Manuel Canaveris

Personal life

He was born on September 15, 1787 in Buenos Aires, and was baptized the next day in the Metropolitan Cathedral as Josse Manuel Cornelio Ramón Jugluns de Canaverys, being his godmother Juana Fonelo, belonging to a family from Cádiz. Manuel was the eighth son of Juan de Canaveris and Bernarda Esparza. His family consisted of six brothers and six women, born between 1773 and 1797. They lived in the house of his maternal grandmother María Eugenia Sánchez, (1730-1817, buried in Santo Domingo), located in the Piedad street, (now Bartolomé Mitre) between 25 de Mayo and Leandro N. Alem, in the neighborhood of San Nicolás.

Manuel Canaveris, married at parish church Nuestra Señora de Montserrat on April 24, 1811, with María Angeles Rodríguez, daughter of Basilio Rodriguez and Anselma Calderón de la Barca. They were married by the father Juan Nepomuceno Solá, and attended as witnesses of the ceremony Cayetano Silva (alcalde del cuartel n°28 in 1815) and María Martínez. He and his wife had eight children, Sinforoso, Antonino, María Juana, Eustaquia, Serapio (born November 14, St. Serapion), Rufino, Vicente and Ruperta Canaveri.

Their daughter, Juana María Canaveris y Rodríguez Calderón married Juan Ángel Michelena (military), born in the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador). In 1820, he began his military career, serving as Sergeant in the Battalion of the Rio de la Plata. In 1821, Michelena was sent to serve in the Campaign to Upper Peru, with the rank of sergeant, he was under the command of General José de San Martín, taking part in the Battle of Torata and Battle of Moquegua where he was taken prisoner.

After the end the Peruvian War, he returned to Buenos Aires serving in the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers. Michelena also participated in the Argentine-Brazilian War, having an active participation in the actions occurred during the Battle of Ituzaingó and Yerbal, where he was wounded.

Michelena was also involved in civil conflicts, during the Combate de las Vizcacheras (occurred in 1829), he served under the command of Federico Rauch. He also fought in Caseros on February 3, 1852 against the forces of Juan Manuel de Rosas, serving in the battalion General San Martin to the orders of Colonel Mariano Echenagucía. It is possible that Juan Michelena was related to the famous Juan Ángel de Michelena, an royalist Captain born in Maracaibo.

Juana Canaveris de Milchelena belonged to Sociedad de Beneficencia Familiares de La Guardia Nacional (Charity Society of the National Guard), chaired by Victoria Pueyrredon de Lynch (relative to Feliciano Pueyrredón).

Military career

Like other members of his mother's family, Manuel Canaveris served in the military. His mother's ancestors include Captains Miguel Gerónimo Esparza, Francisco de Salas Reynoso, Pedro Morales y Mercado and Gonzalo Carbajal, General and Lieutenant Governor of Santa Fe.

Manuel Canaveris and his brothers Mariano, Joaquín and José were members of the volunteer militias, for defense of Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata 1806-1807. In the second British invasion Manuel Canaveris, had served in the Cántabros Montañeses, Mariano Canaveris served in Húsares de Pueyrredón, José Canaveris in the Quinteros y Labradores, and Joaquín Canaveris in the Tercio de Vizcaínos, formed by volunteers of Basque origin.

Between 1809 and 1810, Canaveris was Sub-lieutenant Abanderado in the 4th Regiment of Infantry, formed by members of the "Tercio de Cántabros Montañeses". The Cántabros regiment was one of the units held by Viceroy Liniers, during Mutiny of Álzaga. Canaveris served in the same regiment during the events of May 1810, participating in the early years of the struggle for independence in Argentina.

On August 3, 1810 Canaveris was promoted to Lieutenant of the 4th Regiment, by order of the Primera Junta, serving under the orders of the Colonels José Merelo and Ignacio Álvarez Thomas. He together with the officers of the regiment (among them Ángel Galup), had contributed money for the First Upper Peru campaign. That same year he rescued a freedman, probably to be enlisted in the Regimiento de Castas, a military unit of freedmen recruited in Buenos Aires.

