THE MONTEVERDE
FAMILY (Carmen Monteverde Morales)
First generation:
FRANCISCO MONTEVERDE BUGIANO (Francisco Antonio Monteverde)
was born in Florencia (Florence) Italy
1781. FRANCISCO died July 06,1856 in Hermosillo,
Sonora; México., at 75 years of age.
He married Ma. ANTONIA DIAZ GAMEZ in Pitic, Sonora; México., October 02,1814.
Ma. ANTONIA was the daughter of IGNACIO DIAZ and JUANA GAMEZ de LORENSAVE.
(A truly moving story of a
boy/man that left "war-time" Genoa Italy in 1795, came to Mexico, ended up, in 1796, in the
Presidio of San Francisco, helping in the building project!) After, ended up in
Hermosillo around 1805, made his fortune by diving for pearls and raising
cattle.
A book was written about the
Italians in Mexico, Francisco Monteverde was involved.
http://www.jstor.org The Italians in Mexico: A Minority's Contribution
Author(s): Frederick G. Bohme Source: The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 28,
No. 1, (Feb., 1959), pp. 1-18Published by: University of California Press Stable
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3636236
PAGES, 7 & 8
82 Lieutenant Robert W. H. Hardy, of Her
Majesty's Navy, was commissioned in 1825 by a London company to seek pearl
fishing grounds. In the course of his travels he visited one Signor Monteverde,
a long-time resident of Pitic, Sonora, whom few
recognized any longer as a native of Italy. Hardy wrote that Monteverde had "a
fat wife, a large family, a broken organ, numbers of prints, some good pearls
and native gold." 33 Said to be one of the richest men in the area, he had
formerly been engaged in pearl fishing. Apparently this was quite lucrative, for
Hardy reported that Monteverde told him of an Italian priest who, with only $200
and a wooden diving bell, took $200,000 in native gold and pearls from the Gulf
of California in two months' time. 84 Josiah Gregg told of visiting a fonda in
Zacatecas in 1835. It was kept by an Italian, and Gregg procured "an excellent
supper."35
http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/upload/elpresid.pdf
This is the start of information on
how a Francisco Monteverde, about 16 years of age, from the city of
Genoa Italy,
(excellent link here on the city) city of Christopher Columbus, sailed to the new world.
The age corresponds with the age listed previously. How he ended up
in Pitic, New Spain, will be interesting.
The above web site is how New
Spain/Spain established the San Francisco area.
EXAMPLE; 166. The actual number
of artillery and workers exceeded this amount. In fact, Roca headed
a detachment of a dozen and a half workers, artificers, and
artillerymen sent out from San Blas for San Francisco. He and
Private Mariano Brito were the only married men. The majority of the
force hailed from Mexico, except for Roca, another native of
Catalonia from the town of Tarrega, Second Corporal Gregorio
Martínez of Cadíz, Juan Marine of Tarrega in Catalonia, and two
workmen, the carpenter Rafael Lledo of Palma and the
artificer (author-scribe-writer) Francisco
Monteverde from Genoa, Italy. The rest of the group included
Miguel Brito, José Cano, Matias Guerrero, José Medina, José Osorio,
José Sarco, and José Villaseñor (all artificers and workmen) along
with artillerymen José Francisco Argüelles (first corporal), Mariano
Mercado, José Peña, and Juan Zuniga. Most of the men were in their
early to mid-twenties, with the exception of
one 17-year-old (Monteverde), two 19-year-olds (Mercado and
Medina), Roca who was 37, and Lledo who was 44. Report, Pedro
Laguna, Royal body of Artillery, Department of New Spain, Mexico,
October 15, 1795, Archives
of California, Provincial State Papers, VII, 289; Bancroft, History
of California, vol. I, 535-36.
One of the reasons that
Franisco Antonio Monteverde may have left Genoa in about 1795, was
the turmoil of war by the French to the Genoa area, while the
British continued to protect Genoa in continuing battles, especially
by sea. There was a depression in the northwest area of Italy,
including Florence. Things were not good. Even though Francisco was
born in Florence, Genoa was the major area for the Monteverde's of
Italy. In fact Napoleon, made a secret mission to inspect
fortifications of Genoa, in 1795, for the war.
Apparently, he left
Italy in 1795, probably had to get special help to get on a ship, arrived in Mexico, for whatever reason, as very
few Italians were allowed in the New World of Spain. Genoa was once
the possession of Spain, especially during the Cesare
Borgia period.
