Monday 18 July 2016

Genealogical Oddities (L): Denbighshire Pritchard in C19th Spain

On 15 January 1809, Joseph Pritchard, son of Robert Pritchard native of 'Bicksan' in Denbighshire & his wife Anna Robinson, native of 'Lincon' in Lincolnshire, and said to be a parishioner of its parish of St Sebastian, was baptised at La Coruña's parish of San Nicolás. The record notes that the father was in Spain as a soldier helping defend the country during the Peninsular War. ("El padre era soldado que vino al auxilio de España".)

SOURCE:  Baptisms 1806-1813, Parish of San Nicolás (La Coruña), P. 126 verso, Diocesan Archive of Santiago de Compostela