Nationality French Died Argentina Name Ernest Rouquaud | Religion Catholicism Occupation Manufacturer | |
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Ernest Rouquaud (1822-1907) was a French trader, settler and colonizer of the Patagonia Argentina.
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Biography
Ernesto Rouquaud had reached the Río de la Plata in 1841, during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas. During his early years in Argentina, Rouquaud had an industrial establishment in the suburb of La Boca where processed livestock products.
In 1872, the President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento granted to Ernest Rouquaud, a concession in Santa Cruz. Rouquaud aspired to colonize and exploit marine resources of the South Argentine. On January 22, 1872 sailed from Buenos Aires the boat "Roebuck", of nine hundred tons, the first settler group, led by his eldest son, also named Ernest. In Patagonian territory, The Rouquaud family, planned to install a fishery industry, plus two establishments for the manufacture of oil and the import. }
Rouquaud had commercial relations with the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). In 1873 he arrived at the islands aboard the English schooner, the Tucutayú, with the intention of buying cattle to the Kelpers.
Family
On August 2, 1843, Ernest Rouquaud was married in Buenos Aires Cathedral to María Luisa Périchon, daughter of Luis Périchon and Catalina Castex, Belonging to a French family from Paris. He and his wife were the parents of numerous children, including Eloisa Rouquaud Périchon (1843), wife of Alfonso Lennuyeux, Julia Rouquaud Périchon, mother of Augusto Mallié Rouquaud, director of the Archivo General de la Nación. Ernesto Rouquaud Périchon (1854-1874), Pablo Rouquaud Périchon, Elisa Rouquaud Périchon, Alfonso Rouquaud Périchon, Emilio Rouquaud Périchon, Augusto Rouquaud Périchon (1863-1928), Lieutenant Colonel of the Argentine Army, Julio Rouquaud Périchon, Maria Luisa Rouquaud Périchon and Matilde Luisa Rouquaud Périchon, married to Juan Broussain Garat, son Pedro Broussain and Gracianne Garat, natives of France.
Ernest Rouquaud endured tremendous hardship his son Pablo, died drowned in Santa Cruz River. Time after, his wife María Perichon, dies after suffering an illness.