In 1812 after the Motín de las Trenzas, Canaveris was appointed as Lieutenant in the Regiment of Patricians, commissioned officer of the 7° Compañia de fusileros, (Fusilier Company), serving in the guarnición of Buenos Aires. The Patricians began using Brown Bess muskets, (known as "tower") which had been seized from the English invaders.

Manuel Canaveris was retired from the Army at the age of 24 years, on January 17, 1812. After his retirement from the militia, he was dedicated to his farm had a small ranch probably located in Barracas or Balvanera.

Descendants and genealogy

His descendants include prominent Argentine and Uruguayan military including; Francisco Canavery Pelliza, born in 1827 in San Isidro, he served as Lieutenant of the cavalry. In 1853 Canavery was married to Orfelia Segrestán, of French origin, daughter of Jorge Pascual Segrestán and María Uriarte. Francisco Canavery and his wife were parents of Héctor, Saturnino, María Luisa, and Guillermo Corazón de Jesús Canavery, who was baptized with that name for being born on June 25 (St. William of Vercelli day).

In 1867, the Canavery Segrestan family lived in a house located in Cuyo Street (now Sarmiento, between San Martín and Reconquista, neighborhood of San Nicolás).

María Luisa Canaveri was married to Damián Vera, a Major of the Argentine army, born in Monte (Buenos Aires Province)

Saturnino Canaveri (Lieutenant colonel), who had participated in military expeditions against the Indians during the Conquest of the Desert. His brother Héctor Canavery, was neighbor in the town of Quilmes, place where he served as Police Commissioner. And the Lieutenant colonel Isabelino Canaveris, (born in Montevideo), had been involved in armed conflicts in Uruguay.

Manuel Canaveris was also the ancestor of several lawyers and notaries of Buenos Aires including: Manuel María Canaveri Páez, born in Montevideo (procurator), married on September 19, 1873, to Juana Bolasco (baptized by Eduardo O'Gorman), daughter of Domingo Bolasco and Carmen Trucco, natives of Genoa. His wedding counted as witnesses, to his relatives Felipe Santiago Achinelly (politician and procurator, son of Felipe Achinelli) and Francisca Michelena. He and his wife were the parents of Sara Josefa Ruperta, born August 28, 1876 and Manuel Eduardo Canaveri Bolasco (born on August 16, 1879), godson of Eduardo Forello, belonging to a Genoese family from Loano, and Magdalena Cueli, born in the city.

After the death of Juana Bolasco, he returned to marry with María Luisa de Alvarado, daughter of Juan Bautista de Alvarado and María Périchon. His second wife, Luisa de Alvarado had belonged to the French community of Buenos Aires. She was the niece of Maria Luisa Périchon, the wife of Ernest Rouquaud, one of the first settlers in the Patagonia.

Camilo Alejo Canaveri Páez (godson of José Antonio Durán), who served as attorney of Enrique Mathet and José Camilo Crotto (Governor of Buenos Aires Province between 1918 and 1921). His other grandson had been Sinforoso Canaveri, notary of government in the city of La Plata, who had made the contracts of scriptures concerning sale of land by Claudio M. Joly to the Lacroze company, (owned by Federico Lacroze), for the construction of the tramway station and the expansion of the rail network of Buenos Aires Central Railway.

Sinforoso Canaveri Páez had also served as notary public in the City Porteña, had his office on the May Avenue in the exclusive neighborhood of Monserrat. He was married to Angélica Andrade, descendant (maternal line) of Santiago Sorayre and Victoria Monterroso, daughter of Concepción Rueda and Francisco Monterroso, (born c.1760 in Puerto de Santa María) the gunsmith to the Regiment Cantabros Montañeses. The Sorayre Monterroso family was related to the Fernanda and Margarita Rico Rueda, the wife of José María Belgrano (son of Joseph Belgrano).

