Here is my story on the Pieraldi Surname.

In 1974, I was curious about my name. It struck me as impossible no other Pieraldi family existed in the world. And so started the search.

1970′s were spent looking through endless library files. Personal trips to Genealogy archives including New York.

1980′s were improved only slightly. My parents met a Pieraldi in New York. He spoke only spanish and was from Puerto Rico. More outreach and research found little information of substance.

1990′s found a first and substantial contact over the Internet. This substantial development came in an email. Juan Roman and I exchanged some basic facts about our family and the connection was made. In the years that followed more details and family history were shared. The facts checked and that is where the story really starts.

2000 – The family in San Francisco is told of this link and the real fun begins.

Introduction
Descendants of Luis Antonio Pieraldi
Compiled by Juan D. Roman
Generation No. 1
The Pieraldi family fIrst appeared in Corsica in the XV Century. They had come from Genoa, Italy but were not ofGenoese Origin. In fact the name ofPeraldi is an Italianization ofthe French name ofPairaud (or Parandon, bellow Latin). One of the earliest was Hugh de Pairoud of France (1100). According to the book Nouvel Armorial Corse, published by Jean Christophe Perticone, the Pieraldi family from Corsica write their surname “Peraldi”, and they first established themselves in Ajaccio and Cauro in 1540. One Antoine Peraldi (from Cauro) was given the title of Count by King Theodore 1 in 1736. Antother, Mario Peraldi, was a deputy in the Legislative Assembly in 1791. The surname is written PIERALDI only in San Martino di Lota, near Bastia to the north (Capo Corso\ Cap Corse).2
1. LUIS ANTONI01 PIERALDI was born Abt. 1787 in San Martino Di Lota, Corsica, France. He married MARiA MAESTRACCI in San Martino di Lota, Corsica.
Child of LUIS PIERALDIand MARiA MAESTRACCIis: 2. i. JOSEIGNACI02PIERALDI,b. Abt. 1817, San Martino di Lota, Corsica; d. 31 January 1889, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Generation No.2
2. JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI (LUIS ANTONIOl) was born Abt. 1817 in San Martino Di Lota, Corsica, and died 31 January 1889 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (1) ANGELAGRAZIANI Abt. 1836 in San Martino De Lota, Corsica. She was born Unknown in San Martino di Lota, Corsica, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (2) MADAMMARiA MEDORIBIANCHI Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, daughter of ANGEMEDORI. She was born Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (3) MARiA DE Los ANGELESRODRIGUEZRIVERA Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, daughter of NICOLAs RODRIGUEZand VICTORIANARIVERA. She was born 1826 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Don Ignacio Pieraldi Maestracci migrated to Puerto Rico with his wife dofia Angela Graziani, y their son Felipe, around 1839-40. After settling in Yauco, he met Maria Bianchi, a Puerto Rican, daughter of Corsicans, had a son Francisco who was born in Yauco.
Together with his two sons Don Ignacio established the SOCIEDAD PlERALDI e HlJOS, which was dedicated to the exportation of coffee to the Vatican, France and Italy, during the 19th• Century, until the North American Invasion in 1898. His Puerto Rican born son, Francisco was installed as interim mayor ofYauco, by the American Army during the turn of the Century.
Children of JosE PIERALDIand ANGELAGRAZIANIare: 3. i. FELIPE3PIERALDIGRAZIANI,b. Unknown, San Martino di Lata, Corsica; d. 25 April 1919, Yauco, Puerto
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Rico. ii. ROSAPIERALDIGRAZIANIb,.Unknown,Yauco,PuertoRico;d.Unknown,Yauco,PuertoRico;m.
BUENAVENTURAPAGANACCLIUIGGI,10August1878,Yauco,PuertoRico;b.Unknown,Oletta,Corsica;d. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Theodore von Neuhoff, was of German origin, and was king of Corsica until1751. From Col. Hector Andres Negroni via EMail.
Children 4. 5.
