JUNE  2003
Editor: Mimi Lozano, mimilozano@aol.com © 2000-3

          Dedicated to Hispanic Heritage and Diversity Issues
          Publication of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research  
http://members.aol.com/shhar      714-894-8161

OLVERA STREET

Los Angeles' Cinco de Mayo Weekend
Included for the First Time
 
Hands-on Hispanic Family History Booth 
Provided by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 
 

Photo by Sandra Torres

Photos provided by the LDS  Office of  Public Affairs California Area

SOMOS PRIMOS  
and the 
Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research 
applaud the 
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
for not only maintaining the largest collection of family records in the world, 
but for making them available online at http://www.FamilySearch.org, 
and for also going out into the community with their expertise.
THANK YOU 

 
"It's true I am only one, but I am one. 
And the fact that I cannot do everything 
should not prevent me from doing what I can do."  
Edward Everett Hale  (paraphrased)
Source: Character Counts Network  http://www.charactercounts.org/knxtoc.htm

UNITED STATES

Dr. Clotilde P. Garcia, 

She is remembered as educator, benefactor, leader, as tough, witty and caring by friends
By Sara Lee Fernandez  Caller-Times Venessa Santos-Garza and Tim Eaton contributed to this report.  May 28, 2003  Sent by George Gause  ggause@panam.edu

       Dr. Clotilde P. "Dr. Cleo" Garcia, who delivered about 10,000 babies and was the sister of civil rights leaders Dr. Hector P. Garcia and Dr. Xicotencatl P. "Xico" Garcia, died Tuesday. She was 86. She was remembered Tuesday as a pioneering physician, humanitarian, historian, civic leader
and writer with a sharp wit, strong mind and kind heart. Her brother Xico died April 28, 2003. Hector P. Garcia, the founder of the American GI Forum, died Aug. 9, 1996.
        "She was a true public servant from the get-go," said Hugo Berlanga, a lobbyist and former state representative. "Not only as a professional and not only as a doctor . . . She was clearly a trailblazer in her time as a Hispanic and a woman."
        Berlanga said his own family was one of the many recipients of Garcia's care. "I remember my dad telling me that she used to provide free medical care because our family couldn't afford to pay her," he said, his voice cracking with emotion. "And I know our family wasn't the only recipient of health care in the area because that's just the way she was."
        Dr. Dalia P. Garcia, youngest of the Garcias, had spent the better part of the last two years caring for her oldest sister Cleo, who suffered a stroke in 1994 and has been dealing with numerous health problems since, according to family and friends. During an interview conducted at funeral services for brother Xico Garcia, Dalia Garcia described her relationship with her sister.  "She was like a mother to us," said Dalia Garcia.
        To help pass the time at Cleo Garcia's bedside, Dalia Garcia encouraged her sister to reminisce about their childhood in the Rio Grande Valley. Dalia said in her family's early years in Mercedes they didn't have radios or cars and their time outside of their studies was spent playing 17th century games from Spain and singing songs.  "I have been singing to her," she said. 
'She was a catalyst'
        Dr. Cleo, as she was affectionately called, was a teacher and principal before she graduated from the University of Texas School of Medicine in Galveston in 1954 and then began an internship at Memorial Medical Center in Corpus Christi in 1955. But her influence in the community stretched well beyond the field of medicine.
        From 1960 to 1982 she served on the Del Mar College Board of Regents, becoming the school's fist woman regent, and a science and health building on campus now bears her name.
In 1968 she founded the Carmelite Day Nursery Parents and Friends Club to help educate underprivileged children, and in 1987 she founded the Spanish American Genealogical Association with her sister, Dr. Dalia Garcia.
        Herb Canales, Director of Corpus Christi's Public Libraries, remembers Cleo Garcia as kind, enthusiastic, ambitious and extremely charming. "She was a catalyst," Canales said. "She had this way of making people feel involved and good about what they were doing." 'She gave us roots'
        Canales first met Dr. Cleo in the mid-1980s when organizing the new central library building. During a luncheon for the West Side Business Association, in which Cleo Garcia was very active, he talked about the growing interest in genealogy and the lack of Hispanic heritage information. He said she took the project under her wing, donating funds to purchase an 88-volume genealogy set published in Spain and convinced various parties to allow her to purchase church records. The records detailed births, marriages and deaths in Mexico; she arranged for them to be translated for
public use by volunteers.
        The collection is the envy of libraries and organizations across the country and many are trying to pattern their own collections after it, Canales said. "Without her leadership and heart we would not have that collection," Canales said. "People come from all over to use it. She gave many of us our history. She gave us roots, and that's no small task."
        Her love of history also led her to write several books and publications on South Texas history and the text of the plaques inside the seawall miradores on the city's bay front. "Her impact to the community was significant, tremendous," said Thomas H. Kreneck, special collections librarian/archivist at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. "Words don't describe how important she had been for this community, both in terms of what she did and what she symbolized."
        In 1983 Del Mar College named the Science and Public Health building after her. Rosie Garcia, of the Registered Nurse Education Department at Del Mar, said Cleo Garcia was an unassuming presence, but larger than life and someone who was always working. "I think she'll be remembered as someone who was a member of a legendary family," Rosie Garcia said, "but also someone who personified education for health careers." 'A born educator first'
        Dr. Roberto Bosquez, past president of the Nueces County Medical Society, said he worked with her in the community for more than 40 years. "She was an active physician in the community. And she was active in the educational aspects of the community," Bosquez said. "One of the things that I would say is she was a born educator first and continued to be an excellent educator in our field of medicine."
        With all her heart and her wit she was a strong force to reckon with, Berlanga said. "She was tough when it came to civil rights issues and discrimination issues," he said. "You couldn't find a more caring, gentle and witty person. She was just an unbelievable woman. There just aren't enough words . . . she was comforting when you were down, she was playful when you needed some joy in your life."  Garcia is survived by her son, Tony Canales of Corpus Christi; three grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. 