María de la Concepción Rueda Piña was goddaughter of the Capitán de Dragones, Juan del Azcó and María Luisa de Merlos y del Sar Guerrero (sister of José Ignacio de Merlos). She was married in the Buenos Aires Cathedral to Francisco Monterroso, son of Cristóbal Francisco Monterroso and Rosalia Correa, belonging to an Andalusian family. The ceremony was held in private on May 6, 1787, being his godparents: Francisco Lezica (related to Juan de Lezica) and María Luisa Merlos.

The family of the Canaveri Paez was composed of five brothers (Manuel, Sinforoso, Francisco, Pablo, Camilo). And three sisters (María de los Santos, Corina, Cipriana). Cipriana Francisca Canaveri born on January 20, 1863, was a goddaughter of Ramón de Amaya and Cipriana de Amaya. The patriarch of this family Sinforoso Canaveris, was a tenant of the commerce and house where he lived with his family. The residence of the Canaveri Paez was a luxurious dwelling with cobbled street located in calle de la Victoria 614 (Monserrat neighborhood). This house was owned by José de Estrada (father of José Manuel Estrada Périchon Liniers), owner of hundreds of homes in the city of Buenos Aires.

Corina Canaveri Páez died on January 9, 1872 (witnesses: Manuel Pérez and Felipe Achinelly Bayá) and his father, Sinforoso Canaveri on May 9 of the same year. Quintina Páez died nine years later, on July 9, 1881 (witnesses: Franco Díaz and Luis Rodríguez).

Manuel Jugluns de Canaveris was the uncle of Juan Manuel Bayá, one of the first brokers in the city of Buenos Aires. And of Sinforoso Amoedo, a prestigious doctor of medicine. His descendants were related to families of O'Gorman's and Terry's. His great-grandson, Virginio Canaveris was baptized on November 8, 1867, being his godson Manuel Terry Marmol, belonging to an old family from Buenos Aires. In 1879 Col. Tomás Juan O'Gorman Riglos attended as godfather at the wedding of his great-granddaughter María Luisa Canaveri with Damián Vera.

Rodríguez Calderón

The Canaveris Rodríguez Calderón family was linked to families from Carmen de Areco, Exaltación de la Cruz, San Nicolás de los Arroyos and San Isidro. In 1833, Antonino Canaveri Rodríguez and his great-aunt (Lucrecia Calderón), attended as godparents in the marriage of Justo Avalos and Juliana Cuenca, belonging to those families.

Another family linked to the Canaveris Rodríguez was that of Juan José Vera, who served as a police watchman in the neighborhood of San Nicolas for the year 1855. Sinforoso Camilo Canaveris was godfather to his sons: Julio Camilo, born in 1840 and Irene Vera Abalos, baptized on July 15, 1842 in the Church of San Miguel.

Sinforoso Canaveri Rodríguez was born on July 17, 1808 and was baptized in the parish Nuestra Señora de Montserrat on July 20 of the same year. Being his godfather Antonio Abad Barbosa, the second husband of his maternal grandmother Anselma Calderón, daughter of Jossef Antonio Calderón and Margarita Taborda. The witnesses of the wedding of Barbosa and Anselma Calderón (Pedro Nolasco García and Isabel Lubones) were linked to Santiago Montenegro, the founder of the city of Rosario in Santa Fe Province.

In the middle of the 18th century, two branches of the Calderón family were established in Buenos Aires, arriving from Córdoba and Santa Fe. The parents of Anselma Calderón, are listed in the parish registers of the Parroquia San Antonio de Padua (Areco), baptizing his brother, Pedro Celestino Calderón on September 16, 1754.

In 1770s Antonio Calderón and Margarita Taborda left the town of Areco to settle in the city of San Isidro, place where his daughter (Mónica Lucrecia Calderón) was born.

