Recently my sister in law and I have been tracing our family heritage via Ancestry.com and to date have manged to find relatives all the way back to 1635 living on Gran Canaria Island off Spain. Many of these ancestors moved onto places like Ireland and Louisiana. I would be so happy to try and find more information on who our family wwre on Gran Canaria & Louisiana and if any are still alive.
There are quite alot of Spanish/French sounding names within our family history and some are as follow and all of these were living or came from Gran Canaria around 1600 onwards before moving onto Louisiana
Bethancourt Rivero Calcinez Moreno Gilot Ory Calcanes Conception La Santa
The names above I can give birthdates, who they married etc if required.
I do have one ancestor here from Louisiana for instance
Born 28/11/1848 Louis Denis Bethancourt ( Louisiana )
Married
Born 1854 Sarah Mcgowan ( Liverpool England )
We have the Betancors on Gran Canaria 1635
BORN 1635 Andreas Betancor
married to
BORN 1637 Estabella Durate
I do hope this society can assist me
Thank You
Bill Willcox
The above is all from my mothers side of the family and we all lived in Liverpool but we were never your typical british looking family.
I too am trying to research a family in the Gran Canaria. My ancestors are Jose' Hidalgo & Isabel Zambran Morales of Aguimes, Gran Canaria. Do you know of an e-mail address or phone number where I could get the names of their parents. I was trying to locate the San Sebastian Church in Aguimes.
