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Alexa · Newbie

Is this forum related to the group in Baton Rouge? Are they heavily into genealogy? I kind of thought they were, unlike the group in Chalmette which is mainly interested in the cultural side of the Islenos.

I've been a member here for about a month, since I got the notice of the board in my e-mail but I just haven't had anything to say lately. Haven't been digging into my Canary Islanders lines of late. I did them several years ago and they were rather easy to locate unlike two or three of my other family lines that I've been torturing over for many years.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for starting this message board.

A few of my Islenos lines are SANCHEZ, MARTINEZ, HIDALGO, ALBAREZ, ALBARADO, RODRIGUEZ, XIMENEZ, ROANEZ, FALCON, and probably many more.

-- Edited by Alexa at 21:39, 2007-07-14

administrator · Veteran Member

Thanks for your post. As President of the Baton Rouge group, I can say that we do have a strong focus on genealogy. We meet on the second Saturday of each month, and would love to have you come to one of our meetings. Check out our website for more info - http://www.canaryislanders.org

Chad

juanrsalvadores · Newbie

Hi. I am a Spaniard teacher and soccer coach. I am from Galicia, in the North of the country, but I have been living in La Palma-Canary Is., ...for 25 years yet.
My sons were born here, they are canarian....

We were working and living in Lafayette, during 2006-07 school year. Great. But I did not go to know your groups, and we returned to Canary Islands in June 2007.....anyway, I have been contracted again for teaching in Baton Rouge...no excuses about knowing you the next school year...

Keep in touch.

Juan R. Salvadores-Canedo

creolelady · Newbie

I came across this forum while trying to trace ancestors. I have been researching ancestors with the surname Boullosa. I found one document that stated he came from Cuba, but a couple of weeks ago received his obituary and it stated native of the Canary Islands. I am still unsure which. I have found several spellings for the name so that makes it tricky as usual. The addresses I have for him and a few others with the name are in New Orleans which is where I was born and raised. Does anyone know anything about this surname? I have come across a reference to a passenger lists between 1836 and 1840 and the ship came from Cuba. Is it possible his family went to Cuba first, then came on to Louisiana?
I am just trying to figure out where to search next and was a little thrown by the difference between the native lands on the two documents.
Thanks for any help.

falcanary · Member

I checked the Canary Islanders of Louisiana passenger lists, especially the ship 'EL SAGRADO CORAZON de JESUS'. This ship headed for Louisiana was stranded in Havana, Cuba for some time till 1783. After that, some continued their journey onto Louisiana. No mention of the surname.

I checked the 1784 Pensacola census. These were people, some were canary islanders, who left Havana and settled in Pensacola and later traveled to N.O. No mention of the surname.

I checked some other people's ancestries at Ancestry.com looking for that name in Cuba. No mention.

Having said that, here are some important notes Lipski has noted:
"Canarian ships regularly travelled to Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Santo Domingo, La Guaira, Cumaná, Chagres, Portobelo, Riohacha, Santa Marta, Cartagena, Veracruz, Campeche, Omoa, and several smaller ports." - http://www.personal.psu.edu/jml34/Canary.htm

"With the coming of independence to most of Latin America in the early 19th century, Spanish trade with the New World diminished considerably. The Canary Islands increased their commercial traffic with the United States, and emigration concentrated on the two remaining Spanish-American colonies, Puerto Rico and particularly Cuba. Alvarez Nazario (1972a) has traced the successive waves of Canary Island immigration to Puerto Rico, where entire villages were formed of relocated islanders. In Cuba, the isleño became a well-known personage, characterized by a combination of industriousness and peasant superstition, and the speech and behavior of Canary Islanders figure prominently in Cuban literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries." - http://www.personal.psu.edu/jml34/Canary.htm

"In the 20-year period from 1818-1838 for example, more than 18,000 Canary islanders emigrated to the Americas, most to Cuba and proportionately fewer to Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This represents a significant proportion of Cuba´s population, and given the relative size of cities in Latin America in the early 19th century, a not inconsiderable shift in the linguistic balance of such places as Havana and Santiago de Cuba. In the period from 1835-1850, more than 16,000 Canary islanders emigrated to Cuba, a rate of approximately 1000 per year." -http://www.canaryislandsusa.com/en/Canaries_Cuba.aspx

May want to check the Papeles de Cuba in the General Archives of the Indies. This may have some ships with names listed going from Cuba to Americas.

I'm sure others here may know of other sources.

WF

creolelady · Newbie

Thanks so much for all of that information. The immigration list I came across on Ancestry gave a date range instead of an actual date. It was 1836 to 1840.

This was the source listed with it for Simon Boullosa:

McELROY, VIRGINIA VANDERHEYDEN. "Second District Court Register of Naturalizations, Oaths of Applicants and Witnesses, October 15, 1874-December 21, 1875." In L'Heritage (St. Bernard Genealogical Society, Chalmette, LA), vol. 13:51 (July 1990), pp. 208-213 (Vols. 1-4: A-Z) (NO VOL. 5); vol. 13:52 (October 1990), pp. 295-298 (Vol. 6: A-Z, Vol. 7: A-G); vol. 14:53 (January 1991), pp. 29-31 (Vol. 7: G-S); vol. 14:54 (April 1991), pp. 130-134 (Vol. 7: S-Z; Vol. 8: A-Z).

I currently live in Northern Arkansas and haven't found much of anything helpful at my local library. I am hoping to make a trip home to New Orleans area in the spring of 2009. If i can do that, then I will be able to devote some quality time to searching for records down there to see what I can come up with.
The obit I found on Simon Boullosa, and his son Simon Ernest were from a French language newspaper. I can read enough of it to determine where he was from and where the funeral activity was taking place as well as inviting friends and family of several other family names listed. Those names were P. Gomez, P Molliere, G. de castra, and J Macka. I have begun searching those names to see if there was a connection that was by family with Simon Boullosa.

I appreciate your response very much. have a wonderful weekend.