Photographs

 Gonzalez de Mendoza – Pedroso      Batista – Villareal Bonet

Palacio Pedroso, Havana, built in 1780 by Mateo Pedroso, a Cuban-born colonial administrator. As a merchant and regidor perpetuo, city councilor for life, his wealth grew with the level of activity in this key stop-over harbour to Spanish colonies. See Chapter 1
A casa/almacen, the comple x had storage and offices on the ground floor, the entresuelo or servants’ dormitories in the low-ceiling second floor, and the family’s living quarters on the upper levels. The building is now known also as the Palacio de Artesania and, continues as a commercial exchange between the port and outsiders. See Chapter 2
After their 1855 elopement from her parent’s home at number 10 Paula , Antonio G. de Mendoza and Chea Pedroso lived with Antonio’s parents on Salud Street just outside the city walls. Miguel was born there in 1856. Julia, born in 1860 wrote Fechas de Mi Vida a memoir of the essential dates and facts about her family including the places where they lived. (See Supporting Documents.) Her first memory was of the funeral of of her younger sister in which the procession travelled from the family’s first home on San Ignacio street to the Espada cemetery. Click to enlarge. Map of Havana 1857, Jose Maria de la Torre, New York Public Library, crop.
Obrapia no. 16, corner of Mercaderes was home to Joaquin Pedroso y Echevarria (1795-1870) and his brother Luis. Grandsons of Mateo Pedroso, the brothers used the new steam-driven transportation and sugar processing to amass a fortune. Joaquin hoped to arrange the marriage of his daughter Mercedes to the Forcade family to facilitate  the construction of rail and port construction in Matanzas province south of Cardenas.  See Chapter 3
This Batista family tree shows Ignacio Pedroso (whose father was Mateo Pedroso) was, in turn, the father of Joaquin and Luis.
Mercedes (Chea) Gonzalez de Mendoza with Julia and Miguel, 1863-4. What we know of Chea comes from Julia, her eldest daughter and Matilde, Julia’s eldest daughter. Her exploits are central to both women’s family records. These and other female family voices reflect history as it was lived, on an intimate scale. They expose such issues ignored in broad-view political and economic histories as the intricacies of power relations within the family, the lasting effects of illnesses and deaths, the importance of religion and education, and the legacy of pride and shame through the generations.
Fechas de mi Vida, memoir of Julia Batista Gonzalez de Mendoza. For transcript and English translation see  In Place, Supporting Documents.
Chea’s children who survived infancy, in birth order between 1856 and 1872, were: Miguel, Julia, Claudio, Maria Antonia, Felicia, Victor, Ramon, and Pablo.
Chea made daily visits to the Carmelite convent and church of Santa Teresa de Jesus for mass and to report on her work as part of the “Hijas de Maria” charitable organization. Late in life she took a vow of poverty, dressed simply and cut her hair short. See Chapter 3.
At the outbreak of the first war of independence in 1869 Antonio and Chea went into exile first in New York and then in Madrid before returning to Havana in 1873. Antonio did not favor  independence because he felt the country did not have the foundation for responsible government.  At the conclusion of the war, when Cubans were offered limited political freedom,  he was appointed Mayor of Havana.  See Chapter 4
After the 1879 death of Joaquin Pedroso  Antonio Gonzalez de Mendoza took possession of his home at Amargura #23 at the corner of Amargura and Aguiar streets. He converted the ground floor for his law practice. Later, when sons Claudio and Ramon and grandson Antonio became lawyers, they set up their offices in the front of the adjoined house at #25. His son in law Gonzalo Arostegui, a doctor, set-up his consulting rooms on the Aguiar side (#108) on the ground floor.  The photo shows the Aguiar side including at the end, the entrance for horses and coaches.  On the left, the convent of San Francisco. (street numbers were subsequently altered )See Chapter 5. photos Teresa Casas 2009
Joaquin Pedroso on constructing his home insured there would be airflow within his home by eliminating the possibility that anyone could construct around him. Alongside his own home he built two  for each of his grown children.
front entrance from Amargura street.
Following the Mediterranean tradition, colonial houses featured an interior patio, window blinds, high ceilings and galleries, elements designed to admit light and air while dividing the home between the upper domestic spaces and the ground floor business areas. Today the house is a community mental health clinic.
As each of Antonio and Chea’s children began their married lives throughout the 1880’s, they and their growing families took up rooms in what had been opened up into a large family compound.
