Description of Name: Noble e ilustre linaje con origen en Aragon y Mallorca.  Probaron nobleza en las Relaes Ordenes Militares de Santiago, Calatrava y Carlos III.  Se extienden al Sur.

Description of Coat of Arms: En campo de oro un fresno se sinople sobre ondas de plata y azul, acostado de dos rocas de su color.  Nota: Este apellido se desplaza a Mallorca en el a�o 1838.

The first ESCANAVERINO that I have on my list was named Andres ESCANAVERINO Relio.  He was my great-great-great grandfather.  

Andres was married to Simona de Linares in 1830 in the island of Menorca in the Balearic Islands.  They had two children, Gines and Luisa.

When his first wife, Simona, died, he set sail on his vessel, the "Gran Canaria" to Cuba.  There he met Barbara Volcan Medina from the Canary Islands and married her in 1842.  

With this second marriage came three (3) more children, Andres, Maria-Luisa and Antonio.  Andres Escanaverino Volcan was my great-great grandfather. He married Francisca Francisco (cool name huh), and they had ten (10) children.  One of them was Andres Escanaverino Francisco.  He married Rosa Amador, here is a picture of them (circa. 1910).  

(Image: circa 1910 Andres Escanaverino Francisco, Rosa Amador, Andres Eugenio Escanaverino y Roberto Escanaverino)

Andres and Rosa had two children, Roberto and my grandfather, Andres Eugenio Escanaverino Amador (05/13/1908-06/04/1975) who married my grandmother Ofelia Baldomera Bustaque Dalmau (02/27/1917-09/15/1995). 

Andres and Ofelia had two children, my father, Andres Tito Escanaverino Bustaque and my aunt, Ofelia Margarita Escanaverino Bustaque. My dad married Maria Gonzalez Paz (my mom), and they had 2 kids, myself (Danay Margarita Escanaverino Gonzalez) and my brother, Eugenio Escanaverino Gonzalez.

This is a wedding photo of my parents and my paternal grandparents (left to right: Ofelia Bustaque, Andres Tito Escanaverino, Maria Gonzalez and Andres Eugenio Escanaverino) August 1972. The photo to the right was taken in 1981, after we arrived in the USA. (left to right: Andres Escanaverino Mazas, Margarita Escanaverino Bustaque, Ofelia Bustaque, Andres Tito Escanaverino Bustaque, Maria Gonzales Paz) My brother, Eugenio, and I are in front.

As of the date of this writing, September 2001, I have not yet found any ancestors on the ESCANAVERINO tree older than Andres Escanaverino Relio.  I am currently looking for him through some parishes to find where he came from.  Our family legend says that he actually came from an Italian heritage (it sounds right for this last name).

I think he may have sailed form one of the Mediterranean islands over to the Balearics which are also in the Mediterranean but belong to Spain.

We'll see.

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