Gaspar de Placencia & Melchora Barroso

Name: Gaspar de Placencia (Plasencia)
Ship: San Juan Nepomuceno
Birth: Hermingua, La Gomera[4]

Wife: Melchora Barroso

Brother: Juan de Placencia (Plasencia)[4]

DID: NC038

History

Gaspar left Santa Cruz, Tenerife in Dec 9, 1778 sailing on the San Juan Nepomuceno and landed in New Orleans on July 1779 with his wife Melchora and his children Maria, Francisco, Leonor, Maria, and Baltasar.1   He arrived at the Valenzuela settlement. 

Melchora is listed as "Melchora Gabriela Marroso" and "Melchora Garcia Barroso". 

Gaspar died and was buried on August 2, 1813.7  

Children

1. Maria (b. 1763)
2. Francisco (b. 1765)
3. Leonor (b. 1769)
4. Maria Manuela (b. 1772)
5. Baltasar (b.1776)

Son Francisco married Apolonia Francisca Simonaux, daughter of Francisco Simonaux of La Lorena [Lorraine, France?] and Maria Corperon of Acadie, on October 10, 1793 at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church at the Valenzuela settlement.6  

Daughter Leonor married Juan Guilfou, son of Antonio Guilfuchi and Maria Streglia of Corsica[5], on February 3, 1788 at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church at the Valenzuela settlement.6  

Daughter Maria Manuela married Blas de Acosta, son of Antonio de Acosta and Damiana Perera, on October 30, 1791 at the Church of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ at the Valenzuela settlement.6  

Son Baltasar married Henriette Marie Braud (Breaux), daughter of Joseph Braud and Marie Magdelaine Melancon, on January 20, 1806, at the St. James Catholic Church in St. James, Louisiana.7  

NOTE:  There is no record of the oldest daughter Maria.

References

1. Gilbert C. Din, The Canary Islanders of Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press.
2. Emilie G. Leumas, archivist, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Department of Archives, v2
3. Emilie G. Leumas, archivist, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Department of Archives, v3
4. Vera, Julio C. Censo de La Gomera de 1757. Los Angeles, CA. 2019.  p53. 
5. Baptism of Catharina Carmelita Manuela Guilfou.  Emilie G. Leumas, archivist, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Department of Archives, v2, p347.
6. Emilie G. Leumas, archivist, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Department of Archives, v2, p595-596.
7. Emilie G. Leumas, archivist, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Department of Archives, v3, p700-702.