He probably took a job
building the defenses of the Presideo of San Francisco, at
such a young age, for
what ever reason, it simply was not safe in that area. He probably went from Vera Cruz to San Blas, took a
ship to San Francisco. Now, how he was able to emigrate to
Hermosillo is another story, well worth researching. He was a
MAN'S MAN.
Second generation:
FRANCISCO MONTEVERDE BUGIANO and Ma.ANTONIA DIAZ GAMEZ had the following
children:
Serafin Monteverde Diaz was born 1812.
Francisco Monteverde Diaz was born June 14,1814.
José PAULINO MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Pitic, Sonora; México. June 22,1815.
José died 1826 in Pitic, Sonora; México., at 11 years of age.
JOSE de JESUS MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Pitic, Sonora; México. September
14,1816.
Lucas Antonio MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Pitic, Sonora; México. September
17,1817. Lucas died June 06,1819 in Pitic, Sonora; México., at 1 year of age.
Florencio Agustín Monteverde Diaz was born November 06,1818.
Manuel liborio Monteverde Diaz was born July 21,1819.
María de los Dolores MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Pitic, Sonora; México. March
12,1820. María died February 02,1822 in Pitic, Sonora; México., at 1 year of
age.
Ma.DOLORES MATILDE MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Pitic, Sonora; México. 1820.
Ma.DOLORES died February 02,1821 in Pitic, Sonora; México., at less than one
year of age.
Dolores Piedad Monteverde Diaz was born March 11,1823.
Jose Dimas de la Encarnación Monteverde Diaz was born March 25,1824 ( Our
ancestry ) married Carmen Morales Estrella.
MARIA del CARMEN Isidora MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Pitic, Sonora; México.
April 03,1825. MARIA died 1826 in Pitic, Sonora; México., at 1 year of age.
JUAN MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Pitic, Sonora; México. 1826. JUAN died 1826 in
Pitic, Sonora; México., at less than one year of age.
Pedro Celestino Monteverde Diaz was born May 19,1827.
Ma. Isabel del CARMEN MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Pitic, Sonora; México. July
02,1829. She was christened in Pitic, Sonora; México., July 03,1829.
ISABEL del Carmen MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Hermosillo, Sonora; México. July
02,1829.
PAULINO MONTEVERDE DIAZ was born in Hermosillo, Sonora; México. July 08,1830. He
was christened in Hermosillo, Sonora; México., July 10,1830.
José de los Angeles Gabriel Monteverde Diaz was born July 31,1831.
Bruno Antonio Abad Monteverde Diaz was born October 09,1832.
Third generation:
José Dimas de la Encarnacion Monteverde Diaz was born in Pitic, Sonora; México.
March 25,1824. JOSE died February 05,1910 in Hermosillo, Sonora; México., at 85
years of age.
He married CARMEN MORALES ESTRELLA. CARMEN was the daughter of MANUEL MORALES
and CARMEN ESTRELLA. CARMEN died May 14,1922 in Hermosillo, Sonora; México.
JOSE Dimas de la Encarnación MONTEVERDE DIAZ and CARMEN MORALES ESTRELLA had the
following children:
JOSE GREGORIO CONRADO MONTEVERDE MORALES was born in Hermosillo, Sonora; México.
March 08,1857. He was christened in Hermosillo, Sonora; México., March 10,1857.
Esteban Reynaldo Monteverde Morales was born November 23,1858.
Emilia Monteverde Morales was born 1859.
SARA MONTEVERDE MORALES was born 1860. (HER DAUGHTER, MARIA, MARRIED
ALVARO OBREGON, PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, "REPUBLICAN LINK") They had a
son, that was Governor of Sonora in 1955.
Adelaida CARMEN MONTEVERDE MORALES was born in Hermosillo, Sonora; México.
November 26,1861. She was christened in Hermosillo, Sonora; México., November
27,1861. She married Nabor Pacheco on March 21, 1884 in Tucson Arizona.
AMELIA MONTEVERDE MORALES was born in Hermosillo, Sonora; México. 1863. She
married LUIS EMETERIO TORRES MELENDEZ in Hermosillo, Sonora; México., January
10,1884. LUIS was born in Mineral de Guadalupe y Calvo, Chihuahua; México. March
02,1844. LUIS was the son of JOSE TORRES DEL RAYO and FRANCISCA MELENDEZ. LUIS
died September 09,1935 in Los Angeles, California; México., at 91 years of age.
