THE ONLY ONE THIS ARCHIVE HAD NEVER HEARD OF. Named on his mother's death act of 28 July 1911, which lists her surviving issue as 'CASIMIRA JOSEFA, MALBINO HIPOLITO, MARIA INOCENCIA y JUAN FABIAN'. ALIVE IN JULY 1911 AND NOTHING ELSE IS KNOWN OF HIM - no age, no marriage, no residence. | record ↗ Flores. Death Records 1888-1917 - acta No. 9 of 28 July 1911; image 271, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Juan PELAEZ (m. Antonina LERENA) Connected | Uruguay · UY · found in Trinidad, Flores Husband of the elder ANTONINA LERENA and father of Maria Pelaez, named in his daughter's marriage act of 6 March 1880. He did not witness it; his wife did. One of at least five Lerena-Pelaez unions this archive now holds. AND HE IS A FATHER TWICE OVER IN THIS REGISTER NOW, 9 October 2026. The 1858 expediente names him and Antonina Lerena as the parents of CASIMIRA PELAEZ, naturales de SAN JOSE y vecinos de Trinidad - so Casimira joins Maria (b.1850) and Malvino as his children. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE JUAN PELAEZ WHO MARRIED EDUVIGES FLORENCIO; whether that is this man by a second marriage is undecided here. HIS FULL NAME IS JUAN PEDRO PELAEZ, 10 October 2026, from his widow's death act of 1911: 'esta era viuda de Don JUAN PEDRO PELAEZ'. DEAD BEFORE JULY 1911. AND HIS FOUR SURVIVING CHILDREN ARE NAMED THERE: CASIMIRA JOSEFA, MALBINO HIPOLITO, MARIA INOCENCIA and JUAN FABIAN - which confirms Casimira and Maria, whom this register held from other acts, and adds two sons. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Religious Marriage Records January 1875 - August 1895, act of 6 March 1880; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-V1PJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-V1PJ</a>; and Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, Marriage Dispensation Records 1857-1860 - EXPEDIENTE of Bernabe Lerena to marry Casimira Pelaez, Santisima Trinidad, 15 February 1858, Luciano Bonamino Cura Vicario, WITH A KINSHIP DIAGRAM; image 209, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-P3TS-W</a> - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026; and Flores. Death Records 1888-1917 - acta No. 9 of 28 July 1911, Sexta seccion, before Esteban Indarte; image 271, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Luis PELAEZ Lerena (confirmed, Trinidad 1891-1905) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Confirmed at Santisima Trinidad between October 1891 and November 1905, entered as 'Luis, hijo legitimo de BALBINO PELAEZ y ALEJANDRINA LERENA', with Juan Pelaez as his sponsor. THE REGISTER GIVES NO DATE PER ENTRY and this row carries none. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores. Confirmation Records October 1891-November 1905 - image 5, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-F3QH-N" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-F3QH-N</a> - FULL-TEXT read 10 October 2026 |
| Malvino PELAEZ (son of Juan PELAEZ and Antonina LERENA) Connected | Uruguay · Uruguayan · hacendado · found in Cuchilla de Villas Boas, Flores A BROTHER OF CASIMIRA PELAEZ AND OF MARIA PELAEZ. The Flores death act of his son gives him as 'Don MALBINO PELAEZ, oriental, de SESENTA Y SIETE anos de edad, hacendado', and names his parents as Don JUAN PELAEZ y Dona ANTONINA LERENA. AND HE MARRIED A LERENA HIMSELF: the same act gives the boy's maternal grandparents as ALEJANDRO LERENA and ISIDORA CHOURINO, so his wife is a daughter of Alejandro the younger. A PELAEZ WHOSE MOTHER WAS A LERENA MARRYING A LERENA - the Trinidad pattern exactly. AND HE IS THE MALVINO PELAEZ WHO STOOD PROXY GODFATHER BESIDE EDUVIGES PELAEZ AT TRINIDAD ON 1 APRIL 1894. NO BIRTH YEAR IS ENTERED, AND THAT IS DELIBERATE. He is sixty-seven on an act whose own date was not read - only the book's range of 1888-1917 - and an age without a date is not a birth year. Subtracting from a guessed date is exactly what this archive did to William John Taylor and to seven Montevideo women on 8 October. THE FIX IS CHEAP: read the act's date. HIS FULL NAME IS MALBINO HIPOLITO, AND HIS WIFE HAS A NAME NOW, 10 October 2026. His mother's death act of 1911 lists him among her four surviving children as MALBINO HIPOLITO; the Trinidad confirmation register of the 1890s writes him BALBINO PELAEZ, married to ALEJANDRINA LERENA. ONE MAN IN THREE FORMS - MALBINO, MALVINO, BALBINO - and the Don Balbino Pelaez who witnessed Maria Pelaez's wedding in 1880 is him. FOUR CHILDREN NOW: LUIS and AURORA from the confirmations, ANTONIO EUSEBIO from his death act, and JUAN PEDRO, who declared both his mother's death in 1926 and his grandmother's in 1911. | record ↗ Flores. Death Records 1888-1917 - death of Antonio Eusebio Pelaez at Cuchilla de Villas Boas; image 303, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q62K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q62K</a> - FULL-TEXT read 9 October 2026; and Flores. Death Records 1888-1917 - acta No. 9 of 28 July 1911, Sexta seccion, before Esteban Indarte; image 271, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Maria PELAEZ (m. Rafael Sanchez 1880) Unplaced · of interest | 1850 · Trinidad, Flores · UY · found in Trinidad, Flores Daughter of JUAN PELAEZ and ANTONINA LERENA, married Don RAFAEL SANCHEZ, a widower with legitimate issue by Dona Laureana Maciel, at Trinidad on 6 March 1880. Thirty years old then, so born about 1850. HER FULL NAME IS MARIA INOCENCIA, 10 October 2026, from her mother's death act of 1911, and SHE WAS ALIVE THEN - one of the four children Antonina Isabel left. | record ↗ Santisima Trinidad, Religious Marriage Records January 1875 - August 1895, act of 6 March 1880; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-V1PJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-V1PJ</a>; and Flores. Death Records 1888-1917 - acta No. 9 of 28 July 1911, Sexta seccion, before Esteban Indarte; image 271, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-Q7WL</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Maximo PELAEZ (m. Maria Lerena 1885) Unplaced · of interest | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores The groom of the dispensation of 26 June 1885, when the Archbishop lifted the THIRD grade with attingency to the SECOND, by the UNEQUAL lateral line, so that he could marry Dona MARIA LERENA of Trinidad. DEAD BY MARCH 1922, when his grandson's birth act calls him 'Don MAXIMO PELAEZ, oriental, FALLECIDO' and his wife a widow of fifty-three. NO BIRTH YEAR IS RECORDED AND NONE IS GUESSED HERE. His son is Vitalino Gregorio Pelaez. | record ↗ Flores. Birth Records 1916-1925 - act No. 10 of 1922, Sexta Seccion of Flores; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8</a>, DGS film 008165367 item 6 image 195 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Vitalino Gregorio PELAEZ (m. Florinda Juana Lerena 1913) Unplaced · of interest | 1888 · Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · hacendado · found in Flores, Uruguay THE GROOM OF THE 1913 DISPENSATION, and the man who declared the birth. He appears before the Oficial del Estado Civil on 10 March 1922 as 'Don VITALINO GREGORIO PELAEZ, de nacionalidad oriental, de TREINTA Y CUATRO anos, de estado casado, de profesion HACENDADO', to register a son born on the 3rd - so born about 1888. HIS MOTHER IS A LERENA: MARIA LERENA, dispensed in 1885 to marry his father MAXIMO PELAEZ. THAT IS WHY HE NEEDED A DISPENSATION OF HIS OWN to marry Florinda Juana Lerena in February 1913 - the THIRD grade by the EQUAL lateral line, which is second cousins. | record ↗ Flores. Birth Records 1916-1925 - act No. 10 of 1922, Sexta Seccion of Flores; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-8SX8</a>, DGS film 008165367 item 6 image 195 - FULL-TEXT found and PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Dona Raimunda PEREDA Unplaced | Argentine · found in San Jeronimo, Cordoba Mother of AMALIA CASAS, named on her daughter's marriage act of 20 June 1907 at San Jeronimo, Cordoba. New to this archive. | record ↗ Argentina, Cordoba, registros parroquiales 1557-1974 - marriage entry N 282, Parroquia de San Jeronimo, 20 June 1907; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKM7-6VW" rel="noopener">1:1:VKM7-6VW</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004484760 image 00123 |
| Antonino PERENA (b.1883, m.1906) Unplaced | 1883 · Trinidad, Flores · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married at Trinidad on 9 February 1906, born about 1883, son of PEDRO PERENA and ANGELA FRANCISCA MONTESDEOCA. NOT SHOWN TO BE A LERENA - see his father's row. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweep PERENA + Flores, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Pedro PERENA (m. Angela Francisca Montesdeoca) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores A PERENA HOUSEHOLD AT TRINIDAD THAT MAY NOT BE THIS FAMILY AT ALL. Named with ANGELA FRANCISCA MONTESDEOCA as the parents of an ANTONINO born about 1883 who married on 9 February 1906. PERENA IS A SPELLING THIS ARCHIVE HAS SEEN USED FOR LERENA AT TRINIDAD - Isaac Perena, Bernabe Perena, Pio C. Perena - BUT IT IS ALSO A SURNAME IN ITS OWN RIGHT, and nothing here ties Pedro to any Lerena. RECORDED AS A LEAD AND NOT AS KIN. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Francisco PEREZ DE CEBALLOS (witness, Rosario 1800) Unplaced | found in Colla The one man who is beside RAMON LERENA on every day of this business - 14 October, 11 November and 12 November 1800 - as companion, witness and appraiser. The transcript spells him CEBALLOS and ZEBALLOS. IF ANY MAN IN THIS FILE WAS RAMON LERENA'S REGULAR ASSOCIATE, IT IS HIM. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina |
| Canonigo D. Martin PINERO (officiated 1871) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · canonigo · found in Montevideo The Senor Canonigo who authorised the marriage of ALEJANDRO MAXIMO LERENA and ELISA VILLADEMOROS at the Cordon on 28 December 1871, 'con mi consentimiento' - that is, with the parish priest's consent, so he was officiating in another man's parish. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - marriage of 28 December 1871 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a> |
| Luis POCHEZ (witness, Rosario 1800) Unplaced | found in Colla Witness to Celestina Gonzalez's declaration before RAMON LERENA, signing with Francisco Perez de Ceballos and Nicolas Yrigoyen because she could not. NAMED ONCE AND NOT PURSUED. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 28-30 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z7MH</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-Z7Y9</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-C9N1-K</a> |
| Joseph PONTECELI Unplaced | Canelones · Uruguayan · found in Canelones Godfather at the baptism of Dominga Josefa Llerena, Canelones, 15 May 1804. "Vecino de la misma Villa." THIS ROW'S SOURCE AND ITS NOTE DISAGREE, FOUND 21 September 2026 BY OPENING THE PLATE. The note says this person stood godparent at the BAPTISM of Dominga Josefa Llerena, Canelones, 15 May 1804. The source field cites ark 3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-2, which is the CANELONES CONFIRMATION LIST - a page of one-line entries, opened and read on 21 September, on which this name does not appear in the portion read. Dominga Josefa's own row cites a DIFFERENT ark for her baptism, 3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y - film 008166571 image 01130, Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones, 1804, which was also opened and is the right parish and the right year. THE LIKELIEST READING IS THAT THE ARK ON THIS ROW IS SIMPLY WRONG - the two were recorded in one sitting off one search and the citation was crossed - but it is NOT ASSUMED, because the alternative is that the note is wrong and this person is a confirmation godparent. NEITHER IS WRITTEN AS FACT. TEST: read film 008166571 image 01130 for the act of 15 May 1804 and see who signs as godparent. THE CONFLICT FLAGGED ON THIS ROW THIS MORNING IS RESOLVED, AND THE ARK WAS THE THING THAT WAS WRONG. IMAGE READ 21 September 2026: film 008166571 image 01130 - the Canelones baptism register, where the act reads: 'de los CANELONES bautizo en [ella a una parvula de ... ] dias nacida, a la cual puso [por nombre DOMINGA ...], legitima de SANCHO LLERENA [y Maria Fernandez]. Padrinos JOSEF PONTECELI y [Agueda Rivero], de la misma Villa, a quienes [advirtio la obligacion] ... el Cura y Vic.o propio de la [misma] ... certifico para q.e conste.' So the note was right and the source field was wrong: this person is a godparent at the BAPTISM of Dominga Josefa Llerena, and the ark this row carried - 3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-2 - is the CANELONES CONFIRMATION LIST, a different film entirely. The ark is corrected to Dominga's own, 3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y, which resolves to this image. Two records taken down in one sitting off one search, and the citations crossed. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones - baptism of Dominga Josefa Llerena, 15 May 1804 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008166571 image 01130; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y</a> |
| Ida PONTOPHIDAN (wife of Otto KNOF) Unplaced | found in Crespo, Entre Rios Mother of Clara Henriette Knof, named on her daughter's marriage act of 24 October 1924, and present to give the consent a bride of fifteen required. THE SURNAME IS SO WRITTEN AND IS UNUSUAL - it is likely the Danish PONTOPPIDAN, and that is a reading this archive has NOT made from the plate. | record ↗ Libro de matrimonios: Crespo, Entre Rios. Marriage Records 1924 - acta No. 144, 24 October 1924, before Emilio F. Castellot; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-V36C-H9QM-J</a> - PLATE READ 10 October 2026 |
| Dolores POU de ZALDUONDO Unplaced | 1839 · Brazilian · found in Montevideo Mother of Eduardo Zalduondo. The act gives her in the Spanish married form - POU de ZALDUONDO - so POU is her own surname, which is Catalan or Balearic. Named only on this act. AND THE 1913 CIVIL INDEX NAMES HER AS 'DOLORES POU', plainly, without the married form - 11 October 2026. It is the mother of the Eduardo who died at Montevideo on 22 August 1913, whose father it gives as Juan. THAT IS HER, HER HUSBAND AND HER SON, and it is the strongest single leg of the argument that the ZALDUANDO household of the civil index and the ZALDUONDO household of the 1903 plate are one: an index may mangle a Basque surname, but it did not invent a Dolores Pou married to a Juan with a son Eduardo. DEAD BY 22 AUGUST 1913 TOO, with her husband: her son's death act calls them both 'FALLECIDOS'. Read from the plate 11 October 2026, which also confirms her married form as 'DOLORES POU DE ZALDUONDO' on the 1903 baptism - so the surname this archive read as Zalsamendi was wrong on her row as on the others, while POU, her own surname, was right all along and was the single strongest thread tying the civil index's household to this one. SHE IS BRAZILIAN, AND THIS ARCHIVE HAD GUESSED OTHERWISE. Her son's marriage act of 20 November 1897 gives 'Dona DOLORES POU, de 58 anos, de estado casada, profesion labores de su sexo, de nacionalidad BRASILENA' - so born about 1839, and BORN IN BRAZIL. This row previously reasoned from the surname alone that POU 'is Catalan or Balearic', and said so twice. THE SURNAME MAY WELL BE CATALAN; SHE IS NOT. A surname is a clue to an origin several generations back and this row used it as a clue to hers. She was living at calle Convencion No. 226 with her husband in 1897 and was dead by August 1913. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as paternal grandmother in the Pocitos baptism of 15 August 1903 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713400 image 02828, folio 344; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of 'Eduardo Zalduando Pou', Montevideo, 22 August 1913, aged 52, certificate 553, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a>, DGS 008165206 image 283 (PLATE NOT OPENED - the viewer demanded a sign-in on 11 October 2026); with index arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NFW-X112" rel="noopener">1:1:6NFW-X112</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB" rel="noopener">1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB</a> for the two children; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - marriage of 'Eduardo Zalduando' and Maria Ester Costa at La Paz in Canelones, 20 December 1927, certificate 30, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X92R-F5N1" rel="noopener">1:1:X92R-F5N1</a>, DGS 008166595 image 207 - indexes read 10-11 October 2026; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, death act No. 553 of Eduardo Zalduondo, 22 August 1913 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; DGS 008165206 image 283; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899' |
