Trinidad Pino Fuentes, the mother of María Rosa de las Mercedes Casanova, was born variously in Caracas or Maricaibo, Venezuela
[U.S. Census records, 1850–1880]. It is likely that she was, at least, living in Maricaibo before she emigrated to Costa Rica, since she is described a native of that city in the baptismal record of her daughter, Rosa, in 1846
[Archivo Eclesiástico de la Curia Metropolitana, Rollo SJ-143 Item 2, CB#29, F. 385, Asiento 47].
It is not known where, or how, Trinidad Pino Fuentes met Antonio Casanova, nor where they were married. What is clear, however, is that the family moved from Venezuela sometime before 1834; that they were in Costa Rica by 1839 or 1840; and that they left Costa Rica after 1847 and arrived in California sometime before March 1850, when Antonio Casanova died in Los Angeles County
[1850 U.S. Census Mortality Schedule].
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