Tejano History

Cassiano, Maria Gertrudis Perez

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       CASSIANO, MARÍA GERTRUDIS PÉREZ (1790–1832). María Gertrudis Pérez Cassiano, a descendant of the Canary Islanders, daughter of Juan Ignacio Pérez and Clemencia Hernández, was born on January 2, 1790, in the Pérez homestead in Villa de San Fernando, Royal Presidio of San Antonio de Béxar.

 

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