| Paulina PRANDO Algar Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of Pedro Segundo Lerena Villademoros and so a granddaughter-in-law of Avelino Lerena Fernandez. Nothing else in this archive names her. | no public link Named as the wife in the Montevideo death registration of Pedro Segundo Lerena Villademoros, 24 August 1936 - index read; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS5R-6F82" rel="noopener">1:1:XS5R-6F82</a> |
| Juana QUINTANA (wife of Justo LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named as the mother on the burial act of her daughter Carmen, Cementerio del Cordon, 14 August 1841 - "hija legitima de Justo Lerena y de Juana Quinta[na]". The surname is read Quintana; the machine index gives Quintana and the hand could also be read Quintano. Nothing else in this archive names her. | no public link Uruguay, registros parroquiales, 1726-2000 - burial of Carmen Lerena, Cementerio del Cordon, Montevideo, 14 August 1841; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXM-CN7Q" rel="noopener">1:1:XSXM-CN7Q</a>, <strong>IMAGE READ</strong> film 007713392 image 2511, 20 September 2026 |
| Florencia Calixta RAMOS (wife of ROQUE LARENA) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026, from a row this register already held. The archive named ROQUE LARENA as her husband and did not hold her as a person, so the marriage was written down and could not be drawn. The citation is the one already carried by that row; no new research stands behind this entry, and nothing is claimed here beyond the marriage itself. Her husband was born within a year of Pablo Armando and carries the name Pablo Armando gave his own eldest son - which is why that household was looked at, and why the archive then recorded that there is no Pablo and no Armando in four generations of it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 national census; Entre Rios Civil Registration - via the register row of her husband ROQUE LARENA |
| Josefa RAMOS (wife of Juan RIBERO the elder) Unplaced | Uruguayan · labores · found in Rivera, Uruguay Mother of the groom at the 1938 Montevideo marriage, 'de nacionalidad oriental, de estado CASADA, de profesion LABORES, domiciliada en el Dpto. de RIVERA'. NAMED ONCE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1938, acta No. 2 of 4 January 1938, 11a seccion del Departamento de Montevideo, before Eduardo Machiavello - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-70652-64458-41; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TH5-4T7K" rel="noopener">1:1:6TH5-4T7K</a> |
| Domingo RAZZETTI (father of Maria Mercedes) Unplaced | Italian · found in Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina Godfather to ANA MARIA LERENA RAZZETTI at Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados on 19 January 1921, with JOSEFINA BERTOGLIO. HE CARRIES THE MOTHER'S OWN SURNAME, so he is her father, her brother or her uncle - the act does not say which, and this archive does not guess. HE IS ALSO THE REASON THE SPELLING IS SETTLED: the surname is written twice on the same line, in the same hand, and both times it is RAZZETTI. AND THE QUESTION THIS ROW ASKED THIS MORNING IS ANSWERED THIS EVENING: HE IS HER FATHER. The row said he carried her surname and so was 'her father, her brother or her uncle - the act does not say which, and this archive does not guess'. Her marriage act of 11 January 1920 says: 'hija de DOMINGO RAZZETTI, de nacionalidad ITALIANO, de estado casado, de CINCUENTA Y NUEVE anos, domiciliado en la CUARTA SECCION de este departamento'. BORN ABOUT 1860 IN ITALY, farming or living in the fourth section of Canelones, and at his granddaughter's font in Argentina fourteen months after his daughter's wedding. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados, partido de Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires - BAPTISM RECORDS 12 Apr 1917 to 19 Feb 1923, the act of 19 January 1921 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN" rel="noopener">3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN</a>, deepzoom apid TH-1-159385-157066-5; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP84-YK8K" rel="noopener">1:1:QP84-YK8K</a>; and Canelones - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1917-1924, acta No. 4 of 11 January 1920, Santa Lucia, Segunda Seccion del Departamento de Canelones - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y</a> |
| Name | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Mercedes RAZZETTI (wife of Eduardo LERENA) Unplaced | 1899-07-25 · Colon, Montevideo, Uruguay · Uruguayan · labores · found in Buenos Aires ENTERED 7 OCTOBER 2026, from a row this register already held. The archive named EDUARDO LERENA as her husband and did not hold her as a person, so the marriage was written down and could not be drawn. The citation is the one already carried by that row; no new research stands behind this entry, and nothing is claimed here beyond the marriage itself. Their daughter - indexed as 'Ana Maria Lerena Rozzetti' and now entered as ANA MARIA LERENA RAZZETTI - is named on his row. HER SURNAME IS RAZZETTI, NOT ROZZETTI - OFF THE PLATE, 11 October 2026. The index of her daughter's baptism spells it ROZZETTI, and this row was built from that index. The act itself, written out in a clear hand, reads 'hija legitima de D. EDUARDO LERENA y de D.a MARIA MERCEDES RAZZETTI, domiciliados en ESTE PARTIDO'. AND THE GODFATHER IS HER OWN KIN: 'Padrinos: D. DOMINGO RAZZETTI y D.a JOSEFINA BERTOGLIO' - the same surname standing at the font, which is how an Italian family in Argentina ordinarily arranges a baptism. THIS MATTERS BEYOND A SPELLING. This register also holds an EDUARDO LERENA dispensed conciliar banns at Montevideo on 22 December 1919 to marry 'DONA MARIA MERCEDES RAZZELLO, feligresa de LAS PIEDRAS', read from a machine transcript and not a plate. RAZZELLO AND RAZZETTI ARE THE SAME HAND READ TWICE, far closer to each other than either is to the index's Rozzetti - and a couple dispensed in December 1919 with a first child born 12 January 1921 is thirteen months, which is exactly what a marriage looks like. NOT MERGED. See data/_person-pairs.txt. SHE IS URUGUAYAN, NOT ITALIAN, AND SHE HAS A BIRTH DATE - 11 October 2026. Her marriage act of 11 January 1920 gives her as 'dona MARIA MERCEDES RAZZETTI, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, NACIDA EL DIA VEINTICINCO DE JULIO DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE EN COLON, de profesion LABORES', and her parents as DOMINGO RAZZETTI, italiano, de cincuenta y nueve anos, domiciliado en la CUARTA SECCION de este departamento, y JOSEFINA BERTOGLIO, italiana, de cincuenta anos. SHE WAS TWENTY WHEN SHE MARRIED AND HER DAUGHTER WAS BORN A YEAR LATER. THE IMMIGRANT GENERATION IS HER PARENTS', NOT HERS: they are Italian-born, she is born at Colon outside Montevideo. She signs the act 'Maria Mercedes Razzetti' in her own hand, which is the spelling this register now uses. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records - via the register row of her husband Eduardo LERENA; and Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados, partido de Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires - BAPTISM RECORDS 12 Apr 1917 to 19 Feb 1923, the act of 19 January 1921 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN" rel="noopener">3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN</a>, deepzoom apid TH-1-159385-157066-5; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP84-YK8K" rel="noopener">1:1:QP84-YK8K</a>; and Canelones - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1917-1924, acta No. 4 of 11 January 1920, Santa Lucia, Segunda Seccion del Departamento de Canelones - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y</a> |
| Dona Juana RECUERO (wife of Florencio LERENA) Unplaced | Trinidad, Flores, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Married into the Trinidad Lerena kindred. BELOQUI, ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ are Basque surnames - evidence about the community these Lerenas married into, which bears on the Basque-or-Extremaduran question without settling it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 / Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 / Civil Registration, read 13 Sep 2026 |
| Don Wenceslao REGULES (father of Emma) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named as the father of EMMA REGULES on her marriage to Dr Arturo Lerena at the Catedral de Montevideo, 23 June 1880. His wife is JUSTINIANA MELILLA. REGULES IS A NAME WITH WEIGHT IN URUGUAY - the poet and folklorist Elias Regules was born in 1861 - and NO CONNECTION TO HIM IS CLAIMED OR LOOKED FOR HERE. Nothing else in this archive names Wenceslao. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS, the act of 23 June 1880 at the Basilica Menor y Catedral de Montevideo (volume catalogued 1887) - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1</a> |
| Ema REGULES (wife of Arturo LERENA) Unplaced | 1864 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Named on her son Eduardo's marriage act of 11 January 1920: 'y de EMA REGULES, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, de estado CASADA, de CINCUENTA Y CINCO anos' - so born about 1864-65, alive and married in 1920. The transcript renders her surname 'Ema Re gales' with a broken word; REGULES is a known Uruguayan surname and the reading is not plate-confirmed. AND SHE IS A CANDIDATE FOR SOMETHING FOUND EARLIER THE SAME DAY: an 'Ema. Lerena' stood godmother at the Cordon between 1900 and 1902 beside an EDUARDO LERENA. A married woman is written under her husband's name in a parish book, and Ema Regules would have been about thirty-six, with a son Eduardo aged fourteen to sixteen. THAT IS A CANDIDACY AND NOT A FINDING: a boy of fourteen is young for a godfather, the Cordon act gives no ages, and this register already holds two other women called Ema Lerena. See data/_person-pairs.txt. HER PARENTS AND HER WEDDING, 11 October 2026. She married Dr Arturo Lerena at the Catedral de Montevideo on 23 June 1880, aged SIXTEEN, 'hija legitima de DON WENCESLAO REGULES y DONA JUSTINIANA MELILLA' - so born about 1863-64, which agrees with the fifty-five years her son's act gives her in 1920. HER MOTHER STOOD AS A WITNESS AT HER OWN DAUGHTER'S WEDDING, written there as 'Dona Justiniana Melilla de Regules'. SIXTEEN IS YOUNG AND THE BANNS WERE DISPENSED BY THE BISHOP HIMSELF, which this archive notes without drawing a conclusion: a dispensation of the three proclamas is about publication, not about kinship, and no impediment of blood is recorded. The act spells her EMMA; her son's act of 1920 spells her EMA. ALIVE AND MARRIED IN AUGUST 1909, at calle Colonia 228, Montevideo, when her daughter EMMA LERENA REGULES married: 'y de EMMA REGULES de estado CASADA de profesion LABORES de nacionalidad oriental'. HER DAUGHTER CARRIES HER NAME. A WIDOW FROM 2 MARCH 1936, when her husband died at Treinta y Tres 269, Montevideo. The act records 'el finado era casado con [E]MA REGULES, de cuyo consorcio quedaron CINCO HIJOS' - so she outlived him, or at least was not recorded as dead, which is not the same thing and is all the act says. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Canelones - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1917-1924, acta No. 4 of 11 January 1920, Santa Lucia, Segunda Seccion del Departamento de Canelones - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-XSRD-Y</a>; and Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS, the act of 23 June 1880 at the Basilica Menor y Catedral de Montevideo (volume catalogued 1887) - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1</a>; and Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a>; and Montevideo - DEATH RECORDS 1931-1938, acta No. 8 of 2 March 1936, Tercera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-53PJ-Q</a>; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6V-233Y" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6V-233Y</a> |
| Dr. D. Joaquin REQUENA (witness, 1871) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · Doctor · found in Montevideo First witness at the marriage of ALEJANDRO MAXIMO LERENA and ELISA VILLADEMOROS, Cordon, 28 December 1871, named 'el Doctor D. JOAQUIN REQUENA'. THE SECOND WITNESS WAS THE GROOM'S OWN MOTHER, so this was a family occasion and he was close enough to it to stand beside her. A JOAQUIN REQUENA IS A NOTABLE NAME IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY MONTEVIDEO AND NO IDENTIFICATION IS MADE HERE. Worth recording that the two families met again much later: a REQUENA VILLADEMOROS child was christened at San Jose de Mayo in 1949 to a Joaquin Requena Garcia and an Angelica Villademoros. THAT IS A SURNAME PAIRING SEVENTY-EIGHT YEARS APART AND IS NOT EVIDENCE OF A CONNECTION. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE of 28 December 1871 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a>, volume 'Religious Marriage Records January 1866-May 1872' |
| Don Fidel REY Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather to Sancho's daughter Agustina Ramona at Canelones on 30 August 1795, and expressly 'VECINO DE MONTEVIDEO' where the parents are 'vecinos de la Villa'. He is very likely the reason this family uses the forename FIDEL: Sancho's son FIDEL was born about 1799, four years after this man stood at his sister's font, and the naming-for-the-godparent pattern holds in five other acts read here. THAT IS AN INFERENCE FROM A PATTERN AND NOT FROM A RECORD. Like Jose Martinez de la Vega at the 1806 font, he is a godparent fetched from the capital to a country parish - a connection of some kind, and the act does not say what kind. Nothing else in this archive names him. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godfather at the Canelones baptism of Agustina Ramona Lerena Fernandez, 30 August 1795 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008166571 image 01017; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-M</a> |