Children 6. 7.
of JosEPIERALDI and MADAM MEDORI BIANCHI are: iii. FRANCISC03 PIERALDI BIANCHI, b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 3 September 1925, Yauco, Puerto Rico. iv. LUIS ANTONIO PIERALDl BIANCHI, b. 1884, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
of JosE PIERALDI and MARiA RODRIGUEZ RIVERA are: v. MARiA MATEA3 PIERALDI RODRIGUEZ, b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
vi. ADOLFO PIERALDI RODRIGUEZ, b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. Unknown, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Generation No.3
3. FELIPE3 PIERALDI GRAZIANI (JOSE IGNAC102 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO~ was born Unknown in San Martino Di Lota, Corsica, and died 25 April 1919 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (1) MARiA OLAYA. She was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He met (2) MARiA VICENTA ORENGO RODRIGUEZ Unknown inYauco, Puerto Rico. She was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Children of FELIPE PIERALDI GRAZIANI and ·MARiA OLAVA are: i. BENIT04 PIERALDI OLAYA, b. Yauco, Puerto Rico.
ii. ELENA PIERALDI OLAVA, b. 1876, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Child of FELIPE PIERALDI GRAZIANI and MARiA VICENTA OREN GO RODRIGUEZ is: 8. iii. RAMON4 ORENGO, b. Abt. 1855, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 1925, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
(Ramon’s parents were not married, so he received his mother’s surname of ORENGO. During the Spanish Colonial period, if the mother was not married, the Church would not recognize the marriage, and considered the child without a father. This change in surnames has been reflected the later generations that intermarried with the ROMAN family. Marla Vicenta was a servant ofthe Corsican brothers Felipe and Francisco.)
4. FRANCISC03 PIERALDI BIANCHI (JOSE IGNAC102 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONlO~ was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 3 September 1925 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He met (1) MARiAVICENTA ORENGoRoDRIGUEZ in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She was born 1842 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Aft. 1910 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (2) HIPOLITA CEDENORUIZ Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, daughter of FRANCISCO CEDENO CARRERAS and MARiA RUIZ. She was born 1850 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 20 May 1890 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (3) PAULA CAMACHO CARABALLO Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, daughter of VICENTE CAMACHO and JUANA CARABALLO. She was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Child of FRANCISCO PIERALDI BIANCHI and VICENT A ORENGO RODRIGUEZ is:
9. Children
ii. iii. 11. iv.
JOSE IGNACI04 PIERALDI CEDENO, b. Abt. February 1890, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 21 October 1890, Yauco, Puerto Rico. AMALIA PIERALDI CEDENO, b. 10 August 1873, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 25 September 1968, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
10.
12.
LUIS ANTONIO PIERALDI CEDENO, b. 1884, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 1964, Yauco, Puerto Rico. v. FELIPE PIERALDI CEDENO, b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
vi. OCTAVIA PIERALDI CEDENO, m. ANTONIO ANZIANI, 16 March 1981, Yauco, Puerto Rico. vii. URSULA PIERALDI CEDENO, b. 1870, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.
viii. ANTONIA PIERALDI CEDENO. ix. SOFiA PIERALDI CEDENO, m. MANUEL GALLETTI.
x. JULIO PIERALDI CEDENO, b. 1889, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
i. JUANITA4 PIERALDI ORENGO, b. 1866, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 8 February 1947, Yauco, Puerto Rico. of FRANCISCO PIERALDlBIANCHI and HrPOUTA CEDENO RUIZ are:
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Children of FRANCISCO PIERALDI BIANCHI and PAULA CAMACHO CARABALLO are:
xi. xii. xiii.
MERCEDES4 PIERALDI CAMACHO, b. 30 October 1892, Yauco, Puerto Rico. MARiA DALIA PIERALDI CAMACHO, b. 24 October 1894, Yauco, Puerto Rico. ANAMARiA PIERALDICAMACHO,b. 1895,Yauco, Puerto Rico.
5. LUIS ANTONI03 PIERALDI BIANCHI (JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO~ was born 1884 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married JUANA MARiA LOPEZ Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Children of LUIS PIERALDI BIANCHI and JUANA LOPEZ are:
13. i. FRANCISC04 PIERALDILOPEZ, b. Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. San Francisco, California, U.S.A.. ii. FuNDADOR PIERALDI LOPEZ, b. Unknown.
