Pablo Pedro Hidalgo Navarro 1843–1924
![]() Pablo Hidalgo Navarro, the second eldest son of Manuel Francisco Nestor Hidalgo Santos and Juana Francisca Navarro, was born in 1843 San Antonio Pueblo, Baja California, Mexico, and was baptized with the name of Pablo Pedro on June 14, 1843 at the church of San Antonio de Padua.
The Hidalgo and Navarro families were two of the most wealthy and influential families in the mid-1800s in Baja California. His father and paternal uncles had commercial, mining and pearling interests in the towns of San Antonio and La Paz, and his maternal grandfather, Antonio Navarro was a prominent cattle rancher, miner and politician, whose daughters had married equally prominent men. |
Born:1843, San Antonio, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Died:1924, Mazatlán, Sinaloa Father:Manuel Francisco Nestor Hidalgo Santos:1812–1873 Mother:Juana Francisca Navarro Castro: 1820–1902 Wife: Carmen Urriolagoytia Andrade:14 February 1855, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico–1927. Marriage: November 4, 1876, San Francisco Children:
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Taking advantage of the pearling and mining companies of his uncles, and his father, Pablo sets up his own comercial trading and shipping agency named, Pablo Hidalgo & Co., importing general merchandise and representing several large mining companies in La Paz. such as “The Triunfo Gold and Silver Mining Company" and later the ‘La Compañía Hormiguera’, owned by his maternal uncle Ramón Navarro Castro, his uncle Santiago Viosca Solar and Henry S. Brooks. His company, Pablo Hidalgo & Co., becomes one of the principal importers and shipping agents in La Paz, with the purchase and sale of general store goods, clothes, haberdashery, hardware, wood for construction, perfumes and jewelry from Paris, as well as the the export and sale of pearls.
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About 1866 he appears to have established himself in Mazatlán also because on November 20, 1870 he appears as a witness at his brother Manuel Matias’s marriage to Elena Savin Cota, stating he has been living in Mazatlán since 1866, is 27 years old and is a commercial trader. There is also a baptism for his illegitimate son José Guillermo Hidalgo Reyes, mother María Reyes, shows him living in Mazatlán in March 1870.
Six years later on November 4, 1876 in San Francisco, United States, Pablo marries Carmen Urriolagoytia Andrade from Hermosillo, Sonora, daughter of Gregorio Urriolagoytia and Carmen Andrade. The witnesses at their marriage were his brother Manuel M. Hidalgo Navarro and Carmen Andrade.
In this city, San Francisco, the marriage of Don Pablo Hidalgo, a rich merchant in pearls of La Paz, with Sta. Cármen Urriolagoitia, one of the most well-off and most beautiful of Hermosillo, Sonora, took place. The bride and groom gave four days of reception at the Palacio Hotel in a style worthy of princes. Don José Guarin, Consul of the United States of Colombia in San Francisco, was the poet in charge of singing the Hymn and the Consul Miguel O. Pritchard helped make the ceremonies more enjoyable. The distinguished couple were to leave for La Paz in the steamer of the 11th.
Chronicle (Los Angeles, Calif.), Volume 5, Number 91, 15 November 1876
The couple return to La Paz to live and in November 1878 their first son, Manuel Jorge Hidalgo Urriolagoytia (1878–1915) is born in La Paz. (Witnesses were his brother, José Horacio Hidalgo and Alejandra Vega de Redo.) That same year, on November 2nd, they presented their marriage license from California to the judge in La Paz to be ratified.
From 1879 until 1881 Pablo and Carmen have four sons, all born in La Paz. He travels frequently to San Francisco and in 1880 a notice in the Daily Alta California shows Pablo Hidalgo and his brother-in-law, Felix R. Mendoza both residing at the 'Lick' in California, and again in August 1900, the San Francisco Call notes that 'Pablo Hidalgo, a rich' resident of Mazatlan. Mex., is registered at the Lick.'
Pablo Hidalgo and his wife Carmen were also financially involved in the construction of the Catedral Basílica de Mazatlán, along with his mother, Doña Francisca Navarro de Hidalgo, Manuel Herrerías and his wife María de la Quintana, Antonio de la Peña and his daughter Romana and Agustín José Elizondo. The first mass of the Cathedral was given on May 7, 1880 but it was not officially inaugurated until 1899. He was also a shareholder in the ‘Empresa de Agua de Sinaloa’, along with Genaro García, Federico Koerdell, Lauro Muro, Francisco C. Alcalde, Martín Careaga, E.G. Felton and Alejandro Loubet y Guzmán.
