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Recently, I went on a field trip to Ponce and discovered some new and interesting information about the Batiz family in nearby Archívo Histórico de Ponce.
I've been working diligently to uncover more documents relating to the lives of the our Batiz ancestors, and until recently found it difficult to collect information outside of the standard censuses.
My trip was absolutely inspiring so I decided it was time to open a website for our family. Facebook has gotten confusing as Batiz's from other countries are all mixed in together. Maybe one day we'll find our common family threads, but until then I'd like to work on tracing our own lines within Puerto Rico first.
There are many questions I still have even after 20 years of family research: Why are there both BATIZ and BATIS family names residing in the same areas of Ponce. Who was the first Batiz to land in Puerto Rico? How did the family (well.....Antonio) acquire so much wealth? I hope to find the answers to these and will share them with everyone.
The family tree will be posted, and update, frequently but I will keep it under a secure page where only family members can access with a password.
Please feel free to wander around the site. It's brand new so I haven't uploaded everything I have, but it promises to be a fun site for everyone.
I'll work on this in the next few months, please feel free to ask, correct, add, delete whatever you think is incorrect or needs editing. This is OUR family website. Use it to sit with your kids and show them how important it is to know about where they came from.
- Charlie Fourquet Batiz June 15, 2016
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February 2020: This trip to Puertio Rico has been a dream come true for me. As a member of the Batiz family on the mother's side, born and raised outside the island.....and as a family historian.
I visited the ancestral country home of my Batiz family. The Batiz family, headed by my maternal great-grandfather, Antonio Batiz Oliveras. Where they lived comfortably. My mom grew up, traveling back and forth from the family's two homes, which must have looked like mansions to her.
The house, called "La Quinta", built in 1936, is located in the rural countryside of Guaraguao, Ponce, was in great condition for the years it has been around. Walking through the rooms where Mom walked and played in as a child was a unique and bittersweet experience since she passed away in 2006, and had never returned to the home she grew in in the countryside, so many years ago. I guess i got to do it for her.
My great grandfather owned another large house, in Ponce. There is also the town house the Batiz also lived back then. The house of "La Villa", which is on the corner of Villa and Mendez Vigo, in town, half a block from Plaza Las Delicias.
Details about that house "in town" appears here...
http://batizfamily.com/batiz-house.html
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Este viaje a Puertio Rico ha sido un sueño realizado para mi. Como miembro de la familia Batiz (por parte materna) nacido y criado fuera de la isla, y como genealogista.
Visite el hogar ancestral de mi familia Batiz. Casa de mi bisabuelo maternal, Antonio Batiz Oliveras, donde Mami se crío con sus abuelos paternos. La familia vivian bien porque Antonio era agricultor, con haciendas y propiedades en Ponce. Mami se crio viajando entre dos casas grandes de la familia. Imagino que, para ella, eran mansiones.
Esta casa, conocida como "La Quinta", localizada en el barrio campo de Guaraguao, Ponce, estaba en buenas condiciones para los años que lleva. Caminando por los cuartos donde mami caminaba y jugaba como niña fue una experiencia unica y algridulce ya que mami murio en el 2006 y no pudo volver a su casa de crianza en el campo, tantos años atrás. Por lo menos lo logre por ella.
Esta tambien la casa de pueblo, tambien vivian los Batiz en ese entonces. La casa de "La Villa", que queda esquina Villa y Mendez Vigo, en el pueblo, a media cuadra de la Plaza Las Delicias.
Detalles sobre la casa "del pueblo" aparece aquí, http://batizfamily.com/batiz-house.html
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September 2016. In a recent trip[ to Ponce i was able to visit the cemetery where my great-grand parents and their children were buried. My great-grandfather, Antonio Batiz Oliveras bought a family tomb (panteón) in El Cememterio Catolico de San Vincente de Paul, in Ponce. Here lies some of my relatives
November 15, 2012. Searching for Batiz family members using Ancestry.com, I came across a photo of a gentleman named Manuel Batis. Someone had uploaded the old picture, adding that he came from Adjuntas, Puerto Rico but was living in Hawaii! Yeah, another Hawaiiano Boricua! (read next article)
Of particular interest to me was that he came Adjuntas where we still have many family members with the "s" at the end of their surname. Also, the road to Adjuntas from Ponce has been filled with Batis/Batiz families for decades.
I quickly looked up Manuel Batis in the Ancestry database and found a Manuel Batis Andujar, a boarder living with the Santiago family in Kanai, district of Koloa in Hawaii.... in an area called "Portuguese Camp". (read more)
September 22, 2012 - While casting a broader net in search of Batiz family members outside of Puerto Rico I discovered a family in Oahu, Hawaii, living in what was called the "Aiea Porto Rican Camp", in Oahu. Ramon Batiz appears in the 1910 census, at 23 years of age, as a laborer living with his wife, Anasta and children Marceline and Rosa Batiz. Born approximately in 1887, he would have been the same generation as our common ancestor Antonio Batiz Oliveras, born in 1884. I have not come up with anything on this so-called "Porto Rican Camp" yet, but there were close to 200 people, including Ramon and his family, living on the plantation. (read more)
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July 30, 2012 - While coordinating a field trip to Ponce, back in March, I was researching one of the venue we would visit called Hacienda Buena Vista, the 19th century plantation once owned by the Vives family. I came across entries for "Hacienda Batiz". I didn't mind it much, thinking it was in reference to the family home in Marueño named "La Quinta". I clicked on the links and just got maps on how to get there. I was struck by the term because I'd never heard it and wanted to investigate further. (read more)
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July 22, 2012 - The significance, or meaning, of the Batiz surname has always eluded me. I'd always known it originated in Basque area of northern Spain, and the heraldic coat of arms history describe it as originating from Vizcaya. I found a website that seems to confirm this:
http://www.misapellidos.com/significado-de-Batiz-39612.html.
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July 14, 2012 - I want to share some concerns I have regarding the posting of family information anywhere on the internet. Cyberspace is still the wild, wild west of today where anything goes. Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites can pose dangers...
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