Sinforoso Canavery

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He was born in the neighborhood of Monserrat, Buenos Aires, son of Sinforoso Camilo Canaverys and Quintina Páez, belonging to a distinguished Creole family of French or Irish descent. His grandfather Manuel Canaverys, was a Lieutenant of the Regimiento de Patricios, who toke part in the defense and reconquist of the city during the English Invasion, and who also participated in the donations for the First Upper Peru campaign in 1810.[5]

Sinforoso Canavery attended primary school in his native neighborhood and completed his secondary education in the National School of Buenos Aires for the year 1875. He obtained his title of Notary Public in the Colegio de Escribanos of Buenos Aires Province on December 1, 1883.[6] His registration as a notary public was verified before the Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, together with other distinguished jurists of the Province, among them Mariano José Paunero.[7]

He began his career as notary of the Province of Buenos Aires in the government of Carlos Alfredo D'Amico. He served as a notary attached to Registry No. 32 of La Plata from February 9, 1886 to May 5, 1887, and served as owner of the Registry of Public Contracts No. 1 of La Plata between 1889 and 1894, year in which he was suspended from his duties for not establishing residence in the territory of La Plata.[8]

He returned to practice as a notary of Registry No. 1 of La Plata in the form of attached between 1900 and 1903. He was appointed Holder of the 1st office on July 30, 1903 during the government of Marcelino Ugarte, exercising the position as Notary Dean of the Registry of Public Contracts No. 1 of the Province of Buenos Aires until May 26, 1929.[9]

He also was a pioneer in the notary offices installed in the rural areas of the Province of Buenos Aires. He served for a brief period as a notary of the 1st Registry of Public Contracts in the town of Navarro.[10]

In 1885 The Sociedad Anónima Teatro Argentino purchased a plot of land from the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires, located in the city of La Plata (event carried out before the notary Sinforoso Canavery).[11]

He participated in the notarial acts of distinguished personalities of the French Society of Buenos Aires. His performances as notary of Government include the contracts for sale of land of Claudio María Joly (born Saône-et-Loire) to Federico Lacroze, owner of Buenos Aires Central Railway.[12] In 1902, he made the scriptures of the sale of a farm in Pehuajó,[13] property of Mirant Borde, known lawyer of French origin.[14] He also performed the deeds of a mortgage between the Banco Español del Río de la Plata and Francisco Cayol Kerkis,[15] son of Bartolomé Cayol, born in Toulon.[16]

He is also found in an old register with Emmanuelle Bousquet, a well-known French entrepreneur, in the contracts between the government of the province of Buenos Aires and the railway entrepreneur Rodolfo Giménez. In a failed project for the construction of a railway from La Plata to Veinticinco de Mayo, and that it would cross the towns of San Vicente, Cañuelas, Gral. Zapiola (Lobos), Chivilcoy. And a railway branch from Navarro to Mercedes and Carmen de Areco to finish its route in the town of Salto.[17]

Canavery also took part in the notarial acts of Argentine politicians and military like Colonel Julián Martínez Lerena and General Zacarías Supisiche, in the sale and purchase of 27,000 hectares to the Mallman Company.[18] In 1888, he made the transfer documents of a property between Nicolás Levalle and Florencio Monteagudo, two well-known Argentine military.[19] In 1890, Canavery performs the notarial deed of a field in the city of Las Heras between Juan Bossio and Máximo Paz. A failed sale that ended in a trial of Bossio against Máximo Paz (politician and hacendado of Buenos Aires).[20]

In 1894 he took part in the deeds of the town of Marcos Paz, on whose land was built the Western Railway Train Station.[21] Towards the beginning of 1900 he took part of the deeds of a property located in Lomas de Zamora belonging to the Gartland family.[22] In 1918 he made the deeds for the purchase of a property made between Pedro Bercetche to Alfredo Demarchi, a former vice-governor of the province of Buenos Aires.[23]

He also served as a notary of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, in charge of the registration office 29, with jurisdiction in Balvanera and Almagro from 1894 to 1897.[24] He was appointed head of the office number 70 by decree of the President José Evaristo Uriburu in 1897,[25] and he resigned his post in 1900,[26] after the then President Julio Argentino Roca appointed Alejandro Ferrari as co-holder of the Registry of Public Contracts No. 70.[27]

Canavery was part in the foundation of some notarial offices of the city of Buenos Aires, including Belgrano and Flores. On October 7, 1887, he had been present in the Ministry of Justice, calling for the creation of an Office of Registration of civil contracts. His request was approved by the Supreme Court of Argentina.[28]

He also had an active participation as a notary public of the city and the province of Buenos Aires,[29] including the notarial acts of former residences belonging to the local aristocracy.[30] One of its offices was located on Avenida de Mayo No. 1261,[31] a few blocks from the Plaza Lorea, neighborhood of Monserrat.[32] He also installed his offices in the neighborhood of San Nicolás, on a building located on Avenida Rivadavia No. 563,[33] in the vicinity of the Cathedral of Buenos Aires.

