Santiago is one of the most common surname in Spain and Latin America. In its origins, is derived from the name Jacob, (Ya'acov in Hebrew, Iacobus or Iagobus in Latin). Italians and Spaniards abbreviated Iagobus to Iago. Catholic Spain referred to him commonly as Sant Iago (San Jacobo--San Iago--Sant. Iago--Santiago)...
Apolinario Santiago de La Rosa is my third Great-Grandfather, as follows:
Basilio Santiago (b. ca. 1780, San Miguel de Hato Grande)
--Apolinario S. De La Rosa (b. 1810, San Miguel de Hato Grande)
----Luis Santiago Velazquez
------Maria Felipa Santiago Robles (b.1855, Hato Puerco, Loiza)
--------Francisco Vazquez Santiago (b. between 1877-1882, dates don't match)
----------Flora Vazquez Santiago (b. 1919, Hato Puerco, Loiza)
------------Jenny Quiñones Vazquez (b.1937, Naguabo)
---------------Cesar Delgado (yours truly)
According to his will, Apolinario Santiago is from San Lorenzo (San Miguel de Hato Grande). As far as I have found (May 2013), Apolinario Santiago began the Santiago family line in Hato Puerco, Loiza (now Campo Rico, Canovanas). San Lorenzo was previously known as Hato Grande, Partido de Caguas. I believe his Santiago and De La Rosa lines go all the way back to the ancestral families of San Blas de Illescas, Coamo, many of which later settled in Partido de Caguas. Maybe in the decade between 1830 and 1840, Apolinar established himself in Alta Loiza (Hato Puerco) with his wife, Juana Velazquez Carrasquillo, (from the Velazquez and Carrasquillo families of Caguas/Gurabo. Juana's last name originated three generations behind her from Esteban del Rosario Velazquez, born in San German in about 1730. Apolinario first appear in written history in May 1844, as godfather of Florentina Cintron, being baptized at the San Patricio y Espiritu Santo Parish, Loiza. On that same month, he was Godfather during the baptism of Maria Antonia, daughter of Pedro Marquez and Ramona Gomez (PLdeEV).
Later, Apolinario appears in 1847 as a "vecino de Loiza" (Neighbor of the City of Loiza), selling a 52-cuerda (abt 52 acres) tract of land in Guzman Ward, (now in the Rio Grande Municipality) to a Damaso Vargas. Maybe this Damaso was related to him. I have seen genealogies where Santiagos, De La Rosas and Bargas (sic) are intermarried in San Lorenzo and Caguas. As I said, the Guzman Ward belongs to Rio Grande and it is divided in Guzman Arriba and Guzman Abajo. Guzman Arriba is adjacent to Cubuy, back then a Ward of Loiza.
Between 1855 and 1874, a significant number of his grandchildren from sons Luis, Juan, Dionisia, Nazario and Raymundo were baptized in the Loiza Parish. The earliest one I have found is Marcelina, the daughter of daughter Dionisia and husband Nicolas Marques. Felipa Santiago Robles, my GGGrandmother, was born and baptized in 1855, during the cholera morbo plague that was devastating the entire island.
On my first field trip searching for the "Camino de Hoyo Frio", where his grandchildren lived, we were led by local older men in Barrio Cubuy, to a paved road they identified with the name. The road takes you, through very abrupt topography, to a community known as Campo Alegre, in a low point which is actually an inner valley on the north side of the Caguas-Juncos Valley, at the foothills of the Sierra de Luquillo. It is within the Juncos Municipality. Because of this, I don't think this road is the Camino de Hoyo Frio of the 1910 census. Why then Apolinar and his children went to the Loiza Parish, when the Juncos Parish was much closer? This mistery led me back to Cubuy, where topography slopes north, towards the northern coastal valleys of Canovanas, to find a "Sector Los Santiago", or Sector "Los Cafe", where coffee was grown many years ago. Los Cafe is a mature community within Cubuy, located in a topographic low accessed though a narrow road, like in Campo Alegre. It used to be a large coffee plantation, whose original owner still eludes me (November, 2013). The problem is that this is outside of the Hato Puerco Ward limits, where Apolinario's Estancia (Manor) was located.
