Custodio LERENA

THE GROOM of the eleventh Lerena dispensation, 1911. Son of Bernabe Lerena and Florinda Cardozo. Petitioned to marry his DOUBLE FIRST COUSIN Ema Cardozo - the tie runs through both his father's and his mother's side, which is why the petition needed a diagram. They asked to be excused the fee, "pues no pueden satisfacerlos" - a poor Lerena household, in an archive that has spent two days finding generals, judges and hacendados. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713362 image 02473 - and the folio is not prose but 'Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco', TWO KINSHIP DIAGRAMS the priest drew himself to prove the impediment. AND THE DIAGRAM EXPLAINS HIS NAME. The apex of the second schema is CUSTODIO CARDOZO, his mother's father - so the groom of 1911 is named for the grandfather whose two children's marriages created the impediment he had to petition against. THE DISPENSATION WAS GRANTED AND THEY MARRIED, found 27 September 2026. This archive has held the priest's two kinship diagrams of 1911 without ever knowing the outcome. THEIR DAUGHTER VIOLETA BLANCA WAS BORN 29 OCTOBER 1915 and christened at Trinidad on 16 September 1916. INDEX ONLY - no image opened - but the couple, the place and the surname all match the diagram.