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Subject: Re: [CUBA] family of El Lugareno Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:50:51 -0000


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Author: CubanGenFreak1
Surnames: Betancourt, Cisneros
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Conde de Jaruco`s Book Vol. 4 Pages 92-93
( Fourth Branch )

Gaspar Alonso Betancourt y Cisneros ( El Lugareo)
Parents:
Diego Antonio Betancourt y Arostegui, born in Puerto Principe, 21 dic. 1782,
Died: 27-june-1822. ( Lived only 40 years )
His parents: Diego Alonso Betancourt y Agero & Maria Manuela Arostegui y Agero. At 18 years old he married : Maria de Loreto Cisneros y Betancourt at Pto. Principe Cathedral on January 8th. 1800.
Her parents: Manuel Cisneros e Hidalgo y Luisa Betancourt y Agero.
They had one son:
Gaspar Alonso Betancourt y Cisneros. Later known at the Literary Circles as El Lugareo.
Baptized at the Cathedral, Pto. Principe on April 29, 1803. Gaspar Alonso was Sindico del Ayuntamiento in 1840.
Reknown writer and newspaperman, teacher, businessman , patriot . He used for his writings the nickname "el Lugareo".He planned and made the Second Railroad in Cuba, from Pto. Principe to Nuevitas to aleviate the distance in between those 2 important cities at the time and to facilitate the transport of sugar cane to port.
He died apparently in Havana on December 12, 1866 as of the records at the Parish de Guadalupe, but his remains were transported to rest to Camagey.
He married in Havana on September 7th , 1857 to Maria Monserrate Canalejo e Hidalgo - Gato , daughter of Jose Maria Canalejo y Ti de Velasco , Tte. Coronel del Regimiento de Cuba and Maria Eusebia Hidalgo-Gato e Hidalgo-Gato. ( He was 54 years old )
They had a son: Dr. Gaspar Alonso Betancourt y Canalejo, baptized in Florence, Italia , Parish Santa Maria Dei Fiore, 22-febr. 1859 . His baptism papers were translated to Havana to the Parish de Guadalupe and they are added to Book 31...Folio 180.....number 248....

He was a Medico ( Dr. in Medicine ) and married F Valdes y Porras-Pita , daughter of Manuel Valdes de la Torre and Cecilia de Porras-Pita.They had a son:
Dr. Gaspar Alonso Betancourt y Valdes . He was a Lawyer and a very known and famous Cuban Literato .
He married twice:
First wife: Ester Gonzalez y Chartrand and the second with Adelaida Torres y Canto.

Gaspar Alonso Betancourt y Valdes and his first wife , Ester Gonzalez Chartrand had a son: Gaspar Betancourt y Gonzalez.
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There is no mention of a previous marrige , but it doesn`t mean he didn`t married younger.

Usually only the Church authorized " dissolutions" if they were relatives . I have found some cases like that. To get married also if they were related it was supposed to have an authorization by the Church in first or second grade. I don`t know how they classified the relationships but I can read it on the registers from Matanzas Cathedral that are very clear and already translated.


I hope some of the information that I got from books will help you to know better El Lugareno.
He was a real ANEXIONISTA......
Reading the books now I understand the reason for wishing the Anexionism of Cuba to USA...it`s not the way we understand that word right now. It was based on "the Whitening of Cuba".
He was afraid that Spain transported so many slaves to Cuba that it was going to be a revolt like in Haiti and all the Creoles ( criollos ) like him were going to disappear. And the slaves were already revolting and killing his Masters in few places in the island, until Spain took care of the problem'

A very important detail about El Lugareo: He was rich but he lost everything, Spain deported him and took over his properties...BUT HE NEVER HAD AN SLAVE WORKING FOR HIM.

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