In La Plata, Capital of the Province of Buenos Aires, he had several public offices, including on the Avenida 51, No 1278, near of the Cathedral of La Plata.[34]

Sinforoso Canavery not only dedicated himself to notarial tasks in the city. In 1887, he offered his free services as commissioner of the 8th section in the census of population, building, commerce and industries of Buenos Aires, conducted between August 17 and September 30 of that year.[35] He also was appointed to integrate the jury in charge of the registration of sector No. 12 in the Municipal Census of the Greater La Plata made in December 1884.[36]

edition of March 21, 1833 of El Lucero.

Sinforoso Canaverys in the records of the General Police Department.

Sinforoso Canaverys arriving on the steamer Olinda with his family and Tomás do Amaral

His father Sinforoso Camilo Canaverys (1808-1872), baptized with those names in honor of Symphorosa and Camillus de Lellis, was a Federal military man,[37] who took part in the Argentine and Uruguayan Civil War, serving in the Batallón de Voluntarios Rebajados de Buenos Aires, a military unit formed by veterans of the federal army.[38] He served under Colonel Joaquín Ramiro, taking part in various Argentine military campaigns, including the Campaña de Rosas al Desierto and Great Siege of Montevideo.[39]

He also dedicated himself to rural tasks in the Province of Buenos Aires, taking part in the trade of hides, suet and antlers to supply the city of Buenos Aires. He is registered in several editions of the newspaper El Lucero in 1833.[40] He is also found in the records of the Criminal Court Catalog of the Province of Buenos Aires as a whistleblower in a robbery case that occurred in 1827.[41]

He was married three times, first to Manuela Pelliza, daughter of Francisco Pelliza and María Fernández, belonging to a distinguished family of creole roots. This marriage, whose registry has the signature of Feliciano Pueyrredón, was carried out on August 17, 1826, in the Parroquia de Santos Lugares.[42]

He was the father of Francisco María Canavery Pelliza (1827-1861),[43] a lieutenant who took part in the Revolution of 11 September 1852, and in the defense of Buenos Aires during the siege of Hilario Lagos.[44]

His second wife was Rosa Farias Zubillaga, daughter of Francisco Higinio Farias and Josefa Juliana Zubillaga, belonging to a family in Montevideo related to José Brito del Pino. He and his wife were parents of Isabelino Canaveris, a Uruguayan patriot, who participated in the Revolución of 1897.

His last marriage was with Quintina Páez, a young woman related to the Burgues and Colman families.[45] She was born in 1830 in Montevideo and deceased in Buenos Aires on July 9, 1881.[46] He and his wife lived in the Barrio Unión, Montevideo,[47] and were present in Buenos Aires when the railroad was inaugurated in 1857.

He and his family made frequent trips on board the Vapor Marquês de Olinda and Menay, that connected the Port of Buenos Aires with to Montevideo. His first recorded trip is on October 5, 1831 aboard a schooner heading to the to the Banda Oriental.[48] In 1855 he and his brother Rufino Canaveris made a trip to the Province of Entre Ríos aboard the Vapor Aurelia.[49]

He settled permanently in Buenos Aires in 1860, owning a Barraca de frutos (warehouse) on Calle de la Victoria No. 614, a few meters from where the current Congressional Plaza is located.[50]

document concerning the trial of María de los Ángeles Calderón against Juan Canaveris

His predecessors had several legal disputes during the colonial and post-colonial period of Argentina. On January 20, 1810, his mother María de los Ángeles Rodríguez Calderón de la Barca, a twenty-three year old Spanish girl, had initiated legal actions against Juan de Canaveris (his grandfather) for not granting him permission to marry his son Manuel Canaveris.[51] She was the illegitimate daughter of María Anselma Calderón and Basilio Rodriguez Rubio, a neighbor of the Chavarría and López Camelo families,[52] who were in turn related to Mónica Lucrecia Calderón, great aunt of Sinforoso Camilo Canaverys.[53]

Basilio Rodríguez belonged to ancient creole lineages of the Río de la Plata, genealogically related to families Casco de Mendoza and Gonçalves-Nuñez Cabral.[54] The legitimate husband of Anselma Calderón was Antonio Abad Barbosa y Pacheco (godfather of Canaverys), belonging to old creole families of Portuguese Spanish origin.[55]

Although one of the reasons why Juan de Canaveris tried to prevent the marriage of his parents was that the bride's family was not of "noble" origin, this family belonged to old distinguished Spanish families of the Pago de la Costa and Buenos Aires, ennobled during the emancipatory period of Argentina.[56] This family was also linked to Pedro Nolasco García, a soldier who served for many years in the Regimiento de Dragones de Buenos Aires.[57]

His son Camilo Alejo Canavery Páez (godson of José Antonio Durán), was a lawyer who participated in the Revolution of the Park.[58] He served as secretary of the Capital Committee of the Radical Civic Union, chaired by Carlos Vega Belgrano.[59] His work as a lawyer includes services to José Camilo Crotto, and his participation in the trial against The Atlas Assurance Company, an English insurance company established in Buenos Aires.[60]

His son Manuel María Canaveri Páez, was a founding and member of the first Municipality of Olavarria. Currently a street in that town bears his name in his honor.[61]

His grandsons Saturnino Canavery and Héctor Canavery, took part in various military campaigns, including the Conquest of the Desert.

