Francisco Xavier de Lomba
Francisco Xavier de Lomba and Maria Manuela Barrios
FRANCISCO XAVIER DE LOMBA (Antonia Deogracias Molero, Cristoval Luis Molero) was born on 01 Feb 1782 in Havana, Ciego de Avila, Cuba. He died in 1825 in Louisiana, United States. He married (1) MANUELA ANTONIA ACOSTA about 1802, daughter of Juan de Acosta and Lucia Mendez. She died between 1810-1817. He married (2) MARIA MANUELA BARRIOS between 1815-1818, daughter of Manuel Miguel de Barrios and Maria Mera. She was born on 25 Dec 1798 in Canary Islands, Spain. She died on 12 Oct 1835 in Louisiana, United States.
From The Lombas (de Lomba) Family of Louisiana
written by William Lombus, March 1994
It seems likely that Francisco had settled at Terre-aux-Boeufs in St. Bernard Parish in 1783 along with his mother and the rest of the Molero family. St. Bernard church at English Turn began to keep records of baptisms and marriages in1787, but the earliest record books have been lost.
Therefore, there is no record of the marriage of Francisco De Lomba and Manuela Acosta, nor of Francisco's second marriage to Maria Manuela Barrios. Even with the survival of St. Bernard church's Baptismal Book 1801-1851, there are no baptismal entries for several of Francisco's children. The information gathered come from surviving baptismal records which typically list the names of both parents and both sets of grandparents, all women listed with their maiden names, everyone listed with his place of birth or residence. Add to this the U.S. Census records, which began in Louisiana in 1810.
By the time of the 1810 census, the de Lomba family name had succumbed to the dominant French culture of Louisiana and acquired a new form, Lombas. Francisco is listed as Franco Lomas. He is listed between ages 16 and 25, when he had to be at least 27 since he was born in Havana. Francisco appears in the 1820 census in the 25 to 44 age group (probably 37). His residence is the very same location as in 1810, still living amongst his Molero uncles and cousins. The census shows that he was known by his nickname Pancho (spanish for Frank), giving his name in a thoroughly French form as Panche Lombas. He is listed with three boys and one girl under age 10 and his wife under age 26.
Francisco/Pancho was still alive 24 Sept 1824 when his daughter Maria was baptized at the cathedral in New Orleans, but he seems to have died before the census of 1830 was taken in st. Bernard Parish. His son Manuel is listed in that census, living alone on the family property on bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs, with his Molero neighbors. His widow Maria Manuela Barrios remarried, to a man listed as Francisco Camaza, who may actually have been named Camacho; Maria died 12 October 1835 and was buried in st. Louis Cemetery Number Two in New Orleans. There is no indication where Francisco Lombas may have been buried.
His property along Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs is probably the same as that held by his son Manuel Lombas in 1831, when the area was surveyed by federal surveyors. On a list of 95 landholders along the bayou, the Molero family begins with number 82, Bartole Molero, followed by Marguerite Molero, widow Nunez, and Christoval Molero and Antony Molero, each with about two-acres of frontage along both sides of the bayou; then comes Manuel Lombas with about 185 •feet of frontage on both sides (#86 on the list), followed by Juan Alfonson and Roque Acosta, each with about two acres of frontage. The actual depth of the tracts was likely determined by the next body of water in each direction, which may have been 40 acres or a mile or more off.
Francisco had at least two children by his first wife Manuela Antonia Acosta, and at least four more by his second wife Maria Manuela Barrios. There was only one known surviving grandchild from the first marriage, Manuel's daughter Josephine. Only two sons of the second marriage left children; these are the ancestors of the Lombas family in Louisiana today.