His daughters Maria Luisa and Carmen were both born in Mazatlán, in 1883 and 1884 respectively and both were born on the street Venus, at number 12, while his mother Francisca is living at no. 1 'Calle de Oro', (which would later be named Sixto Osuna).
He was still heavily involved in the pearling industry in La Paz and in 1883 he bought an oval-shaped pearl from a diver, for ten dollars, which he sold in Paris for the sum of $5,500 in Paris. It was a light sandy color, of surprising luster, and weighed 32 carats.
By 1888 he has built a new home for his family on 'Calle de Ceres', (later called Mariano Escobedo) where his youngest child Maria Emilia Placida Hidalgo Urriolagoytia (1888–1888) was born on October 11, 1888 , but unfortunately only survived one week, dying of tetanus on October 17, 1888. She was attended by the physician Dr. Mariano Zuñiga and the witnesses on her death register are Francisco Urriolagoitia and Felix R. Mendoza Cota.
(Dr. Mariano Zuñiga was married to Victoria Hidalgo Navarro, daughter of Tirso Hidalgo Santos and Domitila Navarro, and cousin of Don Pablo.)
He was still heavily involved in the pearling industry in La Paz and in 1883 he bought an oval-shaped pearl from a diver, for ten dollars, which he sold in Paris for the sum of $5,500 in Paris. It was a light sandy color, of surprising luster, and weighed 32 carats.
By 1888 he has built a new home for his family on 'Calle de Ceres', (later called Mariano Escobedo) where his youngest child Maria Emilia Placida Hidalgo Urriolagoytia (1888–1888) was born on October 11, 1888 , but unfortunately only survived one week, dying of tetanus on October 17, 1888. She was attended by the physician Dr. Mariano Zuñiga and the witnesses on her death register are Francisco Urriolagoitia and Felix R. Mendoza Cota.
(Dr. Mariano Zuñiga was married to Victoria Hidalgo Navarro, daughter of Tirso Hidalgo Santos and Domitila Navarro, and cousin of Don Pablo.)
Don Pablo was known to say that every time one of his ships went down with men aboard, his hair turned whiter, and considering the fierce hurricanes which hit the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific coast it is not surprising that in his older years his hair was completely white.
In October 1895, his schooner Comita was in the Gulf when it was met by the hurricane. She was coming from Los Penas with 1000 sacks of ore, and the huge winds and waves lifted her up like a toy boat and threw her onto Bardito Island, which is between Altata and Alta Mura Island. Don Pablo sent his schooner Garibaldi and the steamer Roseville to the island to wreck the schooner, and salvage what they could, since the schooner was beyond repair. The captain of the Comita was drowned and the crew walked over a bar at low tide and reached Altata, where they were picked up by the Willamette Valley and taken to Mazatlán.
In October 1896 another of his schooners, the Comet, was wrecked off the coast of Altata, and went down with its captain, Captain Gordiviola and two sailors.
In October 1895, his schooner Comita was in the Gulf when it was met by the hurricane. She was coming from Los Penas with 1000 sacks of ore, and the huge winds and waves lifted her up like a toy boat and threw her onto Bardito Island, which is between Altata and Alta Mura Island. Don Pablo sent his schooner Garibaldi and the steamer Roseville to the island to wreck the schooner, and salvage what they could, since the schooner was beyond repair. The captain of the Comita was drowned and the crew walked over a bar at low tide and reached Altata, where they were picked up by the Willamette Valley and taken to Mazatlán.
In October 1896 another of his schooners, the Comet, was wrecked off the coast of Altata, and went down with its captain, Captain Gordiviola and two sailors.
About 1898 Don Pablo merges with the shipping agency Careaga Hermanos & Co., run by Martin Careaga and they form the company Hidalgo, Careago & Co., which is described by the United States Office of Naval Intelligence in 1900 as a Steamship Agency: Construction of boats and barges.
Don Pablo continued to travel frequently, mostly to San Francisco. In the summer of 1916, when he is 73 years old he travels to San Francisco with his wife Carmen and his son Eugenio. He is described as being 5ft 9inches in height, with white hair, and brown eyes. On another he and his wife are travelling with his niece María Ferreira Hidalgo, (daughter of his sister Carlota), to spend 3 months in San Francisco with their relative Victoria Hortensia Savin Cota. In 1919 he is a witness for the marriage of Albert Pedro Reynaud Machado and Clotilde Cristina Douglas Chavez, along with Guillermo Haas de la Vega and Carlos Careaga. The address he gives is Mariano Escobedo #54.
