The trees
The Lerena line and the families it married — each drawn in the form its own evidence supports.
The Lerena line, the shapes its name takes, and the family it married. State is derived from what this archive actually publishes: a line is DRAWN only where a chart of it exists, DRAWABLE where there are enough people to chart and no chart yet, and a ROUTE where there are too few.
Our line, drawnThe line this archive is about, as a chart — every generation it can name, and every place it stops.Open the chart →Rosario on the Paraná, to Cape Town, to the Rand, to Brisbane — one of the rarest surnames on earth. The line is continuous and documented from Pablo Armando down.
Above Bob Lerena it stops. Nobody knows why he left Argentina, on what ship, or in what year — only that he was born at Rosario in 1882 and his son was baptised at Cape Town by 1905.
Open the line →The same name, written four other ways by clerks who had not met it before. They are recorded here as variants of one family, not as families of their own.
How the name moves →Married into the line, and better documented than the line she married into. Her parents named her SEPTIMA, seventh — and on 8 October 2026 the GRO index, searched on her mother's maiden surname, returned NINE children of whom she is the SIXTH daughter. The name does not describe her place in the family, and this row used to say it did.
Generation A is still a tree's assertion and is drawn weak. What is no longer a gap: the tenth child this archive hunted for three weeks does not exist, and neither does the unnamed twin of 1879 — both were tree arithmetic, and the register refuses them. What remains unexplained is the name itself.
Open the descent →The gap this archive most wants closed is at the top of its own line, and it is a gap about a reason rather than a record.