My uncle said they were very close in Cuba. That my father tedoro Tapanes his brothers Jorge, Francisco Tapanes ( Pancho) are second cousins to Gabriel Tapanes and his sisters.

Hi there, My mother's maiden name is Tapanes and my grandfather was Eugenio Regino Tapanes born in Versalles, Matanzas 12/20/1893. Does this name ring a bell to anyone? I am going to ask my mother about the other Tapanes names I saw listed on here and see if there may be a connection. Thanks much and good luck to everyone!

Hello Ms. Cooley,

Thank you so much for your message. While I am sure that at some level we are related (I've always been told that all Tapanes' stemmed from the same trunk), I do not have a direct connection to a Eugenio Tapanes. Me may very well be a cousin of my grandfathers given the DOB.B. My grandfathers name was Gabriel Tapanes and he was the son of a Valentin Tapanes-Estupinan. Valentin was born around 1880 and in turn was the son of Gabriel Tapanes and his wife's maiden name was Estupinan ( I have her full name just not presently). If Eugenio was either nephew to Valentin or grandson to Gabriel, then indeed there is a link. Let me know if you have information going back this far that might confirm/deny this information. I am awaiting some documents from a genealogist that I work with which will probably go this far back. If I find anything I will let you know.

Take care,

Rolando Tapanes-Gongar

Wow, thank you for the information. It cleared a few questions I had but then opened up another one. My first cousin,(we have the same grandfather) is married to Roberto Estupinan (now that is an ODD name) I wonder if there is a relation but I really do not have much info on him.

Anyway, thanks for your time and you take care also,

Ida

BTW, it's told in my family that a great-great-great Tapanes somewhere once had dealings with a tribe of Caribe Indians (Seminole even, am not sure.) At some point the chief of this tribe and my ancestor were involved in a fight where upon my ancestor came out victorious. At the times the custom was that whomever defeated a chief, they then became the chief themselves and the tribe would then take on the name of the chief. At that time, and for some period afterwards, (maybe to this day) this tribe of indians were called The Tapanes. Does this sound familiar to anyone here? Just some more interesting info to pass along.

Thanks again

Hi Ms. Cooley,
I've just finished receiving a bunch of information regarding the Tapanes family. If you are able to find out who Eugenio's parent's are, I might be able to take you all the way back to the original Tapanes' in Cuba. In my case, I have documentation taking me back to the 1730's where the first Tapanes in my family tree was born in Cuba of a couple that was comprised of Carlos Tapanes who has emigrated from Genoa, Italy and his wife Angela Diaz who was born in Matanzas Cuba of Spanish parents. Let me know if you want more specifics. I have baptismal certificates and marriage certificates.

That is wonderful. I will get a hold of my Mom right away and find out more info on the great-grandparents and see what I can come up with. That was so nice of you to take the extra step and look for that info. While I am not sure we are related, based on the Italian part there, (mine are from the Canary Islands and the Basque region of Spain) one never knows!

Hi Ms. Cooley,
I'm so glad you got my message. I am hoping that you can get that information from your mom. With regards to the Italian connection, I am assured by the genealogist which helped me to obtain these documents that the first Tapanes to reach Cuba was Carlo Tapanes (could have been Tapani/Trapanese) from Genoa Italy. While I can't dispute any hard facts that you may have regarding your particular branch, it would be great to see how the two branches perhaps originated from the same place. In any case, take care and let me know.

Rolando Tapanes-Gongar

Hello -- I was just doing some research with my mom the other day and noticed that one of my great grandparents in Cuba was a Tapanes...I'm going to get some more information, but in fact, I think she was Tapanes y Tapanes as a surname. They are from the Cardenas area of Cuba. If you have any information or want me to pursue those names, contact me at aduenas at yahoo.com.

THanks

I have some cousins that married. Who were Tapanes, Tapanes. They were the son and daughter of Two Tapanes brothers that got married. That was very common back then. So they share the same set of grandparents. I have ther names Palo and Ana. They were 1st cousins. Palo's father was called Manuel Tapanes y Silvera And Ana's father was called Nicolas Ramon Tapanes y Silvera. The common grandparents for Palo and Ana and the parents of both Manuel and Nicolas Ramon were called Nicolas Tapanes y Diaz and Mauela Silvera y de Fuentes. That would make any children from Palo and Ana Tapanes Tapanes. Let me know if they are the same names.

My great grandmother was Dominga Tapanes Tapanes and we think she was from the town of Coliseo in Cuba. Her parents were Dionisio Tapanes Tapanes and Juana Tapanes Gonzalez. Those two were born in Matanzas province in 1840.