Re: Valdez or Valdes
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Re: Valdez or Valdes
michael Carter 9/28/03
For what you said in your messages, I think the place 'Capilla' you mention is either from New Mexico or Spain, but I looked in an Argentinean Atlas and found there's a small town called Capilla in Argentina, very near a city called Zárate. Having found the place, I searched for the names you provided above in databases and registries where one can find information about those who lived in the vicerroyalty of the Rio de la Plata (in that situation from 1776 to 1816 more or less) and found like 10 men with the surname born in different years but noone called either Juan Pablo or Rafael. I found an Antonio Valdez that is supposed to have been married to a lady called Petrona Basualdo with the note 'had a son, luis ramón, that died of 7 days on september 3rd 1834. I didn't find any person with the surname 'Varos'.
Of course, some were not registered in the churches, or are registered i the books of small towns, a case in which one's to travel to the very place and ask in the local church (something not advisable if one isn't sure about a date of birth or of being in the right town).
I finally tried some search engines in the net and I got a name, can this person be related to you? These online databases can have mistakes since they're made by the data submitted by people trying to trace their ancestors and, usually, the information can be mistaken or confusing. Anyway, I hope it helps:
'Juan Pablo Valdez, born 26/06/1822 in Abiquiu, Rio Arriba, NM, christened the 3/07/1822. Son of Antonio Rafael Valdez, born 26/09/1781 in Abiquiu, Rio Arriba, NM, and María Antonia Varos (with whom he married 6/09/1807, daughter of Manuel Silvestre Sisneros y María Rosa Varos).
Antonio Rafael Valdez was son of Antonio Valdez and María Rosa Trujillo (also appears as Francisca or Juana).'
There was also some data about a Juan Pablo Valdez with the note 'submitted by Joseph VALDEZ, 7942 Kellwood Houston Texas".
Cheers
C. Calvete
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Re: Valdez or Valdes
michael Carter 12/27/03