| Juan RIBERO (m. Victorina 1938) Unplaced | 1912-05-15 · Rivera, Uruguay · Uruguayan · jornalero · found in Montevideo Married VICTORINA SERENA at Montevideo on 4 January 1938, acta No. 2 of the 11a seccion. 'de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, nacido el dia QUINCE de MAYO de mil novecientos DOCE, de profesion JORNALERO, domiciliado en ESPERANZA 787' - the same address as the bride, so they were already living together. Son of JUAN RIBERO the elder, jornalero, and JOSEFA RAMOS, both of the Departamento de RIVERA. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1938, acta No. 2 of 4 January 1938, 11a seccion del Departamento de Montevideo, before Eduardo Machiavello - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-70652-64458-41; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TH5-4T7K" rel="noopener">1:1:6TH5-4T7K</a> |
| Juan RIBERO (the elder, of Rivera) Unplaced | Uruguayan · jornalero · found in Rivera, Uruguay Father of the JUAN RIBERO who married Victorina in 1938, named on that act as 'de estado CASADO, de profesion JORNALERO, domiciliado en el Dpto. de RIVERA'. NAMED ONCE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1938, acta No. 2 of 4 January 1938, 11a seccion del Departamento de Montevideo, before Eduardo Machiavello - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-70652-64458-41; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TH5-4T7K" rel="noopener">1:1:6TH5-4T7K</a> |
| Jose RIERA (Juez de Menores, Buenos Aires 1800) Unplaced | Alcalde Ordinario de Segundo Voto, Juez de Menores · found in Buenos Aires The judge who ordered RAMON LERENA to act. 'Yo, JOSE RIERA, Alcalde Ordinario de Segundo Voto, Juez de Menores por su Majestad de esta Ciudad y su Jurisdiccion', writing to 'El Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad del Partido del Rosario, en la otra Banda Oriental'. HIS LETTER IS THE DOCUMENT THAT PROVES WHICH ROSARIO RAMON LERENA WAS ALCALDE OF, which no amount of reasoning about place names had managed. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina |
| Joseph del RIOS (Notario Eclesiastico, Canelones) Unplaced | Uruguayan · Notario Eclesiastico · found in Canelones The ecclesiastical notary of the Juzgado Eclesiastico of Canelones who took SANCHO LLERENA's sworn deposition in the marriage investigation of Florentino Gomez, and who signed for him because Sancho could not write. HE IS THE REASON THIS ARCHIVE HAS SANCHO'S VOICE AT ALL: an expediente exists because a notary wrote one. Admitted 11 October 2026 under the rule written that day: a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register, whatever their role. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones - Religious Marriage Investigation Files 1776-1806, the expediente of Florentino Gomez - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 October 2026; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W45W</a> |
| Agustin RIVA (witness, 1897) Unplaced | 1859 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · empleado · found in Montevideo Second witness at the marriage of EDUARDO ZALDUONDO and ANGELICA MARIA LERENA VILLADEMOROS, Montevideo, 20 November 1897: 'Don AGUSTIN RIVA, de TREINTA Y OCHO anos de edad, de estado CASADO, de profesion EMPLEADO, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, domiciliado en la calle SARANDI No. 166' - so born about 1859. He signed the act. NO RELATIONSHIP TO EITHER FAMILY IS STATED and none is assumed; a witness may be a friend, a neighbour or a colleague of the groom, who was an empleado himself. NOT PURSUED. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899' |
| Don Fructuoso RIVERA Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · President of Uruguay · found in Montevideo / Canelones PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY, 1830-1834 - and godfather, with his wife Dona Bernardina Fragoso, to Juan Facundo Frutuoso Barros Lerena at the Cordon on 13 December 1831. The child was a grandson of Sancho Llerena. Padrinos of that rank are not chosen at random, and this is the earliest indication this archive has of the family's standing. THE PLATE WAS OPENED 21 September 2026 AND HE IS ON IT - with his office, and spelled the priest's way, not the history books'. The act reads 'padrinos Dn. FRUTUSO RIBERA, PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA y su esposa Da. BERNARDINA FRAGOSO'. FRUTUSO RIBERA, with a B. Everything published here until today came from a MACHINE full-text transcript, which printed the famous spelling FRUCTUOSO RIVERA over what the page actually says. The identification is not weakened by that - it is strengthened, because the act states his OFFICE and names his WIFE, and in December 1831 the President of the Republic was Fructuoso Rivera and his wife was Bernardina Fragoso. Two independent facts on one line, either of which identifies him alone. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen la Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo, baptism of 13 Dec 1831 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-CS9Z-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713388 image 00726, folio 133 |
| Agueda RIVERO Unplaced | Canelones · Uruguayan · found in Canelones Godmother at the baptism of Dominga Josefa Llerena, Canelones, 15 May 1804. "Vecina de la misma Villa." THIS ROW'S SOURCE AND ITS NOTE DISAGREE, FOUND 21 September 2026 BY OPENING THE PLATE. The note says this person stood godparent at the BAPTISM of Dominga Josefa Llerena, Canelones, 15 May 1804. The source field cites ark 3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-2, which is the CANELONES CONFIRMATION LIST - a page of one-line entries, opened and read on 21 September, on which this name does not appear in the portion read. Dominga Josefa's own row cites a DIFFERENT ark for her baptism, 3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y - film 008166571 image 01130, Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones, 1804, which was also opened and is the right parish and the right year. THE LIKELIEST READING IS THAT THE ARK ON THIS ROW IS SIMPLY WRONG - the two were recorded in one sitting off one search and the citation was crossed - but it is NOT ASSUMED, because the alternative is that the note is wrong and this person is a confirmation godparent. NEITHER IS WRITTEN AS FACT. TEST: read film 008166571 image 01130 for the act of 15 May 1804 and see who signs as godparent. THE CONFLICT FLAGGED ON THIS ROW THIS MORNING IS RESOLVED, AND THE ARK WAS THE THING THAT WAS WRONG. IMAGE READ 21 September 2026: film 008166571 image 01130 - the Canelones baptism register, where the act reads: 'de los CANELONES bautizo en [ella a una parvula de ... ] dias nacida, a la cual puso [por nombre DOMINGA ...], legitima de SANCHO LLERENA [y Maria Fernandez]. Padrinos JOSEF PONTECELI y [Agueda Rivero], de la misma Villa, a quienes [advirtio la obligacion] ... el Cura y Vic.o propio de la [misma] ... certifico para q.e conste.' So the note was right and the source field was wrong: this person is a godparent at the BAPTISM of Dominga Josefa Llerena, and the ark this row carried - 3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-73LL-2 - is the CANELONES CONFIRMATION LIST, a different film entirely. The ark is corrected to Dominga's own, 3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y, which resolves to this image. Two records taken down in one sitting off one search, and the citations crossed. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Canelones - baptism of Dominga Josefa Llerena, 15 May 1804 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008166571 image 01130; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-W9V2-Y</a> |
| Domingo RODRIGUEZ DE CARVALLO Unplaced | 1840-08-04 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A GRANDSON OF SANCHO, born 4 August 1840 and baptised at the Catedral de Montevideo on 25 October. Son of D. Antonio Rodriguez de Carballo and Dona Dominga Lerena, and so a younger brother of Lucinda Gregoria (b.1827). He is the child whose existence made the two-Dominga problem, and the act that names him is the one that solved it. Godparents Don Joaquin Sosa and Dona Balvina Suarez. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, and every reading holds. Film 007713376 image 01689, margin 'Domingo Rodrig.z de Carvallo': 'En VEINTE Y CINCO DE OCTUBRE de mil ochoc.s CUARENTA ... bautice solemnem.te a DOMINGO que NACIO EL CUATRO DE AGOSTO DEL PPTE. ANO, hijo legitimo de D. ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DE CARBALLO, nat.l de la PROVINCIA DEL RIO [de la Plata], y de D.a DOMINGA LERENA, nat.l del ESTADO ORIENTAL. Nieto pat.o de D. JOAQUIN RODRIG.z y D.a JUANA DEL ESPIRITU S.to, AMBOS NAT.S DE LA COLONIA; por parte Mat.a de D. SANCHO LERENA y D.a M.a FERNANDEZ.' THREE THINGS THE TRANSCRIPT DID NOT CARRY INTO THIS REGISTER: his father is natural de la PROVINCIA DEL RIO and not of Montevideo; his paternal grandparents are DOMINGO RODRIGUEZ and JUANA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO, 'ambos naturales de la COLONIA'; and the act spells the father CARBALLO with a B where this register writes CARVALLO. THE MATERNAL SIDE IS SANCHO LERENA AND MARIA FERNANDEZ, named again - the seventh plate read today to say so. THE WORD IN SQUARE BRACKETS ON THIS ROW WAS WRONG, AND IT MANUFACTURED A PERSON - corrected 11 October 2026. This note used to read 'Nieto pat[erno de D. DOMINGO] RODRIG.z', with the grandfather's forename supplied by the reader because the CHILD is called Domingo. THE PLATE SAYS JOAQUIN. Re-read at 4000px on the deepzoom tile: 'Nieto Pat.o de D. JOAQUIN RODRIG.z y D.a Juana del Espiritu S.to: ambos nat.s de la Colonia del Sacram.to'. The names panel of the same act independently gives 'Pats. Joaquin Rodriguez'. SO THE PATERNAL GRANDFATHER IS THE SAME MAYOR JOAQUIN NAMED ON HIS SISTER'S 1827 ACT, under this register's other spelling of the surname, and 'Don Domingo RODRIGUEZ (the elder, of la Colonia)' - a person this archive published for three weeks - NEVER EXISTED. He has been withdrawn; /people/don-domingo-rodriguez now lands on Joaquin. TWO MORE READINGS OFF THE SAME PLATE: the godfather is 'D. JOAQUIN SOSA DE CRUZ SECO' - this register had him as 'Don Joaquin Sosa' and the machine panel as 'Juaquin Losada Cruz Seco' - and the godmother BALVINA SUAREZ stands confirmed. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo - baptism of 25 Oct 1840 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 01689; and the SAME plate re-read 11 October 2026 during a site-wide audit - film 007713376 image 01689, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52377-68331-65 |
| Juan RODRIGUEZ (m. Isabel Lerena 1902) Unplaced | found in Trinidad, Flores Married ISABEL LERENA at Santisima Trinidad on 29 January 1902. The index renders him 'Juan Rodriguez - Cames', the trailing word unexplained. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname sweeps PERENA, GERENA and LLERENA with a FLORES, URUGUAY place preference, 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong> |
| Carmen ROMAN LERENA Unplaced | 1918 · Rosario · Argentine · found in Rosario, Santa Fe Daughter of Diego Roman and Manuela Lerena. Note the name CARMEN, which David asked about. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Baptism 1918, Santa Rosa de Lima, Rosario |
| ROQUE LARENA Unplaced | 1881 · Entre Rios · Argentine · found in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios Born within a year of Pablo Armando, and ROQUE is the name Pablo Armando gave his eldest son. m. Florencia Calixta Ramos. BUT: there is no Pablo and no Armando in four generations of this family, and Gualeguaychu is in Entre Rios, not Rosario. Noted, not claimed. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1895 national census; Entre Rios Civil Reg. |
| Capitan Don Antonio RUIZ [RODRIGUEZ] DE CARVALLO Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo HUSBAND OF DOMINGA LLERENA, SANCHO'S DAUGHTER - established on an act 14 September 2026. A CAPTAIN, son of MAYOR DON JOAQUIN RUIZ DE CARVALLO and the late Dona Juana Suarez. Named in the Catedral baptism of their daughter Lucinda Gregoria, 12 May 1827. He is one half of the two-Dominga problem: a second indexed record gives a Dominga, daughter of Sancho and Maria Fernandez, married instead to an ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ. Both husbands are ANTONIO, which is suggestive and is not proof. THE TWO-DOMINGA PROBLEM IS CLOSED, AND HE IS THE REASON IT EXISTED. The baptism of his son DOMINGO on 25 October 1840 calls him "D. ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DE CARBALLO" where the 1827 act called him "CAPITAN DON ANTONIO RUIZ DE CARVALLO" - and both give his father as JOAQUIN and his wife as a DOMINGA whose parents are SANCHO LERENA and MARIA FERNANDEZ. One man, one wife, two spellings, and an index that made him look like two husbands. The 1840 act adds that he was born in the PROVINCIA DEL RIO GRANDE, Brazil, and that his parents came from the COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO. 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. Named on the plate as the father: 'hija legitima del Capitan D.n Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo'. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo - baptism of 12 May 1827 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2</a>; and the Catedral baptism of his son Domingo, 25 Oct 1840 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 00601 |
| Lucinda Gregoria del Corazon de Jesus RUIZ DE CARVALLO Unplaced | 1827-04-24 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A GRANDDAUGHTER OF SANCHO, born 24 April 1827 and baptised at the Catedral on 12 May. Daughter of Capitan Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo and Dona Dominga Llerena de Carvallo. HER GODFATHER WAS THE EXCELENTISIMO SENOR GENERAL DON FRANCISCO DE PAULA MAGGESI - a second general at a Lerena font, with Dona Carolina Amalia de la Concepcion. 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. THE ACT GIVES HER OWN BIRTH: 'que nacio en VEINTE Y CUATRO DE ABRIL ULTIMO' - born 24 April 1827 and baptised at eighteen days. 'hija legitima del Capitan D.n Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo y de D.a DOMINGA LLE[RENA]. Nieta paterna del Mayor D.n Joaquin Ru[iz de Carvallo] y ... na SUAREZ.' | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo - baptism of 12 May 1827 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 00601 |
| Mayor Don Joaquin RUIZ DE CARVALLO Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of Capitan Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo and so father-in-law of Sancho's daughter Dominga. A MAJOR. Named in the Catedral baptism of 12 May 1827; his wife Dona Juana Suarez is already dead by then. ALSO NAMED IN 1840 - as "D. JOAQUIN RODRIGUEZ ... natural de la COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO", the same man under the register's other spelling of the surname. So the Carvallos came to Montevideo from the Colonia del Sacramento. 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. 'Nieta paterna del MAYOR D.n JOAQUIN RU[iz de Carvallo]' - his rank and his name, on the plate. THIS ROW WAS RIGHT AND ANOTHER ROW CONTRADICTED IT FOR THREE WEEKS - settled on the plate, 11 October 2026. It has always said he was 'ALSO NAMED IN 1840', while the register simultaneously carried a 'Don Domingo RODRIGUEZ (the elder, of la Colonia)' built from the same sentence of the same act. THE PLATE READS 'Nieto Pat.o de D. JOAQUIN RODRIG.z y D.a Juana del Espiritu S.to: AMBOS NAT.S DE LA COLONIA DEL SACRAM.TO', and the act's own names panel gives 'Pats. Joaquin Rodriguez'. SO THE OTHER MAN IS WITHDRAWN AND HIS ADDRESS REDIRECTS HERE. AND HIS WIFE IS NOW NAMED TWICE OVER: 1827 gives her as JUANA SUAREZ, 1840 as JUANA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO, both as the mother of his son Antonio - one woman under two names, merged into 'Dona Juana SUAREZ' the same day. WHAT THE TWO ACTS TOGETHER ESTABLISH: Joaquin and his wife were both natives of the COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, their son Antonio was born in the PROVINCIA DEL RIO GRANDE in Brazil, and the family was in Montevideo by 1827. A household that moved twice before it married into Sancho's. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo - baptism of 12 May 1827 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 00601; and the SAME plate re-read 11 October 2026 during a site-wide audit - film 007713376 image 01689, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52377-68331-65 |
