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Good morning, Dr. Fernandez. Browsing the CRIM Property Registry satellite imagery is like a walk through the pages of history with the appearance of many iconic family names. How many of these plots were doled out by the Spanish Crown before 1898 and what was the protocol? I gather that French-sounding names such as Pellot (Peugot) and Duprey are rooted in the Basque regions of Spain rather than Haiti. Portal Catastro Digital y Productos Cartográficos
I tried to post the CRIM hyperlink but only text appears, Thank you. Dennis D’Inzeo, Aguadilla.
Dear Dennis, thanks for your comment. You can read more about the French and Basque families in my articles on the Missing Registro de Esclavos published in Hereditas and Genealogy. There was a tremendous amount of investment by French families in Saint Domingue, and after the uprising, many went to different places and some eventually settled on the west coast of Puerto Rico, thanks to the passage of the Real Cedula de Gracias that gave land and a decade free from taxes, with extra land apportioned if one brought enslaved people. You can also look at the military maps of 1889 that are on ADNPR.net and find haciendas listed, often with descendants of the same family. An excellent resource is Antonio Nieves Mendez’ Moca: Historia de un pueblo (2008) available on Lulu.com
Good Morning Dr. Fernandez Sacco. Please comment on Muslim influence over Puerto Rican culture. I noted a map recently showing that the Caliphate of Cordoba long dominated the Iberian Peninsula. Even today the names Omar, Obdulio (Abdul), Anibal (Hannibal) and Amilcar (Hamilcar) are fairly prevalent. I would hazard a guess that many Muslims (and Jewish “Conversos”) emigrated to places like Puerto Rico after the 15th-Century rather than return to their historic homelands, Ironically, some Conversos or forcibly converted Sephardic Jews apparently adopted the name “Medina”, which would seem to have religious connotations for their Muslim fellow travelers. Thanks for your time. Dennis D’Inzeo, Aguadilla.
Yes, Dennis there are a lot of influences to consider. As the Catholic church forcibly expelled Jews and Muslims out of Spain, followed by massacres and inquisitions, much influence was suppressed. There were numbers of African Muslims and followers of Islam during colonization, however, no central community was sustained. The center of the Inquisition in the ‘New World’ was in Santo Domingo, so that was very close by. As the church was part of the state, they did their best to keep other religions out; if families practiced, they had to do it privately. Curacao had synagogues by the 17th century, while in Puerto Rico, the first synagogue opened in 1934
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Good morning, Dr. Fernandez. Browsing the CRIM Property Registry satellite imagery is like a walk through the pages of history with the appearance of many iconic family names. How many of these plots were doled out by the Spanish Crown before 1898 and what was the protocol? I gather that French-sounding names such as Pellot (Peugot) and Duprey are rooted in the Basque regions of Spain rather than Haiti. Portal Catastro Digital y Productos Cartográficos
I tried to post the CRIM hyperlink but only text appears, Thank you. Dennis D’Inzeo, Aguadilla.
Dear Dennis, thanks for your comment. You can read more about the French and Basque families in my articles on the Missing Registro de Esclavos published in Hereditas and Genealogy. There was a tremendous amount of investment by French families in Saint Domingue, and after the uprising, many went to different places and some eventually settled on the west coast of Puerto Rico, thanks to the passage of the Real Cedula de Gracias that gave land and a decade free from taxes, with extra land apportioned if one brought enslaved people. You can also look at the military maps of 1889 that are on ADNPR.net and find haciendas listed, often with descendants of the same family. An excellent resource is Antonio Nieves Mendez’ Moca: Historia de un pueblo (2008) available on Lulu.com
Good Morning Dr. Fernandez Sacco. Please comment on Muslim influence over Puerto Rican culture. I noted a map recently showing that the Caliphate of Cordoba long dominated the Iberian Peninsula. Even today the names Omar, Obdulio (Abdul), Anibal (Hannibal) and Amilcar (Hamilcar) are fairly prevalent. I would hazard a guess that many Muslims (and Jewish “Conversos”) emigrated to places like Puerto Rico after the 15th-Century rather than return to their historic homelands, Ironically, some Conversos or forcibly converted Sephardic Jews apparently adopted the name “Medina”, which would seem to have religious connotations for their Muslim fellow travelers. Thanks for your time. Dennis D’Inzeo, Aguadilla.
Yes, Dennis there are a lot of influences to consider. As the Catholic church forcibly expelled Jews and Muslims out of Spain, followed by massacres and inquisitions, much influence was suppressed. There were numbers of African Muslims and followers of Islam during colonization, however, no central community was sustained. The center of the Inquisition in the ‘New World’ was in Santo Domingo, so that was very close by. As the church was part of the state, they did their best to keep other religions out; if families practiced, they had to do it privately. Curacao had synagogues by the 17th century, while in Puerto Rico, the first synagogue opened in 1934
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