Dr. Cleo's life: Some of the many important awards, organizations and projects of Dr. Clotilde P. "Dr. Cleo" Garcia's life:

Born Jan. 9, 1917 in Mercedes

1936 Associate of Arts degree from Pan American University, Edinburg

1938 Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas

1950 Master's in Education from the University of Texas

1954 Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

1955 Rotating internship at Memorial Medical Center, Corpus Christi

1960-82 Del Mar College Board of Regents

1966-67 National member of board of directors for Service, Employment, Redevelopment Jobs for Progress

1968 Founder of Carmelite Day Nursery Parents and Friends Club, organized to help underprivileged children.

1968 People to People, Sister City Committee in Corpus Christi

1969 Recipient of the Community Leader of America Award by the Education Board Commission of Latin America

1970-73 Board Director and member of Executive Committee of  Nueces County Anti-poverty Program

1970-73 Member of the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging

1974 Published book on South Texas History, "Siege of Camargo"

1975 Published book on South Texas History, "Cartas y Documentos"

1979 Published book on South Texas History, "Padre Jose Nicolas Balli"

1980 Presidential elector for _electoral college, Democrat

1982 Published book on South Texas History, "Captain Alonso Alvarez de Pineda"

1983 The Dr. Clotilde P. Garcia Science and Health Building at Del Mar College was named

1984 Named to the first Texas Women's Hall of Fame

1984 Published book on South Texas History, "Captain Blas De La Garza Falcon"

1987 Donated an 88-volume set of genealogical encyclopedias to the Corpus Christi Library

1987 Founded the Spanish American Genealogical Association

1989 Recipient of the Medal of Honor of the Order of Isabel from the King of Spain

Army Maj. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez has been nominated for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general with assignment as commanding general, V Corps, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany. Sanchez is currently serving as commanding general, 1st Armored Division, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany.