On September 2009, after talking to Lucio Torres and Tomas Febo, I went to a site in Palmasola known as "Palito Solitario". This tree is atop a steep, conical hill within Tomas Febo's property. Tomas is grandson of Lucia Santiago, daughter of Felipa Santiago. In this area, I met folk with the Santiago surname, undoubtedly descendants of Apolinario. I still need to sit down with them and figure out our relationship.
On July 18, 09, I returned to the "Archivo General de PR" (PR General Archive) to investigate and found a "Registro Notarial" dated May 27, 1868 in which Apolinar requested a loan of 400 Escudos to the "Junta Real de Beneficencia", after a hurricane (San Narciso, October, 1867) and several earthquakes afterward, destroyed his crops and plantation on his 250 Acre Manor in Hato Puerco. This Estancia was surrounded by Pedro Calderon (north), Eusebio Quiñones, Vicente Diaz and the Canovanas River (west).
Apolinario's grandchildren married children of the Robles, Vazquez, Rivera, Marcano and Castro families, among other families of rural Canovanas. Apolinario wrote his will in 9 August, 1863 and died on February 13, 1890 (Libro 14 Defn., Acta 24), in Loiza. Also in LDS Civil Registrations, Defunciones, Acta #27, Fo. #286, Img. 316/530. Pedro Vazquez, husband of Felipa Santiago Robles, one of Apolinario's Grand daughters, was present (he was able to read and write). His origin from San Lorenzo is confirmed. 12 of his children are mentioned, of which nine are alive:
Juan (the first)
Luis
Raymundo
Juan (the second)
Victoriano
Antonia
Dionisia
Benedicta
And the four dead:
Maria
Nazario
Other two who's names are not remembered.
The Notary mistakenly wrote that Apolinario was the son of "Lorenzo" Santiago. In reality we know the fact that Apolinar was the son of Basilio Santiago, also of San Lorenzo. He accurately wrote Juana de la Rosa as his mother: "...both from San Lorenzo, where they died".
By 1894, his Estancia had been segregated among his children into at least seven (7) Fincas.
I need to investigate if Apolinario and Hipolita had another brother named Juan Lorenzo Santiago and another; Pedro Jose de Santiago of Caguas, mentioned on GEDC2706 of AGPR-5.
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Apolinario Santiago (to Juana Velazquez)
---Luis Santiago (to Ana Robles), Nazario Santiago (to Nemesia Robles)
-----Ma. Felipa Santiago (daughter of Luis and Ana), Marcola Santiago (daughter of Nazario & Nemesia)
--------Francisco Vazquez (son of Ma. Felipa, married his cousin Marcola Santiago),
-----------Flora Vazquez Santiago (to Juan Quiñones)
----------------Jenny Quiñones Vazquez (to Domingo Delgado)
--------------------------------------o00o-------------------------------------------
De: Registro de Fincas Rurales de Loiza (CID)
Apolinario Santiago de La Rosa nació en San Lorenzo para el año 1810, cuando todavía se conocía a ese pueblo como San Miguel de Hato Grande. Apolinario fue hijo legítimo de Basilio Santiago y Ana María de La Rosa, y casó con Juana Velázquez Carrasquillo. Juana era hija legítima del matrimonio de los primos Roberto Velazquez Carrasquillo y Juana Carrasquillo Pinto, de Caguas. Para el año 1845, Apolinario y Juana habían emigrado a la ruralía entre la Alta Loíza y lo que hoy es el Sector Guzmán del Municipio de Río Grande. Allí se establecieron en el Barrio Hato Puerco. Hasta la fecha de este escrito, Apolinario aparece primero en la historia en mayo de 1844, como padrino durante el bautismo de la niña Florentina Cintrón, en la Parroquia San Patricio y Espíritu Santo de Loíza. A través de los años, los documentos eclesiásticos estudiados evidencian una profunda devoción Católica de Apolinario y Juana, bautizando hijos y nietos en la centenaria Parroquia San Patricio y Espíritu Santo, rindiendo culto a Santiago Apóstol.