6. MARiA MATEA3 PIERALDI RODRiGUEZ (JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO~ was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She married MANuEL EUGENIO SANCHEZ FERNANDEZ 30 May 1883 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, son of MANUEL SANCHEZ and EMILIA FERNANDEZ. He was born Unknown in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Child of MARiA PIERALDIRoDRiGUEZ and MANuEL SANCHEZ FERNANDEZ is: i. IGNACI04 SANCHEZ PIERALDI, b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 25 November 1891, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
7. ADOLF03 PIERALDI RODRIGUEZ (JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO~ was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He married MARiA OLAYA Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. Adolfo Pieraldi migrated to the Dominican Republic. His grandson Euripides Pieraldi lives in New York City.
Children
of ADOLFO PIERALDI RODRIGUEZ and MARiA OLAV A are: i. ADOLF04 PIERALDI OLAYA, b. 1880, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; m. JOSEFA
CATALA, 22 June 1907, Yauco, Puerto Rico; b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto
Rico. ii. BERTHA PIERALDI OLAYA, b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. Yauco, Puerto Rico; m. IRIzARRY.
Generation No.4
8. RAMON4 ORENGO (FELIPE) PIERALDIGRAZIANl, JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO!) was born Abt. 1855 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 1925 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (1) JUANITA ClNTRONRIvERA, daughter of PAULINO CINTRON IRIZARRY and APOLONIA RIvERA SANTIAGO. She was born Abt. 1885 in GuayaniIla, Puerto Rico. He met (2) MONSERRATE SEPULVEDA, daughter of MARiA CEFERINA SEPulVEDA RODRiGUEZ. She was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (3) PACHECO. He met (4) AGUSTlNA GUTIERREZ RODRiGUEZ Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, daughter of ANTONIO GUTIERREZ and EVANGELISTA RODRIGUEZ. She was born Unknown.
Children of RAMON ORENGO and JUANITA CINTRON RIvERA are:
14. i. ii. iii.
ELSA5 ORENGO CINTRON, b. Yauco, Puerto Rico. LUIS ORENGO CINTRON. MARiA ORENGO CINTRON, b. 1909.
Children 15. iv. LUIS ANTONI05 ORENGO SEPULVEDA,b. 31 May 1887, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 24 March 1961, Yauco, Puerto
Rico. v. JULIO ORENGO ORENGO SEPULVEDA, b. 1 October 1887, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
of RAMON ORENGO and MONSERRATE SEPULVEDAare:
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16. vi. JUANORENGOSEPULVEDA,b. Unknown. vii. FELIPEORENGOSEPULVEDA,b. Unknown.
Child of RAMON ORENGO and PACHECO is: viii. FRANCISC05 PACHECO, b. 1889, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.
Child of RAMON ORENGO and AGUSTINA GUTIERREZ RODRIGUEZ is: 17. ix. RAMONA’ GUTIERREZ, b. 28 December 1885, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. Aft. 1925, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
9. JUANITA4 PIERALDIORENGO (FRANCISC03 PIERALDI BIANCHI, JOSE IGNAC102 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONlO~ was born 1866 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 8 February 1947 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She married (1) JUAN VARGAS
PEREZ. He was born 1851 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Aft. 1910 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She married (2) ISIDORO BONILLA. He was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 1952 in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Child of JUANITA PIERALDI ORENGO and JUAN VARGAS PEREZ is: i. RAMONA’ VARGASFELICIANO, b. 1902, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
10. AMAUA4 PIERALDI CEDENO (FRANCIscd PIERALDI BIANCHI, JOSE IGNAC102 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIOIj was born 10 August 1873 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 25 September 1968 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She married FRANCISCO PIERALDI LOPEZ Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, son of LUIS PIERALDI BIANCHI and JUANA LOPEZ. He was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Dona Amalia Pieraldi lived in the US Virin Islands. Don Francisco Pieraldi migrated to Hawaii in 1902.
Children
of AMALIA PIERALDI CEDENO and FRANCISCO PIERALDI LOPEZ are:
Child
of LUIS v. LUISANTONI05 PIERALDISEPULVEDA,b. 13December 1913, Yauco, Puerto Rico; m. GEORGINAPEREZ.
i. ii.
iii.
