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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Gender:Female
Ethnic origen: White
Events:
| 1815 | - | Córdoba | - | Not applicable | - | She was born here in 1815. |
| 1835 | - | Santa Fe | - | Unknown | - | She married her uncle, José María Paz, in his prison cell in La Aduana de Santa Fe on 31 March 1835. |
| 1835 | - | Santa Fe | - | Unknown | - | She lived with her husband in his prison cell. |
| 1838 | - | Santa Fe | - | Unknown | - | She was freed from prison in December 1838. |
| 1841 | - | Colonia | - | Unknown | - | She fled here with her children from Rosas in 1841. |
| 1846 | - | Paraguay | - | Unknown | - | She fled here in 1846. |
| 1847 | - | Rio de Janeiro | - | Unknown | - | She went into exile here in 1847. |
| 1848 | - | Rio de Janeiro | - | Unknown | - | She died in childbirth on 5 June 1848. |
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Female relatives of past and future leading political/military/ cultural figuresBiography:
She was born in Córdoba in 1815, the daughter of the Scottish medic Andrew Wield and Rosario Paz, and sister of the Unitarian leader, José María Paz. In 1834, José María Paz was imprisoned and she went to visit him with her grandfather, Tiburcia Haedo de Paz. There, in accordance with her mother's wishes, she married her uncle on 31 March 1835 inside the prison, La Aduana de Santa Fe. She was allowed to live there with him and was expecting their first child when he was transferred to another prison in the Cabildo de Luján under Rosas. She gave birth to a daughter there on 10 April 1836 but the child died within a week. They were freed in December 1838 and Paz fled to Uruguay in 1841 followed by Margarita and the rest of the family. They settled in La Colonia. Paz moved to Corrientes to organise the Unitarian army. In 1846 they moved to Paraguay and, after ten months, in 1847 to Rio de Janeiro. They set up a farm and a casa de comida in which they made sweets and pastries that a friend of Paz, José María Todd, sold in the streets. This took its toll on Margarita who died giving birth to their tenth child on 5 June 1848. Only four of the children survived. (Sosa de Newton, 681)
References:
Sosa de Newton, Lily (1986) Diccionario biográfico de mujeres argentinas