Guillermo Guevara Jacket   

The Tilma of Tepeyac Tour

Guadalupe relic to tour the U.S. through December

Thousands of the faithful are expected to turn out in cities around the U.S. as The Tilma of Tepeyac Tour brings a piece of St. Juan Diego's tilma—the cloth that holds the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe—to more than a dozen dioceses around the country.  

http://www.hispaniconline.com/pop/trends.html

Arturo Moreno, a native of Tucson, made his fortune in outdoor advertising and has a net worth estimated at $940 million by Forbes magazine. He become the first Hispanic owner of a major league on his purchase of the Anaheim Angels from the Walt Disney Co. for $185 million.

Yvonne Wingett and Mel Meléndez, assisted by news assistant Robert Varela
The Arizona Republic, May. 5, 2003 

        Figures from the 2000 census show that of the 629,000 Hispanic adults in Arizona, 78 percent speak a language other than English at home. That figure drops to 64 percent among Latinos 5 to 17 years old.  Those figures, experts say, signal a generational divide between those who speak the language and those who can't.
        They attribute much of the problem to discrimination that older Spanish-speaking Latinos felt as children. Before the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, many Latinos felt pressured not to speak Spanish in order to fully assimilate. Latinos were chastised for speaking Spanish in school. As a result, they chose not to teach their children Spanish to protect them from the cultural bias they felt.
        "I used to come home crying to my mother because I would get in trouble for speaking Spanish (in school)," said Phoenix College student Clorinda Lozano, 52, of Peoria. "They made us feel embarrassed of our language."
        Today, Lozano's children are not fluent in Spanish because she didn't want them discriminated against. "I deeply regret that now because people see it as a rejection of your culture when you can't speak Spanish."
        "Language is always an issue in a community because it's one of the things that unites you as a people," said Amalia Villegas, a Phoenix College counselor and co-adviser to the Latino student organization A.L.E. (Associación Latina Estudiantil). "But identity isn't solely based on language. I think we do a real disservice to ourselves when we think that, because you can be fluent in a language and not be culturally aware."
        "I'm half Latino and all of my friends are Latino, so people expect you to speak it," Will McEntee said. "I wish I could, too, because people look at you like you're less Latino if you don't speak Spanish. It's crazy."
        "A lot of Latinos expect you to speak Spanish and if you don't it offends them," said Jesus Chaidez, a 21-year-old justice studies major at Arizona State University. "They look at you like you're a sellout because you can't communicate in your people's native tongue."  "Realistically, not speaking Spanish doesn't mean you're not Latino," said Chaidez, who is bilingual.  "We need to acknowledge that and be more understanding. It's what's in your heart that counts."

Dubbed crossover Latinos these second-and-third-generation Latinos prefer speaking English but retain their Latino identity, heritage and values says Ruano.

Minority-Owned Firms Grow Four Times Faster Than National Average
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2001

    Minority-owned businesses grew more than four times as fast as U.S. firms overall between 1992 and 1997, increasing from 2.1 million to about 2.8 million firms, according to a report released today [pdf] by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau.

    The 30 percent growth rate exceeded the 7 percent increase for all U.S. firms, which jumped from 17.3 million in 1992 to 18.4 million in 1997.

    Receipts of all minority-owned firms (excluding C corporations) rose 60 percent to $335.3 billion in 1997, compared with a 40 percent increase for all U.S. firms over the same period.

       Overall, minority-owned firms made up 15 percent of the nation's businesses and generated 3 percent of all receipts.

    Minority-owned businesses are those owned by African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Pacific Islanders, or American Indians and Alaska Natives.

    The vast majority of these firms, 82 percent or 2.5 million, were sole proprietorships (unincorporated businesses owned by individuals).

     Highlights from the report:

• California, Texas, New York and Florida, the nation's most populous states and home to nearly half of all minority residents, had the largest number of minority-owned businesses.  
  
• While Hispanics owned the largest share of firms owned by minorities, Asian- and Pacific Islander-owned firms reaped the largest share of minority-owned business revenues -- 52 percent.

• Men were owners of about 55 percent of the firms owned by each of the four minority groups. African Americans had the largest percentage of firms owned by women -- 38 percent.