Apolinario fue dueño de una estancia de 53 cuerdas en Río Grande y luego otra de 250 cuerdas en Hato Puerco. La estancia de Río Grande fue vendida en 1847 a Dámaso Bargas, posiblemente para financiar la compra de los terrenos de su estancia en Hato Puerco, la cual obtuvo mediante compra de una finca de 150 cuerdas a Don Saturnino Sosa en 1859 y otra finca adyacente de 100 cuerdas a Don Pedro Calderón Jiménez en 1864. Apolinario cultivó café y otros frutos menores en gran parte de su estancia, permaneciendo otra parte como pastos y maleza. La estancia de Apolinario, “circunscrita bajo cuatro piquetes de jobo”, estaba limitada por terrenos de la Sucesión Pedro Calderón (de la cual fue en parte segregada), Eusebio Quiñones, Vicente Díaz y el Río Canóvanas.
En octubre de 1867, el Huracán San Narciso azotó a Puerto Rico, devastando los cultivos en la zona norte y central de la isla. Muchos vecinos de Loíza acudieron a la Junta Real de Beneficencia a solicitar ayuda. Apolinario solicitó un préstamo de 400 escudos a la Junta para cubrir las pérdidas causadas por el paso del huracán y por unos temblores de tierra que se sintieron en la parte norte de la isla con posterioridad .
Apolinario decidió escribir su testamento el 9 de agosto 1863 , probablemente debido a una enfermedad que le aquejaba. Sin embargo, este aparenta recuperar la salud y persevera muchos años más, para fallecer el 13 de febrero de 1890. Se le realizó “entierro llano rezado” en el Cementerio de la Parroquia San Patricio del Pueblo de Loíza. Luego de su muerte, su estancia fue segregada entre sus hijos y nietos, que vivían mancomunados en la misma.
Apolinario Santiago de La Rosa is my third Great-Grandfather, as follows:
Basilio Santiago (b. ca. 1780, San Miguel de Hato Grande)
--Apolinario S. De La Rosa (b. 1810, San Miguel de Hato Grande)
----Luis Santiago Velazquez
------Maria Felipa Santiago Robles (b.1855, Hato Puerco, Loiza)
--------Francisco Vazquez Santiago (b. between 1877-1882, dates don't match)
----------Flora Vazquez Santiago (b. 1919, Hato Puerco, Loiza)
------------Jenny Quiñones Vazquez (b.1937, Naguabo)
---------------Cesar Delgado (yours truly)
According to his will, Apolinario Santiago is from San Lorenzo (San Miguel de Hato Grande). As far as I have found (May 2013), Apolinario Santiago began the Santiago family line in Hato Puerco, Loiza (now Campo Rico, Canovanas). San Lorenzo was previously known as Hato Grande, Partido de Caguas. I believe his Santiago and De La Rosa lines go all the way back to the ancestral families of San Blas de Illescas, Coamo, many of which later settled in Partido de Caguas. Maybe in the decade between 1830 and 1840, Apolinar established himself in Alta Loiza (Hato Puerco) with his wife, Juana Velazquez Carrasquillo, (from the Velazquez and Carrasquillo families of Caguas/Gurabo. Juana's last name originated three generations behind her from Esteban del Rosario Velazquez, born in San German in about 1730. Apolinario first appear in written history in May 1844, as godfather of Florentina Cintron, being baptized at the San Patricio y Espiritu Santo Parish, Loiza. On that same month, he was Godfather during the baptism of Maria Antonia, daughter of Pedro Marquez and Ramona Gomez (PLdeEV).