At 11 o’clock in the evening on March 21, 1924 Don Pablo Hidalgo died at his home on Mariano Escobedo due to complications of pneumonia and bronquitis. He was 84 years old. His widow Carmen survived him by three years, dying on October 6, 1927 at the same house.
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Manuel Jorge Hidalgo, the eldest child of Don Pablo and Doña Carmen, was born on April 20, 1878 in La Paz, Baja California and baptized on May 20, 1878 at Nuestra Señora de la Paz, La Paz, Baja California. His godparents were his uncle, Horacio Hidalgo Navarro and Alejandro Vega de Redo.
On November 23, 1911 Jorge Manuel married Dolores Guerrero Mura. He is described as a merchant, living with his parents at Mariano Escobedo #54. The witnesses were his uncle Francisco Urriolagoytia and Manuel V. Fontán (married to his cousin, Elena Hidalgo Savin, daughter of Manuel M. Hidalgo Navarro and Isabel Savin Cota) a merchant living at number 6, Diana in Mazatlán, Gustavo López Doria, from Santander, Spain who was married and living on Constitution # 211 and Guillermo Laveaga, owner and industrialist from Mazatlán who was living on Principal Street #621.
On March 16, 1907 at the Santa Iglesia Catedral in Mazatlán, Jorge Manuel was godfather for Carlos Ernesto Unger Ferreira, son of his cousin Maria Ferreira Hidalgo and on May 4, that same year, he was a witness at his sister Maria Luisa's marriage to Alfonso Casal Favela. In 1912 he was a witness at the birth registration of his niece Marcela Leonor Casal Hidalgo, and gives his address as Calle Principal #560, Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
Manuel J. Hidalgo Urriolagoitia died when he was 37 years old of a pernicious fever on October 26, 1915 at his home on Belisario Dominguez, Mazatlán. He was buried in the Municipal Cemetery No.2 Ángela Peralta in Mazatlan.
On November 23, 1911 Jorge Manuel married Dolores Guerrero Mura. He is described as a merchant, living with his parents at Mariano Escobedo #54. The witnesses were his uncle Francisco Urriolagoytia and Manuel V. Fontán (married to his cousin, Elena Hidalgo Savin, daughter of Manuel M. Hidalgo Navarro and Isabel Savin Cota) a merchant living at number 6, Diana in Mazatlán, Gustavo López Doria, from Santander, Spain who was married and living on Constitution # 211 and Guillermo Laveaga, owner and industrialist from Mazatlán who was living on Principal Street #621.
On March 16, 1907 at the Santa Iglesia Catedral in Mazatlán, Jorge Manuel was godfather for Carlos Ernesto Unger Ferreira, son of his cousin Maria Ferreira Hidalgo and on May 4, that same year, he was a witness at his sister Maria Luisa's marriage to Alfonso Casal Favela. In 1912 he was a witness at the birth registration of his niece Marcela Leonor Casal Hidalgo, and gives his address as Calle Principal #560, Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
Manuel J. Hidalgo Urriolagoitia died when he was 37 years old of a pernicious fever on October 26, 1915 at his home on Belisario Dominguez, Mazatlán. He was buried in the Municipal Cemetery No.2 Ángela Peralta in Mazatlan.
Eugenio Luis Hidalgo Urriolagoytia was born on November 15, 1879 in La Paz , Baja California Sur and was baptized on February 2, 1880 at Nuestra Señora de la Paz, La Paz , Baja California. Hos godparents were his uncle Vicente Ferreira Pesqueira (married to his father's sister Carlota Hidalgo Navarro) and his grandmother, Francisca Navarro Castro.
Eugenio died a 'sudden death' on March 20, 1942 in Mazatlán Sinaloa, Mexico.
Eugenio died a 'sudden death' on March 20, 1942 in Mazatlán Sinaloa, Mexico.
Jose Manuel Emilio Hidalgo Urriolagoytia was born on January 23, 1881 in La Paz, Baja California and baptized on June 29, 1881 at Nuestra Señora de La Paz, La Paz. His godparents were Don Francisco Urriolagoitia and Doña Luisa Aciguerras. Emilio died due to a severe fever on May 10, 1899, when he was 8 years old.
