Nationality Argentine Occupation Business | Spouse(s) Saturnina Mosqueira Religion Catholicism | |
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Full Name Juan Bautista Manuel Josef Ramón Pascual del Carmen Bayá y Canaveris Died 23 March 1861, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Juan Manuel Bayá (1800-1861) was an stockbroker of Buenos Aires city in times of Juan Manuel de Rosas. He belonged to a family of the Río de la Plata, related to senior officials of colonial Buenos Aires.
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Biography
Juan Bautista Manuel Bayá was baptized in Metropolitan Cathedral on May 17, 1800, son of Juan Bayá y Rosell, born in Girona and María Eugenia Canaveris (porteña). His father was merchant, and served as member of the Cabildo, participating in the defense and reconquest of Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the River Plate in 1806 and 1807. His mother died in 1812 and his father a year later
Bayá was raised by his maternal grandparents Don Juan Canaveris and Doña Catalina Bernarda de Esparza. He probably carried out his studies in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, completing his secondary education near 1820.
In 1822, Bayá filed an appeal at the Honorable Junta, to manage his properties and take charge of the education of his younger sisters. Being Agente de Bolsa (broker), he had visited almost all major European cities. including Barcelona, Paris and London. Bayá was brother-in-law of the famous stockbroker Felipe Achinelly, murdered by a thief in the year 1845.
In his youth, Juan Manuel Bayá had been a personal friend of Juan Manuel de Rosas and his sister, Manuela Rosas. Several of her sisters were goddaughters of Domingo Matheu, member of the Primera Junta. His sister Mariana Bayá, was married to her uncle Joaquín Canaveris.
Wife and sons
Juan Manuel Bayá was married to Saturnina Mosqueyra de la Mata, daughter of Agustín Mosqueyra (born in Galicia) and Concepción de La Mata. Bayá and his wife had numerous children including: Manuela Nicolasa (wife of Pedro Tomás Martínez), Joaquina Antonia (goddaughter of Rufino Basavilbaso), wife of Pedro Botet, Carmen, Juan Antonio Bayá, husband of Elvira Casal, Feliciana Antonia, Agustín, Romualdo, Dolores Vicenta, Luis Bayá, married with María Peralta Ramos, Felipe Mauricio, José Saturnino, Juan Manuel, María Salustiana and Baldomera Ernesta.
His son Agustín Bayá, born in 1838, was co-founder of the Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires. He was married around 1870 to his relative Elia Canaveris, daughter of Juan Manuel Canaveris and Carmen Gutiérrez Moreno. Agustín Bayá and his wife were parents of nine children: Emelina, Agustín, Juan Manuel, Elisa, Alberto, Ricardo Patricio (born in Saint Patrick's Day), Arturo and Elia María.
His homonymous son Juan Manuel Bayá Mosqueyra, was member of the municipal council of Moron in 1875. His brother Romulo Bayá, was married to Haydée Canaveris, they had lived for a short time in the same city, being parents of Maria Luisa Bayá, baptized on October 17, 1886 in the Cathedral Inmaculada Concepción del Buen Viaje.
Juan Manuel Bayá y Canaveris was great-grandfather of José Bayá Casal (1864-1916), married to Eloísa de Elía Duffy, descendant of Ricardo Duffy Maguines, born in 1790 in Ireland. And of Manuel Antonio Warnes, a Spanish military and politician of irish origin, born in 1727 in Cartagena.