He was six times, the Governor of Sonora, military hero, ousted by President
Madero. Picture below is of the couple in Los Angeles after their escape from
Mexico.
José ENRIQUE Alejo MONTEVERDE MORALES was born in Hermosillo, Sonora; México.
July 14,1865. He was christened in Hermosillo, Sonora; México., July 17,1865.
Sabino CARLOS Eduardo MONTEVERDE MORALES was born in Hermosillo, Sonora; México.
December 30,1866. He was christened in Hermosillo, Sonora; México., December
31,1866.
Ma. del Refugio Angela MONTEVERDE
MORALES was born June 15,1869 and died in 1963
. She Married Tomás Robinson Bours Goyeneche
(1858-1933 ).
For information on the marriage of Angela to Tomas,
please
click here, a very interesting story.
THEIR FAMILY ALSO PRODUCED A GOVERNOR OF SONORA.
HERMOSILLO
Historical-Cultural
PROFILE
MUNICIPAL CHRONOLOGY
The origin of Hermosillo dates from 1700, when the towns of
Our Lady of the Pópulo, Our Mrs. of Los Angeles were based and the Santísima
Trinidad of the Pitic, inhabited by seris, tepocas and pimas low. Years back
internal difficulties between the Indians had appeared seris and tepocas with
pimas low and like consequence, had moved away of their functions.
The original intention of our city fué the one to contain
the Seris Indians and to protect the Hispanic expansion with the name of
Real military prison of San Pedro of Conquista , thus was named
by its founder the lieutenant Juan Baptist of Escalante .
In 1718, by orders of the governor, Don Manuel of San Juan
and Santa Cruz, repobló the town of the Santísima Trinidad of the Pitic, whose
inhabitants had moved away in their majority; the 29 of September of 1725, seris
seated in pópulo rose in are military and stuck the town of Opodepe, victimando
to 22 people. It was persecuted to them with the intention of punishing them
until seris requested La Paz in January of 1726, and were seated in pópulo and
the denominated points to Lares and Moraga. Given Poteriormente the uncertainty
by the bellicosity of the natives, formed the military prison of the Pitic.
It was during the government of Corbalá when a channel was
opened to water territories of the neighbors of the Pitic. At the same time the
repartimiento of lots occurred to the inhabitants, leaving assured its
subsistence.
The 9 of February of 1825, Villa of the Pitic fué instituída
in party head, employee of the department of horcasitas; and the decree of the
Legislature of the State of the West of the 5 of September of 1828 cleared its
primitive name to him and it gave the present name him of Hermosillo, with the
political category of city, in honor of general Jose Maria González de
Hermosillo.
From the 14 of March of 1831, it was seat of the supreme
local powers that were changed to the city of Arizpe the 25 of May of 1832. The
Núm decree. 57 of date April of 1879 arranged the following thing: it is
temporarily transferred the State Capital and the residence of the general
offices to the city of Hermosillo.
The 4 of November of 1881 the railroad was finished that
united to Guaymas and Hermosillo with Walnuts and the border of the North
American southwest, the transport facility repelled in a new development of the
northwest: it flowed the investment in mining and commerce and resurgío
agriculture, and from then Hermosillo it managed to consolidate like a pole of
economic and social development.
CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORICAL FACTS
1700 Origin of the Santísima Trinidad of the Pitic, given by
Juan Escalante Baptist.
1706 Repoblamiento of the Pitic, by general Antonio Yearling
calf Grandson.
1716 Signaling for the cultivated field of of earth by the
natives, according to the law.
1718 For the second time, repoblamiento of the Santísima
Trinidad of the Pitic.
1725 Rise of seris.
1726 indigenous Establishments with 160 people in the Pitic.
the 1728 Pitic becomes property of Agustín de
Vildósola.
1729 the order is sent to require information on the state of
the Indians in the region of the Pitic.
1741 Appointment of Don Agustín de Vildósola like governor of
the Sinaloa and Sonora provinces.
1750 Destitution of Vildósola like governor, becoming to
notice that it would have to reside in the Pitic; appointment of the new
governor.
1763 Situation of a defense company, to assure the stability
its inhabitants.
1772 Opening of a channel to water territories of the
neighbors of the Pitic, by order of Don Pedro Corbalá.
1772 Repartimiento of the lots to the inhabitants.
1787 Construction of the first church.
1822 Construction of the parochial temple.
the 1825 villa of the Pitic is instituted in Head of Party.
