Lists of Persons in Barbados including a list of "Jewes". No Sizemores found.
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Re: Lists of Persons in Barbados including a list of "Jewes". No Sizemores found.
| Ines Diaz-Oben (View posts) | Posted: 30 Oct 2004 9:25PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Alvares, Escribano, Luna, Oben
Dear Mr.Donald-Yates,
In researching the Luna name, I found your reference in the "Sisemore in Barbaros found (but not in Hotten's Book") subject posting.
Do you have any more information on the Luna surname? I have just found out that my maternal grandfather's maternal grandfather was named Benito ALVARES y Luna, although in the past I had read his name in the 1910 and 1930 U.S. Censuses of Puerto Rico as Benito ALVARES y ALVARES. I know that both of his parents came from Spain and that he arrived in Puerto Rico in 1969. I know that his wife, Antonia ESCRIBANO, came from a marrano family from the South of Spain, originally. The ESCRIBANOs have been in Puerto Rico for some time, since the early 16th Century.
There are quite a few LUNAs in Puerto Rico, and I am still in the planning process of this research. My grandfather was Jose Alejandro OBEN y ALVARES and his mother was Juana ALVARES y ESCRIBANO, whose parents were Benito ALVARES y ESCRIBANO and Antonia ESCRIBANO, all living in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1910.
My grandfather would mention that his father had come "by way of St. Martin" to Puerto Rico and there are OBENs in St. Thomas in the 1917 U.S. Census: Gustus, Lodrick, Emanuel and Maria. Emanuel was "foreign" and spoke French, while Gustus, Lodrick and Maria were from St. Thomas and from St. Baths.
The OBENs are said to be from the Virgin Islands and have moved to Haiti, Santo Domingo where it is written in a book "Bani: Raices Historicas: that they lived during the 17th Century and, sometime in the 19th Century, Puerto Rico.
I did find the Luna surname is listed as a Sephardic surname meaning "moon" in Spanish.
Cordially,
Ines Diaz-Oben
In researching the Luna name, I found your reference in the "Sisemore in Barbaros found (but not in Hotten's Book") subject posting.
Do you have any more information on the Luna surname? I have just found out that my maternal grandfather's maternal grandfather was named Benito ALVARES y Luna, although in the past I had read his name in the 1910 and 1930 U.S. Censuses of Puerto Rico as Benito ALVARES y ALVARES. I know that both of his parents came from Spain and that he arrived in Puerto Rico in 1969. I know that his wife, Antonia ESCRIBANO, came from a marrano family from the South of Spain, originally. The ESCRIBANOs have been in Puerto Rico for some time, since the early 16th Century.
There are quite a few LUNAs in Puerto Rico, and I am still in the planning process of this research. My grandfather was Jose Alejandro OBEN y ALVARES and his mother was Juana ALVARES y ESCRIBANO, whose parents were Benito ALVARES y ESCRIBANO and Antonia ESCRIBANO, all living in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1910.
My grandfather would mention that his father had come "by way of St. Martin" to Puerto Rico and there are OBENs in St. Thomas in the 1917 U.S. Census: Gustus, Lodrick, Emanuel and Maria. Emanuel was "foreign" and spoke French, while Gustus, Lodrick and Maria were from St. Thomas and from St. Baths.
The OBENs are said to be from the Virgin Islands and have moved to Haiti, Santo Domingo where it is written in a book "Bani: Raices Historicas: that they lived during the 17th Century and, sometime in the 19th Century, Puerto Rico.
I did find the Luna surname is listed as a Sephardic surname meaning "moon" in Spanish.
Cordially,
Ines Diaz-Oben