Juan de Canaveris

Juan de Canaveris (Piedmontese: Gioann Canaverij) (1748–1822) was an Italian lawyer. He served as accounting officer in the Tribunal de Cuentas de Buenos Aires, during the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata.^[1] Canaveris had achieved a high social status in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (member of the Church),^[2] where supported the revolutionary movements of May, being the only Italian who attended in the Open Cabildo, on May 22, 1810.^[3]

Biography

Giovanni Canaveri was born in 1748 at Saluzzo, Province of Cuneo (Italy),^[4] son of Gabriel Canaveri and Margarita Jugluns, descendant of French. He probably lived and studied in Genoa, in the census of 1807 and 1809 is indicated as of Genoese origin.^[5]

Juan Canaveris arrived at Buenos Aires about 1770, in times of the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish South America. He married at the Cathedral of Buenos Aires on May 4, 1772, with Catalina Bernarda de Esparza, a powerful aristocratic lady,^[6] daughter of Juan Miguel de Esparza and María Eugenia Sánchez.^[7]

Canaveris and his wife lived in the neighborhood of San Nicolás, had twelve children, six boys and six girls: María Ramona (1773), María Antonia (1774), sister of the Third Order of Saint Dominic,^[8] wife of Fernando Linera, merchant, employee in the Consulate.^[9]

María Dominga, married to Mariano Lazcano, member of the Court of Auditors, Juan Miguel Canaveris (1778-1802, godson of Mariano Olier), Juan Joseph Canaveris (1780-1837, lawyer in the city), María Eugenia (1782-1812), buried in San Francisco), wife of Juan Bayá Mas Rosel (born in Girona), mother of Juan Manuel Bayá and Antonina Bayá, wife of Felipe Achinelli.

Mariano Canaveris (school teacher),^[10] whose son Juan Segundo Canaveris Ravelo (b.1816), was godson of Juan Bautista Vitón- Manuel Canaveris, Lieutenant in 4th Regiment,^[11] Joaquín Canaveris (1789-1840s), Juana Josefa, served in the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas,^[12] mother of Sinforoso Amoedo and Felipe Amoedo, José Mariano de la Cruz (b.1791). And María de la Encarnación Canaveris (died in Carmen de Areco), wife of Alejo Menchaca, native of Biscay.^[13] The Canaveri's house was located in the vicinity of Fonda de los Tres Reyes, the main inn in the city in early 1800.^[14]

Juan Canaveris was grandfather of Sinforoso Amoedo^[15] and Ángel Canaveris, two prestigious doctors in medicine and psychiatry.^[16]

Career

Daguerreotype of Buenos Aires Cabildo. Juan Canaveris had worked about 30 years at the Court of Auditors

Cabildo Abierto of 1810 by Juan Manuel Blanes

Canaveri change your name on Spanish official documents as Canaverys (frenchified), and in books records is cited as Canaveris. In 1777, Juan Canaveris had been designated as "portero" of the Court of Accounts of Buenos Aires.^[17] He was employee of the Tribunal de Cuentas until 1786, he returned to work in the court on an interim basis in the years of 1800.^[18] The notary of the Court of Auditors in those years was Tirso Martínez.^[19]

In 1795, Canaveris was appointed as representative of the Protector Guardian of Natural resources and Indians in the village of San Pablo, Capinota Province, Bolivia.^[20] In 1796 Canaveris was legal representative of Francisco Antonio Maciel to manage the approval, the Diocesan of Buenos Aires, for the construction of a public hospital in Montevideo.^[21] In 1798, Juan de Canaveris served as attorney in the Council of Santiago del Estero, on behalf of the elected aldermen of the City Council. Canaveris had presented a writ of grievances in defense of aldermen to the Viceroy Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú, to avoid contesting the elections, held in that province in July 20, 1796.^[22]

