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RUMBAUT
- RIERA FAMILY TREE AND BRANCHES
1800 - 1900
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Salvador Yanes Rumbaut He
was 49 when he married his second wife (and second cousin) Agustina Díaz,
in 1864. They had the following six children:
Like
some other members of the family, the sons Salvador and Ramón were mambises
(members of the army of independence) in the Cuban War of
Independence, which lasted from 1895 to 1898. Salvador
Yanes died in Potrerillo
on March 4, 1892. |
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Agustina
Díaz Castellanos
Agustina died in Cuba July 17, 1920. |
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He
married Vinyet Vidal (María
de Vinyet Vidal y Martí)
in the 1870's. Her
brother was José Vidal Martí, who was the mayor of Sitges
in late 1880's. Miguel
and Vinyet had 13 children in a span of 18 years: 2. Cayetana 3. Miguel 4. Pepet 5. Salvadora 6. Gustavo 7. Rafael 8. Concha 9. Lola, born mid 1880’s, died during childhood 10. Carmen, born mid 1880’s, died during childhood 11. Juan, born 1888 in Sitges, died during childhood 12. Ernesto, born 1889, who disappeared when young, returned to Sitges at age 74, and died shortly after 13. Mercedes |
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Vicente Rumbaut de la
Cruz
He
was a blue-eyed man of medium build, a carpenter, who was known as a guitar
player and singer who made up his own verses. Died
May 16, 1915. |
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Hermenegildo
López y González de Soler
Had
several children from his first marriage.
1. Herminia was born 1876; died the following year. 2. The girl born the year after that, 1877, was also called Herminia. 3. Abelardo 4. Perseveranda 5. Carlina 6. Vitalia 7. Juan was born in 1883 but died as a child. 8. Carucho 9. Liberato 10. Roberto, born 1889 11. Flavio 12. Diego 13. Dionisio 14. Zoila Rosa Hermenegildo had a famous bad temper, but
Zoila, the youngest child, could maneuver him with
her flirtatious and seductive manner. Maybe she was also able to handle
him because by the time she was born, he was an old man already. In a
moment of his temper flaring, she would grab him and calm him down.
Authoritarian with everyone, he was called "Don Merejo"
behind his back, which sounds a little crude in Spanish. One of his sons
disappeared in adolescence after a vicious fight with him. |
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Rosa Fundora y Enrique
Born
in Palmira, Cuba in 1862. The year seems unlikely, as it would make her 11
when she married; her granddaughter Carucha says
she was 14 or 15 when wed. 1. Herminia was born 1876; died the following year. 2. The girl born the year after that, 1877, was also called Herminia. 3. Abelardo 4. Perseveranda 5. Carlina 6. Vitalia 7. Juan was born in 1883 but died as a child. 8. Carucho 9. Liberato 10. Roberto, born 1889 11. Flavio 12. Diego 13. Dionisio 14. Zoila Rosa
(L to R, standing) Dionisio, Diego, Liberato, Flavio (L to R, seated) Carlina, Zoila Rosa, Doña Rosa, Vitalia; ca. 1940 Her
handwritten note gives dates of births, deaths, and moves of the family
between 1873 and 1945. |
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Casiano Rumbaut de la Cruz
padrino: Trino Ramirez madrina: Concepción Capote
padrino: Diego Sosa madrina: Genoveva Morphy
padrino: Valentín Sosa madrina: Amalia Sosa
padrino: Horacio Perez madrina: Julia Sosa
padrino: Custodio Rumbaut madrina: Luisa Sosa
padrino: José Jiménez madrina: María Luisa Felipa
padrino: José Custodio Rumbaut madrina: Carmen Pérez
padrino: Valentín Sosa madrina: Inés
Hernandez
padrino: José Jiménez madrina: María
Luisa Felipa
padrino: Agustín Carpio madrina: Leonila
Rumbaut
o padrino: Celestina Villar o madrina: Anadela Villareal
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Manuela Yanes Díaz
Aka Doña Manuelita. Born
Manuela Josefa in October 8, 1864 in Yaguaramas of Salvador Yanes Rumbaut and
Agustina Díaz. Married
Vicente Rumbaut de la Cruz and had the following
children:
She
was a strong-jawed, tall, hefty woman, severe in her behavior, very formal
and dignified. Nonetheless, she is described as encantadora
by those who remember her. She was very religious, proper and
strict. She wore long skirts with long-sleeved blouses, covered by a
white lace long vest. She had a huge baúl
in the house full of books. Died
in the Cienfuegos area October 6, 1943. |
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Carmen Yanes Diaz Born
María del Carmen Genoveva
on January 3, 1868 of Salvador Yanes
Rumbaut and Agustina Díaz.
