María de los Santos Sayas de Bengochea

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: Unknown

Biographical details

Born in Guardia de Pilar, Buenos Aires province and baptised on 18 February 1792, she worked taking post along the San Fernando to Buenos Aires road. On 7 June 1810 she married Vicente Bengochea in San Fernando. She was widowed in 1826, left with 9 children. In 1828 she remarried, a cousin of her first husband. She was widowed again in 1848, and continued to work building up the postal service into a respectable business (the government reorganised it in 1822). She worked tirelessly whatever the weather. She died in San Fernando on 11 February 1867. (Sosa de Newton, 596, 595)

Life Events

Born	1792	She was baptised on 18 February 1792.
Married	1810	On 7 June 1810 she married Vicente Bengochea.
Other	1826	She was widowed.
Married	1828	She married a cousin of her first husband.
Other	1848	She was widowed for a second time.
Died	1867	She died in San Fernando on 11 February 1867.

References

Sosa de Newton, Lily, (1986), Diccionario biográfico de mujeres argentinas

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