While visiting us in Lima on July 30, 2017, Pablo Ribeiro Lora shared the following information about the Ribeiro side of the family on the shared grandfather Zacarias Ribeiro da Fonseca. Pablo’s mother’s name was Josefa (Gloria?) Lora Risco vda de Ribeiro, from Chiclayo, Peru. His father was Pablo Ribeiro Ibanez from Lima, Peru
The Ribeiro da Fonseca family lived in Santana do Livramento, a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. since 1867 it is located along the border with the city of Rivera, forming together an international city. It is for this reason that some of the children were born in Brasil and others in Uruguay. The Ribeiro da Fonseca family were Evangelicals by religion.
Pablo met with some of his grandfather Zacarias’ brothers in 1964 and in 1970 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they lived then, in the neighborhoods of La Plata and La Luz.
The children of Zacarias Ribeiro and Eladia Da Fonseca were:
- Zacarias Ribeiro da Fonseca married to Maria Rosa Ibanez
- Demostenes Ribeiro da Fonseca – La Plata, Buenos Aires
- Claudio (Lino) Ribeiro da Fonseca – la Luz, Buenos Aires
- Alicia Ribeiro da Fonseca (adopted daughter) – became the owner of the best pastries shop in Montevideo, Uruguay – Dulceria Los Andes – also married someone with the last name of Ibanez, but was not related to Maria Rosa
The city was founded on July 30, 1823 as «Nossa Senhora do Livramento». (wikipedia). In 1857 was emancipated from Alegrete province as a city. The economy is mainly farming, cattle, leather goods and Viniculture Commerce. The city also crosses the 31st parallel, making it an ideal area for wine production. The two main wineries are Almaden and Santa Colina. It is located along the border with the city of Rivera, Uruguay, forming together an international city.(see wikipedia)
The city of Rivera was named for Bernabe Rivera.
Prior to its independence Uruguay was the Provincia Cisptlatina.
Provincia Cisplatina o Estado Cisplatino fue el nombre dado a la región de la actual República Oriental del Uruguay entre 1817 y 1825, cuando estaba bajo el control del Reino Unido de Portugal, Brasil y Algarve y, posteriormente, del Imperio del Brasil. Desde la perspectiva luso-brasileña el territorio se encontraba aquende (“de este lado”) el Río de la Plata y de allí deriva el nombre.
En la primera década de 1800 Brasil era el principal rival y potencial enemigo del Virreinato del Río de la Plata. En 1801 Brasil incorporó las Misiones Orientales, sin que las fuerzas de Buenos Aires pudieran hacer nada para impedirlo o recuperarlas. El 12 de agosto de 1807 el príncipe regente de Portugal, futuro Juan VI de Portugal, recibió un ultimátum conjunto de España y Francia: en veinte días debía declarar la guerra a Gran Bretaña y cerrar todos los puertos a sus buques, además de expulsar a su embajador y detener a todos sus súbditos. Apurado por la urgencia de la amenaza, Juan anunció al embajador inglés, Lord Strangford, que simularía un estado de guerra con Gran Bretaña, para ganar tiempo.
El ministro de relaciones exteriores británico, George Canning, propuso en cambio otro plan: el traslado de toda la Corte portuguesa y la familia real a Brasil. El 22 de octubre, Canning y el embajador portugués Domingo Souza Coutinho firmaron el tratado por el que se establecía:
- La entrega de toda la escuadra portuguesa – de guerra y mercante – a Gran Bretaña.
- El traslado de la Reina, el Príncipe, su familia y toda la corte a Brasil, en la escuadra inglesa.
- Un nuevo tratado comercial, que permitía a Gran Bretaña introducirse en el mercado brasileño.
- La ocupación británica de la isla de Madeira.
It would be worthwhile to research the exact year of the Ribeiro da Fonseca’s residence there, because in the first half of the 19th century, Rio Grande do Sul was for a short period of time recognized as an independent country, following the Farroupilha Revolution.
The Riograndense Republic,[1] often called Piratini Republic (Portuguese: República Rio-Grandense or República do Piratini), was a de facto state that seceded from the Empire of Brazil roughly coinciding with the present state of Rio Grande do Sul. It was proclaimed on September 11, 1836, by General Antônio de Sousa Neto, as a direct consequence of the victory obtained by Gaucho oligarchic forces at the Battle of Seival (1836), during the Farroupilha Revolution (1835-1845).
In 1839, the Riograndense Republic formed a confederation with the short-lived Juliana Republic (República Juliana in Portuguese) which proclaimed its independence in the same year. November 1839, however, saw the war result in the defeat and disappearance of the Juliana Republic. The Riograndense Republic had five capitals during its nearly nine years of existence: the cities of Piratini (for which it is often called Piratini Republic), Alegrete, Caçapava do Sul (official capitals), Bagé (for only two weeks), and São Borja. The war between the Gaúchos and the Brazilian Empire was ended by the Ponche Verde Treaty.
The Juliana Republic was declared in the imperial Brazilian province of Santa Catarina on July 24, 1839, and lasted only until November 15, 1839. The Republic was declared in an extension of the Ragamuffin War in the neighboring province of Rio Grande do Sul, where the Riograndense Republic had been declared.
The rebels from the Riograndense Republic, who were joined by Italian military leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, attacked Santa Catarina and conquered the harbor and city of Laguna.
The rebels could not conquer the imperial provincial capital of Ilha de Nossa Senhora do Desterro (present-day Florianópolis), because their naval forces were found and destroyed by the imperial Brazilian navy at Massiambu River (on the continent, south of Santa Catarina Island) while those rebel forces were preparing to attack Nossa Senhora do Desterro. Chiefly because of this, the República Juliana lasted for only four months. In November, imperial forces took the Julian capital of Laguna.
About Alegrete (from Wikipedia):
Alegrete is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul located in southern Brazil. Its medium altitude is 102 m (335 ft). Its estimated population in 2008 was 78,984 inhabitants and the total area is 7,803.967 km2 (3,013.129 sq mi) (the largest municipality of the State and of Southern Brazil). Its inhabitants are called Alegretenses.
Railroad depot in Alegrete, 1911
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Alegrete was settled in 1816 and became a municipality in 1857. It is the hometown of the abolitionist leader Franklin Gomes Souto, of the politician, diplomat and statesman Osvaldo Aranha, first President of the United Nations General Assembly, and of the Brazilian poet Mário Quintana.
The municipality contains part of the 351 hectares (870 acres) Ibirapuitã Biological Reserve, a fully protected conservation unit created in 1982 to preserve an area of the pampas biome.[3]
About the town of Rivera
On 21 March 1860 a pueblo (village) named Pereira was created by the Act of Ley Nº 614.
On 7 May 1862, it was substituted by the villa (town) named Ceballos and founded by the Act of Ley Nº 704,[1] in honour of the Spanish viceroy Pedro de Cevallos. In July 1867 it took on the official name Rivera and was recognized as a villa. The Brazilian town Santana do Livramento already existed just across the border.
References
- Varela, Alfredo. História da Grande Revolução. 6v. Ed. Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, 1933.