• Thirty-nine percent of all minority-owned firms had 1997 receipts of under $10,000; about 3 percent had sales of $1 million or more.  
  
• Average receipts per firm were $194,600 compared with $410,600 for all U.S. firms, excluding publicly held corporations and firms (such as mutual companies) whose owners' race or ethnicity could not be determined.

• About 1 in 5 of all minority-owned firms had paid employees. More than 4,400 minority-owned firms had 100 or more employees.

• Fifty-nine percent of all minority-owned firms were in the services and retail trade industries, accounting for 43 percent of all receipts.

Source: Public Information CB01-115
301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD)
e-mail: pio@census.gov
Eddie Salyers/Valerie Strang301-457-3316

       “The American mainstream is being Hispanicized,” said Gabriel Reyes, founder of Reyes Entertainment, a marketing and public relations firm aimed at the Latino market which counts HBO, ABC and CBS among its clients. “It’s not a matter of us finding them, it’s a matter of the mainstream finding Hispanics.” 
       The size and buying power of the Hispanic market is well-known. There are 32 million Latinos in the U.S., the country’s fastest growing population and the largest ethnic minority, according to the U.S. Census. They spent $800 billion on goods and services in the U.S. last year. 
       By 2020, there will be almost 56 million Hispanic Americans living in the United States and most will be U.S. born. A recent report by the magazine Hispanic Business found that the largest shift in the population is towards the English-speaking market. 
       At least $2 billion is spent annually on advertising to Hispanics, a figure that should grow as programs and products aimed at Latinos reach the general market.
       “The Hispanic market isn’t some separate country; it’s part of the overall marketplace,” said Luis Garcia, founder of Garcia 360, a San Antonio ad agency for the Hispanic market. 
       Now [marketers] realize we are using mainstream media,” said Reyes. “It means that English-language media at all levels is going to have to integrate Latino characters and stories in their ongoing plans.” 

       The movement is most noticeable in national TV programming. Fox TV is expected to add “The Ortegas,” an offbeat comedy about a Mexican-American family in Southern California when the network announces its primetime schedule on Thursday. ABC has renewed “George Lopez,” a comedy about a Los Angeles family with an all-Latino cast for a second season. 
       NBC isn’t adding any Hispanic-themed shows next fall, but the broadcast network recently brought professional boxing back for the first time in 11 years with a goal of reaching young Latino viewers.  “Hispanic audiences are sports fans and boxing is the No. 2 sport behind soccer,” said Mike McCarley, spokesman for NBC Sports. The boxing events, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser, are shared with NBC’s Spanish-language network Telemundo. 
      
         Then there’s Nickelodeon’s bilingual animated show “Dora the Explorer,” the No. 1 program for preschoolers on TV, which has become hugely profitable for the cable network.
       The new wave of Latin marketing follows the exploding influence of Spanish-language media. For example, last year NBC paid $2.7 billion for Telemundo, the No. 2 Spanish network. While other magazines has suffered advertising declines, magazines such as People en Espanol and the women’s publication Latina have enjoyed steady increases. Spanish radio and TV stations are in every major market.
       Beyond the Spanish-language outlets, marketers and media companies have realized that the largest part of the audience is bilingual and bicultural. 
       The California think tank Tomas Rivera Policy Institute found that almost 70 percent of Latinos watch television in both English and Spanish. 
       In Hollywood films such as the 20th Century Fox movie “Chasing Papi” or “Real women have curves” are bringing more awareness of Latin culture to general audiences. 
       “The Hispanic culture and population has permeated America in such a way that it’s changing the kinds of shows and products that are being created, not just to appeal to Hispanic market but to the mainstream,” said Garcia.
       Or as Felipe Korzenny explains it: “These days being Hispanic is cool.”
       “Now that it’s popular to be Hispanic, having Hispanics on mainstream media is attractive to both audiences,” said Korzenny, principal at Cheskin, a Redwood Shores, Calif., multicultural-marketing consultancy.
      