1828 Cambio' the original name, being called Hermosillo, with
the political category of city, in name of general Jose Maria González
Hermosillo.
1831 Establishment of the local powers.
1832 Change and change to Arizpe, of the local powers.
the 1838 governor Jose Maria Gándara changes the capital to
Ures, without legal authorization.
1842 Paschal Don Iñigo constructs the Chapel of the Carmen.
1843 Declaration of capital of the department of Sonant.
1846 it is summoned to elections for local powers.
1847 the new legislature settles in Ures.
1852 Action military between Mexican forces and those of
Count France's Rouset de Bulbon.
1866 Batalla between republican forces and imperialistic
forces.
1866 Nace in the city of Hermosillo, Rodolfo Campodónico
musician-composer.
1879 the capital to the city of Hermosillo is transferred
temporarily; the interinato becomes definitive.
1915 Pancho Villa supporter Forces are rejected by general
Manuel M. Díeguez.
1917 one settles down in the constitution that the powers of
the state must reside in Hermosillo.
1952 Opening of the coast of Hermosillo.
CRONOLOGIA OF THE MUNICIPAL PRESIDENTS |
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Francisco Buelna Leon |
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1870 |
J. Serna |
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1870 |
Ignacio Buelna |
1870 |
1871 |
Ignacio Felix |
1870 |
1871 |
Julian Escalante |
1873 |
1874 |
Vicente V. Escalante |
1874 |
1875 |
Francisco M. Aguilar |
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1875 |
Ignacio Buelna |
1876 |
1877 |
Francisco Buelna Leon |
1877 |
1878 |
Manuel I. Gándara |
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Ignacio Bernal |
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Florencio Monteverde |
1878 |
1879 |
Francisco Gándara |
1879 |
1880 |
Francisco Gándara |
1880 |
1881 |
Francisco Buelna Leon |
1881 |
1882 |
Manuel Mascareñas |
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Teodoro Bernal |
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Manuel I. Gándara |
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1882 |
Arturo G. Cubillas |
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Antonio Or Monge |
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Manuel D. Rodriguez |
1884 |
1886 |
Rafael Ruíz |
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1886 |
Eduardo Chestnut Grove |
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1887 |
Victor Aguilar |
1887 |
1888 |
Juan D. Castro |
1888 |
1891 |
Vicente V. Escalante |
1895 |
1898 |
Vicente V. Escalante |
1898 |
1899 |
Vicente V. Escalante |
1899 |
1900 |
Vicente V. Escalante |
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Filomeno Loaiza |
1900 |
1901 |
Simón Bley |
1901 |
1902 |
Simón Bley |
1902 |
1903 |
Manuel I. Loaiza |
1903 |
1904 |
Guillermo Arreola |
1904 |
1908 |
Filomeno Loaiza |
1908 |
1909 |
Taidee Lopez Of The Castle |
1909 |
1910 |
Guillermo Arreola |
1910 |
1911 |
Jose C. Camou |
1911 |
1912 |
Gustavo F. Muñoz |
1912 |
1913 |
Juan B. Leo'n |
1913 |
1914 |
Enrique Astiazarán |
1914 |
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Carlos Caturegly |
1916 |
1917 |
Leandro P. Gaxiola |
1917 |
1918 |
Ignacio L. Romero |
1918 |
1919 |
Jesus Maria Avila |
1919 |
1920 |
Ramon D. Rodriguez |
1920 |
1921 |
Jose Obregón |
1921 |
1922 |
Luis Oaks |
1921 |
1922 |
Ignacio L. Romero |
1922 |
1923 |
Ignacio Salazar Q. |
1923 |
1924 |
Merciful H. Avila |
1924 |
1925 |
Adalberto Truqui |
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1925 |
Ignacio Salazar Q. |
1925 |
1926 |
Luis Cambustiono |
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1926 |
Francisco Carreón |
1926 |
1927 |
Luis To Peterson |
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1927 |
Leovigildo Go'mez |
1928 |
1928 |
Ramon D. Rodriguez |
1928 |
1929 |
Manuel Cubillas |
1929 |
1931 |
Luis Oaks |
1931 |
1932 |
Francisco Lopez |
1932 |
1933 |
Genaro Romero |
1933 |
1935 |
Hilario Olea |
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1935 |
Humberto Monteverde |
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Manuel Puebla |
1936 |
1937 |
Antonio Lopez |