URSULA5 PIERALDI PIERALDI, b. 25 May 1892, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico; d. 9 April 1975, Yauco, Puerto Rico. SERAFiNPIERALDIPIERALDI,b. 15May 1896,Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 1957,Yauco, Puerto Rico. Baptized in September 1, 1918. His godparents were Francisco Pieraldi and Octavia Pieraldi. He died in an automobile accident in Yauco, P.R. around 1952.
ANA PIERALDI PIERALDI, b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico.
11. LUIS ANTONI04 PIERALDI CEDENO (FRANCIscd PIERALDI BIANCHI, JOSE IGNAC102 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO~ was born 1884 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 1964 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (1) MONSERRATE CAPPA RODRIGUEZ Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, daughter OfCRISTINO CAPPA RODRIGUEZ and SUSANA RODRIGUEZ TORRES. She was born 20 May 1898 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 17 February 1993 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He met (2) ANTONIA SEPULVEDA CARABALLO Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, daughter of DOMINGO SEPULVEDA and BAUDILIACARABALLO. She was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Children of LUIS PIERALDI CEDENO and MONSERRATE CAPPA RODRIGUEZ are: i. HIPOLITA5 PIERALDI CAPPA, b. 15 July 1923, Yauco, Puerto Rico; m. JULIO RODRIGUEZESTREMERA, Ponce,
Puerto Rico; b. 30 June 1937, Lares, Puerto Rico. ii. LUISANTONIOPIERALDICAPPA,b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; m. DORAMAil LOPEZ.
iii. ADA MARiA PIERALDI CAPPA, b. 1942. iv. LUIS FELIPE PIERALDI CAPPA, b. Unknown.
PIERALDI CEDENO and ANTONIA SEPULVEDACARABALLO is:
12. FELIPE4 PIERALDI CEDENO (FRANCISC03 PIERALDI BIANCHI, JOSE IGNACId PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIOl) was born Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (1) ALICE DELGADO. She was born 8 August 1900 in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico. He married (2) CECILIA VALERIA CRISTOVICH. She was born in United States. Felipe was a dentist with the rank of Major in the US Army during the First World War.
Children of FELIPE PIERALDI CEDENO and ALICE DELGADO are: i. FRANCISC05 PIERALDIDELGADO, b. 1926, Yauco, Puerto Rico. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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ii. FELIPE PIERALDI DELGADO.
13. FRAl”lCISC04 PIERALDI LOPEZ (LUIS ANTONI03 PIERALDI BIANCHI, JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO~ was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.. He married (1) AMALIA PIERALDI CEDENO Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico, daughter of FRANCISCO PIERALDI BIANCHI and ffiPOLITA CEDENO RUIZ. She was born 10 August 1873 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 25 September 1968 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (2) MARIA MORENO Unknown in Aiwa Village, Honolulu, Hawaii. She was born Unknown in Malaga,
Spain, and died Unknown in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Francisco and his wife Amalia were fIrst cousins. Children are listed above under (10) Amalia Pieraldi Cedefio.
Children
of FRANCISCO PIERALDI LOPEZ and MARiA MORENO are: i. ANNIE5 PIERALDI, b. 1910, Aiwa Village, Honolulu, Hawaii; d. Unknown.
ii. CARMENPIERALDI, b. 1915, Aiwa Village, Honolulu, Hawaii; d. Unknown. iii. MARiA PIERALDI, b. 1920, Aiwa Village, Honolulu, Hawaii; d. Unknown. iv. FRANK PIERALDI, b. 27 November 1920, Territory of Hawaii; d. March 1978, San Francisco, California.
Generation No.5 14. ELSA5 ORENGO CINTRON (RAMOJt ORENGO, FELIPE3 PIERALDIGRAZIANI, JOSE IGNACld PIEBALDI, LUIS
I ANTONIO ) was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She married RAMON LUIS TORRES. He was born in Yauco, Puerto
Rico. Child of ELSA ORENGO CINTRON and RAMON TORRES is:
i. LUIS6 ORENGO TORRES, m. MILDRED FIGUEROA RoMAN; b. Yauco, Puerto Rico. 15. LUIS ANTONI05 ORENGO SEPULVEDA (RAMOJt ORENGO, FELlPEJ PIERALDI GRAZIANI, JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI,
l LUIS ANTONIO) was born 31 May 1887 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 24 March 1961 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He
married (2) ANTONIA SEPULVEDA CARABALLO, daughter of DOMINGO SEPULVEDA and BAUDILIA CARABALLO. She was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married (3) MARiA PETRONlILA ROMAN SANTIAGO Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She was born 8 July 1892 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 8 June 1959 in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Child of LUIS ANTONIO ORENGO SEPULVEDAis: i. FELlPE6 ORENGO.