| Cipriana SAENZ PENA (indexed also Cepriana Saens Pena) Unplaced | Argentine · found in Buenos Aires THE BRIDE THIS ARCHIVE NEVER HAD. She married GILBERTO LERENA SALVANACH - the eldest son of Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach, born Montevideo 1878 - at Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Recoleta, on 19 May 1906. The register has carried that marriage since 14 September with the groom alone. A Capital Federal index names a child of theirs, "Gilberto de Jesus del Corazon". INDEX-LEVEL, and the act has not been opened. The surname SAENZ PENA runs through Argentine public life in these very years; no relationship to anyone of that name is asserted, and none has been looked for. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1640-1978 - marriage of 19 May 1906, Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Recoleta; index read 20 September 2026 |
| Don Cristobal SALVANACH Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of Julia Salvanach, named as maternal grandfather in act 1447 (1886). New to this archive. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptism act No. 1447, 31 Oct 1886 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W</a> |
| Julia SALVANACH Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo, later Buenos Aires SHE WAS MISSING FROM THIS REGISTER UNTIL 23 SEPTEMBER 2026, WHILE BOTH HER PARENTS WERE IN IT AND THREE EDGES OF THE TREE POINTED AT HER. Wife of GILBERTO LERENA (Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas) and mother of the LERENA SALVANACH - Gilberto the younger (1878), Carlos Augusto Federico (1883), Maria Angelica Julia, Maria Carlota, Luis Felipe, Cesar Alberto and Horacio Alfredo. Daughter of DON CRISTOBAL SALVANACH and DONA ANGELA ALVAREZ, who were entered here from act 1447 as the maternal grandparents of her child - so the archive held her parents, and her children, and not her. THE ACT CALLS THE COUPLE "orientales", Uruguayan. HOW SHE WAS FOUND: not by research, but by asking which people data/relations.tsv names that the register does not hold - a question nothing had asked until a gate was written for it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptism act No. 1447, 31 Oct 1886 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W</a> |
| Fulgencio de los SANTOS (witness, 1794) Unplaced | found in Colla Witness at the 1794 inventory of Clemente Garcia's estancia. NOTE A COINCIDENCE OF SURNAME AND NOTHING MORE: a FRANCISCO DE LOS SANTOS DE ACUNA deposed beside Sancho Llerena at Canelones in the same decade. DE LOS SANTOS IS A COMMON SPANISH SURNAME AND NO CONNECTION IS CLAIMED. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1794, item 11 of 119 images - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHK-X3TB-H94S-3</a> |
| Cesar SCHIAFFINO (Juez de Paz, Montevideo 1909) Unplaced | Uruguayan · Juez de Paz y Oficial del Estado Civil · found in Montevideo Registrar of the Sexta Seccion of Montevideo, who married Fermin Carlos de Yeregui and Emma Lerena Regules on 9 August 1909 and wrote acta No. 16. THE OFFICE IS RECORDED AND THE BUSINESS OF THE OFFICE IS NOT - the Morana-Nicola marriage five days later on the same opening is not admitted. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a> |
| Jose SEGUEIRA Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of JOSEFA SEGUEIRA and so a maternal grandfather of Victor Lerena, the alpargatero who died at Montevideo in 1889. He was found only when the plate was opened: the machine transcript this archive read for a week carried the paternal grandparents and not the maternal. SEGUEIRA is a GALICIAN name - one more origin entering a family that already runs Andalusia, Asturias, Pernambuco and the Basque country. Nothing else here names him. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as a maternal grandparent in the Montevideo civil death registration of Victor Lerena, No. 622 of 1889 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008165116 image 01442; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P</a> |
| Josefa SEGUEIRA (wife of Pedro LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo SHE HAD BEEN A NAME INSIDE SOMEBODY ELSE'S NOTE SINCE 14 SEPTEMBER AND WAS NEVER A PERSON. Wife of PEDRO LERENA and mother of VICTOR LERENA the alpargatero; both she and her husband are called FINADOS on Victor's registration of 1889, so she was dead by then. Her own parents are on that act - JOSE SEGUEIRA and RAMONA - and were entered the same day. THIS ARCHIVE CARRIED HER SURNAME AS SEGUERA UNTIL THE PLATE WAS READ; it is SEGUEIRA, which is Galician, and which is a different search. See data/corrections.tsv. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as the mother in the Montevideo civil death registration of her son Victor Lerena, No. 622 of 1889 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008165116 image 01442; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P</a> |
| Ramona (wife of Jose SEGUEIRA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of Josefa Segueira, named on her grandson's death registration of 1889 - and her surname is NOT SECURELY READ. The act runs 'maternos JOSE SEGUEIRA y RAMONA' and breaks the line; the next line opens with the single word 'apellido' and nothing before it. That may be the tail of a phrase meaning she bore the same surname as her husband, or it may be a label printed on the form. This archive cannot choose between them and will not guess a surname onto a woman who has only a forename. Read at double magnification before being written down. TEST: the marriage of Jose Segueira, or any baptism of their daughter Josefa. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as a maternal grandparent in the Montevideo civil death registration of Victor Lerena, No. 622 of 1889 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 008165116 image 01442; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-27FX-P</a> |
| Antonio SERENA/LERENA (father of Maria, m. Costales 1865) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE THIRD OF THE FOUR, AND IT IS NEITHER PROVED NOR DISPROVED - 12 October 2026. This row was entered as half of a Lerena-married-a-Lerena couple on an index that gave the parents as 'Antonio Lerena' and 'Sabina Lerena'. THE ACT PUTS ONE SURNAME BETWEEN THEM: 'En VEINTE Y CINCO DE MAYO de mil ochocientos sesenta y cinco: el Presbitero Don... con licencia del infrascrito Cura Rector de esta Parroquia de San Francisco de Asis en Montevideo, previas las diligencias posibles, autorice segun Rito de Nuestra Santa Madre Yglesia y forma del Manual Toledano el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo JOAQUIN COSTALES, IN ARTICULO MORTIS, BRASILERO, hijo de ANTONIO FRANCISCO y de MARIA JOAQUINA: con MARIA SERENA, oriental, HIJA DE ANTONIO Y DE SABINA SERENA: fueron testigos Don VICTOR MANUEL GARCIA y SEBASTIANA ALVAREZ: lo que por verdad firmo. Y declararon tener DOS HIJOS, CANDIDO DE DIEZ ANOS y LUIS DE CUATRO.' 'HIJA DE ANTONIO Y DE SABINA SERENA' - the surname is written ONCE, after Sabina. SO THE INDEX DID NOT INVENT A SURNAME HERE, AS IT DID FOR BARBARA AND FOR ANDREA ETCHEBERSE; IT DUPLICATED ONE. Whether Sabina was BORN a Serena or carried it by marriage is NOT ESTABLISHED BY THIS ACT, and the reading that makes them a Lerena-married-a-Lerena couple is a possible one and not a documented one. SERENA IS THIS REGISTER'S OLDEST KNOWN MIS-RENDERING OF LERENA - the S-for-L - and the act uses it throughout, for the bride and for her parents alike. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Florencio SERENA (of Cerro Largo, d. before 1938) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Cerro Largo, Uruguay THE FOURTH OF THE FOUR, AND IT IS THE WEAKEST KIND OF SURVIVAL: NOT DISPROVED, NOT PROVED. His daughter's marriage act of 4 January 1938 names him 'FLORENCIO SERENA... DE ESTADO FALLECIDO' and her mother 'TERESA SERENA... DE ESTADO VIUDA'. '...y dona VICTORINA SERENA, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, nacida el dia SEIS de MARZO de mil novecientos OCHO, en el Depto. de CERRO LARGO, de profesion LABORES, domiciliada en Esperanza 787, HIJA DE FLORENCIO SERENA, de nacionalidad oriental, DE ESTADO FALLECIDO... Y DE TERESA SERENA, de nacionalidad oriental, DE ESTADO VIUDA, de profesion labores, domiciliada en el Dpto. de CERRO LARGO.' SO BOTH PARENTS CARRY ONE SURNAME ON THE ACT - BUT SHE IS A WIDOW, and a widow is routinely written under her late husband's name. Whether Teresa was BORN a Serena is NOT ESTABLISHED, exactly as with Sabina Serena of the 1865 act. HE IS NOT THE FLORENCIO LERENA OF TRINIDAD, and that question is now closed: this family is of CERRO LARGO, four departments away, and his daughter was born there in 1908. The Trinidad Florencio married DONA JUANA RECUERO. THE PAIR ENTRY SAYING 'THREE READINGS ARE OPEN' IS SUPERSEDED BY A PLACE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1938, acta No. 2 of 4 January 1938, 11a seccion del Departamento de Montevideo, before Eduardo Machiavello - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-70652-64458-41; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TH5-4T7K" rel="noopener">1:1:6TH5-4T7K</a> |
| Fructuoso SERENA (m. Cayetana Artola) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Father of a child baptised at Trinidad about November 1890, with CAYETANA ARTOLA, and with BERNABE LERENA and ALEJANDRINA LERENA standing as godparents - two people this register already holds, both of Trinidad. SERENA IS THIS ARCHIVE'S OLDEST MIS-RENDERING OF LERENA and the panel gives him no other spelling. NOT MERGED with JUAN FACUNDO FRUTUOSO BARROS LERENA, the only other man of that forename here. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Montevideo, Baptism Records November 1890-January 1891, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS24-S932-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS24-S932-Q</a> |
| Luisa SERENA (godmother, Trinidad 1901-04) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Godmother at Trinidad between 1901 and 1904, named beside a godfather the panel renders 'Lorena Toroteo' - almost certainly TOROTEO/DOROTEO LERENA, which would make this another pair of Lerenas at a font. NEITHER NAME IS ESTABLISHED AND NO PLATE HAS BEEN OPENED. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Santisima Trinidad, Baptism Records September 1901-November 1904, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-697K-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-697K-1</a> |
| Maria SERENA/LERENA (m. Joaquin Costales 1865) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Married JOAQUIN COSTALES at San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, on 25 MAY 1865, daughter of ANTONIO LERENA and SABINA LERENA. SHE IS A MARIA LERENA BORN OF TWO LERENAS, which is the exact configuration this archive is looking for - and she married in 1865 and is therefore not the Maria Lerena who bore a son at Rosario in 1882 unless that son was born to a woman already seventeen years married under another husband's name. RECORDED, NOT PURSUED. The index gives her twice, once as 'Maria Serena'. INDEX-LEVEL. THE ACT IS READ, 12 October 2026, AND IT IS A DEATHBED MARRIAGE. 'En VEINTE Y CINCO DE MAYO de mil ochocientos sesenta y cinco: el Presbitero Don... con licencia del infrascrito Cura Rector de esta Parroquia de San Francisco de Asis en Montevideo, previas las diligencias posibles, autorice segun Rito de Nuestra Santa Madre Yglesia y forma del Manual Toledano el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo JOAQUIN COSTALES, IN ARTICULO MORTIS, BRASILERO, hijo de ANTONIO FRANCISCO y de MARIA JOAQUINA: con MARIA SERENA, oriental, HIJA DE ANTONIO Y DE SABINA SERENA: fueron testigos Don VICTOR MANUEL GARCIA y SEBASTIANA ALVAREZ: lo que por verdad firmo. Y declararon tener DOS HIJOS, CANDIDO DE DIEZ ANOS y LUIS DE CUATRO.' 'IN ARTICULO MORTIS' - the groom was dying, and the purpose of the ceremony was to legitimise the two sons they declared: CANDIDO, TEN, and LUIS, FOUR. So the couple had been together since about 1855 and this marriage of 25 May 1865 is the end of that, not the beginning. HE WAS BRASILERO. AND HER PARENTS ARE GIVEN AS 'ANTONIO Y SABINA SERENA', ONE SURNAME BETWEEN THEM, so the Lerena-married-a-Lerena reading this archive published for her parents is NOT ESTABLISHED. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Pio C. SERENA (Trinidad, 1905-09) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Appears twice in one Trinidad volume pair, as 'Rio C. Serena' and as 'Pio C. Perena', once as the parent of a MARGARITA DORA and once as a godfather beside ALBA LERENA. A MIDDLE INITIAL IS RARE IN THIS REGISTER AND MAKES HIM FINDABLE. INDEX-LEVEL, and the two spellings are a reading and not a fact. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Santisima Trinidad, Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909, image arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-694X-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-694X-Q</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69QT-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-69QT-J</a> |
| Sabina SERENA (mother of Maria, m. Costales 1865) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo NAMED ON THE PLATE AS 'SABINA SERENA' AND NOT SHOWN TO BE A LERENA BY BIRTH. Her daughter's marriage act of 25 May 1865 reads 'hija de ANTONIO y de SABINA SERENA', with the surname written once, after her name. A WIFE CARRIES HER HUSBAND'S SURNAME IN PLENTY OF ACTS OF THIS PERIOD, so this does not make her a Lerena born, and it does not make her anything else either. THE 'COUPLE OF TWO LERENAS' HERE IS AN INDEX'S DUPLICATION OF ONE SURNAME, NOT A DOCUMENTED MARRIAGE OF TWO - which is a different failure from the two that collapsed outright the same morning, and is recorded as the weaker, slower kind. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS 1863-1875, acta No. 317 of 25 May 1865 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N7YZ-8</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52396-159611-77; index entries ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS36-KXQY" rel="noopener">1:1:XS36-KXQY</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC" rel="noopener">1:1:XS3X-Q8ZC</a> |
| Sara SERENA (godmother, Trinidad 1905-09) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Godmother at Trinidad between 1905 and 1909, with JUAN V. LEVERA. The same volume carries a MARGARITA DORA, child of a 'Rio/Pio C. SERENA', and a grandparent ALEJANDRO SERENA. THREE SERENAS IN ONE VOLUME OF A TOWN THIS ARCHIVE HAS SWEPT - which is the strongest argument yet that the Trinidad sweep was done on the LERENA spelling and missed the SERENA one. INDEX-LEVEL. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch FULL TEXT - the phrase 'Lerena y Lerena' filtered to Uruguay, 15 volumes, all read 12 October 2026 - <strong>NAMES PANEL ONLY, NO PLATE OPENED</strong>; Santisima Trinidad, Baptism Records August 1905-August 1909, image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-694X-Q" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-694X-Q</a> |
