ANCESTOR PROFILE · No. 01
My 9× great-grandfather
Juan Bautista Chapa
born Giovanni Battista Schiapapria
1627 — 1695
BORN
Albisola
Liguria, Italy
SETTLED
Nuevo León
New Spain
BETWEEN US
12 generations
1627 to the present
WHO HE WAS
An Italian boy from the Ligurian coast who became known a “El Cronista Anónimo” de Nuevo Leon.
He was born Giovanni Battista Schiapapria in 1627, in the seaside town of Albisola, son of Bartolomé Schiapapria. He crossed to New Spain as a young man, settled in Nuevo León, and took the name by which the family has known him ever since: Juan Bautista Chapa.
He married Doña Beatriz Olivares de Treviño, and for more than forty years served as secretary to Governor Alonso de León and to the governors who followed him. The record he kept, Historia del Nuevo Reino de Leon de 1650 a 1690 went unsigned for centuries and was revealed in the 1961 edition of the work.
“Now recognized as the ‘anonymous historian’ of Nuevo León.”
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS, TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Albisola
Born 1627
Liguria, Italy
New Spain
The crossing
to the Americas
Nuevo León
Secretary to the governors
for over forty years
LINE OF DESCENT
From Juan Bautista to me, one generation at a time.
Twelve people, each the child of the one before. Follow the line down the page and watch the years pass – from a seventeenth-century secretary in Nuevo León to the author of this book.
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9th great-grandfather
Juan Bautista Chapa born Giovanni Battista Schiapapria
1627 – 1695
marriedDoña Beatriz Olivares de Treviño
Born 16 November 1627 in Villa Arbisola, near Genoa. He sailed to Cádiz at 13, then to New Spain, and served as secretary to the governors of Nuevo León for more than forty years.
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8th great-grandfather
José Nicolás Chapa Treviño
b. 1669
marriedMaría Inés Báez de Benavides
Through his wife the line joins the Báez de Benavides family of La Orotava, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.
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7th great-grandmother
María Chapa Benavides
1698 – 1750
marriedJoseph Longoria García1690 – 1745
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6th great-grandmother
María Rosa Longoria Chapa
about 1715 – 1757
marriedJosé F. J. Salinas García1715 – 1792
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5th great-grandmother
María Gertrudis Salinas Longoria
about 1740 – 1790
marriedJosé Diego García Vela1738 – 1802
Buried in Mier on 10 August 1790, aged about 50. Through her marriage the Chapa line joins the García line.
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4th great-grandfather
Juan José Ignacio García
1756 – 1840
marriedAna María Leonicia Guadiano
Married in Mier on 25 August 1788, and buried there on 2 October 1840.
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3rd great-grandfather
José María Matías García
about 1793 – 1857
marriedMaría G. Garcíab. 1795
Married in Mier in 1815.
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2nd great-grandfather
Porfirio García
bp. 10 Jan 1819
marriedMaría Severa de la Garza1822 – 1882
Married in Mier on 7 July 1841.
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Great-grandfather
Félix García
1854 – 1933
marriedName
Baptised in Mier on 26 November 1854; died 27 November 1933.
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Grandfather
Argimiro García “Papa Kiko”
1889 – 1973
marriedPaula Alanís, “Mama Chata”
Born in Mier on 6 August 1889. He married Paula Alanís on 29 April 1911.
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Mother
Manuela García de Mascorro
1920 – 2011
marriedArnulfo Eugenio Mascorro
Born a twin on 16 June 1920 in Ciudad Mier; her brother Manuel died in infancy.
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The author · 1957 - Living
Maida Isabel Mascorro
Author of A Tale of One Love, Many Worlds — the book these generations are written into.
THE CHART
The same line, as it appears in my family tree.
Every name above, drawn as a descendancy chart — Juan Bautista at the top, each generation beneath, and the husbands and wives who joined the line along the way. Open it to zoom in on any branch.
DESCENDANCY CHART
12 GENERATIONS
WHO HE WAS
81.María-Gertrudis6 Salinas-Longoria (María-Rosa5 Longoria-Chapa, María4 Chapa-Benavides, José-Nicolás3 Chapa-Treviño, Juan Bautista2 Chapa, Bartolomé1 Schiapapria) was born 1737, and died 10 Aug 1791 in Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico. She married Diego García-Vela 1755, son of Diego García and Jacoba Vela-Gutiérrez. He died 20 Dec 1802 in Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
6
The small numbers count generations from the founder of the line, Bartolomé Schiapapria – the convention printed genealogies use to show exactly where each person sits. María Gertrudis is the sixth generation, and my own 5× great-grandmother.
Entry 81 · Descendants of Don Juan Bautista Chapa and Doña Beatriz Olivares de Treviño
SOURCES
1
“Descendants of Don Juan Bautista Chapa and Doña Beatriz Olivares de Treviño.”
Compiled by John D. Inclán. somosprimos.com/inclan/chapa.htm
2
“Chapa, Juan Bautista.” Handbook of Texas Online.
Texas State Historical Association. tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/chapa-juan-bautista
3
Descendancy chart, Juan Bautista Chapa to Maida Isabel Mascorro.
From the author’s family tree.
Dates for each generation are taken from the author’s descendancy chart. Where a published source gives a different year, the source is quoted as printed.
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