BIRTH NAME: Sebastian Solares [variously transcribed: Sabastian, Sebastien, Soleras] BIRTH: 1863 09 08 Caveras, Torazo, Oviedo, Spain FATHER: R Solares [or Jose Ramon Solares] b. Spain MOTHER: Theresa Benita [or Teresa De La Venta] b. Spain SIBLINGS: Ramon Solares b.1848 Asturias, Spain Romain Solares b.1860 Spain MARRIAGE: 1893/1895 Chicago SPOUSE: Catherine Duncan CHILDREN: Consuela Solares b.1899 Chicago [per census] Ramon Solares b.1897 Chicago per IGI] b.1904 per census VOCATION: cigar maker MILITARY: unknown RELIGION: Roman Catholic DEATH: 1945 05 15 Chicago INTERRED: Chicago IMMIGRATED: 1871 [per census 1910; 1877 per census 1920] About Sebastian Solares Analyzing what we know about Sebastian Solares may give us insights into other Solares relationships. Known records follow this analysis. Sebastian first appears in the 1880 US Census. He is living in New Orleans with Ramon Solares. He is listed as "Brother". The census gives his birth year as 1862, making him about age 18. His host Ramon has a birth year of 1848 making him sixteen years older than Sebastian. According to the census, both were born in Asturias, Spain. Ramon immigrated to United States in 1868 [1900 census]. Sebastian immigrated in 1871 [1910 census] or 1877 [1920 census] Sebastian and Ramon are cigar makers in New Orleans according to an entry in the 1890 City Directory of New Orleans. Sebastian married Catherine Duncan in Chicago in 1893 or 1895. [IGI - 3 sources. IGI information is supplied by LDS contributors and has not been verified in Illinois records]. Why he relocated to Chicago has not become known to us. In 1900 Sebastian is living in Chicago with wife "Kitty" [Catherine], infant daughter Consuela and two lodgers [1900 census]. In 1910, he is still in Chicago making cigars. With him are: wife Catherine, daughter Consuela, son Ramon, and nephew Cesaro Huerta, born in Spain. [1910 census] Huerta has not been researched yet. In or about 1915 he makes a trip to New Orleans. Photos are taken of Sebastian and Consuela. Son Ramon is not in evidence. In 1920, he is still in Chicago making cigars. With him are: wife Catherine, daughter Consuela, son Ramon, and nephew Munis (or Munio) Aquilino, born in Spain. [1920 census] Aquilino has not been researched. Huerta has apparently moved on. Sebastian's father is Jose Ramon Solares. [IGI record] Ramon's father is R. Solares. [Certified Copy of Marriage Record] This man is arguably one and the same. Sebastian's mother is Teresa De La Venta. [IGI record] Ramon's mother is Theresa Benita. [Certified Copy of Marriage Record] This woman is arguably the same. Sebastian and Ramon Solares are identified as brothers in the US Census enumerations at New Orleans. Sebastian's two nephews have surnames different from his, indicating they are children of married sisters of Sebastian. We can surmise Sebastian had at least two sisters since there are two surnames, Huerta and Aquilino. He could have been a full brother to Ramon, making the sisters common to both men, or Sebastian might have been a child of the same father, Ramon Solares and the same mother, Theresa Benita, or his father's second wife, Teresa De La Venta. Given the mess that officials made recording people's names, Venta and Benita could easily have been mixed up. The Benita name is in official records ... the de la Venta name is in user pedigrees. Between 1920 and 1930, children Consuela and Ramon have grown up and started their own lives. The nephews are somewhere else. Sebastian and "Kitty" (Catherine) have moved to California. Catherine died in 1933 and Sebastian in 1945, both at Chicago. [IGI record] Presumably they returned from California, possibly because Catherine was ill. Census records after 1930 are sealed for 72 years so when the 1940 census is available we can see where Sebastian was at the end of his life. When we get to the point of researching records in Spain we might tie this all together and find out whether Theresa/Teresa is one person, or if Jose Ramon Solares was married twice, both times to a woman named Theresa. WH 2006 08 07

Sebastian Solares circa 1915 at age 52 [cropped from a small group photo] Above map traces Sebastian's journey from birth in Spain 1863 & emigration to New Orleans in 1871 then move to Chicago in 1893, to California in 1929, finally back to Chicago where he died in 1945. He married Catherine duncan in Chicago and two children were born there. They moved about the metrpolitan area across the decades [see census data below on page]. For their own reasons they moved to the Los Angeles area in 1929 after children were grown. Both Sebastian and Catherine died in Chicago. Either they returned before 1933 together or he laid her remains to rest in Chicago and returned to California. He died in Chicaho in 1945.

NAME                 Age  Birth Yr   Place   Race    Relation          Occupation
Sebastien Solares    16   abt 1864   Spain   White   brother of head   Cigar classer

NAME                  Age  Birth Yr   Place     Relation  Immigration Yr
Sebastian Soleras     35   abt 1865   Spain     Head          unkn
Catherine Soleras     24   abt 1876   Illinois  Wife
Consuella              1   abt 1899   Illinois  dau
[+ 2 lodgers] [Surname, Catherine, & Consuela all misspelled]

NAME                  Age  Birth Yr   Place     Relation  Immigration Yr
Sebastian Solares     45   abt 1865   Spain     head           1871
Catherine D Solares   43   abt 1867   Illinois  wife
Consuela Solares      11   abt 1899   Illinois  dau
Ramon Solares          6   abt 1904   Illinois  son 
Cesaro Huerta         18   abt 1892   Spain     nephew         1907

NAME                 Age  Birth Yr   Place     Race    Relation     Occupation  Immigration Yr
Sebastian Solares    56   abt 1864   Spain     White   Head         cigar maker     1877*
Catherine            53   abt 1867   Illinois  White   Wife         at home
Consuela             21   abt 1899   Illinois  White   Dau          stenographer
Ramon A              15   abt 1905   Illinois  White   son          none
Munis Aquilino       17   abt 1903   Spain     White   nephew       machine shop    1917
*[transcriber read 1877 as 1897]

NAME                 Age  Birth Yr   Place     Relation     Occupation    Father   Mother  
Sebastian Solares    66   abt 1864   Spain     Head         cigar maker   Spain    Spain
Catherine Solares    64   abt 1866   Illinois  Wife         none          Scotland Scotland

Sebastian Solares    85 Union, 3d district  cigarmaker

Sabastian Solares 	

Birth:      08 SEP 1863   Caveras, Torazo, Oviedo, Spain
Father:     Jose Ramon Solares
Mother:     Teresa De La Venta
Death:      15 MAY 1945   Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial:     18 MAY 1945   Chicago, Cook, Illinois
 
Marriage:   1893 Chicago, Cook, Illinois	 

Spouse:     Catherine Duncan 
Birth:      13 JAN 1867   	Streator, La Salle, Illinois
Father:     Robert Duncan
Mother:     Rose Ann Henry 
Death:      18 APR 1933   Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial:     21 APR 1933   Chicago, Cook, Illinois
  	 
Children:
Ramon Solares 	
Birth:      1897 Chicago, Cook, Illinois
            [WH note: contributor error. 1st appears 1910 census age 6]
Father:     Sabastian Solares 
Film Number:456726 

SEBASTIAN SOLARES 	
Spouse: KITTIE DUNCAN
Marriage: 02 MAY 1895, Cook, Illinois
Source Information: M730883	1895 1030251