| Teresa SERENA (widow, of Cerro Largo) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Cerro Largo, Uruguay A WIDOW OF CERRO LARGO, named on her daughter's marriage act of 4 January 1938 as 'TERESA SERENA, de nacionalidad oriental, DE ESTADO VIUDA, de profesion labores, domiciliada en el Dpto. de CERRO LARGO'. HER SURNAME ON THIS ACT MAY BE HER HUSBAND'S - he is FLORENCIO SERENA, fallecido - so this does not establish her as a Lerena born, and the 'couple of two Lerenas' the index reported is NOT DEMONSTRATED. AND HER DAUGHTER'S BIRTH REGISTRATION NAMES NO FATHER AT ALL: the Melo entry of 1 June 1908 gives 'Teresa Llerena' alone. A father appears only thirty years later, on the marriage act, by then dead. THAT IS A COMMON AND HUMAN SHAPE - a natural child later acknowledged - and this archive records it without deciding which happened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1938, acta No. 2 of 4 January 1938, 11a seccion del Departamento de Montevideo, before Eduardo Machiavello - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-70652-64458-41; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TH5-4T7K" rel="noopener">1:1:6TH5-4T7K</a> |
| Victorina SERENA/LLERENA (b.1908, m. Juan Ribero 1938) Unplaced | 1908 · Cerro Largo, Uruguay · Uruguayan · labores · found in Montevideo Daughter of FLORENCIO LERENA and TERESA LERENA in the Uruguayan civil registration index. NO DATE, NO PLACE AND NO EVENT TYPE SURVIVES THE INDEX ENTRY, which is why she is here with nothing but a parentage. INDEX-LEVEL. HER ACT IS READ, 12 October 2026, AND IT CARRIES A CONFLICT THIS ARCHIVE LEAVES STANDING. '...y dona VICTORINA SERENA, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, nacida el dia SEIS de MARZO de mil novecientos OCHO, en el Depto. de CERRO LARGO, de profesion LABORES, domiciliada en Esperanza 787, HIJA DE FLORENCIO SERENA, de nacionalidad oriental, DE ESTADO FALLECIDO... Y DE TERESA SERENA, de nacionalidad oriental, DE ESTADO VIUDA, de profesion labores, domiciliada en el Dpto. de CERRO LARGO.' THE MARRIAGE ACT SAYS SHE WAS BORN 6 MARCH 1908; HER OWN BIRTH REGISTRATION AT MELO, CERRO LARGO SAYS 18 MAY 1908 and registers her under 'TERESA LLERENA' ALONE, WITH NO FATHER. Both are civil records of the same state. THE BIRTH REGISTRATION IS THE BETTER WITNESS TO A BIRTH DATE, being made six weeks after the event rather than thirty years; neither is preferred here without the Melo act being read. SHE MARRIED JUAN RIBERO, jornalero, born 15 May 1912, at Montevideo on 4 January 1938, both of them living at Esperanza 787. SHE COULD NOT SIGN: 'en este acto la contrayente manifiesta no saber firmar, verificandolo a su ruego dona CATALINA G. DE GARCIA'. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch RECORD INDEX - exact-surname parent-pair query, FATHER SURNAME LERENA with MOTHER SURNAME LERENA, 38 results worldwide, run 12 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX-LEVEL, NO ACT OPENED</strong>; and Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS 1938, acta No. 2 of 4 January 1938, 11a seccion del Departamento de Montevideo, before Eduardo Machiavello - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSVF-SS8V-V</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-70652-64458-41; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6TH5-4T7K" rel="noopener">1:1:6TH5-4T7K</a> |
| Fr Jose SERRANO LOPEZ (cura, Adolfo Alsina 1921) Unplaced | Catholic priest · found in Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina Cura of NUESTRA SENORA DE LOS DESAMPARADOS, who baptised Ana Maria Lerena Razzetti on 19 January 1921 and signed the folio 'El Cura de la Parroquia: Jose Serrano Lopez'. Entered because the act is about one of this register's people and everyone named on such an act is admitted - the rule in tools/check-people-named.py. THE BUSINESS OF HIS OFFICE IS NOT ADMITTED, only this act. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados, partido de Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires - BAPTISM RECORDS 12 Apr 1917 to 19 Feb 1923, the act of 19 January 1921 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 11 October 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN" rel="noopener">3:1:9Q97-YSR7-5FN</a>, deepzoom apid TH-1-159385-157066-5; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP84-YK8K" rel="noopener">1:1:QP84-YK8K</a> |
| Teodoro SILVA (m. Elena LERENA) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Husband of an ELENA LERENA; their son HECTOR JOSE SILVA LERENA was born 11 November 1918 and christened at Trinidad on 3 February 1919. WHICH ELENA SHE IS, THIS ARCHIVE DOES NOT KNOW - it holds a Natalia Elena Lerena Recuero born 1891 at Trinidad, which would fit, and a Maria Elena Lerena who married in 1906, which would not. NOT MERGED. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Leontina SOASANI (mother of Maria Ester) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in La Paz, Uruguay Named as the mother of MARIA ESTER COSTA on her 1927 marriage at La Paz. The surname is unusual and may be an index rendering of an Italian name - SOAZANI, SOSSANI, SOAZZANI are all likelier spellings than the one indexed. NOT RESOLVED. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch - the Trinidad, Flores sweep and the Zalduando surname sweep, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no act opened</strong> |
| Barbara SOTURA (wife of Juan FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ) Connected | San Jose, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in San Jose de Mayo THE NAME THAT JOINED TWO ACTS SEVENTEEN DAYS APART IN THIS ARCHIVE'S WORK AND THIRTY YEARS APART IN THE REGISTER. On 16 September 1825 she is the mother of MARGARITA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ; in the expediente of August 1855 a sworn witness names 'Dona BARBARA SOTURA' among the grandparents of SERAPIO FERNANDEZ. THE SAME WOMAN, SO MARGARITA AND MANUEL ARE SIBLINGS - and a dispensation this archive had explained by inference acquires a documented path. AN UNUSUAL SURNAME IS WORTH MORE THAN A COMMON ONE, AND THIS IS WHY: the match would have been worthless on a Gonzalez. | record ↗ Catedral Basilica San Jose, Religious Marriage Records March 1825-September 1859 - act No. 17 of 16 September 1825; DGS film 008143329 (microfilm 625330) image 10, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSKH-67T7</a> - PLATE READ 9 October 2026 |
| Dona Carolina SUAREZ Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of Hermenegilda Carolina GAVAZZO; named at her marriage to Alfredo Lerena Traibel, 3 February 1892. THE SURNAME IS CORRECTED OFF THE IMAGE, 21 September 2026. This archive held it from a MACHINE FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT of the 1892 marriage act and never opened the page. The page was opened - film 007713383 image 02601, folio 340 - and the act reads 'hija legitima de Don GERONIMO GAVAZZO y Dona CAROLINA SUAREZ'. GAVAZZO, not "Gavarro"; SUAREZ, not "Juarez". It is corroborated independently by Hermenegilda's own Montevideo death registration of 20 June 1940, certificate 632, read off film 008166249 image 01900, which writes her HERMENEGILDA GAVAZZO DE LERENA and her parents Geronimo Gavazzo and Carolina Suarez. Two images, forty-eight years apart, against one machine transcript. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, marriage of 3 Feb 1892 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K</a>; IMAGE READ 21 September 2026 - film 007713383 image 02601 |
| Dona Juana SUAREZ Unplaced | Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo 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. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo - baptism of 12 May 1827 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFQ-2</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 00601; and the Catedral baptism of her grandson Domingo Rodriguez de Carvallo, 25 October 1840 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L</a>; and the SAME plate re-read 11 October 2026 during a site-wide audit - film 007713376 image 01689, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSFY-L</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-52377-68331-65 |
| Agnes Walker TAYLOR ("Aggie"; m. WOOD) Connected | 1889-08-03 · Northam, Devon · British · found in Northam, Devon THE YOUNGEST, AND THE CONTROL FOR EVERY SEARCH OF 8 OCTOBER 2026. Her birth was the one this archive held to the day and the address - 3 August 1889 at 2 Fore Street, Northam - so she was looked for first in each index before any null was believed. Baptised 21 August 1889, eighteen days old. Her middle name WALKER is the Scottish great-great-grandmother's surname. Married ALFRED SIDNEY WOOD in 1918; at Churston Ferrers in 1921. Died 29 April 1974. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname BRAYLEY - read 8 October 2026 - 1889 Sep quarter, BIDEFORD, volume 05B page 502; Northam St Margaret baptism register, Devon Baptisms (South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16) |
| Horace Archibald TAYLOR Connected | 1872-04-01 · Bideford, Devon · British · Domestic servant - footman · found in Northam, Devon BAPTISED TWO YEARS LATE, AT NORTHAM IN 1874, though born at 23 Geneva Place, Bideford - which is how the baptism series dates the family's move. A footman at nineteen in 1891, while his father drove a cab. Died 18 January 1934 at Birmingham, aged 61. ALSO NEARLY LOST TO AN INITIAL - indexed 'Horace A'. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname BRAYLEY - read 8 October 2026 - 1872 Jun quarter, BIDEFORD, volume 05B page 507; Northam St Margaret baptism register, Devon Baptisms (South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16) |
| Irene TAYLOR ("Rene"; m. BURTON) Connected | 1879-02-01 · Northam, Devon · British · found in Northam, Devon AND SHE HAD NO TWIN. This archive carried an unnamed twin sister of 1879 for weeks, inferred female because the Septima arithmetic failed without her. The GRO index shows Irene alone - no second birth to this mother that year, of either sex - and the Northam register baptises her by herself. Married HENRY ALBERT BURTON at Northam, 30 August 1900, eleven days before her sister Isabella and on the adjacent page of the same index volume. Died 25 March 1969. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname BRAYLEY - read 8 October 2026 - 1879 Mar quarter, BIDEFORD, volume 05B page 524; Northam St Margaret baptism register, Devon Baptisms (South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16) |
| Isabella Temple TAYLOR ("Edie"; m. DALLING) Connected | 1874-09-10 · Bideford, Devon · British · found in Northam, Devon SHE IS THE 'EDIE' MARY SEPTIMA STAYED WITH IN 1935, and establishing that on 8 October 2026 killed a three-week-old hypothesis. The archive had been treating 'her sister Edie' as evidence of a missing sister named EDITH, while four other files identified Edie as this woman - who married HENRY DALLING at Northam on 10 September 1900 and kept house at 26 FORE STREET, NORTHAM, where the 1939 Register lists her by her exact birth date. Her middle name TEMPLE is her Scottish great-grandmother's surname. Died December 1953. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname BRAYLEY - read 8 October 2026 - 1874 Dec quarter, BIDEFORD, volume 05B page 497; Northam St Margaret baptism register, Devon Baptisms (South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16) |
| Kathleen Georgina TAYLOR Connected | 1870-11-04 · Bideford, Devon · British · Mother's help; later recorded 'home invalid' and 'incapacitated' · found in Northam, Devon THE ELDEST, AND A TWIN. Her registration is page 490 and her brother William John's is 489 - consecutive entries in one quarter, which is the twinning on the record rather than in a tree. SHE NEVER LEFT HER SISTER'S HOUSE: single at 41 in 1911, 'home invalid' at 50 in 1921, 'incapacitated' at 68 in the 1939 Register, all at 26 Fore Street, Northam, in Isabella's household. Died 29 February 1940. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname BRAYLEY - read 8 October 2026 - 1870 Dec quarter, BIDEFORD, volume 05B page 490; Northam St Margaret baptism register, Devon Baptisms (South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16) |
| Lucy Elizabeth TAYLOR (m. SWEET) Connected | 1881-08-04 · Northam, Devon · British · found in Northam, Devon BAPTISED 31 AUGUST 1881, a few weeks old - and she is the last child before the gap that an entire false hypothesis lived in. Nothing is baptised to these parents between her and Mary Septima, three years and two months later. Married WILLIAM NORRISH SWEET, a shipwright at Devonport; in 1921 at 23 Hamilton Street, Devonport. Died 26 May 1957. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname BRAYLEY - read 8 October 2026 - 1881 Sep quarter, BIDEFORD, volume 05B page 508; Northam St Margaret baptism register, Devon Baptisms (South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16) |
| Margaret Hellen Walker TAYLOR ("Maggie"; Helen in the baptism register; m. BELL) Connected | 1876-10-01 · Northam, Devon · British · found in Northam, Devon THE INITIAL IS SETTLED AND IT IS WALKER. The 1891 census transcription reads 'Margaret H. N.' and FreeBMD abbreviates to 'W'; the GRO index prints WALKER in full, and so does the Northam baptism register. Walker is Helen Walker's surname, five generations up. Married CHARLES WILLIAM BELL - banns at Northam 22 November 1903, marriage registered at PANCRAS, London, Dec quarter 1903. AND THE TWO SOURCES SPELL HER MIDDLE NAME DIFFERENTLY. The GRO index prints HELLEN and the Northam baptism register has HELEN, one L. Both are kept in her name here rather than one being chosen, because the choice would be arbitrary and the difference is the sort of thing that makes a person unfindable later. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname BRAYLEY - read 8 October 2026 - 1876 Dec quarter, BIDEFORD, volume 05B page 481; Northam St Margaret baptism register, Devon Baptisms (South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16) |