      Food and beverage giants are not only bringing their Latin American products to the U.S., they’re developing and integrating new items for U.S. Hispanics throughout the general market. 
Kraft Foods introduced the Kool-Aid Aguas Frescas soft drink mix, a milk-based Jell-O called O Gelatina Para Leche and a lime-flavored mayonnaise last year. Nabisco is importing three Latin American cookie brand—Morelinas, Imperio and Surtido Rico—into the U.S. this year. 
The partnership between Frito-Lay and Pepsi will give a big marketing push to the Mexican snack line Sabritas later this year. 
Drinks tailored to Latin tastebuds have become a big trend with tropical-flavored beverages such as Pepsi’s Dole Aguas Frescas juice drinks in mango and tamarind flavors and Nestle’s Kerns Aguas Frescas, a line of fruit drinks.
       “A lot of U.S. and Latin American companies are working on Hispanic food lines for the U.S.,” said Phil Lempert, a food trends expert and publisher of The Lempert Report newsletter. “It means survival for the food industry. If they don’t get [the Hispanic market], they’ll be out of business.”      
       

Bernardo de Galvez

Involvement of Diverse Interests in the Galvez Project was Demonstrated 
in the Press Conference. held May 23rd at the 
Renaissance Hotel in Long Beach

Seated left to right, front row are:

Orange County California Genealogical Society Visited by Spanish Dignitaries
On May 3rd Michael Perez arranged for a presentation to be made to the 
Orange County California Genealogical Society.  

Text of the address given by Honorary Consul Maria Angeles *O'Donnell* Olson
to the Orange County California Genealogical Society

        In his address to the joint meeting of the House and the Senate held at the House of Representatives on June 2, 1976, Juan Carlos I, King of Spain declared: In this year of the Bicentennial, it is with pleasure that I recall the role that Spaniards, and Spain, with her diplomatic, political, financial, naval and military resources, played in the global struggle whose victory received the recognition of the independence of the United States."
        Although it is true that Spain remained officially neutral at the beginning of the American Revolution, it is not less certain that Spain became in 1779 a great ally of the American colonies, second only to France.
        On June 27, 1776, when the independence of the United States had not yet been declared, the Spanish Secretary of State, the Marquis of Grimaldi, notified the Ambassador of Spain in Paris that his Majesty, Carlos III, had granted the American Revolution four million reales de Vellón.  
       In 1777 Benjamin Franklin, head of the Delegation of the Continental Congress decided to send Arthur Lee to Spain.  Upon returning to Paris, Lee received from the Spanish Goverment a bank draft for 50,000 pesos of gold.  In April he received another draft for 81,000 Livres Tournois.  And in June the Spanish the Spanish Government handed over to him new drafts totaling more than 100,000 pounds.
        The aid that Spain provided to the cause of the American Revolution in its initial states was not limited to the financial contributions; it was not limited either to just allowing the Americans privateers to find sanctuary at the Spanish ports.  The United States received help on American soil itself through the Spanish Governors of Louisiana.        
        In May 1776 (before the Declaration of Independence had taken place),   General Charles Lee wrote to the Governor of Louisiana, Luis de Unzaga, explaining that he was the second-in-command under General Washington and that in this capacity he requested help from the Spanish Governor in order to continue the war.  General Lee's letter reached the hands of Governor Unzaga through Captain George Gibson, who arrived in New Orleans at night along with Lieutenant William Lee.  When the Governor realized how difficult the situation was in which he found himself, he cleverly plotted the following scheme to maintain his neutrality and to help at the same time the cause of the revolution:  Captain Gibson was supposedly imprisoned, to quiet the suspicions of the British Consul, but Lieutenant Lee was allowed to leave New Orleans.  One month later Governor Unzaga set Gibson free, who chartered a boat and went up the Mississippi with 1,000 pounds of gun power from the Spanish arsenals.
        When Ungaza was appointed Captain General of Caracas, a young Colonel,  31 Years old, named Bernardo de Gálvez, became the Governor of Louisiana by Royal Degree of February 1, 1777.  The new governor quickly gave signs of wholehearted sympathy for the American Revolution by not allowing the British Navy to operate the Mississippi waters or in the mouth of the river, by opening the Port of New Orleans to the trade with the rebel colonists. 
        Gálvez when even further, and in the spring of 1777, he seized 11 British ships on smuggling missions, and ordered the British subjects to leave Louisiana with fifteen days. Galveston in the state of Texas is named after Governor Bernardo de Gálvez.
        On June 21, 1779, Spain declared war on Great Britain.  The war against Great Britain allowed the Spanish governor of Louisiana and the Captain General of Cuba to increase the shipment of military supplies.  While the Spanish Army and Navy played an important role in the struggle for the independence of the United States from its bases in Louisiana and Cuba, Fray Junipero Serra, the father and founder of California sent a dispatch dated June 15, 1780, to the Spanish missions in California asking the Friars to pray for the victory of Spain and her allies over the British, and later on by his initiative the missions made a collection asking the Spaniards to contribute with two pesos each, and every Indian with one.  The amount collected was delivered to the Viceroy of Mexico, who, in turn, sent it to the General Rochambeau who participated with his French troops at the Virginia Campaign, 1781, along with Washington, LaFayette, and Wayne.  it is said that the Cathedral of Málaga lost one of its towers, and became a "victim" of the American Revolution, because the money assigned for it was ceded to a public subscription for Governor Gálvez expeditions against the British in their struggle with the American Rebels.  Finally, it should be remembered that the Spanish treasury backed and guaranteed the first issue of American currency, 
authorized by the Continental Congress in a Resolution dated May 9, 1776, which was to take its name dollar from the Spanish milled dollars, i.e. doblas.  The dollar sign - from the pieces of eight of the Spanish Government - evolved from the two upright posts on all coins and a winding inscription reading plus ultra which for years appeared on the United States coinage.
        There is much more to say about the contributions of Spain and Spaniards to the independence of the United States, but I believe I have taken already enough time.  Thank you.