In 1880 Miguel married Maria Josefa Montalvo y Chacon, a cousin. The following year Maria Antonia also married a cousin, Jose Maria Arellano, son of her maternal aunt who lived in the formerly neighboring home on Aguiar street that had been adjoined. Later in the 1880’s Claudio then Felcia married and brought their spouses to live in Amargura. Victor remained a bachelor and the two youngest Pablo and Ramon married in the late 1890’s.
All legal papers had to be filed at an office near the Plaza de Armas. According to Nena Arostegui who lived there as a child, on weekdays, the sound of typewriters (among the first in Havana) filled the air in the downstairs law offices.
According to Julia, her brother Claudio suggested, while they were standing together at a balcony in Amargura, that she marry Melchor, a young lawyer who had joined the family law firm. They married in 1883.
Melchor and Julia’s daughter, Matilde, was a part of the Amargura household. She recounts that there was little conflict because Don Antonio and Chea set an example of “high moral conduct.” She adds that the women who cared for the children were distant relatives or friends, they were all devout Catholics and it was a time of great bounty.
In Amargura there were 6 cooks and their assistants, 15-20 nursemaids, several wet nurses, 10 coachmen, a multitude of personal servants, laundresses, etc. Each day two meals were served at a table with at least 30 settings and served by 6 servants. First service was for the children and an hour later adults were served. At age eleven one graduated to the adult table.
Vertigo del Tiempo, Memorias de Nena Arostegui, Natalia del Rio Bolivar, Publicaciones de la Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, 2006. The following four images are reproduced from Vertigo del Tiempo.
According to Nena, Amargura etiquette demanded that all adults receive guests with Antonio and Chea on Saturday evenings. To honor Don Antonio on his feast day his grown children produced costumed dramas in which even the youngest members of the family took part. See Chapter 5

The daughter of Felicia and Gonzalo Arostegui, Maria Teresa (Nena) in her memoirs describes Amargura as a child’s paradise where strict but sensible daily routines were balanced by the games, plays and carnivals organized for them by the two youngest Mendoza uncles, Ramon and Pablo.
La Sociedad Cubana del Siglo XIX, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2004, cover
Portrait of the Gonzalez de Mendoza family, 1886, Jose Arburu Morell. Reproduced in La Sociedad Cubana del Siglo XIX. (A large-scale color reproduction of the painting was displayed at the 2007 Gonzalez de Mendoza reunion.)
left to right: Ramon, Julia and Felicia, Gonzalo Arostegui, Melchor Batista by piano, Maria Josefa Montalvo, Maria Antonia, Miguel standing behind seated Claudio (left portion of reproduction Aruburu painting shown at 2007 Gonzalez de Mendoza family reunion)
Jose Maria Ramirez de Arellano, Maria Teresa Freyre de Andrade, Victor, Antonio and Chea.  (Pablo, boy in center, cropped from this right portion of reproduction).
Melchor Batista y Varona was born in 1859 to a prominent family from Camaguey who had lost its fortune in the first war of independence and brought their children to Havana for their education at the Colegio de Belen, a prestigious school for boys run by the Jesuit Brothers. Too timid to approach his employer’s daughter, Julia had to gradually draw Melchor out to launch their courtship.
Batista-Gonzalez de Mendoza boys in Amargura 1900 . Left to right: Victor, Manuel, Julio, Ernesto (behind chair), Agustin (in chair), Jorge and Melchor.   Chea, who died in 1896, helped by buying clothing for the Batista children when Melchor’s reduced income  due to illness made it impossible to maintain the appearance required in image conscious Havana society. See Chapter 5
Standing from left to right: Miguel, Pepita Montalvo (de Miguel), Ramón, Felicia (de Arostegui), Pablo, Mariana de la Torre (de Ramón), Claudio, Jose Maria Arellanos. Seated: Julia (de Batista) Victor, D. Antonio, Paulette (de Pablo) Ma. Antonia (de Arellano) Gonzalo Arostegui, Maria Teresa Freyre (de Claudio) Melchor Batista. 1902. According to family lore, the  oval, 1876 portrait of Micaela Montalvo hangs on the wall.
El Figaro, 11 diciembre 1904, La Manifestacion Catolica pp 2-3 (Julia centre of row) A staunch defender of the role of the Church in education, Julia sent her daughters along with the rest of the  G. de Mendoza girls to  El Sagrado Corazon,  a private Catholic school. Her father, on the other hand, was in favor of the separation of church and state  (before his death his sons and grandsons did not attend religious schools) and reinforced this view as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the 1899 Marriage Law Controversy. This march demonstrated women’s support for the continued involvement of the Church in education after the 1902 Constitution secularized all public education.