Later, Apolinario appears in 1847 as a "vecino de Loiza" (Neighbor of the City of Loiza), selling a 52-cuerda (abt 52 acres) tract of land in Guzman Ward, (now in the Rio Grande Municipality) to a Damaso Vargas. Maybe this Damaso was related to him. I have seen genealogies where Santiagos, De La Rosas and Bargas (sic) are intermarried in San Lorenzo and Caguas. As I said, the Guzman Ward belongs to Rio Grande and it is divided in Guzman Arriba and Guzman Abajo. Guzman Arriba is adjacent to Cubuy, back then a Ward of Loiza.
Between 1855 and 1874, a significant number of his grandchildren from sons Luis, Juan, Dionisia, Nazario and Raymundo were baptized in the Loiza Parish. The earliest one I have found is Marcelina, the daughter of daughter Dionisia and husband Nicolas Marques. Felipa Santiago Robles, my GGGrandmother, was born and baptized in 1855, during the cholera morbo plague that was devastating the entire island.
On my first field trip searching for the "Camino de Hoyo Frio", where his grandchildren lived, we were led by local older men in Barrio Cubuy, to a paved road they identified with the name. The road takes you, through very abrupt topography, to a community known as Campo Alegre, in a low point which is actually an inner valley on the north side of the Caguas-Juncos Valley, at the foothills of the Sierra de Luquillo. It is within the Juncos Municipality. Because of this, I don't think this road is the Camino de Hoyo Frio of the 1910 census. Why then Apolinar and his children went to the Loiza Parish, when the Juncos Parish was much closer? This mistery led me back to Cubuy, where topography slopes north, towards the northern coastal valleys of Canovanas, to find a "Sector Los Santiago", or Sector "Los Cafe", where coffee was grown many years ago. Los Cafe is a mature community within Cubuy, located in a topographic low accessed though a narrow road, like in Campo Alegre. It used to be a large coffee plantation, whose original owner still eludes me (November, 2013). The problem is that this is outside of the Hato Puerco Ward limits, where Apolinario's Estancia (Manor) was located.
On September 2009, after talking to Lucio Torres and Tomas Febo, I went to a site in Palmasola known as "Palito Solitario". This tree is atop a steep, conical hill within Tomas Febo's property. Tomas is grandson of Lucia Santiago, daughter of Felipa Santiago. In this area, I met folk with the Santiago surname, undoubtedly descendants of Apolinario. I still need to sit down with them and figure out our relationship.
On July 18, 09, I returned to the "Archivo General de PR" (PR General Archive) to investigate and found a "Registro Notarial" dated May 27, 1868 in which Apolinar requested a loan of 400 Escudos to the "Junta Real de Beneficencia", after a hurricane (San Narciso, October, 1867) and several earthquakes afterward, destroyed his crops and plantation on his 250 Acre Manor in Hato Puerco. This Estancia was surrounded by Pedro Calderon (north), Eusebio Quiñones, Vicente Diaz and the Canovanas River (west).
Apolinario's grandchildren married children of the Robles, Vazquez, Rivera, Marcano and Castro families, among other families of rural Canovanas. Apolinario wrote his will in 9 August, 1863 and died on February 13, 1890 (Libro 14 Defn., Acta 24), in Loiza. Also in LDS Civil Registrations, Defunciones, Acta #27, Fo. #286, Img. 316/530. Pedro Vazquez, husband of Felipa Santiago Robles, one of Apolinario's Grand daughters, was present (he was able to read and write). His origin from San Lorenzo is confirmed. 12 of his children are mentioned, of which nine are alive:
Juan (the first)
Luis
Raymundo
Juan (the second)
Victoriano
Antonia
Dionisia
Benedicta
And the four dead:
Maria
Nazario
Other two who's names are not remembered.
The Notary mistakenly wrote that Apolinario was the son of "Lorenzo" Santiago. In reality we know the fact that Apolinar was the son of Basilio Santiago, also of San Lorenzo. He accurately wrote Juana de la Rosa as his mother: "...both from San Lorenzo, where they died".
