Dear Beverly: My gandmother's maternal grandmother was one of the grand daughters of Manuel Gregorio de Texada, he married Josefa Perdomo Xenes in New Orleans on 7-5-1791. My grandmother always told me that her grandmother Lutgarda Navarro y Gregorio de Texada spoke french and that she descended from a distinguished family that settled in Havana and Matanzas after the Luisiana purchase, being loyal to the king of Spain. I have an old photograph of her. Her son, Jaime Tio Navarro settled in Merida, Yucatan, after he fled colonial authorities and fought for Cuba's independence.