After the death of Don Antonio in 1906 the extended family  gradually dispersed as each branch moved into homes in El Vedado. A decade later Amargura  served as the premises of Colegio de La Salle,. The Christian Brothers (a French order unaffected by the Spanish colonialist attitudes that pervaded the Jesuits) was invited by the G. de Mendoza family to open a boys’ school. It, along with the girls’ school, Sagrado Corazon became the bedrock institutions for the family. See Chapter 10 (photo :Cuban Heritage Collection)
reproduced from Vertigo del Tiempo
When war was declared between Spain and the United States in 1898, some of the Gonzalez de Mendoza family members went into exile in the U.S. others took refuge in Santa Gertrudis, the family’s sugar mill. Ramon joined the American army, taking part in the decisive battle in Santiago as an assistant to General Lawton. The  above photo features Leonard Wood and unidentified officer, possibly Ramon. (New York Public Library) In Place explores the  American occupation and its effect on the family and its urban home in Chapter 7.
In 1899 the American government of occupation decreed a new judicial system and appointed Don Antonio the first Justice of the Supreme Court. However, after a year in office he resigned. A contemporary source claimed the resignation to be a protest against American attempts to undermine the judicial process.  He died in 1906. See Chapter 7
Mendoza, Batista, and Arostegui family members discussed In Place following the written sources of Julia  Batista G. de Mendoza and Matilde Batista as well as Maria Teresa (Nena) Arostegui.
Painting by Melchor’s brother, Carlos Batista y Varona, commemorating Julia and Melchor’s honeymoon in Vento, 1883.
Julia Mendoza de Batista’s fan with portrait of one of her children possibly also painted by Carlos Batista. Chea commissioned him to paint a mural in her favored neighborhood church, San Felipe Nero.
Batista Mendoza family: Julia stands in background, closest to the door. Julio (1884), Matilde (1886), Adolfina (1887), Jorge (1889), Clemencia (1890), Manuel (1891), Maria Antonia (1892), Ernesto (1893), Melchor (1895), Victor (1897), Agustin (1899), Eugenio (1900), Consuelo (1902). This photo taken before the birth of the last child Enriqueta (1903).
Batista G. de Mendoza family.
Some adult and adolescent Batista’s ca. 1917: Eugenio, Consuelo, Enriqueta, Victor, Melchor, Agustin, Jorge and mother, Julia. The head of the family ,Melchor,  suffered from mielitis and depression, a fact that made the children dependent on wealthier G. de Mendoza uncles for  their higher education. The household moved from one rented house to another in El Vedado according to the number of family members at home. Melchor spent long periods in Camaguey where he had inherited property.
Jorge Batista, perhaps at Cornell University from which he graduated in 1914 as a Civil Engineer.
Matilde Batista in the years before taking the veil  in 1912 . A teacher, she was posted throughout Latin America when not in Havana.
Melchor and Julia in center flanked by Maria Antonia and Ernesto’s family. Victor and Julio stand behind . Enriqueta and Consuelo in rocking chairs extreme left and right. The Batista – G. de Mendoza family was reduced by the 1905 death of Manuel from appendicitis. The eldest, Julio, joined the Mendoza law firm in 1907, then run by his uncles Claudio and Ramon. The two eldest girls, Matilde and Adolfina, were among the first to leave home for the Sagrado Corazon convent. Adolfina rose to become director of the Tejadillo branch of the school while Matilde taught in various Latin American countries. The boys in the middle of the birth order, Victor and “Melchorito”, after graduating from Lawrenceville were sent by their uncles to to Fordham University and Amherst Agricultural College respectively as preparation for joining the web of family enterprises. Maria Antonia and Clemencia married and became mothers. Ernesto and Eugenio became architects in the midst of a grand re-visioning of Havana’s built environment. Agustin practiced law in the Mendoza firm until he turned to managing his wealthy in-law’s assets. Consuelo, the youngest, graduated from Sagrado Corazon in 1921. She and Enriqueta remained at home until Julia’s death in 1934. Later, Consuelo became private secretary to her brother Agustin and then to Washington-based Cuban diplomats eventually becoming the first woman to be registered as a diplomat in the American capital.
First generation Batista -G. de Mendoza’s as listed in an early version of the family book.
