Third Generation

6. Ricardo Julián BESTEIRO FERNÁNDEZ³⁵ was born on 7 February 1854 in Madrid, Spain.^10,36 Full name: Ricardo Julián José María He was baptized on 8 February 1854 in Madrid, Spain.^12,36 Baptized at San Ginés.

He appeared in the census between 1855 and 1871 at Costanilla de Santiago, 15 in Madrid, Spain.^6,37 Ricardo was a businessman in Madrid, Spain.³⁵ It appears that he inherited his father's food business (víveres) in Madrid. This is based on oral tradition and there is no documentation. Most likely it was at Milaneses, 6. According to the 1895 census, he was a "profesor mercantil."

He lived at Plaza de la Cebada, 10, entreseulo derecha in Madrid, Spain on 1 December 1895. He died on 25 June 1899 at the age of 45 in Madrid, Spain.³⁸ He died at 8:15 AM of a stroke (apoplejía). (Note that although I reference his
death certificate, I don't seem to have it. I assume I did, or do, somewhere.)

Ricardo Julián BESTEIRO FERNÁNDEZ and Victorina GRACIANI LORENZO were married about 1882 in Madrid, Spain. Según la historia oral, Ricardo fué rechazado por su familia por casarse con una actriz. They appeared in the census in 1882 at Milaneses, 6 in Madrid, Spain.³⁹ They³⁹ appeared in the census in 1895 at Plaza de la Cebada, 10, entresuelo in Madrid, Spain.³⁵ Victorina GRACIANI LORENZO⁵, daughter of Francisco (Frasquito) GRACIANI PASTOR and Joaquina LORENZO BLAS, was born on 23 March 1862 in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.³⁵ She was baptized after 23 March 1862 in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.^40,41 Baptized at the parish of Santa María. She lived at Calle del Colmillo 9, tienda in Madrid, Spain between 1871 and 1881.^{24,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50} In 1882, married to Ricardo BESTEIRO FERNÁNDEZ, she was living at Calle de Milaneses 6 where her first-born Domingo was born.

Victorina was educated at the Escuela Nacional de Música y Declamación and graduated on 1 July 1880 in Madrid, Spain.⁵¹ "Primer premio en la enseñanza de declamación." In 1881/2 she was an actress in Madrid, Spain.^5,52 Isabel BESTEIRO GRACCIANI wrote «Mamá ganó como sabías el 1er premio por oposición después de graduada pero se casó enseguida, abandonando la carrera.»

Issue Number 71 of the "Gaceta de Madrid, " 12 March 1881, carried the following article: "En breve se presentará en la escena del teatro Español la señorita Graciani, primer premio de declamación en el Conservatorio. Un aplaudido escritor ha escrito para la salida de la señorita Graciani un apropósito, en el cual interpretará la debutante cuatro papeles distintos." (Shortly Miss Graciani, first prize in declamation in the Conservatory, will debut on the stage at the Theatre Español. An acclaimed writer has writen a work for her appearance, in which the debutane will interpret four distinct roles.")

She appeared in the census on 1 December 1882 at C/Milaneses, 6, tienda in Madrid, Spain.³⁹ This was her first residence after her marriage to Ricardo BESTEIRO. Victorina lived at Calle de Milaneses núm. seis cuarto bajo in Madrid, Spain in January 1883.⁸ She lived at Principe de Anglona núm. uno, piso primero in Madrid, Spain between 1884 and 1886.^9,10 She lived Plaza de la Cebada 10, tercero derecha in Madrid, Spain between June 1889 and December 1890.^11,53 Victorina appeared in the census in 1890 in Madrid, Spain.⁵³ She appeared in the census in 1895 in Madrid, Spain.³⁵ She lived at Plaza de la Cebada, 10, entresuelo derecha in Madrid, Spain between 1895 and 1906.^35,54 Victorina lived Calle Madera Alta, 28 tercero derecha in Madrid, Spain in November 1906.⁵⁵ She immigrated on 2 April 1907 to Havana, Cuba.^5,56 It is almost certain she first came to Cuba on this date, nearly 2 years after her husband Manuel (who may, however, have returned to Spain in the meantime). According to Isabel BESTEIRO GRACCIANI, she came with her children Pepita, Jorge and Isabel, and this is verified by an entry in the 2 April 1907 edition of El Diario de la Marina, which lists "Victoria Gración y tres hijos." They arrived on the steamship Reina Maria Cristina which originated in Bilbao.