Children of LUIS ORENGO SEPULVEDA and MARiA RoMAN SANTIAGO are:
ii.
18. iii. iv. v. vi.
LUIS ADNORIS6 ORENGO RoMAN, b. 4 June 1921, Yauco, Pue110 Rico; m. ANGELINA VEGA; b. Unknown, Brooklyn, New York. JOSE ANTONIO ORENGO RoMAN, b. 7 May 1924, Yauco, Puerto Rico. PERFILlA ORENGO RoMAN, b. 28 October 1928.
OSCAR ORENGO RoMAN, b. Unknown. DALILA ORENGO RoMAN, b. 9 March 1934.
16. JUANS ORENGO SEPULVEDA (RAMOJt ORENGO, FELIPE3 PIERALDIGRAZIANI, JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIOl) was born Unknown. He married (1) CLARA.
Children
of JUAN ORENGO SEPULVEDAare:
i. OSVALD06 ORENGOSEPULVEDA,b. Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. October 1999, Brooklyn, New York; m. SARA DASTAS.
ii. iii.
EVELIO ORENGO SEPULVEDA, b. 18 June 1926, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 9 January 2000, Brooklyn, New York. More About EVELIOORENGOSEPULVEDA: Burial: 12 January 2000, Brooklyn, New York ERNESTO ORENGO SEPULVEDA.
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iv. FELIPE ORENGO SEPULVEDA. v. ORBEN ORENGO SEPULVEDA.
17. RAMONAs GUTIERREZ (RAMali’ ORENGO, FELIPE3 PIERALDIGRAZIANI, JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO~ was born 28 December 1885 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died Aft. 1925 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She married JOSE DOLORES ROMAN SANTIAGO 2 February 1911 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, son of JUAN RoMAN SEPULVEDA and MARiA SANTIAGO CARABALLO. He was born 1 January 1888 in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and died 14 March 1971 in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Children
of RAMONA GUTIERREZ and JOSE RoMAN SANTIAGO are: i. JOSE ANiBAL6 RoMAN ORENGO, b. 1912, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. June 1995; m. CARMEN GONZALEZ
FORTUN, 1945. ii. ROSA EMILIA RoMAN ORENGO, b. Unknown, Yauco, Puerto Rico; m. RAMON MONTALVO ACOSTA,
Unknown, b. Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico; d. 1959. iii. ALBERT RoMAN ORENGO, b. 1920, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. 1945. iv. EDITH RoMAN ORENGO, b. 1923, Yauco, Puerto Rico; d. Unknown, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; m. JOSE
ANDRES CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, b. Juncos, Puerto Rico; d. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Generation No.6
18. JOSE ANTONl06 ORENGO ROl\’L\N (LUIS ANTONJ05 ORENGO SEPULVEDA, RAMali’ ORENGO, FELIPE3 PIERALDI GRAZIANI, JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO!) was born 7 May 1924 in Yauco, Puerto Rico. He married VIRGINIA ANTON GIORGI VEGA Unknown in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She was born 19 June 1918 in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico.
Child of JosE ORENGO RoMAN and VIRGINIA ANTONGIORGI VEGA is: 19. i. LuIS ANTONI07 ORENGO ANTONGIORGI, b. 29 April 1951.
Generation No. 7
19. LUIS ANTONI07 ORENGO ANTONGIORGI (JosE ANTONloti ORENGO ROMAN, LUIS ANTONI05 ORENGO SEPULVEDA, RAMali’ ORENGO, FELIPE3 PIERALDIGRAZlANI, JOSE IGNACI02 PIERALDI, LUIS ANTONIO!) was born 29 April 1951. He married 8ILMA GONZALEZ Unknown inYauco, Puerto Rico.
Child of LUIS ORENGOANTONGIORGI and SILlVIAGONZALEZ is: i. LUISANTONI08 ORENGOGONZALEZ,b.Yauco,PuertoRico.