By 1894, his Estancia had been segregated among his children into at least seven (7) Fincas.
I need to investigate if Apolinario and Hipolita had another brother named Juan Lorenzo Santiago and another; Pedro Jose de Santiago of Caguas, mentioned on GEDC2706 of AGPR-5.
--------------------------------------o00o-------------------------------------------
Apolinario Santiago (to Juana Velazquez)
---Luis Santiago (to Ana Robles), Nazario Santiago (to Nemesia Robles)
-----Ma. Felipa Santiago (daughter of Luis and Ana), Marcola Santiago (daughter of Nazario & Nemesia)
--------Francisco Vazquez (son of Ma. Felipa, married his cousin Marcola Santiago),
-----------Flora Vazquez Santiago (to Juan Quiñones)
----------------Jenny Quiñones Vazquez (to Domingo Delgado)
--------------------------------------o00o-------------------------------------------
De: Registro de Fincas Rurales de Loiza (CID)
Apolinario Santiago de La Rosa nació en San Lorenzo para el año 1810, cuando todavía se conocía a ese pueblo como San Miguel de Hato Grande. Apolinario fue hijo legítimo de Basilio Santiago y Ana María de La Rosa, y casó con Juana Velázquez Carrasquillo. Juana era hija legítima del matrimonio de los primos Roberto Velazquez Carrasquillo y Juana Carrasquillo Pinto, de Caguas. Para el año 1845, Apolinario y Juana habían emigrado a la ruralía entre la Alta Loíza y lo que hoy es el Sector Guzmán del Municipio de Río Grande. Allí se establecieron en el Barrio Hato Puerco. Hasta la fecha de este escrito, Apolinario aparece primero en la historia en mayo de 1844, como padrino durante el bautismo de la niña Florentina Cintrón, en la Parroquia San Patricio y Espíritu Santo de Loíza. A través de los años, los documentos eclesiásticos estudiados evidencian una profunda devoción Católica de Apolinario y Juana, bautizando hijos y nietos en la centenaria Parroquia San Patricio y Espíritu Santo, rindiendo culto a Santiago Apóstol.
Apolinario fue dueño de una estancia de 53 cuerdas en Río Grande y luego otra de 250 cuerdas en Hato Puerco. La estancia de Río Grande fue vendida en 1847 a Dámaso Bargas, posiblemente para financiar la compra de los terrenos de su estancia en Hato Puerco, la cual obtuvo mediante compra de una finca de 150 cuerdas a Don Saturnino Sosa en 1859 y otra finca adyacente de 100 cuerdas a Don Pedro Calderón Jiménez en 1864. Apolinario cultivó café y otros frutos menores en gran parte de su estancia, permaneciendo otra parte como pastos y maleza. La estancia de Apolinario, “circunscrita bajo cuatro piquetes de jobo”, estaba limitada por terrenos de la Sucesión Pedro Calderón (de la cual fue en parte segregada), Eusebio Quiñones, Vicente Díaz y el Río Canóvanas.
En octubre de 1867, el Huracán San Narciso azotó a Puerto Rico, devastando los cultivos en la zona norte y central de la isla. Muchos vecinos de Loíza acudieron a la Junta Real de Beneficencia a solicitar ayuda. Apolinario solicitó un préstamo de 400 escudos a la Junta para cubrir las pérdidas causadas por el paso del huracán y por unos temblores de tierra que se sintieron en la parte norte de la isla con posterioridad .
Apolinario decidió escribir su testamento el 9 de agosto 1863 , probablemente debido a una enfermedad que le aquejaba. Sin embargo, este aparenta recuperar la salud y persevera muchos años más, para fallecer el 13 de febrero de 1890. Se le realizó “entierro llano rezado” en el Cementerio de la Parroquia San Patricio del Pueblo de Loíza. Luego de su muerte, su estancia fue segregada entre sus hijos y nietos, que vivían mancomunados en la misma.
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