BIRTH NAME: Juana Vinet
BIRTH: 1849 10 at Port Mahon, Balearic Islands, Spain [1][2]
FATHER: Juan Vinet b. Spain d. 1885 NOLA [1]
MOTHER: Margarita Bonas b. Spain [1]
SIBLINGS: unknown
MARRIAGE: 1870 11 17 New Orleans, LA age 21
SPOUSE: Ramon Solares age 23
Witnesses = Juan Cumalat, Joseph Fontenberta, John Vinet
CHILDREN: Ramon Pedro Solares Jr [aka Raymond]
Joseph Maria [Ramon] Solares 'Pep'
Esperanza Magdalena Solares 'Nina'
John Roman Solares
Seraphin Francisco Solares 'Frank'
Modesto Arcadio Solares 'Dutch'
Maria Marguerite Solares 'Maggie'
VOCATION: keeping house
MILITARY: no record
RELIGION: Roman Catholic
DEATH: 1899 08 27 New Orleans
INTERRED: unknown as of 2007 09
OTHER: Census 1900 - arrived in US 1868
Notes:
Census 1880: age given as 37 = born 1843
Marriage 1870: age given as 21 = born 1849
Death 1889: age given as 39 + 10 mos = born Oct 1849
Surname appears as VINET on marriage record
Surname appears as VINENT on death record
Given name appears in records as Juana, Joanna, Johanna
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Juana's Origins & Migration
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Our knowledge of Juana Vinet is severely limited.
She arrived in America before 1870 for certain ... she married Ramon Solares that year.
Her father John [Juan] was in America with her. He witnessed her marriage. There are indistinct
traces of a John Vinet in records but not definitive enough to cite here as proof of anything.
In 1885 New Orleans there was a death recorded for Juan Vinent, age 71, born Mahon, Spain. It
certainly seems to be him. It states he resided in the City of New Orleans the past 35 years.
Four years later in August 1889, Juana Vinent is record as having died at age 39 years and 10 months,
making her birth in October 1849 which is the correct fit with all other records. She was born in
Spain. If her father was in New Orleans for 35 years ending in 1885, he came in 1850 when Juana was
an infant.
Her mother was Margarita Bonas. All were born at Port Mahon, Minorca, Spain. What brought them
to America is unknown. It is uncertain whether Juana's mother came to America with them.
The name Vinet/Vinent is plentiful among French people but scant among those of Spanish descent.
Historically, Minorca has been part of Catalonia which straddles the borders of Spain and
France. Mayhap the ancestors of Juan Vinet came from just across in France or during one of
the many military invasions of the island.
Juana lived only to age 40.
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Shown above is an ambrotype, a photograph made on glass as a negative. I have scanned it and
reversed the image to a positive and cleaned it as well as I reasonably could. Ambrotypes were
the rage in America and Great Britain from about 1850 until the mid 1860s when tintype displaced
it in popularity, mainly because the glass was fragile.
The time period is ideal for the little girl in the photo to be Juana Vinet with her father Juan
and brother whose name eludes my research at the moment. The photo was in posession of my grandmother
Marguerite Solares whose mother was Juana Vinet. Neither the man nor the child in the photo bear
the slightest resemblance to any Solares man, woman, or child, and we have photos of all the
Solares family members as far back as 1870.
I never saw the photo before March 2007 when a cousin-in-law showed it to and explained
its origin. I can think of no reason for my grandmother to hold on to a photo of no meaning or
consequence for eighty years. I surmise her father gave it to her as a keepsake after her mother's
death in 1889 when Marguerite was only age four. Her elder sister Magdalena was grown and married.
She had only her father and a gang five of brothers at home. She was the 'baby' from her father's
first marriage. I am personally convinced that the girl in the photo is my grandmother's mother, the
man he mother's father, and the boy her uncle, Perhaps in time supporting evidence will surface.
WH
[The inernet offers many sites displaying and explaining the history of
photography; Daguerrotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, etc. A Google or other search engine will turn
up thousands of 'hits' when the search term entered is ambrotype.]
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Spain shown on map of Europe
Balearic Islands shown on map of Spain
Island of Minorca in red circle
Flag and arms of the Balearic Islands
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Port Mahon [Mao] at the eastern tip of Minorca [Menorca]
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Flag of Minorca and Arms of Mahon
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Balearic Islands, Minorca & Mahon
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From Wikipedia.org 2007 08 comes these extracts concerning the Balearics, Minorca, and Mahon:
Balearic Islands
In the chaos surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire, the islands were conquered by the
Vandals. They were subsequently reconquered by the Byzantine Empire, but soon fell to the
Moors after the their conquest of Iberia.
Between 1113 and 1115, a Tuscan and Lombard fleet, led by Ugo da Parlascio Ebriaco and
Archbishop Pietro Moriconi of the Republic of Pisa, made a successful expedition against
the Balearic Islands. The expedition was launched with the support of Constantine I of
Logudoro and his base of Porto Torres.
In the 13th century, king James I of Aragon conquered the islands which led to subsequent
founding of the Kingdom of Mallorca, but in 1344 it ceased to exist and it was directly
incorporated into the Crown of Aragon, which was later united dynastically with Castile as
a result of the marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon to become
part of the newborn Spain.