Francisco Xavier de Lomba and Manuela Antonia Acosta had the following children:
i. MANUEL VALERIANO DE LOMBA Y ACOSTA was born on 14 Apr 1803 in St Bernard, Louisiana, USA. He died in 1839 in St Bernard, Louisiana, USA.Notes for Manuel Valeriano de Lomba y Acosta: From The Lombas (de Lomba) Family of Louisiana written by William Lombus, March 1994 Born 14 Apr 1803 at Terre-aux-Boeufs in St. Bernard Parish. He was baptized at St. Bernard Church 8 May 1803, listed as the son of Francisco Xavier de Lomba, native of Havana, Cuba, and Manuela Antonia Acosta, native of St. Bernard Parish; paternal grandparents Francisco de Lomba and Antonia Deogracias (Molero; she used both names); maternal grandparents Juan de Acosta of Fuerteventura Island in the Canaries and Lucia (Luisa) Mendez of Icod de los Vinos, on the island of Tenerife in the Canaries. Undoubtedly in the Lombas household in the 1810 census,• he does not appear with his father and stepmother in 1820; perhaps he was living by then with his mother's relatives, or his godparents--his father's uncle and aunt Manuel Joaquin Molero and Ana Maria Alfonsa.
He appears as Manuel Lombas in the 1830 census, living alone on the Lombas property on Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs. He must have married a year or two later to Caroline Macles. They had four children born about 1832-1838. He died in 1839 and was buried at Violet near the old st. Bernard Church, renamed Our Lady of Lourdes Church.
The widow (veuve) of Manuel Lombas appears in the 1840 census at the Lombas homestead on Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs. The census places Caroline in her 30s and lists three surviving children, a boy under age 5 and two girls aged 5-9. Caroline Macles, widow of Manuel Lombas, married Francisco Casanova 18 Mar 1841 at St. Bernard Church (Marriages, p. 59). Caroline died early in 1850, leaving only one surviving child, her daughter Josephine Lombas. Following standard Louisiana probate procedures, a Family Assembly of Josephine's nearest relatives convened 11 Sept 1850 at the St. Bernard courthouse at Chalmette, to settle on a plan to safeguard Josephine's inheritance. Her father's half-brother Francisco Lombas of Jefferson Parish, verified that Manuel had been dead over eight years and his widow "Coralie Macle" about six months, leaving a surviving minor child, Josephine. The other relatives present included Manuel's nextdoor neighbor and uncle Roque Acosta and his sons Vincent and Evariste, along with likely Acosta in-laws Antonio Marrero and Nicnlas and Bernard Gutiere. Her father's half-brother, Pedro Ignacio Lombas, was missing from the gathering. The Lombas property in St. Bernard Parish all went to Josephine, who most likely married and passed the land on to her children.
ii. MARIA CANDELARIA DE LOMBA was born on 03 Dec 1804 in St Bernard, Louisiana, USA.
Francisco Xavier de Lomba and Maria Manuela Barrios had the following children:
iii. PEDRO LOMBAS (PIERRE LOMBARD) was born in 1815 in St Bernard, St Bernard, Louisiana, United States,. He died in 1891 in Larose, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA. He married (1) AZELIE ALBARADO in 1848 in Louisiana, United States. She was born on 24 Oct 1827 in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. She died after 1881 in Lafourche, Louisiana, United States. He married (2) SUSANNE EASLEY on 06 Mar 1874. He married (3) CATHERINE JENKINS before 1876 in Louisiana, United States. She was born about 1856 in Tennessee, United States. She died about 1900 in Gulfport, Harrison, Mississippi, United States. He married (4) MARIE MARCELLINE AZEMA SEVIN on 12 Jul 1844 in Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA. She was born on 25 Mar 1823 in Lafourche Parish, LA. She died in 1899. He married (5) CATHERINE BAPTISTE on 07 Oct 1854 in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, USA, daughter of Pierre Garcon Baptiste and Marie Barrieller. She was born on 21 Sep 1837. She died in 1870.iv. FRANCISCO LOMBAS was born about 1820 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He died on 13 May 1860 in Lafourche Parish, LA.
v. CHARLES LOMBAS was born in Nov 1821. He died in 1823.
vi. MARIA LOMBAS was born on 04 May 1824.