This photo shows Santa Gertrudis as seen in The Cuba Review, August 1917. 
According to Matilde Batista, when her uncle Miguel broke the news to the enslaved workers that they were free, they didn’t seem to comprehend the reality. 
With funds acquired from the 1916 sale of Santa Gertrudis to the American Sugar Company, the family built a state of the art sugar mill in the Ciego de Avila region. Cunagua brought enough profit to make possible diversification into banking and real estate when the economy was in high gear.
Matilde Batista was told by Don Antonio, “…When we saw how steadily he managed the plantation despite the fact that he did not like the countryside, we promised him that above his salary as a manager he would also receive one third of the profits from each sugar harvest.” Miguel and his son Antonio (right) spearheaded the transformation of the family’s sugar mills. Photo: G. de Mendoza family book
Ramon and Pablo G. de Mendoza ca. 1925. Along with Miguel and Antonio they understood the importance of American partnerships to secure markets and invest in the latest technology for their mills. They and their American-educated sons founded their own bank and diversified their investments from the sugar industry into copper, real estate and banking.  Photo: G. de Mendoza family book. See Chapter 12.
Jorge Batista, like his brothers, chose a career that would make him employable in the family ‘s central business interests: sugar, law and real estate. Along with Melchor and Victor he served  in the 1920’s as an administrator and engineer at Jaronu, a plantation that served Cunagua.
The move to homes in El Vedado during the Republican era reflects the family’s investments in real estate, banking and hotels  as Havana spread past its borders and became an international recreational capital. Nena Arostegui recounts how her generation bonded over their love of sports at the Vedado Tennis Club and the Havana Yacht Club and enjoyed the new horizons as the western suburbs of Marianao and Miramar were opened up by such developers as her uncle Ramon.
The generation which came of age in the late 1920’s felt cheated out of an independent democratic nation as this vision was warped by the corrupt and repressive rule of President Gerardo Machado. As a student underground  opposition movement  grew, Ramon’s son, Ignacio attempted to assassinate Machado  in 1932 by planting a bomb on his route to a club in the western suburbs.  Ramon had died  of pneumonia in Washington in 1919. See Chapter 13
In 1933 Fulgencio Batista took control of the army and carried out a coup d’etat. His troops laid siege to the Hotel Nacional where officers loyal to the deposed President Machado had taken refuge. Nena’s husband, Arturo Bolivar, was among the officers. Victor G. de Mendoza, a lawyer for the Red Cross was brought in to negotiate the transfer of the officers to prison. See Chapter 15
Felicia and Gonzalo center, Nena seated at Gonzalo’s right with Arturo Bolivar standing behind to her right. To support her young family after Arturo was imprisoned Nena joined the labor force. The political and economic upheavals of the twenties and early thirties hit hard a class accustomed to security. With few marketable skills wives struggled to maintain their family’s place in society. Through the life experiences and thoughts of Nena Arostegui and Celia Rodriguez In Place exposes how the 1933 revolution and the depression penetrated deep into the emotional lives of middle class Cuban families. See Chapter s 14, 15, 16

Villareal – Bonet and Falla – Bonet family

The wars of independence brought disaster to many Cubans and opportunity to Spanish immigrants.  Of  the three Bonet Morra daughters, Antonia married a criollo who sold off his land to pay debt while Lola  wed  a Spaniard who by acquiring land from impoverished land owners laid the groundwork for a large fortune.See Chapter 8 Photo: Antonia Bonet  Morra de Villareal 1901. She was widowed and left to care for eight children in 1898 and died of cancer in 1912 at  age 56.
Antonia and Lola’s daughters married G. de Mendoza – Batista men in the 1920’s. (Rogelio Villareal the fourth in birth-order is not mentioned in Guillermina’s memoir and therefore mistakenly omitted from the chart.)
birth certificate Maria Otilia (Guillermina) Villareal y Bonet
Guillermina Batista Villareal memoir  written on a steno pad. See Supporting Documents. Her life story is launched by recollections of  the famine and epidemics  that accompanied  war. It was largely through food supplied by Lola Bonet de Falla and the assistance of their former slaves that the Villareal Bonet’s  survived the worst days of the war.
Guillermina Villareal’s note indicating that this flag hung in her home to celebrate the new Constitution, 20 May 1902.
In 1900 the Villareal Bonet family moved from Santa Isabel de las Lajas to 68 Colon street, Sagua La Grande where Otilia,  the third Bonet sister, was based.