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YAUCO:
The municipality of Yauco on Puerto Rico’s south coast between Ponce and San German has long been noted for the predominance of Corsicans among local notable families. The town was built along the flat land lying directly beneath the southern foothills of the island’s rugged western mountainous range founded in 1756 by a handful of criollo families. The municipality spans two ecological zones: one extending to the sea including flat fertile, well- watered land suited for sugar cultivation; the other reaching to the higher peaks of the island in the heart of Puerto Rican coffee country.
Land ownership posed few obstacles for early settlers, for in this sparsely populated region it was available in abundance. The measure of wealth in the eighteenth century was determined by ownership of slaves, for the land could only be exploited by the use of coerced laborers. Indeed, the last names of those who founded the town are synonymous with the large slaveholders of the epoch; the PACHECOS, QUINONES, ARENAS, and RODRIGUEZ clans were among the most noted families.
In 1812, the population of Yauco was 6,014; 9.5 percent were slaves.1 Coffee was grown in the hills surrounding the town and sugar was cultivated on the flat lowlands. Cotton and tobacco were also grown marginally as cash crops, and large pasture areas were grazed by an abundance of cattle. Unsettled land was available on the coast or in the higher interior. In 1812, over 3,000 cuerdas were categorized as hatos, and in the sierra there were 3,800 cuerdas of untitled terrenos baldios. The alcalde of the town was Jose PACHECO, a son of the town’s first mayor, Fernando PACHECO. The descendants of the criollo families founding Yauco maintained their local dominance through the early 1820s, but a decade later, precisely when the sugar economy was expanding rapidly, the town had been populated by numerous Corsican immigrants who began to ~~tLcontrol over local economic life.
The first Corsican to appear in Yauco was Domingo MATTEI. Shortly after arriving in Puerto Rico in 1814 he married Estefania RODRIGUEZ, a descendant of the small nucleus of hacendados who had founded Yauco. MATTEI began as a small pulpero but by 1821, although the only foreign merchant in the municipality, Mattei claimed assets of 8,000 pesos, over half of Yauco’s total commercial wealth. This immigrant pioneer and relatives in Corsica evidently communicated, for within a few years more Corsicans arrived and settled the town.
1In 1838, in a census taken of Yauco, there was a population of 8,128 inhabitants; 22.7 per cent were slaves. See Juan D. Roman, Las familas que residian en el Pueblo de Yauco y sus barrios durante el ano 1838, in Archivos Generales de Puerto Rico, Fondo de Gobernadores Espanoles, Serie: sitios y Terrenos, Legajo; Canso de Yauco, ano 1838, Caja: 185.
becoming a naturalized citizen under the provisions of the Cedula de Gracias. Although the mechanisms of accumulation he used are unknown, by 1846 Negroni owned Yauco’s largest sugar hacienda, 940 cuerdas worked by thirty-eight slaves and a declared capitalization of 23,661 pesos. His economic power in the municipality was combined with his political influence. He had been mayor in 1843 and served intermittently on the town council.
Another early immigrant was Juan Bautista MATTEI, one of Yauco’s leading merchants in the 1840′s and 1850′s. He came to Puerto Rico directly from Corsica in 1835 and within four years of his arrival he had accumulated capital resources of over 27,000 pesos in property, merchandize, and slaves. In 1839 Mattei sent for his brother Antonio who was taken into the family business. Antonio married the daughter of Francisco Lluveras, a peninsular sugar hacendado with farms in Guayanilla as well as Yauco. The MATTEI family remained important creditors in Yauco through the 1850′s and 1860′s.
By the 1840′s the Corsican immigrants has become the major merchants and creditors of Yauco, and complemented their commercial operations with investments in agriculture. The last names of NIGAGLIONI, ANTONGIORGI, PIERALDI, FRATICELLI, SEMIDEI, BIASINI, AGOSTINI, and GRIMALDI were associated with commerce as owners of large tiendas in the town or small pulperias in rural barrios where coffee was beginning to flourish. Although Corsicans predominated, Spanish immigrants also became involved in commerce and agriculture. Guillermo COMMINS arrived from Venezuela in 1829, and Francisco MEJIA, a native of Cadiz, was well established in Yauco in the early 1840′S. Francisco LLUCH and Juan AMELL migrated from Catalonia in 1847 and together established an important commercial firm.
