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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.

General Luis Torres and wife at their residence in Los Angeles or Mexico, ca.1906-1930

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.

Tomas Robinson Bours Goyeneche & Family


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

Francisco Buelna Leon

1870

J. Serna

1870

Ignacio Buelna

1870

1871

Ignacio Felix

1870

1871

Julian Escalante

1873

1874

Vicente V. Escalante

1874

1875

Francisco M. Aguilar

1875

Ignacio Buelna

1876

1877

Francisco Buelna Leon

1877

1878

Manuel I. Gándara

Ignacio Bernal

Florencio Monteverde

1878

1879

Francisco Gándara

1879

1880

Francisco Gándara

1880

1881

Francisco Buelna Leon

1881

1882

Manuel Mascareñas

Teodoro Bernal

Manuel I. Gándara

1882

Arturo G. Cubillas

Antonio Or Monge

Manuel D. Rodriguez

1884

1886

Rafael Ruíz

1886

Eduardo Chestnut Grove

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

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

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

1925

Ignacio Salazar Q.

1925

1926

Luis Cambustiono

1926

Francisco Carreón

1926

1927

Luis To Peterson

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

1935

Humberto Monteverde

Manuel Puebla

1936

1937

Antonio Lopez

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

Alfonso Durán Vázquez

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

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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