She
rode on horseback into the battles of the Cuban War of Independence to
deliver food to her brother Salvador. She bore a child with Ramón López Sanabria: · Olympia de la Mercedes Yanes, known as "La Niña"; born September 23, 1908; died February 20, 1984; never had children Carmen
died December 15, 1943. |
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María Cristina Yanes
Díaz 1. Salvador was a physician. He married Lilia Llano and they had two children: · Cristina, who lives in the U.S. · Salvador, who studied philosophy and lives in Cuba 2. Pura 3. Emma 4. Olga Odilia, who had two children: · Cristina · Georgina 6. Cesar Augusto, a physician living in Miami 7. Patria 8. Esperanza, who married Vicente Alegret and had a son · Vicente 9. Lala, who married José Luis Capote 10. Juana She
died relatively young on November 7, 1923, the cause being said to be
overwork. She had been known for her beauty. |
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José Villafuerte Baster Born
in Camagüey
province around 1870 of ____ Villafuerte and
_____ Baster. Married
Fernanda Bordenause de la
Valette Mangles, who born in Oriente
province, also around 1870. They
had the following Villafuerte Valette
children: 1. Ana Rosa, born around 1890 2. María Josefa, born in 1895 3. Manuel, born around 1897 4. Fernando, born around 1898 5. María, born around 1901 6. María A., born around 1905 7. María C., born around 1908 Fernanda died October 18, 1917. José
died January 8, 1926. Both
are buried at Cementerio de Colón in Havana.
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Federico Díaz
He
was a physician. He died in Cuba while his four children were still
young, leaving Aguedita in a difficult situation. |
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Maria de Vinyet Riera
y Vidal Born
in Sitges, Spain in 1872 of Miguel Riera y Matas and
María del Vinyet Vidal y Martí. Once
her mother took her to the dentist in Barcelona to ease one of her
toothaches. The following weekend, the dentist appeared in Sitges to ask for her hand in marriage, for Vinyet was very beautiful. Her
second marriage was to an older widower named Boniquet.
They had the following in the 1890's: ·
María Boniquet, who had three daughters ·
Pepe Boniquet, who had three children ·
Miguel Boniquet,
who had no children ·
Fernando Boniquet
·
Pedro Boniquet |
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Cayetana Riera y
Vidal Died
in Sitges, Spain. |
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Miguel Riera y Vidal He had
many documents about the Riera genealogy reaching
back to the seventeenth century. A bomb during the Spanish Civil War
fell on his home at Calle Mayor in Sitges and destroyed them. |
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Pepet was born in 1875 of Miguel Riera y Matas and
María del Vinyet Vidal y Martí. He
married a Catalonian named Marina Amell. Their
address in Barcelona used to be Bruch 89, 2 la.
They became the padrinos
of Carmita,
daughter of Gustavo. They had:
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José
María Riera Sánchiz, born in Barcelona, who married Ursula and was
interested in international commerce |
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Salvadora Riera y
Vidal Died
in Sitges in 1964. |
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Abelardo López Fundora
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Perseveranda López
Fundora Married Basilio Suco González and had: Died
in Cuba in 1904. |
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Aka Atica by her family. Died
in 1965 in Cuba. |
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Gustavo Riera y Vidal
Aka Tavo. He
left Spain when he was 17 and became a businessman in Cuba. He
met his future wife, Josefa, on a business
(textiles) trip to New York in 1911. Died
in Havana, Cuba in 1940. |
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Rafael Riera y Vidal
Born
in Sitges,
Spain in the early 1880’s of Miguel Riera y Matas and María
del Vinyet Vidal y Martí. He emigrated to Cuba, where he set up a suitcase factory. He
married Juana Vivero (Juanita), an actress from
Guantanamo, who performed at the theater in Havana. He himself became an
actor. Rafael
and Juanita had: ·
María Riera y Vivero, born in Santiago de Cuba, where she became a
university professor, and married Angel Alea. ·
Rafael |
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Concha Riera y
Vidal
o
Jaime
Jansá |
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Born
in 1882 in Cuba of Hermenegildo
López and
Rosa Fundora.