His death was reported by his uncle, Don Louis Antoine Reynaud Granjeon 1845–1918 (married to Isabel Hidalgo Navarro, sister of Pablo Hidalgo), and the witnesses were his uncle Felix R Mendoza Cota* (married to Francisca Hidalgo Navarro) and Alejandro Mendoza*, both from San Antonio, Baja California, traders and living in Mazatlán.
*Felix R. Mendoza, lived on the corner of Arsenal and Calle de Oro and the second, Alejandro Mendoza lived above the mercantile store of Charpentier Reynaud y Cia. Emilio was buried in the Cemetery No 2 of Mazatlán.
His death was reported by his uncle, Don Louis Antoine Reynaud Granjeon 1845–1918 (married to Isabel Hidalgo Navarro, sister of Pablo Hidalgo), and the witnesses were his uncle Felix R Mendoza Cota* (married to Francisca Hidalgo Navarro) and Alejandro Mendoza*, both from San Antonio, Baja California, traders and living in Mazatlán.
*Felix R. Mendoza, lived on the corner of Arsenal and Calle de Oro and the second, Alejandro Mendoza lived above the mercantile store of Charpentier Reynaud y Cia. Emilio was buried in the Cemetery No 2 of Mazatlán.
María Luisa was the eldest daughter of Don Pablo Hidalgo and Doña Carmen and was born on May 27, 1883 in Mazatlán. Her birth was registered on May 31 and at that time Don Pablo and his family were living on Venus Street, 12 and his mother Francisca was living on Oro Street #1. Witnesses for María Luisa's birth registration were Ladislao Guzman from Concordia, 49 years old, widow, trader and living on Recreo Street, and Manuel Gonzalez, from Mazatlán, 51 years old, married and employed by the Government.
Mariá Luisa married Alfonso Casal Favela, son of Buenaventura Marti Casal 1849-1907 and his wife Domitila Favela of La Cienega, Mocorrito.The civil marriage took place on May 4, 1906 at the house of her father on Mariano Escobedo. The witnesses for the groom were Maximinio Rivero and Genaro Garcia and for the bride, Alberto Reynaud and her brother Jorge M. Hidalgo.
In 1930 Maria Luisa, Alfonso and three of her children are living in Mocorrito, Sinaloa.
In 1930 Maria Luisa, Alfonso and three of her children are living in Mocorrito, Sinaloa.
- Buenaventura Casal Hidalgo was born on April 18, 1907 in Mazatlán and baptized on May 25, 1907. His godparents were his grandfather Don Pablo Hidalgo and his aunt Domitila Casal Favela (who was married to Genaro Garcia).
- Domitila Casal Hidalgo: 1910–1982. Domitila was born on June 8, 1910 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico and died a spinster on September 20, 1982 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
- Jorge Casal Hidalgo 1918, was born on July 8, 1918 en Villa de Mocorrito and registered on August 18, 1918. The witnesses at his birth registration were Porfirio Velderrain and Manuel C. Y Lopez.
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Carmen Hidalgo Urriolagoytia was born on October 1, 1884 on the street 'Venus' number 13 in Mazatlán. Witnesses at her birth registration were Dr. Francisco Dentragon from Fresnillo and Martin Partida.
Carmen married John Gibsone Verneuil 1882–1954 an industrialist from Danzig, Germany.
The couple lived in several cities in México; Zacatecas, Querétaro and finally in Mexico City. John Gibsone's widowed mother, Marcela Verneuil Nuchand 1862-1947 lived with them in her later years.
John Gibsone Verneil died on September 13, 1954 in Mexico City and, sadly but romantically, Carmen Hidalgo Urriolagoytia died one week later on September 22, 1954, also in México City.
Carmen married John Gibsone Verneuil 1882–1954 an industrialist from Danzig, Germany.
The couple lived in several cities in México; Zacatecas, Querétaro and finally in Mexico City. John Gibsone's widowed mother, Marcela Verneuil Nuchand 1862-1947 lived with them in her later years.
- 1. Carmen Gibsone Hidalgo:Carmen Gibsone Hidalgo was born on March 26, 1910 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. On November 16, 1928 she married Bernardo Corvera Villaseñor in Mazatlán, Sinaloa in the house of her deceased grandfather, Pablo Hidalgo Navarro, on Mariano Escobedo. Bernardo was a merchant of 23 years from Hermosillo but had been residing in Villa Unión, near Mazatlán for several years. The witnesses for the groom were Tomas de Rueda from Valmaseda, Spain and Luis Fuentevilla de Torrelavega, also from Spain. Both were merchants and were living in Villa Union. The witnesses of the bride were Guillermo Haas from Culiacan and Federico Unger Glade (married to her aunt Maria Ferreira Hidalgo) from Bremen, who resided in Mazatlán at number 314, Arsenal.