Prejudice and Ignorance among American Historians
by Granville Hough, Ph.D. 
gwhough@earthlink.net

 the Inter American University of Puerto Rico.  This particular article was republished in 1985 by the Embassy of Spain, USA. 

SECCIÓN DE ENSAYOS HISTÓRICOS
http://www.whenu.com/ss_auto.html?src=wccs0015

Sent by Steven Hernandez Pacorro73@aol.com 

 III

Don Bernardo de Gálvez:
Educación militar y primera intervención
en la frontera méxiconorteamericana

En el último breve ensayo aparecido en Culturadoor habíamos presentado a la familia de los Gálvez, en particular a su padre Matías y a sus tres tíos, Antonio, José y Miguel. El propósito fue colocar en su contexto apropiado la prominente figura del joven hijo/sobrino Bernardo, personalidad central que nos ocupará en las siguientes semblanzas que irán apareciendo en esta publicación.

[[Great article in Spanish about Bernardo de Galvez. You also will enjoy a musical selection while you brouse.]]

Historians galvanize for Galvez
Revolutionary War: L.B. will host festival honoring Spanish general who helped fledgling U.S.
By Kristopher Hanson, Staff writer for the Long Beach Press-Telegram
May 23, 2003

SURNAME 

O’DONNELL  

Sus armas son:

ESCUDO JIRONADO DE ORO Y GULES, Y BROCHANTE, UNA CRUZ DE GULES SOSTENIDA POR UN BRAZO ARMADO.

Soportes un león y un toro, Lema: “Inhoc signo vinces”.

La noble familia de O’Donnell, es originaria de Irlanda, y como casi todas las importantes de aquel país, se precia de descender de los famosos Reyes Milesianos, siendo ellos mismos Príncipes Soberanos de Tyrconnell, y más tarde Condes de Tyrconnell y Barones de Donnagel por Cédula de Jacobo I, fechada en Tottenham el 4 de septiembre de 1603, año primero de su reinado en Inglaterra e Irlanda, don Rodrigo, titulado Príncipe don Hugo O’Donnell Conde de Tyrconnell, abandono su patria “por la defensa y conservación de la fe”, según dice su epitafio en la iglesia de San Pedro de Roma, donde falleció el 30 de julio de 1608 a los 33 años de edad, antes, su hermano primogénito el Príncipe don Hugo O’Donnell se había refugiado en España, después de las reñidas luchas contra el poder inglés en Irlanda, siendo objeto de la más cariñosa acogida por parte del Rey Felipe III que le dispensó toda clase de honores.

