Friday, January 20, 2023

Augustin Pinto de Lara & Maria Theresa Carsalla

Name: Juan Augustin (del) Pinto de Leon (Lara)
Ship: Santisimo Sacramento
Birth: La Orotava, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Wife: Maria Theresa Carsalla (Casanas)

DID: SS021

History

Augustin left Santa Cruz, Tenerife in July 10, 1778 sailing on the Santisimo Sacramento and landed in New Orleans on TBD, with his children Juan, Bernarda, Maria, and Maria Marcela.1 . He resided at Galveztown settlement.

He is listed as Agustin Pinto de Leon and his wife is listed as Maria Casanas on the ship manifest list.2  His children's marriage records list him as "Del Pinto", "De Lara Y Pinto" and "De Lara". 

Children

  1. Juan (b.1764)
  2. Bernarda (b.1767)
  3. Maria (b.1771)
  4. Marcela (b.1773)
Augustin, Maria and their three children Juan, Bernarda, and Maria most likely died in 1779.  Only Marcela is known to have survived. 

Daughter Marcela was married to Hipolito Bernardo Palacios, son of Blas Palacios and Therea Rueda on August 28, 1787 in Galveztown and she was listed as "Maria Del Pinto".7    Marcela remarried to 1st Corporal (Sergeant)6 of Louisiana Militia, Domingo Parisini (Paricini/Paragini), son of Carlos Parisini and Martha Suprana (Lombarda) of Milan, Italy, on September 2, 1793 in New Orleans, and she was listed as Maria de Lara.4   In her children's baptism, she's listed as Marcela de Lara Y Pinto.5  

References

  1. Gilbert C. Din, The Canary Islanders of Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, p220, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Edith Garland Dupre Library, PO Box 40199, Lafayette LA 70504.
  2. Diocese of Baton Rouge Church Records.  Vol 2.
  3. Diocese of Baton Rouge Church Records.  Vol 3.
  4. Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.  Vol 5. p295
  5. Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.  Vol 6. p212
  6. Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.  Vol 7. p314
  7. Emilie G. Leumas, archivist, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Department of Archives, v2. p.235.

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