Ancestral Research.
In an effort to promote the study of history in all things related to ancestry, in particular the ancestry of British families and their links with other countries, particularly Spain, during the time of the Spanish empire, ancestral research is being carried out in Spanish archives, searching for British pioneers who emigrated from Spain to the Americas in the 16th to the 19th Centuries. They are looking for the various blood lines which have affected the social, intellectual, moral and psychological make-up of the nations of the American continent. Not only is this to satisfy historian’s curiosity, but it is also a way to preserve the memory of the founding fathers of various nationalities and to discover their names, their stories and the lives of those men who contributed to the history of the varying countries.
The main source of information in this research is the General Archive of the Indies (Archivo General de Indias) in Seville. In these files are passenger lists to the Indies - the lists of the people who boarded boats travelling to the New World. Included in these lists are the names, points of origin and destination and family details which are the key pieces of information for anyone researching American ancestry as these people were the link with the British families in America who left Spain where they had been integrated for generations (since the 15th Century).
The documents which make up the files of today take up more than 9 kilometers of shelving. There are around 43,000 dossiers including over 80 million pages and 8,000 maps and sketches which mainly originate from the municipal organizations which were in charge of the administration of the Spanish colonies.
The following are some examples, with the Spanish version of the names:
1767/05/05: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Cornelio Coppinger, from Ireland, travelling to Havana.
1723/06/29: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Nicolás Juan de Geynan, merchant from Cádiz, son of Tomás Geynan, of Ireland and Elena Gadding of Ireland, travelling to New Spain. Also appears as Nicolás Juan de Gainan, Geinan, Guynan and Jeinan.
1786/04/04: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Brother Andrés Darcy, chaplain to the Hibernian Infantry, from Ireland, travelling to Havana.
1679/03/19: File on the estate of Father Andrés Lince, Presbyterian, from Jalveo (sic Galway) in Ireland, son of Pedro Lince and Juliana Lince, residents of the same city, died in the village of Quezaltenango, bishop of Chiapa. Heirs: the Irish School and Head of Studies of the San Pablo School of Seville. Father Thomas Butler of the Society of Jesus and Brother Domingo Lince from the Santo Domingo Order claim the estate.
1756/11/19: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Enrique Hayden of Ireland, travelling to Havana.
1776/02/23: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Jaime O’Daly of Ireland, with Carlos Boon, negro slave from the island of San Eustaquio and Ignacio Sanz Albaro from Tortoles, son of Matías Sanz and Baltasara Alvaro, travelling to Puerto Rico.
1749/04/26: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Juan Galdon of Ireland, travelling to New Spain.
1787/06/20: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Francisca de Paula de Brikdale, wife of Bernardo Ologhlin, captain of the Hibernian Regiment based in Havana, with her child Juan Beard, of Ireland, travelling to Havana.
1768/03/22: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Miguel Ofelán of Ireland, with his wife María Ana Darrooh of Lima, and their children José and Diego, travelling to Lima.
1723/06/30: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Pedro Bartololmé Cranesborg, trader from Morón de la Frontera and resident of Puerto Santa María, son of Lucas Cranesborg of Ireland and of Margarita Aylvardo, travelling to New Spain.
1770/01/10: Passenger information and travel permit to the Indies for Tomás Shee, captain of the Irish Regiment and Corregidor (town councilor) in the province of Yauyós, travelling to Peru.
If anyone is interested on ancestral research regarding his family,you can contact us at web@costaluzlawyers.es as we can direct you towards an specialist on this.
By Jesús Castro
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