Sinforoso Camilo Canaverys was an active militant of the Partido Federal in Buenos Aires and Partido Blanco in the Banda Oriental. His descendants were related through his grandson Julio D. Canaveris, a distinguished Uruguayan surgeon,[62] with illustrious Argentine lineages of English, American and Irish roots, like the Reynolds-Newton from London,[63] Bradley-Sutton from Massachusetts, Hayes-O'Callaghan, an Irish family belonging to the County of Cork,[64] and also to old Creole families like the Serantes-Lezica, Basavilbaso-Ross and Zavaleta-Riglos.[65]

He died on May 9, 1872, aged 63.[66] His daughter Corina Canavery Páez had passed away a few months before at the age of eighteen.[67]

Calle de la Victoria in Monserrat, circa.1880. (his natal neighborhood)

baptism record of Elida Arena Michelena

Máximo Sinforoso Canavery Páez, born in 1857 during the period of State of Buenos Aires, was baptized in the Parish Nuestra Señora de Montserrat on March 10, 1858, being his godmother his aunt Ruperta Canavery. His baptismal record bears the signature of Manuel Velarde, priest of the parish.[68]

He lived in different historic neighborhoods of the city of Buenos Aires, including Balvanera, where he rented a house located on calle Rincón No. 82, a few meters from the current Plaza Primero de Mayo.[69] His natal house, a barracks on Victoria Street No. 614,[70] was located in the vicinity of the Club del Progreso, Teatro de la Victoria and the store A la Ciudad de Londres.[71]

He also lived or was linked to the cities and towns of Adrogué, Temperley, Llavallol, Banfield and La Plata, where he was a neighbor of Esteban F. Achinelly Thompson, a relative and colleague who built the Palacio Achinelly.[72] Achinelly Thompson was the grandson of British stockbroker Felipe Achinelly (1800-1845), the husband of Antonina Bayá Canaveris.[73]

Canavery was married on April 19, 1894 in the Parish Nuestra Señora de Balvanera to Angélica Fortunata Andrade, a seventeen-year-old maiden, daughter of Juan Manuel de Andrade and Domitila Alegre, belonging to a family of landowners dedicated to raising livestock in the area of San Vicente and Cañuelas in Buenos Aires Province.

The Andrade family[74] and the Alegre family were related to the Gilardoni Thompson families, belonging to distinguished landowners of the Lobos area.[75]

His wife, born on January 9, 1877 in Monserrat, belonged to distinguished Portuguese families of Lisbon and Porto, and descended from illustrious Creole lineages related to conquistadores, and also of Spanish aristocratic families from El Puerto de Santa María and Seville, linked in turn to families Monterroso-Rueda, Piña-Merlos, Azco-Merlos, Bourré, Vega-Soreyre, O'Gorman-Tarrago, Belgrano-Rico and Valle-Monterroso.

Juan Francisco de Andrade, grandfather of Angélica, was an immigrant, born in the times of the Peninsular War in Praça de Santo Ovídio.[76] He arrived in Argentina during or after the Portuguese Civil War, and established in the Province of Buenos Aires by 1835, where he was dedicated to cattle breeding, being the owner of a hacienda, built of adobe and straw, located in the area of Cañuelas.[77] He passed away on August 6, 1869 in Buenos Aires,[78] and was buried in the Cementerio del Norte.[79]

Sinforoso Canavery was the godfather of Emma Cipriana Canavery, related to families Mallié-Rouquaud Périchon,[80] and Elida Arenas, related to Lieutenant Colonel Juan Ángel Michelena (uncle of Sinforoso),[81] a patriot who served in the War of Independence, under General José de San Martín.[82]

His ancestors Francisco Pérez de Burgos and Gonzalo Carbajal, had a preponderant role in the beginnings of the political and military life of the Río de la Plata.[83] His wife was a direct descendant of Casimiro Alegre, a military man and landowner who served as campaign mayor of San Vicente and Magdalena.[84] She was also descended from some distinguished soldiers who served during the reign of Philip V of Spain, including a gunner and alférez of the Fuerte de Buenos Aires.[85]

He lived from 1908 until his death in a house located two blocks north of the Almirante Brown Station of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway.[86]

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