On May 10, 1787 María Gregoria de los Ángeles Rodríguez Calderón (wife of Manuel Canaveris) was baptized in the Buenos Aires Cathedral, being her godmother Carmen Troncoso. The Calderón and Taborda belonged to the lineages of Spanish conquerors, they were of the first settlers of Argentina and South America. Three examples of these pioneers were Mencía Calderón, Alonso Gonzalez Calderón and Juan Taborda, native of Badajoz.

María Anselma Calderón Taborda died in 1829 in Buenos Aires, being buried in the Cementerio del Norte.

In 1826, the first son of Canaveris and Maria Rodríguez, Sinforoso Canaveris was married in the parish of Jesús Amoroso (San Martín) to Manuela Pelliza, daughter of Francisco Pelliza. After his first wife died, he was dedicated to trade, owned a Barraca de Frutos (Grocery store) on Victoria Street, located one block from the Plaza de la Victoria. Canaveris marry for the third time in 1852, with Quintina Páez (possible descendant of Nicolás Colman), daughter of a traditional Uruguayan family.

Antonino Canaveri Rodríguez (1812-1880s) was godson of Juan Bayá Rosell and María Manuela Bayá. He was married twice: first to Juana Sosa. and second with Norberta García, a woman 30 years younger than him. According to the census of 1869, Antonino Canaveri was dedicated to driving carriages or wagons in the city.

Serapio Canaveri Rodríguez was husband of Daniela Blanco, born on December 11, 1820 (St. Daniel), daughter of Rufino Blanco and Vicenta Calvo. He and his wife were parents of four children including: Aurelia Josefa Canaveri, goddaughter of José María Torres. Daniela Blanco was blood relative of Saturnino Blanco, Commandant in Yaguareté Corá.

According to the Buenos Aires census of 1855, Serapio Canaveri was employed as a butcher, and his son Manuel had been born in Salto, Uruguay. He was probably the brother or cousin of Pedro Canaveri (Zoilo Canavery's grandfather), a neighbor of Barracas Sur who practiced a similar profession.

Rufino Canaveri Rodríguez was married twice, first to María Cirila Borda, daughter of Vicente Borda and Ignacia de Santa Ana. And second with Dionisia Peraza, daughter of Joaquín Peraza and Celestina Saco. Rufino served as an employee of the Compañía Primitiva de Gas de Buenos Aires Ltda..

Ruperta Canaveris Rodríguez was married (March 13, 1847) in the parish of Balvanera to Ramón Ferrer (of Catalan and Creole origin), son of Julian Ferrer and Fernanda del Valle. Ruperta and her husband were the parents of Dolores Ferrer Canaveri, born on October 16, 1850.

Manuel Jugluns de Canaveris was the great grandfather of Artemia Canaveri Blanco (1862-1900s), a woman who attended as a godmother in the baptism of a citizen of Savoyan and Swiss origin, celebrated on November 20, 1886 in the Methodist Church of Buenos Aires, the first Methodist religion temple in South America. And Manuel Canaveri Blanco, married to Petrona Arebalo (born in Montevideo), he and his wife were the parents of numerous descendants of the Canaveris Rodríguez family, including Pedro Santiago Canaveri, born on May 1, 1864, and baptized in honor of Santiago el Menor by the priest Manuel Velarde, Luisa Canaveri who was married on April 12, 1887 to José Sandalio Tagle (Customs officer in 1895), son of José R. Tagle and Aurelia Auli Guas, belonging to an old family from Buenos Aires with ancestors from Catalonia. The Tagle were possibly descendants of a family from Cantabria (Spain).

And Manuel Eduardo Canaveri Arebalo married on July 3, 1892 in the parish Nuestra Señora del Pilar to his relative Justina Canaveri, daughter of Antonino Canaveri Rodríguez and Norberta García. Manuel Canaveri Blanco, died in the city of Buenos Aires on 15 November 1886.