I am doomed the investigation of French ancestry, the paternal line, my husband Carlos Alfredo Duprat Mentasty, whose branch of the family 'by her paternal grandmother Juana Mengelle Rospide comes from the Lower Pyrenees, now the Department of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Aquitaine Region comprising: Pau with 270 communes, Bayonne Oloron with 154 and CPN 123.
These French immigrants landed in Montevideo around 1840. Clarified that the migration ex-Pyrenees in the Uruguay extends from 1825 to 1875. In fact, my husband's family up to Montevideo around the second phase of migration by Lionel Dupont called "Time of the French" characterized precisely by the input French Port of Montevideo, which begins in 1837. At that time, the port of Montevideo was a natural port, Buenos Aires becomes important after the adoption of the Draft Eduardo Madero, Buenos Aires important merchant. This port was inauguradoen 1887 and was known as Puerto Nuevo.
A curiosity aroused much interest in me was to the person of Jean Mengelle Ribetto sandfly profession, which was exercised by the great grandfather of my husband.
In those years was something of a descendant of Figaro. Not only was a barber and hairdresser, but also "minor surgery Practitioner" was bleeding, apply poultices, put suckers, leeches, extracted teeth and is likely to be bailed out a mother.
belonged to the list of civil officers of the "French Legion" that according to Prof. Alberto Sarramona, during the "Great War" was in the defense of Montevideo, against "besieging Rosas."
remember that the "Great War" began in 1839 when Gen. Fructuoso Rivera, assisted by the French navy, wanted to finish with Gen. Manuel Oribe, an ally of the Governor of Buenos Aires, Dn. Juan Manuel de Rosas. In that year Rivera declared war against Rosas, who continue to recognize as president Oribe Uruguay constitutional until being overthrown in 1838.
History shows us that Rivera had the support of the enemy unit Argentine and French and British fleets.
In France as in England feared that annexation Rosas Uruguay and wished to end the monopoly of navigation on the river Paraná. Oribe was supported by Rosas and laid siege to Montevideo for nine years (1843-1851)
Thus Mengelle family had their first four children between the years 1847-1851 in Montevideo and then settle in and Gualeguay Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos .
As you can see the genealogical research involving placed in context of the time in which they occurred. For these immigrants, according to Prof. Alberto Sarramona in his book "Grandparents Gascones Béarn and tells us that many of the items were numerous and that in this real bleeding demographic local authorities could not avoid it. The causes were mainly young people who left the country before military service, but also entire families, artisans and merchants ruined by the growth of large industries and the crisis of the fields.
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