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1937 |
Manuel Leon |
1937 |
1939 |
Abelardo B. Sobarzo |
1939 |
1941 |
Severiano Talamante |
1941 |
1943 |
Francisco L. Carreón |
1943 |
1946 |
Robert R. Romero |
1946 |
1949 |
Hilario Olea Jr. |
1949 |
1952 |
Domingo Olive R. |
1952 |
1955 |
Carlos G. Balderrama |
1955 |
1958 |
Caesar to Gándara |
1958 |
1961 |
Eduardo Loustaunau Ruíz |
1961 |
1964 |
Robert Astiazarán Espinoza |
1964 |
1965 |
Alberto R. Gutiérrez |
1965 |
1967 |
Covering interinato it resigned |
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Alfonso Durán Vázquez |
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1967 |
Jorge Valdéz Muñoz |
1967 |
1970 |
Eugene Hernandez Bernal |
1970 |
1973 |
Alfonso Aguayo Porchas |
1973 |
1976 |
Ramon Loving Angel Echeverria |
1976 |
1979 |
Alicia Arellano de Pavlovich |
1979 |
1982 |
Navarrese Casimiro Valenzuela |
1982 |
1985 |
Héctor Guillermo Balderrama Noriega |
1985 |
1988 |
Carlos Oaks Loustaunau - Edmundo |
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Astiazarán Stars |
1988 |
1991 |
Guatimoc Francisco Yberri González |
1991 |
1994 |
Gastón González Robles |
1994 |
1997 |
Jorge Eduardo Valencia Juillerat |
1997 |
2000 |
Francisco Búrquez Valenzuela |
2000 |
2003 |
Some History of Hermosillo
(Excerpts from the book by Gilberto Escobosa G.
-- Hermosillo en mi Memoria)
In June of 1741 Don Agustín de Vildósola
founded the Presidio de San Pedro de la Conquista del Pitic,
about 2 Kilometers from the Santísima Trinidad del Pitic, founded by Don Juan Bautista de Escalante.
The Presidio was then moved to
El Pópulo in 1750 (San Miguel de Horcasitas), which
minimized the activities in this settlement.
In 1770 Don Pedro de Corbalán,
by orders of the Virrey Marqués de Croix, took charge of the government
of the Sonora and Sinaloa provinces.
By the end of the 18th. century, the old
Presidio de San Pedro de la Conquista del Pitic evolved to what it
became known as Villa del Pitic.
It was on the 5th. of September of 1828, in honor
of the mexican independence insurgent José María González Hermosillo , that the Villa del Pitic was given the name of Hermosillo.
Hermosillo and the capital of the State of Sonora
The State of Sonora officially was founded the
13th. of March of 1831, and Hermosillo was its first capital for about 14
months. Then the capital moved to Arizpe the 25th. of May of
1832.
Again in 1843, the centralist government in
Mexico, declared Hermosillo the capital of the now Department of Sonora. It
didn't take long for the main capital offices to return to Ures
where they had been since 1838.
The 26th. of April of 1879, Hermosillo
provisionally hosted the capital state offices. Officially it was until the
15th. of September of 1917, with the approval of the State Constitution,
stated that the old Villa del Pitic was going to be
definitively, the capital of the State of Sonora.
LOCATION
The municipality is located to the west of the state of
Sonant, its head is the population of Hermosillo and 29° is located in the
parallel 05' of North latitude and the meridian 110° 57' of west longitude from
Greenwich to a height of 282 meters on the level of the sea.
Colinda to the northeast with Carbó and San Miguel de
Horcasitas; to the east with Ures and Mazatán; to the Southeastern with Colorada
and Guaymas; to the northwest with Pitiquito and the southwest with the gulf of
California.
It has a surface of 14.880,2 kilometers square, that
represents the 8,02 percent of the state total and the 0,76 percent in relation
to the nation; the most important localities, in addition to the head are:
German Miguel, San Pedro the Saucito, Kino Bay, New Kino, the Victory and the
Sleeve
SITUATION GEOGRAFICA
The municipality of Hermosillo is located in the western
region of the State and is contiguous to the North with the municipalities of
Pitiquito, Carbó and San Miguel de Horcasitas, to the East with Ures and the Red
one, to the south with Guaymas and the west with the Gulf of California.
The territorial surface is of 14.880,2 km 2 and
that represent the 8 percent of the state territory.
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