Guillermina Villareal Bonet ca. 1900. American educators brought Montessori kindergarten to Lajas  in 1899 causing her to “fall in love with school”. The 1902 Constitution made primary education compulsory and free. Guillermina and her sisters would pull their family out of poverty by working as teachers.
Guillermina Villareal 1917. Between 1900 and 1910 two of her sisters, first Matilde, the eldest, and then, when the latter married, the middle sister Hortensia, study, passed exams and were appointed to a teaching position so becoming the family breadwinner. The youngest, Guillermina began her teaching career in 1914.  It was during this period in Sagua when she was five to nineteen years old that her world view was formed through close observation of town, school and domestic life.
Guillermina Villareal ca. 1918. Her training was influenced by the educational techniques and values promoted by the American occupation administration  but she, like many Cubans, appreciated these because they mirrored the beliefs of nationalist reformer Jose Marti who called for compulsory, secular and practical education to realize each individual’s potential and secure a just society.  The national curriculum called for education “to form habits habits in children that facilitate the carrying out of their patriotic duties.” See Chapter 9.
Guillermina Villareal ca. 1925. The first phase of her adult life was spent as a teacher  in villages as well as sugar mills owned by her uncle, Laureano Falla.   Following this, Guillermina worked as a provincial school inspector. Through correspondence studies and periodic examinations in Santa Clara and Havana she was able to continue her education eventually completing graduate studies in Pedagogy. In the capital she was drawn into the lives of the Batista family through her Falla aunt and cousins.
This home was built for Agustin Batista and Maria Teresa Falla after their 1926 marriage. “B y 13” was the intersection harboring the homes of Lola Falla Bonet  and her daughter Adelaida “Lala” Falla wife of Viriato Gutierrez and the Colegio La Salle de Vedado.
The Central Adelaida was the country home and major mill of the Falla family. In 1915 Laureano Falla had bought it from an American company and upgraded it with the latest technology. The mill’s directors included Falla’s son in law Viriato Gutierrez. After Gerardo Machado was elected in 1925 the latter became his right hand man. The family connection would provide government sinecure positions to the newlyweds, Jorge and Guillermina until  Machodo was overthrown in 1933. Chapter 14
Julia and Melchor Batista ca. late 1920’s or early 1930’s. In the early 1930’s Batista family members seem in constant movement and mention of their travel to the United States and Europe begins to feature prominently in Julia’s journal. The travels reflect their ability to take part in such events as the Chicago World Fair and, in a seemingly minor way, escape the political upheaval at home.
Melchor and Julia, snapshot taken by one of their children, ca. 1930. Melchor died in 1932  of heart disease and Julia succumbed two years later to cancer.
Jorge Batista 1929. As a child he was operated in New York City for a middle ear infection. As a result of infection from the surgery he suffered from epileptic seizures throughout his life. Working as an engineer in the highly mechanized sugar mills he was at risk of accidents and at one point suffered severe burns. Jorge died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 48.
Left to right: Ernesto Batista, Mary Heydrich Batista, boy likely Juan Gabriel Batista Heydrich, Jorge Batista, Jorge Batista, Maria Antonia Batista (seated) Guillermina Villareal (centre) Victor Batista, Julia (seated with daughter of Maria Antonia possibly Isabel) and Enriqueta Batista. ca. 1929
Guillermina Villareal de Batista, December 14 – 1929
Guillermina with Teresita Batista Villareal 1930
Jorge with Teresita Batista Villareal
Jorge and Teresita Batista ca. 1931 at the entrance to a house near B y 13
Teresita Batista (centre) w. Batista Bonet cousins ca. 1932

Batista Villareal family flanked by Batista brothers Julio and Victor.  Although Jorge lost his job overseeing municipal infrastructure projects after Machado’s fall  his brother, Agustin hired him to oversee his Sevilla Biltmore Hotel’s physical plant including the very lucrative electric laundromat. Guillermina established a school in 1935 which prospered and in 1937 they moved to a large apartment at B y 13.  Jorge’s death forced the school’s closure.