| Mary Septima TAYLOR (LERENA by marriage) Connected | 1884-09-17 · Bideford, Devon · British · found in Cape Town Wife of Pablo Armando. PLACE FIELD CORRECTED 14 September 2026. This row's 'where found' held a CITATION - "GRO + SA records" - where the atlas expects a PLACE, so this person was missing from the map and appeared on it as a phantom location instead. The citation is kept here; the field now holds a real place. AND SHE IS NOT ALONE IN GRAVE 7719, established 8 October 2026. The Maitland Road Cemetery Record of Interments, page 4706 entry 423, puts CAREEN MARIA LERENA, aged two weeks, in Roman Catholic allotment, Cons. No. 1, grave 7719 - the grave this archive already held for her as 7719A. The child was buried there in 1947, twelve years after Mary Septima died. AND THE PLOT IS NOW READ WHOLE, 8 October 2026. Her 7719 A is the first of three places in grave 7719, which the 1950 register calls 'In Plot of R. P. Lerina' - her husband's own plot. Careen Maria took 7719 B in 1947 and he took 7719 C in 1950. AND THERE IS A FACE, from 8 October 2026. A studio group of twelve people and an infant, with a dog asleep on a cushion at the front, which David identifies as Mary Septima with her father, her mother and her siblings. She is the small girl at the lower right, against the knee of the seated man with full side-whiskers. IT IS THE ONLY IDENTIFIED LIKENESS OF HER THIS ARCHIVE HOLDS - of anyone in this family before the Cape. NOBODY ELSE IN THE GROUP IS NAMED, and no sibling will be matched to a face here. AND THEN THIS ARCHIVE OVER-READ IT AND WAS CORRECTED. It first said 'at least eight daughters and two sons are in the frame' and offered the number as the ordinary explanation of Septima, meaning seventh. David answered that he thought a grandmother or an aunt was in the group as well, which is the whole objection: a granddaughter, a niece, a daughter-in-law and a neighbour's child all photograph identically. Twelve figures can be counted - three male, eight female, one infant whose sex cannot be told. Daughters cannot. THE RECORD THAT WOULD SETTLE THE SIBLING COUNT is the 1891 census of Northam, already read here for the Brayleys and never counted for the Taylors. THE DATE IS INFERRED AND ONLY INFERRED: she was born 17 September 1884 and the child looks five or six, which puts the sitting about 1889-1891; the dress agrees without narrowing it. A photographer's imprint on the mount would settle it, and the supplied image is cropped to the print. AND HER OWN BAPTISM WAS FOUND ON 8 OCTOBER 2026, which this archive had never had. MARY SEPTIMA TAYLOR, baptised 30 OCTOBER 1884 at NORTHAM, St Margaret, Anglican; father WILLIAM, mother MARY ANN ELLEN. Born 17 September 1884, so six weeks old. IT IS THE FIRST TIME HER PARENTS ARE NAMED TOGETHER IN A PARISH REGISTER rather than in a tree, a census or a birth index - and the earliest record of her own life, pre-dating her 1911 marriage at Wynberg by twenty-seven years. HER SIX SIBLINGS ARE ON THE SAME PAGE SERIES: Horace Archibald and Isabella Temple (both 1874), Margaret Helen Walker (1876), Irene (1879), Lucy Elizabeth (31 Aug 1881) and Agnes Walker (21 Aug 1889), all to the same parents. See data/taylor-baptisms-northam.tsv. AND HER MARRIED SURNAME IS NOW IN HER NAME HERE, because three records carry her under it - the Maitland burial register, the 1935 passenger list and the Johannesburg cemetery index all call her LERENA. A reader searching the surname she was buried under should find her. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO Bideford reg.; d. 15 Nov 1935; and a Taylor family group photograph (family papers, supplied 8 October 2026); and Northam, St Margaret, baptism register - Devon Baptisms (findmypast / South West Heritage Trust), archive reference 1843A/PR/1/16, read 8 October 2026 |
| William John TAYLOR Connected | 1870-11 · Bideford, Devon · British · Cab driver · found in Northam, Devon THE TWIN OF KATHLEEN GEORGINA, proved by consecutive index pages, 489 and 490 in one quarter. A cab driver at 20 in 1891, like his father. Died 11 May 1951 at Totnes, aged 80. HE WAS NEARLY LOST TO AN INITIAL: the GRO death index carries him as 'William J' and a full-name search returned nothing. AND HIS DAY OF BIRTH IS NOT KNOWN, which this row briefly pretended otherwise. It was first entered here as 1 November 1870 - a day no source gives. The sources say 'Nov 1870' and nothing finer: the GRO index gives a quarter, the 1939 Register gives his sister's exact date and not his. THE INVENTED DAY WAS CAUGHT BY tools/consistency.py, which reported him and Kathleen as two children of one father nought months apart and said both could not be right. It was right to: the archive had manufactured a three-day gap between twins out of nothing. The precision is withdrawn rather than the twinning denied. | GRO index — no public per-record link GRO birth index (gro.gov.uk), mother's maiden surname BRAYLEY - read 8 October 2026 - 1870 Dec quarter, BIDEFORD, volume 05B page 489; Northam St Margaret baptism register, Devon Baptisms (South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16) |
| William TAYLOR Connected | 1826-02-11 · Worlingworth, Suffolk · British · Cab driver; retired army sergeant · found in Northam, Devon MARY SEPTIMA'S FATHER, and until 8 October 2026 he was not a person in this archive at all - he lived in data/taylor-line.tsv and on /taylor/ and had no page, no place on the tree and no line in the bloodline. The 1891 census gives him as Head, 65, 'Cab Driver / ret'd Army Srgt', born Worlingworth, Suffolk, which confirms the tree's 11 February 1826 exactly. NINE CHILDREN BY MARY ANN HELLEN BRAYLEY, every one of them now on a GRO reference - see data/gro-taylor-brayley-births.tsv. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1891 census, Northam piece 1787 ED 4 folio 42 page 1 schedule 2; FreeBMD deaths Dec q 1902, Bideford, 5b/326 |
| Georgina TEMPLE Connected | 1814-08-23 · Haddington, East Lothian · Scottish · Monthly nurse · found in Northam, Devon THE SCOTSWOMAN AT THE TOP OF THE ENGLISH LINE, and Mary Septima's maternal grandmother. Born Haddington 23 August 1814; a widow from 1851; living ALONE IN THE ALMS HOUSE AT NORTHAM in 1891, aged 77, 'living on means' - which is why the hypothesis that the six-year-old Mary Septima was staying with her grandmother on census night fails. HER SURNAME BECAME A FORENAME THREE TIMES - Isabella TEMPLE Taylor 1874, and through her mother Helen WALKER in 1845, 1876 and 1889. Died about January 1900, aged 85. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry 1851 census, Bideford; 1891 census, The Alms House, Northam, piece 1787 ED 6 folio 72 page 6 schedule 40; FreeBMD deaths Mar q 1900, Bideford, 5b/421, age 85 |
| TERESA (enslaved in Sancho Lerena's household, 1812) Unplaced | found in Montevideo The last of the four, named immediately before RODRIGO FERNANDEZ - Sancho's father-in-law, 63, asturiano - who closes the household. Not to be confused with the TERESA CASTRO who opens the NEXT household on the same page. Nothing else about her is known - no age, no baptism, no death, no emancipation. | record ↗ 1812 padron, calle San Juan No 60; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR" rel="noopener">3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR</a> |
| Nicolasa TORRES Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Mother of Fernando Moratorio; named as paternal grandmother at the two Union baptisms of 8 March 1880. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713378 image 02598, folios 411-412, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - the two baptisms of 8 March 1880. Priest RAFAEL YEREGUI. Named on the plate as paternal grandmother of both girls, in both acts. AND THE PARISH WAS WRONG, CORRECTED 21 September 2026 OFF THE PLATE. This archive placed these 1880 baptisms at the UNION, which is what the index's place field says. The act itself reads 'con licencia del infrascripto Cura Parroco DE ESTA BASILICA MENOR Y CATEDRAL DE MONTEVIDEO, bautice solemnemente EN ELLA a Maria Carlota'. They were baptised in the CATEDRAL BASILICA, not at the Union. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named at the baptisms of Maria Carlota and Maria de las Mercedes Moratorio Lerena, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo, 8 Mar 1880 (this archive placed it at the UNION until 21 Sep 2026, on the index's place field; the act says 'esta Basilica menor y Catedral'); ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598 |
| Ambrosia TRAIBEL Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of Avelino Lerena and mother of Josefa Lerena Traibel (1851-1947). She is the TRAIBEL of the Lerena Traibel branch. SHE WAS ALIVE IN FEBRUARY 1892 AND STOOD WITNESS AT HER SON'S WEDDING: "fueron testigos Don Carlos Navia y Dona AMBROSIA TRAIBEL" - which is unusual enough to be worth noting; a mother as formal witness rather than a male relative. HER OWN PARENTS ARE NAMED: JUAN TRAIBEL and YSABEL CENTENO - from the two baptisms of 12 March 1858. A POLONIA TRAIBEL stood godmother at one of them, presumably her sister. HER PARENTS ARE NOW ATTESTED TWELVE YEARS EARLIER THAN THE 1858 ACTS. The baptism of her son Alejandro on 7 January 1846 gives the maternal grandparents as "JUAN e ISABEL CENTENO" - the same pair the 1858 baptisms name as Juan Traibel and Ysabel Centeno. Two independent acts, twelve years apart, agreeing. And she was a married woman by 1843. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as mother in the Montevideo death registration of Josefa Lerena Traibel, 3 April 1947 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:617P-WJY6" rel="noopener">1:1:617P-WJY6</a>; and as a witness at her son Alfredo's marriage, 3 Feb 1892 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R32C-K</a> |
| Don Juan TRAIBEL Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of Ambrosia Traibel and husband of Ysabel Centeno; named as maternal grandfather at the two baptisms of 12 March 1858. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713686 image 02847, folio 176, San Francisco de Asis - the two acts of 12 March 1858 that attach the Lerena Traibel branch to Sancho. EVERY NAME ON THEM SURVIVES THE CHECK, word for word. The act reads 'maternos Don JUAN TRAIBEL y Dona Ysabel Centeno' on both children. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptisms of 12 Mar 1858 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713686 image 02847 |
| Polonia TRAIBEL Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother at the baptism of Alfredo Justiniano Lerena Traibel, 12 March 1858 - presumably a sister of Ambrosia. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713686 image 02847, folio 176, San Francisco de Asis - the two acts of 12 March 1858 that attach the Lerena Traibel branch to Sancho. EVERY NAME ON THEM SURVIVES THE CHECK, word for word. 'Dona POLO[nia]' stands beside Justiniano Lavalleja at Alfredo's font. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptisms of 12 Mar 1858 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-NRM4</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713686 image 02847 |
| Juan de URDINARAN (witness, Rosario 1800) Unplaced | found in Colla Accompanied RAMON LERENA to Celestina Gonzalez's house on 14 OCTOBER 1800 and signed the diligencia as a witness, there being no notary in the jurisdiction. The transcript mangles him 'Juan de Ordinarana' and 'Juan de Urdi[...]'. URDINARAN IS A BASQUE NAME AND A NOTABLE ONE IN URUGUAY, which is consistent with the Banda Oriental setting and is NOT offered as evidence of anything about the Lerena. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina |
| Dona Frailana VALIENTE (mother of the groom) Unplaced | found in Trinidad, Flores Mother of ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE of the 1906 marriage at Trinidad, named with Antonio Etcheberse the elder on an act where 'legitimo' is struck through and 'natural' written in its place. FRAILANA IS AN UNUSUAL FORENAME and the transcript offers no variant; it is read as written. NAMED ONCE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS July 1898 to December 1912, the act of 26 March 1906, certificate 26 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72168-24536-85; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-SPKF" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6J-SPKF</a> |
| Manuel VAQUERO (m. Aurora Lerena) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Trinidad, Flores Husband of AURORA LERENA and father of at least five children registered at Trinidad between 1891 and 1900. The index mangles him as 'Manuel Vaquera Levena' and 'Manuel Vaquero No Aplica'. NOTHING ELSE IS KNOWN. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry FamilySearch, Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 and Civil Registration 1879-2020 - the Trinidad, Flores birthplace sweep, pages 1-4, read 11 October 2026 - <strong>INDEX ONLY, no image opened</strong> |
| Don Romualdo VEGA Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of Vicenta Vega; named as maternal grandfather at the Catedral baptism of 4 July 1837. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713376 image 01498, Catedral de Montevideo - the baptism of 4 July 1837, signed RAMON DE BARBERA. 'Mat[ernos] D. RO[mualdo Vega y Dona Andrea Maestre]' - on the plate, as the child's maternal grandfather. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo, baptism of 4 July 1837 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H</a> - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713376 image 01498 |
| Dona Vicenta VEGA Unplaced | Cerro Largo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of Pedro Antonio Lerena, "natural de Cerro Largo", and daughter of Don Romualdo and Dona Andrea Maestre. Named at her daughter's baptism, Catedral de Montevideo, 4 July 1837. Named again in 1852, standing godmother with her husband at the baptism of his nephew Pedro Alberto Ysabelino Lerena at the Aguada - the second record of her in this archive, and the one that shows her still married to Pedro Antonio fifteen years after their daughter's christening. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Montevideo, baptism of 4 July 1837 - FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-YSKH-H</a>; and as godmother at the Aguada, 21 Nov 1852 - IMAGE READ; film 008166435 image 02850 |
| Obispo Jacinto VERA (Bishop of Montevideo) Unplaced | Bishop of Montevideo · found in Montevideo It was the BISHOP HIMSELF who dispensed the three conciliar banns for Arturo Lerena and Emma Regules on 23 June 1880: 'dispensadas las tres conciliares proclamas por el Ilustrisimo y Reverendisimo Senor Obispo Diocesano DON JACINTO VERA'. HE IS A FIGURE OF URUGUAYAN HISTORY, the first bishop of Montevideo, and he is entered here only because he is named on an act about one of this register's people. NO CLAIM OF ACQUAINTANCE IS MADE - a diocesan bishop signs dispensations by the hundred, and this archive has already recorded two generals and a president standing at Lerena fonts without reading anything into it. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS, the act of 23 June 1880 at the Basilica Menor y Catedral de Montevideo (volume catalogued 1887) - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R3CV-1</a> |
| Celedonia VILLADEMOROS (wife of Avelino Eduardo) Unplaced | 1842 · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Wife of AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA TRAIBEL, and daughter of PEDRO VILLADEMOROS and ANGELICA MENDEZ. Mother of Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre (b. December 1865), Pedro Gualberto (b. 19 October 1869) and, on civil registration indexes, Pedro Segundo and Angelica Maria. The surname is a notable Uruguayan one and no claim is made about that here. Index-level. ARGENTINA, on the Iglesia Matriz act of 29 September 1872, where her daughter Angelica Maria is baptised and her own parents are named as PEDRO and ANGELICA MENDEZ. Her sister or kinswoman ELISA VILLADEMOROS stood godmother, with ALEJANDRO M. LERENA. A WIDOW BY 1897, AND AN AGE. Her daughter Angelica's marriage act of 20 November 1897 gives 'Dona CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, de 55 anos, de estado VIUDA, de profesion labores de su sexo, de nacionalidad ARGENTINA, domiciliada en esta Ciudad' - so born about 1842, ARGENTINE as the 1872 baptism also says, and WIDOWED by her husband's death in Canelones in 1895. She was living at Montevideo in 1897. HER NAME IS SPELLED IN FULL AND CORRECTLY ON THIS ACT, which is worth saying of an index that turned her husband into 'Arabia Larena Lerena' and 'Ardino Serena'. HER SISTER'S MARRIAGE ACT PROVES THE SISTERHOOD, 11 October 2026. The Cordon act of 28 December 1871 makes ELISA VILLADEMOROS the daughter of the late D. PEDRO and Dona ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS, which is this row's own couple. SO ELISA IS HER SISTER AND ALEJANDRO MAXIMO LERENA IS HER BROTHER-IN-LAW TWICE OVER - he is also her husband's brother. 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. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening of Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre, Union, Montevideo, 5 Mar 1866, ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D7Z-JGH2" rel="noopener">1:1:6D7Z-JGH2</a>; and of Pedro Gualberto, Cordon, Montevideo, 15 Jan 1870; index read 20 September 2026; and named as GODFATHER at the Iglesia Matriz christening of Angelica Maria Lerena Villademoros, 29 September 1872 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DFQ-YF26" rel="noopener">1:1:6DFQ-YF26</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004298263 image 03147; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899'; and Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE of 28 December 1871 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a>, volume 'Religious Marriage Records January 1866-May 1872' |