She
traveled extensively. Here she is at the Pyramids. She
married José Martín de Cantallops.
After
the death of her sister Carucho, Vitalia and her husband raised Carucho's
children. |
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Named
Caridad at birth, and sometimes called Carito by her mother but Carucho
by everyone else. Born
in 1884 in Rodas, Cuba of Hermenegildo López and Rosa
Fundora. She
was widowed from her first husband during their first year of marriage.
and
had the following children: After
she died in 1927, her children were raised by her sister Vitalia.
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Vicente Rumbaut
Yanes
Laura, Alicia
and Hector Vicente
died July 17, 1947. |
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María Toledo de la Rosa
Her
sister, Andrea Avelina Toledo de la Rosa, born in
1888, was 103 when she died in 1992. At the time she had been living with her
nieces Alicia and Laura in Havana.
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The
picture on the left shows three godfathers: 1.
of Marta (Liberato,
left) 2.
of Cuchú (Dr. Miguel [or Manuel?] Villalvilla,
center) 3.
of Lilia (President Machado, seated) Carucho’s husband Elio is on the right. In
the picture at right are the three godmothers, including sisters Vitalia (left) and Zoila
(right), with Carucho (the mother of the children)
standing in the middle. The
pictures were taken at the Alvarez home in Rodas,
1925. Born
in Los Grillos farm in 1887 of Hermenegildo López and
Rosa Fundora.
Liberato was the godfather of Carucha. Liberato distinguished himself in communications
and eventually became sub-secretary in the Ministry of Communications. After
the fall of Machado in 1933, however, Liberato lost
that position and made a living by selling insurance.
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Mercedes Riera y Vidal
Pepe died in Madrid in the 1980's.
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Flavio died in Cuba of a heart
attack in 1963. |
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At
age 5 his family all moved to the port of Cienfuegos due to an
edict by Governor Weyler (Spain still ruled Cuba in 1896) that rural
inhabitants move to larger cities, producing the cruel mass migration called reconcentración. Bienvenido was a journalist, poet,
essayist and pharmacist (with degrees from Ohio State University in Columbus
and from the University of Havana). He became a key player in the civic life
of Cienfuegos, were he lived most of his adult life.
with Zoila,
Carmen and Rubén Darío Died
in Havana, Cuba August 29, 1966. Short
Bio: English / Español
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Diego López Fundora
Estelvina left Cuba for the United
States in 1993 and moved to Miami. |
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In his mid-forties Niso married the much younger Aleida Maria Ugarte Abreu. They had two girls: He
was a judge, known for his controlling nature and his habit of pointing his
finger accusatorially at everyone. His daughters were said to not have
grown taller because he wouldn't let them.
Aleida, Niso,
Ela and Judith (right) in Madrid |
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Amado Abi
Bernabe Jiménez Ferrer
Died
1977 in Miami. |
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Born
in Camagüey, Cuba in 1895 of José Villafuerte Baster and Fernanda Bordenause de la Valette Mangles. Pepa is described as being a
beautiful, sophisticated woman used to having the very best. Her attitude was
that the man should earn the money and the woman should spend it. She
married Gustavo and had the following children: Died
in Havana, Cuba in 1941. |
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Aka
Nana to her grandchildren.
She
got a degree in kindergarten education. She wrote a kindergarten songbook that was used throughout Cuba. Died
August 21, 1977 in Miami, Florida. |
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Died
in Havana, Cuba in 1961. Short
Bio: Español |
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Carlos Gilí de la Peña Born
in Cuba before 1900 of Ildefonso Gilí and Carlina de la Peña.
Carlos
married Consuelo Rumbaut Yanes. They had: |
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Antonieta Houtench Riera
Died
in Sitges, Spain in the 1990’s. |
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