MY ANCESTORS’

STORY

Miguel Marquéz was my grandfather on my mother's side and he was born the ninth of Octuber in Spain in 1903 where he used to live in Malaga with his parents and his three brothers. He had belonged to a wealthy family and he was bred with elegance and politeness in a religious school.

Banished

They were sent to Argentina by a ship while his others members of their family were fighting for the huge inheritance that they parents had left behind.

Miguel Marquéz was forced to leave his country at the age of nine years old with his brothers and his uncle because they parents had died.

He was settled down with his brothers and his uncle in La Plata, Buenos Aires where they could buy a house with the little money that his family had given to them. Then he began to work young to satisfy their basic needs because they were in a difficult economic situation.

Arranged Marriage

Miguel had met Sara Saponaro one time because their friends insited with they had to be together. She spent her life with him in spite of being twelve years old younger than him and being in love of another man.

Sara Saponaro was born the seventeenth of April in Buenos Aires, La Plata in 1918 and she lived there with her parents and her three sisters and one brother. She lived there until she was five years old because after that year her mother died and her father left her with her sisters and her brother in her uncle's house.

After Miguel and Sara decided to live togetherthey settled down in Ensenada, La Plata and one year later, in 1936 they had their first daughter who was named Nélida Marquéz. Thirteen years later, they had their second son named Alberto Marquéz, then came Alicia Marquéz in 1951 and the last one daughter was Mónica Marquéz in 1958.

A large Family

Migdonio Saucedo was my grandfather on my father’s side and he was born in Paraguay in 1928 and lived there with his parents and his brothers and sisters. His parents were from Canarian Islands and they had came to Paraguay because there were a law which said that each 100 tons of merchandiseexported, five families had to come to America.

But in spite of that they had to began to work youngBecause their gradfather had died and they had leftWith their grandmother who had not had a workWhich could maintain them.

At the age of 4 years, Migdonio had to moveTo Misiones as consequence of a War between Bolivia and Paraguay where they parents had died.As a result of this tragedy he, his brothers and Sisters were raised by their Grandparents.

Migdonio Had to go to Entre Rios becauseHe did not have a job and he had receivedNews of his brother, who had gone to Entre Rios searching a job too. When He arrived there, he had to settled down because he started to work in a factory a lot of time and he could not come back to Misiones.

Teresa Correa was born in Entre Ríos, Gualeguay in 1937 she is my grandmother of my father's side and she lived there with her parents and her sixteen brothers and sisters. She was the youngest daughter and the last one and she started to work when she was just nine years old.

Teresa Correa had been in love with a man who had left her when she told him that she was pregnant, so She had to take care her baby alone. Her baby was A girl and was named Liliana, and she had to grow Up without a father.

Migdonio and Teresa Had met each other in the factory where they worked, and they fall in love immediatly. Teresa already had a little daughter who was adopted by Migdonio and he gave to her his surname. After a time they had a son who was named Daniel Saucedo and ten years later they would have their last daughter who was named Sandra Saucedo.

Happy Wedding

LiLiana Saucedo and Alberto Marquéz were married in 1973 in a church of Guernica city. That day was unforgetable to them because the priest was a little drunk and he forgot to prepare the church for the wedding.

In the wedding of Liliana Saucedo and Alberto Marquéz my parents Mónica Marquéz and Daniel Saucedo met each other.. After that day they had kept seeing a lot of times and after a couple of years They began to have a relationship and later they were Living together.

Mónica and Daniel had two daughters, the first Was named Carla Saucedo and she was born in 1988 and the second one was named Daniela Saucedo and was born in 1989. They had to buy A House because they lived in one but it belonged To my Father’sParents.