| Dona Angelica VILLADEMOROS (godmother 1873) Unplaced | Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godmother at the Cordon christening of Alejandro Joaquin Narciso Lerena on 29 May 1873, with Don Joaquin Regusa. A THIRD VILLADEMOROS WOMAN, and the three of them make the sisterhood this archive had only guessed at much harder to doubt: CELEDONIA married Avelino Eduardo Lerena Traibel, ELISA is named beside Alejandro M. Lerena, and ANGELICA stands at the font for Elisa's son. Three Villademoros women inside one Lerena family in two years. AND THE GODFATHER'S SURNAME IS REQUENA, NOT REGUSA, 27 September 2026. The 1873 Cordon index reads the godfather 'Joaquin REGUSA y Garcia'. The Uruguayan civil index carries ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS married to JOAQUIN REQUENA, with a daughter Mercedes Requena Villademoros Garcia - and a Requena y Garcia appears again in 1949. So the 1873 godparents were a married couple, which is the ordinary choice and was invisible while the surname was misread. AND SHE IS NOW RULED OUT AS THE MOTHER, 11 October 2026 - which is what this row needed. Elisa's marriage act of 28 December 1871 calls her parents 'los finados D. PEDRO y Dona ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS' - both DEAD by that date. A WOMAN DEAD IN 1871 CANNOT STAND AT A FONT IN 1873, so this Angelica is a daughter of that couple and a sister of Elisa and Celedonia, exactly as this row reasoned from three women appearing inside one family. THE REASONING WAS RIGHT AND IS NOW ANCHORED ON A DOCUMENT. | record ↗ Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening of Alejandro Joaquin Narciso Lerena, Cordon, Montevideo, 29 May 1873; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-WTXR" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-WTXR</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 007713388 image 02091; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - indexed as spouse of Joaquin Requena; index read 27 September 2026; and Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE of 28 December 1871 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a>, volume 'Religious Marriage Records January 1866-May 1872' |
| Pedro VILLADEMOROS (d. before Dec 1871) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Father of ELISA, CELEDONIA and probably ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS, and so the father-in-law of two Lerena brothers. DEAD BEFORE 28 DECEMBER 1871, when his daughter Elisa's marriage act calls him and his wife 'los finados'. He is named on Celedonia's daughter's baptism of 1872 as a maternal grandfather, with his wife ANGELICA MENDEZ. NO RECORD OF HIS OWN HAS BEEN FOUND, and the surname is a notable Uruguayan one about which this archive makes no claim. FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT AND INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE of 28 December 1871 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a>, volume 'Religious Marriage Records January 1866-May 1872' |
| Elisa VILLARDEMOROS (m. Alejandro LERENA) Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo 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. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - christening of Alejandro Joaquin Narciso Lerena, Cordon, Montevideo, 29 May 1873; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-WTXR" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-WTXR</a>; index read 20 September 2026 - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 007713388 image 02091; and named as GODFATHER at the Iglesia Matriz christening of Angelica Maria Lerena Villademoros, 29 September 1872 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DFQ-YF26" rel="noopener">1:1:6DFQ-YF26</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004298263 image 03147; and the Cordon christening of his daughter Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria, 26 December 1877 - ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3Z-WP5Z" rel="noopener">1:1:6D3Z-WP5Z</a> - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 007713388 image 02455; and Argentina, Cordoba, Catholic Church Records 1557-1974 - his marriage at Inmaculada Concepcion, Bell Ville, Union, Cordoba, 1907; index read 27 September 2026; and named as a deceased parent on her son's marriage act, Cordoba, 20 June 1907 - IMAGE READ 27 September 2026; film 004484760 image 00123; and Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon, Montevideo - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE of 28 December 1871 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-B3DF-C</a>, volume 'Religious Marriage Records January 1866-May 1872' |
| Don Fermin de YEREGUI (d. before 1909) Unplaced | found in Montevideo Father of FERMIN CARLOS DE YEREGUI, and dead before his son's marriage of 9 August 1909: 'hijo de don FERMIN [CARLOS] DE YEREGUI, FALLECIDO'. The transcript mangles his second forename to 'Curaco'; the son carries CARLOS and a father and son of one name is ordinary, so CARLOS IS PROBABLE AND NOT ESTABLISHED. No dates, no origin. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a> |
| Fermin Carlos de YEREGUI (m. Emma Lerena Regules 1909) Unplaced | 1879-11-04 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Married EMMA LERENA REGULES at Montevideo on 9 August 1909. 'Don FERMIN CARLOS DE YEREGUI... de nacionalidad oriental, NACIDO EL DIA CUATRO DE NOVIEMBRE DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS SETENTA Y NUEVE EN ESTA CIUDAD y domiciliado en la calle ZABALA 164, hijo de don FERMIN [CARLOS] DE YEREGUI, FALLECIDO, y de MERCEDES DE MELIS, de estado VIUDA'. HIS PROFESSION IS NOT ESTABLISHED: the transcript reads 'pendista', which is not a word - PERIODISTA (journalist) or PIANISTA are both possible and neither is claimed. THE SURNAME IS WRITTEN FIVE WAYS ON ONE PAGE - Jeregui, Juegui, Guequi, Yerequi, Yeregui - and he signs it YEREGUI. A COINCIDENCE WORTH NOTING AND NOTHING MORE: the priest who signed his mother-in-law's own marriage act at the Catedral in 1880 was RAFAEL YEREGUI. No kinship is claimed and none has been looked for. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a> |
| Rafael YEREGUI (priest, 1880) Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · cura parroco · found in Montevideo The priest who signed both twins' acts at the Catedral Basilica on 8 March 1880: 'a quienes instruyo. Por verdad lo firmo. RAFAEL YEREGUI'. He is entered because his signature is what dates and authenticates the pair of acts that settled the twins question, and because this register names the priests of its other load-bearing acts - Martin Perez in 1858, Juan Lloberas in 1811, Benito Alonso Covian in 1831. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godparent at the baptisms of 8 March 1880, Catedral Basilica de Montevideo - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713378 image 02598; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-ZS46-J</a> |
| Nicolas YRIGOYEN (witness, Rosario 1800) Unplaced | found in Colla Witness at the continuation of the inventory on 12 NOVEMBER 1800, before RAMON LERENA. YRIGOYEN IS BASQUE, like URDINARAN - two Basque names among the handful of men a Rosario alcalde could call on in 1800, which says something about who had settled that district and nothing yet about the Lerena. | family papers — held offline, not on a public site Garcia, Clemente: Buenos Aires City - PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES 1800, image group #107093472 item 12, images 22, 24, 26, 34 of 249 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZS48</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-ZWWJ</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-L3FJ-ZWW5</a>, <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389" rel="noopener">3:1:3QHV-P3FJ-Z389</a>; held by the Archivo General de la Nacion de Argentina |
| Bernardo YRIZABAL (witness, Trinidad 1906) Unplaced | found in Trinidad, Flores The second witness at the Etcheberse-Lerena marriage, 26 March 1906. The act breaks his surname across the opening - 'YRIZA' at the foot of one page and 'bal' at the head of the next - so YRIZABAL is a reading and IRISARRI or YRIZAR cannot be excluded. NAMED ONCE. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores - RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS July 1898 to December 1912, the act of 26 March 1906, certificate 26 - <strong>READ OFF THE PLATE 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS27-VY4T</a>, deepzoom apid TH-909-72168-24536-85; index entry ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-SPKF" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6J-SPKF</a> |
| Maria Angelica YUBIA Unplaced | found in Montevideo Godmother, with Adolfo Lerena, at the Pocitos baptism of 15 August 1903. Her surname is read YUBIA and is not certain. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as godmother in the Pocitos baptism of 15 August 1903 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713400 image 02828, folio 344; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a> |
| Don Rufino YURRAMENDI Unplaced | Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Godfather at the baptism of Maria Angelica Julia Lerena, act 1447, 31 October 1886. A Basque surname standing beside this family at the font. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Francisco de Asis, Montevideo, baptism act No. 1447, 31 Oct 1886 - IMAGE READ; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-Z9RM-W</a> |
| Eduardo Avelino ZALDUANDO Lerena (m. Maria Ester Costa 1927) Unplaced | 1901 · La Paz, Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in La Paz, Uruguay A SON OF THE 1903 POCITOS HOUSEHOLD, entered 11 October 2026, and the one person in this group who is genuinely new rather than a second copy of somebody already here. Born about 1901 at La Paz, in the department of CANELONES, he married MARIA ESTER COSTA, twenty-four, of the same town, daughter of RAFAEL COSTA and LEONTINA SOASANI, at La Paz on 20 December 1927, certificate 30; both single, both born there. HE CARRIES AVELINO - HIS MOTHER'S FATHER'S NAME, which is itself a small argument that his mother is a daughter of Avelino Eduardo Lerena Traibel. HIS SURNAME IS WRITTEN AS THE INDEX WRITES IT AND THAT IS PROBABLY WRONG. Both his records are indexes and both say Zalduando/Zalduondo; the family's 1903 PLATE says ZALDUONDO. He is left under the indexed spelling only because no plate naming him has been opened - when DGS 008165206 image 283 is read, this row's name is expected to change. INDEX ONLY. On the place: the structural columns say simply 'La Paz, Uruguay' because the run-together form naming the department is a string this archive GUARDS as a withdrawn reading about his great-grandfather's DEATH - see data/zalsamendi-zalduando-one-household.tsv. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of 'Eduardo Zalduando Pou', Montevideo, 22 August 1913, aged 52, certificate 553, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a>, DGS 008165206 image 283 (PLATE NOT OPENED - the viewer demanded a sign-in on 11 October 2026); with index arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NFW-X112" rel="noopener">1:1:6NFW-X112</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB" rel="noopener">1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB</a> for the two children; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - marriage of 'Eduardo Zalduando' and Maria Ester Costa at La Paz in Canelones, 20 December 1927, certificate 30, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X92R-F5N1" rel="noopener">1:1:X92R-F5N1</a>, DGS 008166595 image 207 - indexes read 10-11 October 2026 |
| Juan Jose ZALDUANDO Pou (brother of Eduardo) Unplaced | 1864 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A BROTHER OF EDUARDO ZALDUONDO, and this register had been leaving him out while holding a godmother about whom nothing is known. Born about 1864, died at Montevideo on 22 AUGUST 1949, registered the same day; his parents are given as JUAN ZALDUANDO and DOLORES POU, which is the same couple as his brother's, and his wife as ELISA CARLEVARO. HE DIED ON THE SAME DAY OF THE YEAR AS HIS BROTHER, thirty-six years later - 22 August 1913 and 22 August 1949. That is a coincidence and is recorded as one. INDEX ONLY; no act opened. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of Juan Jose Zalduando Pou, Montevideo, 22 August 1949, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6YYS-6NQ4" rel="noopener">1:1:6YYS-6NQ4</a>-adjacent row of the ZALDUANDO sweep - <strong>INDEX ONLY, read 11 October 2026</strong> |
| Maria Elisa ZALDUANDO Carlevaro Unplaced | 1912-11-17 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo Born 17 NOVEMBER 1912 at Montevideo, registered 23 November 1912, daughter of JUAN JOSE ZALDUANDO POU and ELISA CARLEVARO MACHO. SHE IS A FIRST COUSIN OF MARIA MARGARITA LUISA ZALDUONDO LERENA, born nine years earlier to the other brother - two Zalduando girls in one city whose fathers were brothers. INDEX ONLY. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of Juan Jose Zalduando Pou, Montevideo, 22 August 1949, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6YYS-6NQ4" rel="noopener">1:1:6YYS-6NQ4</a>-adjacent row of the ZALDUANDO sweep - <strong>INDEX ONLY, read 11 October 2026</strong> |
| Eduardo ZALDUONDO Unplaced | 1860-08-15 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · empleado (1897); jubilado by 1913 · found in Montevideo 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. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as the father in the Pocitos baptism of 15 August 1903 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713400 image 02828, folio 344; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of 'Eduardo Zalduando Pou', Montevideo, 22 August 1913, aged 52, certificate 553, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a>, DGS 008165206 image 283 (PLATE NOT OPENED - the viewer demanded a sign-in on 11 October 2026); with index arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NFW-X112" rel="noopener">1:1:6NFW-X112</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB" rel="noopener">1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB</a> for the two children; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - marriage of 'Eduardo Zalduando' and Maria Ester Costa at La Paz in Canelones, 20 December 1927, certificate 30, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X92R-F5N1" rel="noopener">1:1:X92R-F5N1</a>, DGS 008166595 image 207 - indexes read 10-11 October 2026; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, death act No. 553 of Eduardo Zalduondo, 22 August 1913 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; DGS 008165206 image 283; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899' |
