Genealogy

This is a space for descendants of the adventurers who served under Bolivar to share your experiences about researching your family trees. How are you doing? What information are you looking for? What obstacles have you found?

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  1. VASCOS Y NAVARROS EN LOS EJÉRCITOS DE BOLÍVAR

    Juan Nepomuceno Eslava hijo del virrey de la Nueva Granada de origen navarro, Sebastián de Eslava. Juan Nepomuceno fue comandante de la primera marina de guerra de Nueva Granada.
    Josefa Isaurralde fusilada por apoyar a los independentistas
    Javier Mina, aunque desarrolló toda su campaña en México, en algún momento estuvo ligado a la independencia de Nueva Granada y Venezuela. En Londres tuvo contacto con personajes que apoyaban la independencia americana como Lord Holland, el almirante Fleming, el general norteamericano Winfield Scott, el delegado de Venezuela en Inglaterra Luis López Méndez, el agente de Nueva Granada en Francia, Palacios Fajardo y el prelado mexicano José Servando de Mier. Desde Liverpool viajó a Estados Unidos en la fragata "Caledonia" y se reunió en Baltimore donde con Pedro Gual, comisionado de la Nueva Granada en Estados Unidos, a quien le pidió que apoyara su proyecto de México. A partir de allí, acordó una reunión con Bolívar que estaba exiliado en Haití para lograr el apoyo de su campaña en México, con la condición de que luego se dirigiría a ayudar a luchar en Venezuela y Nueva Granada. Después de la reunión partió en dirección a México con la mala fortuna que en batalla fue tomado prisionero y murió ejecutado.
    Entre los españoles que se pasaron a apoyar los ejércitos de independencia podemos mencionar como de origen vasco-navarro a los siguientes:
    Juan Bautista Insusarri
    Diego Munoz
    Ana Munoz
    Pedro Navarro
    J. Quintana
    Guillermo Zarrasqueta
    Ayaldeburu
    Ercilla
    Entre 1823 y 1836 los siguientes españoles de origen vasco obtuvieron carta de naturaleza colombiana.
    Juan Gavirias
    Felipe Gavirias
    Manuel María Elguerra
    José Andrés Larragoy
    Agustín Zubillaga
    Manuel Lisarraga
    Tomás Saldarriaga
    Vicente Sarria
    Sobre los que participaron en la conspiración contra Bolívar se encuentran:
    Agustín Horment comerciante francés nacido en la localidad de Navarrenx, cercana a la Navarra francesa.
    Wenceslao Zulaibar comerciante antioqueño hijo del Vizcaíno José María Zulaibar.
    Echeverría soldado español, vasco por su apellido, muy cercano a Urdaneta custodió en Bogotá a Florentino González en el juicio por la conspiración contra Bolívar.

    Tomado de Jon Ricaurte, “Vascos, independencia y reconquista en la Nueva Granda. Similitudes culturales y bandos diferentes 1810-1830”, en: XV Congreso Colombiano de Historia, Bogotá, Julio de 2010.

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  2. Gracias Jon. Muy importantes muchas de esas figuras. No sabía que Horment fuera vasco. Me pregunto, significa algo en motivo de su conspiración contra Bolívar?

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  3. I've received this message from Cleve Hassell in Australia.
    Any leads?

    I have been trying to establish if my great grandfather John Hassell enlisted in the Chilean Navy in the period 1818 to 1823. Family stories have him enlisting in the Chilean Navy and being taken prisoner by the Peruvians for about a year, but although it is quite possible, as many English did fight in the newly formed Chilean Navy under Cochrane, I have not been able to verify it from original records. Would you know if records of ship's crews exist, and would you have anyone in your department that is working in this field? The two vessels I have found that were taken by the Spanish/Peruvians are the Eagle and the Maipu, and if John Hassell was on one of these he would have ended up in captivity. The possibility exists that there may be records of the names of prisoners taken by the Peruvians,which would verify his enlisting in the Chilean Navy. I look forward to hearing from you, Cleve Hassell, Perth Western Australia.

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  4. En mi opinión, creo que se trate de una extraña coincidencia, al respecto, dice Botero sobre la amistad entre el antioqueño Wenceslado Zulaibar (hijo de un vizcaíno) y el francés Horment, ambos cargaron con gran parte de la responsabilidad de la conspiración contra Bolívar: "Creemos que en la cordial amistad entre Horment y Zuláibar oraba esa misteriosa atracción del origen de una misma raza… pues ambos eran de solar vasco". John Ricaurte

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  5. dear Matthew Brown

    I am currently researching the life of Colonel Guillermo Smith before he went to Venezuela. So far I have uncovered that he joined up with Captain Uslar in London, November 1818. There are also references to him being born in Edinburgh, yet Scottish Old Parochial Records contain very little and often useless information. I have come across a letter sent to the Foreign Office from a William Porter Smyth, a Surgeon Major in the Colombian Army, dated 17th September 1826 Santha Marta. The information that I have on Guillermo Smith confirms that he was in the Colombian Army and stationed at Santha Martha on that date. Does it seem plausible to you that he is the author of this letter, and therefore was a surgeon in the Colombian Army? I understand that you have come across Guillermo Smith in your research, and would appreciate any information you have on him, particularly his life in Britain. I look forward to hearing from you, Tyler Hanley, London.

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  6. Dear Prof. Brown

    I'm researching my partner's ancestor, Timothy Hamilton. In Irish newspapers it was reported that Timothy Hamilton, Lieutenant in the Patriot Service, died on the island of Jamaica and that he was a son of James Hamilton of Eden, Donegal. This Hamilton family is mentioned in Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland which mentions that he served under Bolivar in South America and was killed in the war. It seems that at some stage he was promoted to Captain. Documentation in Australia for my partner's great-great grandfather James Hamilton, gives his father as this Timothy Hamilton who died in Jamaica. His mother was Rebecca Patterson but there is no mention in Burke's Peerage of Timothy having a wife and a son James. Do you have any information on Lieutenant or Captain Timothy Hamilton and if so, did he take his wife and perhaps younger children with him to South America and the Caribbean? James was left at school and attended Trinity College, Dublin. He was still a student when he committed highway robbery and transported to Australia. Any information on Timothy would be most gratefully received.

    Regards,
    Alison

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  7. Good that you have set this page up. I get a lot of interest from a small video that I made in Paipa (https://youtu.be/NKVr-wa-8a4). I'll be sure to send them this way. Thanks,

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