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Francisco Maria de Angueyra was born in 1810, in Guanabacoa, near Havana, Cuba and married Josefa Perdomo Bautista, also a native of Guanabacoa. Francisco was an engineer, and the fourth Marqués de Morales. In about 1871, Francisco, who had lost most of his land in Cuba, because of his involvement on the side of the revolutionaries during the Ten Years’ War, left Cuba, with his family, and sailed for New York, where his oldest son, Basilio was living in exile. Later, Francisco decided to emigrate to Colombia to work on the construction of del ferrocarril de la Sabana [the Savanna Railroad] near Bogotá, leaving his wife, and their four children, Basilio, Mercedes, Francisco, and Rafael in the US.
Before long, Basilio moved to Key West, and there is reason to suppose that his mother and siblings accompanied him since, in 1875, when Basilio decided to join his father in Colombia, he took his mother, and his siblings with him.
In February 1876, Francisco María was working in Tunja for the government of the State of Boyacá as director de la Carretera del Sur [director of the Southern Highway], a new road from Tunja to Ventaquemada. In August 1878, work on the Southern Highway was suspended, and in December 1878, Francisco María was named director del Puente Gutierrez [manager of the Gutierrez Bridge], a steel bridge to be built over the Chicamocha river near Soatá, a bridge that happened to have been designed by Francisco María’s son, Basilio earlier that same year. To complete the coincidence, when work on the Southern Highway was continued, Basilio was named manager, replacing his father who was by then working on the Gutierrez Bridge.
# Children of Francisco de Angueyra and Josefa Perdomo:
ii Mercedes (Merceita) Angueyra y Perdomo was probably born in Guanabacoa, near Havana, Cuba. She travelled with her parents to New York in about 1871, to Key West probably that same year, and to Colombia in 1875. She died unmarried, probably in Colombia.
iv Francisco Juan Angueyra Perdomo
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