Maria Teresa Falla de Batista, Maria Teresa Batista and Dolores Bonet Falla
In a letter sent to Ernesto Batista by his brother Agustin from France dated August 15, 1933: “What appears obvious is that Machado has fallen and fled the country during which time there has been serious social disorder. I have received several telegrams from home and from the offices of Falla and Claudio informing me that all of our families are safe. We have also been warned that Lala (Adelaida’s) home has been looted…” See Chapter 14
Teresita Batista Villareal ca. 1935
Guillermina Villareal de Batista and Teresita shortly after the 1937 death of Jorge Batista. His death brought his widow and daughter closer to the extended family but in a position of greater dependence. They first moved in with the unmarried Batistas, Julio, Enriqueta, Consuelo, Victor and Eugenio. Following that arrangement, they moved to a hotel near B y 13 to be able to continue the daily visits to Lola Falla.
Having an atheist, rationalist mother, Teresita Batista was brought up by an English speaking nanny and educated at Ruston Academy and St. George’s both private,  secular, bilingual schools.
Teresita and Guillermina on vacation in Mexico, late 1940s
Los Batista, Playa Veneciana 1951. Standing: Isabel B., Roberto Fdz Morrell, Helena Hdz, Georgina Hdz, Jorge Hdz, Melchor Batista, Eugenio Batista, Silvia Hdz B., Bill Oberheiser, Ana Maria B. de O., Alberto de Cordova. Sitting: Esther del Pino de B., Marta Fdz Morrell y B., Maria Antonia Batista, Alina de Cordova y B. , Julio Batista, Enriqueta Batista, Guillermina Villarea de B. Clemencia Batista, Graciela Gaston de B. Gloria B . de de Cordova. Front: Julia Hernandez, Isabel Fdz Morrell, Beatriz de Cordova y Batista, Teresita Batista, Rosa Hdz. B. , Victor Batista
College of New Rochelle, June 4, 1950 (Teresita Batista 3rd from left) sponsored by her uncle Agustin Teresita attended a New York  Liberal Arts Catholic college and returned to Havana, to her mother’s dismay, a devout  and practicing member of the Church.
Teresita Batista as teacher (right) with student at Merici Academy, a Catholic private girl’s school ca. 1955-7. She was asked to resign 1957 when it became obvious that she was pregnant. The Catholic administrators explained that, although married, she “presented a bad example to the students.”  Teresita responded that this was an insult to her femininity.
Teresita Batista, Toledo 1955
Fragment of letter sent from Europe by Teresita to her mother in 1955. Sponsored by her uncle, Agustin, she was accompanied by several female friends or relatives. She used Eddy’s Michelin guide with his notes. In Paris, Agustín and Maria Teresa invite Teresita to dine with them at Maxim’s.
newspaper clipping, Teresita Batista engagement party
Teresita Batista Villareal with her uncle Agustin Batista
Eduardo (Eddy) Casas and Teresita Batista on their honeymoon in Mexico, 1956.
Eduardo Casas and Teresita Casas Batista 1957
Eddy and Teresita 1957
Guillermina Villareal de Batista with grandson Eduardo Casas 1957
Pedro Erviti y Fernandez Morrell first birthday, behind him Clemencia Batista
Batista Gaston family
Casas Batista family 1957
Eddy and Teresita Casas with infant Eduardo Casas at the Havana Yacht Club with Ana Maria Brull, Conchita Valverde, Julio and Margarita Blanc y Valverde, 1958.
Rosa Hernandez Batista and Armandito Rodriguez godparents of Teresa Casas 1959
Teresa and Eduardo Casas with parents, grandparents and great aunt 1959

Batista Gaston family 1960s

Casas Batista family, Calle 28, ca. 1964
Eduardo and Teresa Casas and friends Calle 28 Miramar
Eduardo Casas First Communion, with Maria and Teresa 1965
Matilde Batista (right)
Matilde Batista
Matilde Batista, “Recuerdos” See “Supporting Documents” In Place

Notes by Teresita Batista

Guillermina Villareal de Batista and Casas Batista family arrival in Ottawa May 14, 1966
Casas Batista family ca. 1968 children: Eduardo, Teresa, Maria, Isabel
Canadian citizenship ceremony 1971
Casas Batista family, June 1970
Guillermina Villareal de Batista with Teresa Casas ca. 1977
Pepe Fornes Villareal 1984
Lola O’Reilly Fornes with husband and two children, Cape Cod 1985
back, Teresita Batista, Eddy Casas, Ernesto Fuentes, Rosa Hernandez de Fuentes, front, Rosa or Emilia and Ernesto Fuentes
Casas Batista family 1995 left to right Brian McGuire, Teresa, Eddy, Teresita, Rob Morrow, Marco Fonseca, Maria, Isabel, Julia McGuire, Eduardo