During the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, Canaveris had participated in secret meetings organized by residents of the city.^[23] And collaborated with the money donations organized by the Cabildo of Buenos Aires, chaired by Martín de Alzaga.^[24] His sons, José,^[25] Mariano, Manuel, and Joaquín participated in the defense of Buenos Aires in the regiments — Quinteros and Labradores, Húsares of Pueyrredón, Cántabros Montañeses and Tercio de Vizcaínos.^[26] The Friar Martin Esparza, a relative of Canaveris's wife, was killed by British troops during the second invasion in the interior of Convent of Santo Domingo.^[27]

In the May Revolution of 1810, Canaveris was one of neighbors attending the open Cabildo. He reproduced the vote of Feliciano Chiclana in favor of dismissing the Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros.^[28]

In 1813 Juan Canaveris was the owner of a farm in the town of San Isidro, their lands were in the vicinity of the hacienda of Miguel de Azcuénaga, personal friend of Canaveris and his family.^[29] He also owned lands in the town of Quilmes, being one of the few residents of that town, who had participated in the open cabildo of 1810.^[30]

Descendants

portrait of Juana Bayá Canaveris, (goddaughter of Domingo Matheu) wife of Felipe Somoza

His great-grandson Ángel Mateo Canavery Castillo

His descendants include Feliciano Canaveris, Tomás Canavery (priest), Ángel Canavery, military attaché in Italy, Saturnino Canaveri (Lieutenant colonel),^[31] and Isabelino Canaveris (Commandant).^[32] Other descendants include Juan Manuel Canaveris (attorney) trading partner of British and Genoese merchants in Buenos Aires.^[33] Héctor Canavery, congressman in the Province of Buenos Aires.^[34] Manuel Canaveri (b.1854, Montevideo, Procurador),^[35] husband of Luisa de Alvarado Périchon, relative in law of Ernesto Rouquaud.

Camilo Canaveri (revolutionary of the Park),^[36] attorney that on legal representation of a citizen, won a lawsuit against a British insurance company in 1912.^[37]

Sinforoso Canaveri notary of La Plata, who in October 27, 1888 provides legal verification of Nicolás Levalle, where bequeaths property in Olavarria in favor of Florencio Monteagudo (military and expeditionary of desert).^[38]

Joaquín Canavery (godson of Miguel Cuyar) Intendant of Carmen de Areco, father in law of Baldomero Lamela. Samuel Canaveris, accountant in the Casa de Moneda de la República Argentina,^[39] whose son, Carlos M. Canaveris Fornaguera was student at the Naval Academy (Escuela de Maquinistas Navales), educational establishment directed by the Captain Carlos B. Massot, Consul of the Argentine Republic at Newport, Wales,^[40] Carlos Canaveris carried out a course of improvement in the shipyard of the company Vickers of Barrow-in-Furness (England).^[41]

His most important descendant was the General Enrique Mosconi Canavery (1877-1940), graduated from Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, as civil engineer, was pioneer in organizing the exploration and exploitation of oil in Argentina.^[42]

His great-granddaughter Isabel Celia Canaveri (poet), was the author of the poem "El cardo azul" recorded by Carlos Gardel and José Razzano.^[43]

Juan Canaveris also was the ancestor of Zoilo Canavery amateur football player of Racing Club de Avellaneda and Club Atlético Independiente. And of Pedro Canaveri president of the Argentine Football Association in 1946.

In the mid and late 19th century they arrived at the port of Buenos Aires, at least four or five families with the surname Canaveri and Canaveris,^[44] (established in Argentina and Uruguay), without any relationship with the family of Juan Canaveris. Most of the descendants of the Canaveris Esparza family used the surname Canavery, the Anglicized or Frenchified version of the original name of Canaveri.^[45]

References

External links

• familysearch.org
• familysearch.org
• familysearch.org
• Documentos para la Historia Argentina (padrón de la ciudad 1778) - archive.org
• Documentos para la Historia Argentina (padrón de extranjeros) - archive.org
• Trapalanda biblioteca digital
• er-saguier.org