- Marcela Leonor Gibsone Hidalgo: 1912–Marcela Leonor was born on March 2, 1912 in Mazatlán and her birth was registered on March 13, 1912 in Mazatlán. The witnesses at the birth were her uncles, Alfonso Casal Favela and Jorge M. Hidalgo Urriolagoitia.
- Ana Maria Gibsone Hidalgo: 1915 Anne Marie Gibsone Hidalgo was born on June 4, 1914 in Querétaro, Querétaro, México and her birth was registered the following day in Querétaro. She was baptized on July 16, 1914 at Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, Miguel Hidalgo, Ciudad de México, México. Ana María died of diptheria when she was only 18 years in on April 26, 1936 in Cuauhtémoc, México City.
- Juan Alejandro Gibsone Hidalgo 1918. Juan Alejandro was born on August 18, 1918 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, México and his birth was registered on August 31,1918, and the witnesses were Federico Unger Glade from Bremen, who travelled to Mexico City for the occasion and was staying at the Hotel San Carlos, Mexico City, and Guillermo Saloschin from Koston, Germany.
John Gibsone Verneil died on September 13, 1954 in Mexico City and, sadly but romantically, Carmen Hidalgo Urriolagoytia died one week later on September 22, 1954, also in México City.
Maria Emilia Placida Hidalgo Urriolagoytia was born on October 11, 1888 on Calle de Ceres, (later called Mariano Escobedo) Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico but unfortunately only survived one week, dying of tetanus on October 17, 1888. She was attended by the physician Dr. Mariano Zuñiga and the witnesses on her death register are Francisco Urriolagoitia and Felix R. Mendoza Cota.
Concepcion Teresa, known as Conchita, was the youngest daughter of Pablo Pedro Hidalgo Navarro and Carmen Urriolagoytia. She was born on the 9th October 1889 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
As was the custom for the well-to-do in Mazatlán, the ladies of the households would travel to San Francisco in the summer, to avoid the scorching heat of Mazatlán between June and September. In July of 1912 several ladies of the Hidalgo family, all cousins, left Mazatlán on the steamer "Peru" for San Francisco. The passenger list includes; Emilia Ferreira Hidalgo de Eimbcke, Ma. Emilia Eimbcke Ferreira, Berta Eimbcke Ferreira, Elena Hidalgo de Fontan, Estela Fontan Hidalgo, Manuel Fontan Hidalgo, Jorge Fontan Hidalgo & Laura Fontan Hidalgo.
All were travelling to San Francisco to stay with their relative, Isabel Hidalgo Savín de Viosca. The following story appeared in the San Francisco newspaper on the 19th of July 1912.
As was the custom for the well-to-do in Mazatlán, the ladies of the households would travel to San Francisco in the summer, to avoid the scorching heat of Mazatlán between June and September. In July of 1912 several ladies of the Hidalgo family, all cousins, left Mazatlán on the steamer "Peru" for San Francisco. The passenger list includes; Emilia Ferreira Hidalgo de Eimbcke, Ma. Emilia Eimbcke Ferreira, Berta Eimbcke Ferreira, Elena Hidalgo de Fontan, Estela Fontan Hidalgo, Manuel Fontan Hidalgo, Jorge Fontan Hidalgo & Laura Fontan Hidalgo.
All were travelling to San Francisco to stay with their relative, Isabel Hidalgo Savín de Viosca. The following story appeared in the San Francisco newspaper on the 19th of July 1912.
Castilian Beauty Loses Treasure Box on Liner:Police are called by wireless.
A packet of jewels which was entrusted to Señorita Concepción Hidalgo, daughter of one of the wealthiest families of Northern Mexico, for delivery to San Francisco was stolen from the young woman´s stateroom on the Pacific Mail steamer "Peru", which arrived yesterday from Central American and Mexican Ports. The exact contents of the packet are unknown, but it included several diamond and pearl ornaments of considerable value, the property of the Mexican woman residing in San Francisco, to whom Señorita Hidalgo was to deliver them. |
On the first of February 1921, Concepción married Francisco Rangel (1881-1963) in Colima, Mexico. They had three sons; Alejandro, Francisco Javier and Juan José. Concepción died of pneumonia in Colima on the 19th October 1952.
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