| Juan ZALDUONDO Unplaced | 1817 · jubilado · found in Montevideo Father of Eduardo Zalduondo and so a grandfather of Maria Margarita. Named only on this act. THE 1913 CIVIL INDEX NAMES HIM TOO, as 'Juan Zalduando', father of the Eduardo who died at Montevideo on 22 August 1913. Same forename, same role, same wife - Dolores Pou. On the ZALDUONDO/ZALDUANDO question see his son's row: the 1903 plate and the 1913 index disagree and the plate is the better reading. No new fact about him: he is still a name on his grandchildren's records and nothing more. AND HE WAS DEAD BY 22 AUGUST 1913, when his son's death act names him and Dolores Pou as 'FALLECIDOS' - read from the plate 11 October 2026. THE SURNAME ON BOTH PLATES IS ZALDUONDO, not Zalsamendi as this archive had it from 21 September until 11 October 2026. He remains a name on his son's and granddaughter's records and nothing more. ALIVE IN 1897 AND AGED EIGHTY, which gives him a birth year at last: about 1817. His son's marriage act of 20 November 1897 has him 'de 80 anos, de estado casado, de profesion JUBILADO, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, domiciliado en la calle Convencion No. 226'. SO HE WAS URUGUAYAN-BORN, NOT AN IMMIGRANT - which matters, because this archive had read the Basque surname as a mark of a recent Spanish arrival. He was retired on a pension by eighty and dead by August 1913, when his son's death act calls both parents 'fallecidos'. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Named as paternal grandfather in the Pocitos baptism of 15 August 1903 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713400 image 02828, folio 344; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of 'Eduardo Zalduando Pou', Montevideo, 22 August 1913, aged 52, certificate 553, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a>, DGS 008165206 image 283 (PLATE NOT OPENED - the viewer demanded a sign-in on 11 October 2026); with index arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NFW-X112" rel="noopener">1:1:6NFW-X112</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB" rel="noopener">1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB</a> for the two children; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - marriage of 'Eduardo Zalduando' and Maria Ester Costa at La Paz in Canelones, 20 December 1927, certificate 30, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X92R-F5N1" rel="noopener">1:1:X92R-F5N1</a>, DGS 008166595 image 207 - indexes read 10-11 October 2026; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, death act No. 553 of Eduardo Zalduondo, 22 August 1913 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; DGS 008165206 image 283; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, 4a seccion, MARRIAGE act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente No. 94 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-N35B-M</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6K-MYFD" rel="noopener">1:1:XS6K-MYFD</a>; volume 'Montevideo. Marriage Records 1896-1897, 1900, 1898-1899' |
| Maria Elena ZALDUONDO Lerena Unplaced | Uruguay · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo A THIRD CHILD, NEW TO THIS ARCHIVE 11 OCTOBER 2026, named on her father's death act of 22 August 1913: 'era casado con ANGELICA LERENA, de cuya union quedan TRES HIJOS llamados: MARIA ELENA, Eduardo Avelino y Maria Margarita'. SHE IS A NAME AND NOTHING ELSE - no date, no place, no act of her own - and she is entered against Montevideo because that is where the act was written, not because she is known to have been born there. NOT PURSUED. AND SHE WAS BORN AFTER NOVEMBER 1897 - which settles a collision. Her parents' marriage act of 20 November 1897 leaves its 'Legitiman' line BLANK, so no child existed to be legitimised and all three were born after that date. THIS EXCLUDES HER FROM BEING 'MARIA ELENA LERENA (m. 1906, mixed religion)', who was an adult bride in 1906 and whom this register had been unable either to match or to rule out. A BLANK LINE ON A FORM DID IT. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Uruguay, Civil Registration - Montevideo, death act No. 553 of Eduardo Zalduondo, 22 August 1913 - <strong>PLATE READ 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; DGS 008165206 image 283; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CS2C-2DNF</a>; index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a> |
| Maria Margarita Luisa ZALDUONDO Lerena Unplaced | 1903-06-21 · Montevideo · Uruguayan · found in Montevideo THE CHILD OF THE 1903 POCITOS ACT, and this archive had the grandparents and the mother without ever entering her. Born 21 June 1903 and baptised at eight weeks, daughter of Eduardo Zalduondo and Amelia Lerena, with ADOLFO LERENA and Maria Angelica Yubia as godparents. She belongs to the AVELINO-and-CELIDONIA household, which this archive has never joined to the Lerena Traibel. THE CIVIL REGISTER HOLDS HER TOO, AS 'MARIA MARGARITA LUISA ZALDUONDO LERENA' - 11 October 2026 (index ark 1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB), where she is a daughter of the Eduardo who died in 1913. SO SHE HAS A FOURTH GIVEN NAME, LUISA, and a brother: EDUARDO AVELINO, born about 1901 at La Paz in Canelones, who married in 1927. SHE WAS NEARLY ENTERED HERE TWICE. A session worked the civil index up as a new family before noticing that she, her father, both her grandparents and her mother were already in this register off the 1903 plate. The duplicates gate caught it. NOT MERGED FORMALLY until the 1913 plate is read, but the two are taken to be one girl. THE PLATE WAS RE-READ ON 11 OCTOBER 2026 AND SHE GAINS A NAME THIS ARCHIVE HAD DROPPED. The act baptises 'MARIA MARGARITA LUISA', not Maria Margarita - so the civil index, which this archive had just finished calling careless, was RIGHT ABOUT LUISA AND THE 1903 READING WAS WRONG. Her father's surname is ZALDUONDO, not Zalsamendi. AND SHE HAS TWO SIBLINGS, NAMED ON HER FATHER'S DEATH ACT: MARIA ELENA and EDUARDO AVELINO. Her godparents remain ADOLFO LERENA and MARIA ANGELICA YUBIA. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry San Juan Bautista, Pocitos, Montevideo - baptism of 15 August 1903 - IMAGE READ 21 September 2026; film 007713400 image 02828, folio 344; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a>; and Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 - death registration of 'Eduardo Zalduando Pou', Montevideo, 22 August 1913, aged 52, certificate 553, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6LXZ-JV32" rel="noopener">1:1:6LXZ-JV32</a>, DGS 008165206 image 283 (PLATE NOT OPENED - the viewer demanded a sign-in on 11 October 2026); with index arks <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NFW-X112" rel="noopener">1:1:6NFW-X112</a> and <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB" rel="noopener">1:1:6Y2Q-1WZB</a> for the two children; and Uruguay, registros parroquiales 1726-2000 - marriage of 'Eduardo Zalduando' and Maria Ester Costa at La Paz in Canelones, 20 December 1927, certificate 30, index ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X92R-F5N1" rel="noopener">1:1:X92R-F5N1</a>, DGS 008166595 image 207 - indexes read 10-11 October 2026; and San Juan Bautista, Pocitos, Montevideo - baptism of Maria Margarita Luisa, 15 August 1903, folio 344 - <strong>PLATE RE-READ AT FULL RESOLUTION 11 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; film 007713400 image 02828; ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-R346-Z</a> |
| Juan ZORRILLA DE SAN MARTIN (witness, 1909) Unplaced | 1855 · Uruguay · Uruguayan · abogado · found in Montevideo A WITNESS AT EMMA LERENA REGULES'S WEDDING, 9 August 1909: 'Fueron testigos, Don JUAN ZORRILLA DE SAN MARTIN, de CINCUENTA Y TRES ANOS de edad, de estado VIUDO, de profesion ABOGADO, de nacionalidad oriental, domiciliado en la calle RINCON' - and he signs the act. THAT IS THE NATIONAL POET OF URUGUAY, author of Tabare, born 1855, which is exactly fifty-three in August 1909, a widower and a lawyer. THE IDENTIFICATION IS FROM AGE, PROFESSION, CITY AND A RARE COMPOUND NAME, NOT FROM A DOCUMENT THAT SAYS SO. AND IT IS RECORDED THE WAY THIS ARCHIVE RECORDS ITS OTHER FAMOUS NAMES - WITH NO INFERENCE DRAWN. A president stood godfather to a Lerena child in this register and a bishop dispensed a Lerena's banns; this is the third, and all it shows is that Arturo Lerena the abogado moved among Montevideo lawyers. | FamilySearch index — ark not recorded for this entry Montevideo - MARRIAGE RECORDS (volume catalogued 1907-1908), acta No. 16 of 9 August 1909, Sexta Seccion del Departamento de la capital, expediente original No. 66 - <strong>FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ 12 OCTOBER 2026</strong>; image ark <a class="ark" href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8" rel="noopener">3:1:3Q9M-CSJY-NS6X-8</a> |
Nothing matches that.
Why keep a list of people who are probably not us
Because the alternative is finding them twice. Every one of these cost a search, and a search that is not written down has to be paid for again. When a record turns up a Juan Carlos, or a Lerena at Rosario, or a family that moved between the two banks of the Plate, the question will be whether this archive has met them before — and this is the only page that can answer it. What has been read →
Last demonstrably alive — and how little that is known
This register records when a person was named. It has never recorded when they were last alive, and the two are not the same: a man named as a grandfather on an 1880 act may have been twenty years dead. Computed, never typed, by tools/last-alive.py.
The result is worth stating plainly. 46 of 685 people are known to have died at all. The remaining 455 carry a birth estimate and nothing more — a floor below which they certainly existed, not evidence they survived to anything later.
Two tiers, and the difference matters. DEATH is an explicit date on the person's own row. DEATH BY is a ceiling taken from a record that only exists because someone died — an estate or death-notice file — and it is never treated as the date: this archive has already been caught once, when Anton Armando died in April 2003 and his estate was advertised in 2013, ten years later.
| Person | Born | Last alive | On what basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pablo Armando LERENA (Robert Paul; "Bob") | 1882-02-22 | 1950-Mar-19 | explicit death date on this person's row, chosen from 2 different death years in the prose because it agrees with the 1950 record - the others are other people's |
| Mary Septima TAYLOR (LERENA by marriage) | 1884-09-17 | 1935-Nov-15 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Roque Luis Armando LERENA | 1905-11-25 | by 1973 | an estate or death-notice file numbered /73 dated 1973 - a CEILING, not a date: the file year can trail the death by years |
| Nuno Fernando LERENA | 1924-10-06 | by 1971 | an estate or death-notice file numbered /71 dated 1971 - a CEILING, not a date: the file year can trail the death by years |
| Gilberto LERENA (Gilberto Justiniano LERENA LENGUAS) | 1854 | 1912-Dec-8 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Juan Antonio LARENA | 1837 | 1908-Jun-1 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Tomas LLERENA | - | 1927 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Vicenta LLERENA MORALES | 1861 | 1927-Feb-22 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Pedro LLERENA | - | 1917-May-11 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Susana LLERENA | 1884 | 1908-Nov-30 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Roseline Wilhelmina FORBES (m.1 Chappell, m.2 LERENA) | 1903 | 1933 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Anton LERENA | 1952 | 2003-Apr-3 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Rieta Maria LERENA | 1936 | 1937-Aug-28 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Antoinette Septima Lynette LERENA | 1943 | 1943-Jan | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Careen Maria LERENA | - | 1947-Jun-27 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Rhena May LERENA | 1913 | 1998-Apr-1 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Dona Julia JUANICO | 1842-11-23 | 1910-Jul-11 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Luis LERENA (son of Luis Lerena Lenguas) | 1872 | 1897-Dec-12 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Enrique LERENA Juanico | 1873 | 1914-May-16 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Sara JUANICO Lenguas (m. Casaravilla) | 1866 | 1937 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Celia JUANICO Lenguas | - | 1940-Aug-24 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Josefa LERENA TRAIBEL (1851-1947) | 1851-02-10 | 1947-Apr-2 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Avelino LERENA Fernandez (son of Sancho) | 1815 | 1890-Aug-22 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Maria Ines LERENA LARRIERA (de GARDONE) | - | 1922-Jan-22 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Pedro Alberto Ysabelino LERENA Traibel (the ALBERTO of 1852-1921) | 1852-03-16 | 1921-Mar-1 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Eduardo ZALDUONDO | 1860-08-15 | 1913-Aug-22 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Zelmira Carlota LERENA LARRIERA (m. Adolfo CORDERO) | 1880-11-04 | 1984 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Pedro LERENA Vega (b. c.1834) | 1834c | 1896-Nov-6 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Avelino LERENA Villademoros (d. 1914) | c.1869 | 1914-Jan-5 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| [infant son] LERENA (unnamed; d. 22 May 1932, Bloemfontein) | 1932 | 1932-May-22 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Mary Ann Hellen BRAYLEY | 1843-05-20 | 1900-Apr-21 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Kathleen Georgina TAYLOR | 1870-11-04 | 1940-Feb-29 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| William John TAYLOR | 1870-11 | 1951-May-11 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Horace Archibald TAYLOR | 1872-04-01 | 1934-Jan-18 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Isabella Temple TAYLOR ("Edie"; m. DALLING) | 1874-09-10 | 1953-Dec | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Irene TAYLOR ("Rene"; m. BURTON) | 1879-02-01 | 1969-Mar-25 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Lucy Elizabeth TAYLOR (m. SWEET) | 1881-08-04 | 1957-May-26 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Agnes Walker TAYLOR ("Aggie"; m. WOOD) | 1889-08-03 | 1974-Apr-29 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| John Walker BRAILEY | 1845-06-22 | 1900 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Pierre Frederick LERENA | 1948-05-10 | 1999-Nov-12 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Richard LERENA | 1986-01-02 | 1999-Nov-12 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Manuela LEMOS (m. Pedro A. LERENA) | 1843c | 1896-Nov-6 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Isidora CARDOZO (m. Doroteo LERENA) | - | 1910-Jul-23 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Arturo LERENA (oriental, b. c.1857, father of Eduardo) | 1857 | 1936-Mar-2 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Gumersindo LERENA | 1898 | 1899-Mar-8 | explicit death date on this person's row |
| Idersio LERENA Araujo | 1896 | 1896 | explicit death date on this person's row |
Only the people known to have died are listed. The other 455 are in data/last-attested-alive.tsv, each marked for what it is.