She lived at Consulado 104-106 in Havana, Cuba in 1908.⁵⁷ This is where her son Francisco LAGOS GRACIANI was born in October 1908.

Victorina visited Spain about 1914 .^58,59 She traveled with her husband Manuel and youngest daughter Isabel, as indicated on their arrival together in New York. It´s not known when they traveled to Spain (only their arrival in New York on their return was noted), but in 2006 Victorina BESTEIRO ASENSIO recollected that she was told that her grandmother Victorina came to Spain from Cuba to visit and see the first of her grandchildren to be born in Spain (Victorina, that grandchild, was born in March 1913).

She visited on 12 November 1914 in New York, NY, USA.⁵⁸ This was on the family's return trip from Spain. The ship's manifest notes hat they were going to visit Antonio LAGOS and Josefa BESTEIRO and their family in New York City. She visited on 18 August 1915 in New York, NY, USA.⁶⁰ She was visiting her daughter and her family, then living at 344 E. 85th Street. Victorina visited on 24 April 1920 in New York, NY, USA.⁶¹ Together with her husband Manuel, her daughter-in-law Mercedes LORET DE MOLA BETANCOURT, and her grandchildren Ricardo and Miguel Ángel BESTEIRO LORET DE MOLA, visited her daughter Pepita and her family, then living at 526 E. 83rd Street. She visited on 21 November 1922 in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA. She went to visit her daughter Pepita and her family, living on 307 Park Avenue. Curiously, although she was living in Havana (at San Lázaro 143), her husband Manuel was living in Santiago, and she was listed on the passenger manifest as "single." (It is known that they had a turbulent marriage.)

She was living in 1924 in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA.⁶² On the 1924 passenger manifest of their trip from Cuba (arrived 7 April 1924), Victorina and her husband Manuel were listed as US residents.

Victorina was living about 1927/8 in Paterson, Passaic, NJ, USA. Manuel and Victorina lived first at Oak Street, then Madison Street. (This was while the Lagos family was living at 922 22nd Street.) She left Paterson - possibly for the last time - to help her daughter Isabel when Isabel's son Pepe was born in October 1928.

She died on 14 July 1931 at the age of 69 in Havana, Cuba.⁶³ From cemetery documentation at home of Arturo VALDÉS DENIS: Cuartel Noroeste Cuadro 10 Campo Com. Bóved 21 . . . Milicia Josefina 8163. / 10 julio 1931 Joaquín / 15 julio 1931 Victorina She was exhumed and placed in an ossuary on 31 May 1944 in Havana, Cuba⁶³ Victorina was the original Maina. This was a mispronunciation of "Mama Victorina" by her granddaughter Carmen LAGOS BESTEIRO and became the name - for an additional 2 generations - by which Lagos family grandmothers in the US were to be known. She was also known as Victorina GRACCIANI LORENZO. This was a mispronunciation of "Mama Victorina" by her granddaughter Carmen LAGOS BESTEIRO and became the name - for an additional 2 generations - by which Lagos family grandmothers in the US were to be known. She was also known as Antonia Victoriana GRACIANI LORENZO. This was a mispronunciation of "Mama Victorina" by her granddaughter Carmen LAGOS BESTEIRO and became the name - for an additional 2 generations - by which Lagos family grandmothers in the US were to be known.

Ricardo Julián BESTEIRO FERNÁNDEZ-105 and Victorina GRACIANI LORENZO-106 had the following children:

+30	i.	Domingo (Uncle Dominic) BESTEIRO GRACIANI-118.
+31	ii.	Josefa (Pepita) [Maina] BESTEIRO GRACIANI-89.
+32	iii.	Emilio BESTEIRO GRACIANI-119.
+33	iv.	Jorge BESTEIRO GRACCIANI-120.
34	v.	Luis BESTEIRO GRACCIANI35 was born on 6 May 1892 in Madrid, Spain. He appeared in the census in 1895 in Madrid, Spain.35 He lived at Plaza de la Cebada, 10, entresuelo derecha in Madrid, Spain on 1 December 1895.35 Luis was living on 1 December 1895 in Villar del Cobo, Teruel, Spain.35 "El niño Luis está temporalmente en Villar del Cobo - Provincia de Teruel. He died before 1 December 1900 at the age of 8. His death before 1900 is deduced from the fact that he does not appear in the 1900 census (or any subsequent censuses).
+35	vi.	Isabel (Aunt Betty) BESTEIRO GRACCIANI-121.