From Laird W. Baird:
Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
Acta de Defunci6n de Don Ygnacio Pieraldi y Maestracci1
En esta Santa Parroquia de Nuestra Senora del Rosario de Yauco a treinta y uno de Enero de mil ochocientos ochenta y nueve, yo su infraescrito Cura Parroco hice los oficios de entierro doble con dos fracciones y se le di6 sepultura eclesiastica en su cementerio al cadaver de Don ygnacio Pieraldi, natural de San Martin de Lota en C6rcega, hijo legitimo de Don Luis Antonio Pieraldi y Dona Maria Maestracci, difuntos, como de setenta y tres anos de edad, soltero. No recibi6 los Santos Sacramentos por haber dado lugar la enfermedad; doy fee
(fdo.) Jose Antonio Pieretti
English Translation
In this Holy Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary on the thirty-first of January of one thousand eight hundred and eighty nine, I, the undersigned Parish Priest buried in the cemetery the cadaver of Don Ygnacio Pieraldi, son of Don Luis Antonio and Dona Maria Maestracci, defunct, of about seventy three years old, single.
(signed) Jose Antonio Pieretti
1Archivo Parroquial de Nuestra Senora del Rosario de Yauco, Libro #19 y 20, (1881-1889), folio 275, ins. 2134.
2. Julio31,1861
Informe de la Junta Municipal
Don Ygnacio PIERALDI, natural de la Ysla de Corcega, vecino domiciliado en este partido de Yauco, ante VD. con el mas profundo respeto, paresco i digo: que establecido en el Barrio de Sierra- alta, de sta jurisdiccion a mas de doce 0 catorce anos en donde poseD una pequena propiedad de terreno adquirida por compra que de ella hisiera la cual; no es suficiente para ocupar el representante con 4 hijos varones que tiene dedicados ala agricultura y
(ilegible) al (ilegible) que en el barrio de Aguas blancas (ilegible) de esta jurisdicci6n, radican terrenos (ilegible) [sic] …. cant ….
ref: AGPR Fondo: Obras Publicas
Serie: Propiedad Privada caja: 300, Yauco
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Senor Teniente a Guerra
Don Ygnacio Pieraldi, vecino de este Pueblo, natural del reino de Francia, de estado soltero i mayor de veinticinco anos de edad, ante V. sumisamente parezco i digo: que con la mira de emplearme en un ejercicio que serme util, trato de deducir al (ilegible) comercial los pocos bienes que poseo. A este fin ocurro Suplicamente al (ilegible) administrar la posesi6n de declaraci6n para que pasando a conforme del Caballero Sindico de este domicilio i llenas que sean las demas formalidades desmarcadas en los arts. 11 i 12 del C6digo de comercio, sea dable obtener el permiso suficiente indispensable a mi objeto ••..(sic) [resto de documento mutilado]
Yauco, veinte y nueve de agosto de ~il ochocientos cuarenticinco.
ref: AGPR, Yauco: Municipios 1845 y 1847, Expedientes o Matricula de Comerciantes legajo 123, no. 57.
Ano 1865 Lejo. no. 40 no. 55 Yauco
Ygnacio Pieraldi (firmado)
1. DonYgnacioPIERALDI,vecinodeYauco,pide400cuerdasde terrenos de los que escriben valdios en el barrio de Aguas blancas, lugar denominado los Mogotes y nacimiento (ilegible) del rio Duey.
Don Antonio Maria de ALDNEY, Escribano por S.M. del Juzgado de Guerra de esta Capn. Gral., Secretario de la junta Superior de repartimiento de terrenos baldios y realengos.
certifico que he examinado debidamente de los libros y acuerdo de mi cargo, y de ellos no parece Don ygnacio PIERALDI, vecino de Yauco, agraciado con terrenos de los de la clase arriba mencionado en ninguno de los partidos de la Sala, y para que pueda hacerlo constar donde Ie convenga libre[,] la presenta en
(ilegible) a 10 de Julio de 1861.
Dros. de examen papel 20 reales satisfechos (firmado) Antonio Maria Rodriguez
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