La casa española de este linaje desciende de Magnus O’Donnell, Conde de Tyrconnell y Barón de Donnegal, y de Lady María Campuble, su mujer, de la gran familia escocesa de los Duques de Argyle. Su hijo Carlos O’Donnell fue esposo de doña Eleonora Mac-Swing, hija del Barón de Fanned y de doña Ana María D’Dagharty, Hugo O’Donnell, también Conde de Tyrconell e hijo de los anteriores, fue nombrado Maestre de Campo General de las tropas irlandesas en las guerras de Alemania y vivió casado con doña Margarita O’Nealle, hija del Conde de Tyrone.

De los anteriores esposos, nació Carlos O’Donnell, que casó con su prima doña María O’Donnell, hija del Coronel irlandés Magnus O’Donnell, teniendo por hijos a José O’Donnell, que formó la rama de España, y a Enrique O’Donnell, Coronel de los Ejércitos del Emperador de Austria, que tuvo sucesión en aquel país con importantes personajes, entre los que figuran Feld-Mariscales y Tenientes Generales de aquel ejército, Caballeros del Toisón de Oro, de la Orden de María Luisa, etc,etc.

Don José O’Donnell de Anethan, nacido en Guadalajara, España, en 1768, tuvo el grado de Teniente General de los Reales Ejércitos Españoles: don Carlos O’Donnell de Anethan, ingresó en la Orden de Carlos III el año 1824, llegó al mismo grado que su hermano, y de su matrimonio con doña María Josefa Joris y Casaviella, tuvo como tesorero de sus hijos al I Duque de Tetuán; don Francisco O’Donnell de Anethan, Capitán de Infantería don Alejandro O’Donnell, Coronel del Regimiento Imperial, Alejandro, fallecido en La Coruña el año 1837; don Enrique O’Donnell de Anethan, Teniente General y General en Jefe del Ejército de Cataluña, Regente del Reino durante el cautiverio del Rey Fernando VII, creado Conde de La Bisbal el 25 de octubre de 1810, y doña Beatriz O’Donnell de Anethan, esposa de don Manuel de Pombo y Ante.

La sucesión de discurrió en España, dejó interminable relación de miembros de esta familia que tuvieron los máximos honores a importantes cargos civiles y militares, destacando entre todos ellos don Leopoldo O’Donnell Joris de Anethan, nacido en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, el 12 de enero de 1809, Capitán General de los Ejércitos tres veces Presidente del Consejo de Ministros, condecorado con la Orden de Carlos III y otras grandes cruces, héroe de la guerra con Marruecos, que obtuvo en 1846 el título de Conde de Lucena, y en 1860 el de Duque de Tetuán, ambas dignidades otorgadas por la Reina Isabel II por sus altos merecimientos como militar.

Extract from BLASONES Y APELLIDOS, 828-page book by Fernando Muñoz Altea
In its second edition, the book can be ordered from blasones@mail.com
or at P.O. Box 11232, El Paso, Texas   79995  
or by contacting Armando Montes   AMontes@Mail.com

Esta web es una amplia BASE DE GENEALOGÍA que partiendo del estudio de linajes levantinos españoles se extiende en el tiempo desde el presente al más remoto pasado del que constan noticias de los ancestros y en el espacio por toda la geografía europea y americana recorriendo todos los estamentos sociales desde familias populares a la nobleza y realeza. Incluye mas de 2.500 apellidos y de 25.000 individuos, así como todo tipo de imágenes: escudos, retratos, documentos, edificios, etc. Y enlaces a otros sitios del mismo tema y complementarios. Continuación y esquema

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