The Balearic Islands were frequently attacked by Barbary pirates from North Africa, the
Formentera was even temporarily left by its population. In 1514, 1515 and 1521 coasts of
the Balearic Islands and the Spanish mainland were raided by Turkish privateer and Ottoman
admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa.
Island of Minorca
The island of Minorca was a British dependency most of the 18th century as a result of the
Treaty of Utrecht, when Spain ceded Gibraltar and Minorca to Great Britain after being
captured during the War of the Spanish Succession. It was finally and permanently ceded
to Spain by the Treaty of Amiens in 1802 during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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The Balearic Islands are one of the Catalan-speaking territories designated by the cultural
term of Catalan Countries. Majorca and Minorca are the Balearic Islands proper, while the
other islands are included in the appellation as part of the Autonomous Community of the
Balearic Islands. The main islands of the autonomous community are Majorca (Mallorca in
Spanish), Minorca (Menorca), Ibiza (Eivissa), and Formentera, all of which are popular
tourist destinations. Among the minor islands is Cabrera, which is the location of the
Parc Nacional de l'Arxipèlag de Cabrera. The islands can be further grouped, with Majorca,
Minorca, and Cabrera as the Gymnesian Islands, and Ibiza and Formentera as the Pine Islands.
Minorca (Menorca both in Catalan and Spanish; from Latin Balearis Minor, later Minorica
"minor island") is one of the Balearic Islands (Illes Balears Catalan official name,
Islas Baleares in Spanish) located in the Mediterranean Sea and belongs to Spain. It takes
its name from being smaller than nearby island of Majorca.
Minorca has a population of approximately 88,000. It is located around 39°47' to 40°00'N,
3°52' to 4°24'E. Its highest point, called Monte Toro, is 358 m/1174 ft above sea level. The
island is known for it large collection of megalithic stone monuments: navetes, taules,
and talaiots, which speak of a very early prehistoric human activity.
Mahon
Mahón (alternately, Maó; Catalan it is also the official name, Spanish Mahón), is a
municipality and the capital city of the Balearic Island of Minorca (an autonomic Spanish
community), located in the eastern part of the island. Mahon boasts one of the deepest
natural ports in the world.
The name is attributed to the eponymous Carthaginian general Mago Barca, brother to Hannibal,
who is thought to have taken refuge there in 205 BC.
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Records for Juana Vinet Solares
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R Solares and J Vinet
United States of America
State of Louisiana, (SEAL) Parish of Orleans
Office of the Recorder of Births, Marriages and Deaths.
This is to Certify, That it appears from the records of this
office, that on this day, to wit:
the Twentieth of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and Seventy and the ninety-fifth of the Independence of the United
States of America, (Nov 20th 1870,) was registered a Marriage, celebrated in the
City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana
U S of America by Rev G Raymond on the 17th day of
Nov 1870 between Ramon Solares aged twenty three
years, (23 years,) a native of Spain son of R Solares
and Theresa Benita And Juanna Vinet aged
twenty one years, (21 years,) a native of Spain daughter of
John Vinet and Marguarita Bonas, The celebration of the
marriage was performed in presence of the witnesses Juan Cumalat
Joseph Fontenberta John Vinet
The License was issued on the 31st day of Oct 1870 by illegible
J G Banson in the presence of the witnesses N Meanancola
John Vinet
illegible signature over
Recorder of Births, Marriages and Deaths
for the Parish of Orleans
License returned and filed.
License Book No. 2, Folio 149
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Certified Copy of Death Certificate
Be it Remembered, that on this day to wit: the twenty eighth of August
in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Nine and the
One Hundred and fourteenth of the independence of the United States of America,
before me C. P. WILKINSON, M.D., President Board of Health
and Ex Officio Recorder of Births, Deaths and Marriages,
in an for the Parish of Orleans, personally appeared
H L Frantz an undertaker, native of Alsace?
residing 155 N Peters St who hereby declares, that
Johanna Vinent lawful wife of Ramon Solares (white)
a native of Port Mahon, Spain, aged 39 years 10 months
departed this life yesterday ( 27 August 1889 ) at hm 85 1/2 Union St in
this city.
Cause of Death Chronic Suppurative Pyelitis
Certificate of Dr A. Matas
Thus done at New Orleans in the presence of the aforesaid H L Frantz
as also in that of Messrs. P H Lanauze illegible name both of this City,
witnesses, by me requested so to be, who have hereunto set their hands, together with me, after
reading hereof, this, month and year first above written.
signature = H L Frantz signature Alba Voorhees
signature = C.P.Wilkinson M.D.
President Board of Health and Ex Officio Recorder.
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Her maiden name spelled wrong]
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Notes:
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 -
Acute inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney, caused by bacterial infection.
www.mercksource.com/ Powered by Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary -
pyelitis (py·eli·tis)[pyel- + -itis] inflammation of the renal pelvis.
[1] On certified copy of marriage record for Ramon Solares and Juana Vinet
[2] On certified copy of death record for Juana Vinet Solares
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