page_title: Sinforoso Canavery
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Sinforoso Canavery / Family
caption_attribution_description: Español: postal de la calle Victoria, barrio de Monserrat, Buenos Aires (c.1869)
context_page_description: Sinforoso Canavery was an Argentine jurist, who served as a notary public in the cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata, and as Notary Mayor of Government of Buenos Aires Province towards the end of the 19th century. He had an active participation in public contracts of the province of Buenos Aires, where he served for more than thirty years. His works as a notary, also includes his participation in the deeds of The Tramway Rural.
  He belonged to a distinguished family of Buenos Aires and Montevideo politically related to the Federal and National Party. His father participated in the Argentine and Uruguayan Civil War, serving as 1st lieutenant in the Baballón de Rebajados de Buenos Aires in support of the forces of Manuel Oribe, during the Gobierno del Cerrito.
context_section_description: Máximo Sinforoso Canavery Páez, born in 1857 during the period of State of Buenos Aires, was baptized in the Parish Nuestra Señora de Montserrat on March 10, 1858, being his godmother his aunt Ruperta Canavery. His baptismal record bears the signature of Manuel Velarde, priest of the parish.  
  He lived in different historic neighborhoods of the city of Buenos Aires, including Balvanera, where he rented a house located on calle Rincón No. 82, a few meters from the current Plaza Primero de Mayo. His natal house was leased by his father to José Manuel Estrada, owner of the barracks on Victoria Street No. 614, located in the vicinity of the Club del Progreso, Teatro de la Victoria and the store A la Ciudad de Londres. 
  He also lived or was linked to the cities and towns of Adrogué, Temperley, Llavallol, Banfield and La Plata, where he was a neighbor of Esteban F. Achinelly Thompson, a relative and colleague who built the Palacio Achinelly.
  He was married on April 19, 1894 in the Parish Nuestra Señora de Balvanera to Angélica Fortunata Andrade, a seventeen-year-old maiden, daughter of Juan Manuel de Andrade and Domitila Alegre, belonging to a family of landowners dedicated to raising livestock in the area of San Vicente and Cañuelas in Buenos Aires Province.
  His wife, born on January 9, 1877 in Monserrat, belonged to distinguished Portuguese families of Lisbon and Porto, and descended from illustrious Creole lineages related to 
  conquistadores, and also of Spanish aristocratic families from El Puerto de Santa María and Seville, linked in turn to families Monterroso-Rueda, Piña-Merlos, Bourré, Vega-Soreyre and Belgrano-Rico. She was a great-granddaughter of Casimiro Alegre, a military man and landowner who served as campaign mayor in the Province of Buenos Aires.
  Juan Francisco de Andrade, grandfather of Angélica, was an immigrant, born in the times of the Peninsular War in Praça de Santo Ovídio. He arrived in Argentina during or after the Portuguese Civil War, and established in the Province of Buenos Aires by 1835, where he was dedicated to cattle breeding, being the owner of a hacienda, built of adobe and straw, located in the area of Cañuelas. He passed away on August 6, 1869 in Buenos Aires, and was buried in the Cementerio del Norte.
  Canavery and his wife were relatives to the families Reynolds-Newton from London. He through Blanca Canaveris (b.1912), the wife of Saturnino Soriano Newton, and Angélica Andrade, through his great grandparents José Martínez Gulivert, born by 1715 in Valencia and María Muñoz Salinas, maternal ancestors of Francisco Reynolds. 
  Sinforoso Canavery had several brothers, including Camilo Alejo Canavery (godson of José Antonio Durán), a lawyer who participated in the Revolution of the Park under José Camilo Crotto, and who served as secretary of the Capital Committee of the Radical Civic Union, chaired by Carlos Vega Belgrano. His work as a lawyer includes services to Crotto, and his participation in the trial against The Atlas Assurance Company, an English insurance company established in Buenos Aires.
  He was the godfather of Emma Cipriana Canavery, related to families Rouquaud Périchon, and Elida Arenas, related to Lieutenant Colonel Juan Ángel Michelena (uncle of Sinforoso), a patriot who served in the War of Independence, under General José de San Martín.
  His ancestors Francisco Pérez de Burgos and Gonzalo Carbajal, had a preponderant role in the beginnings of the political and military life of the Río de la Plata. His wife was the descendant of several soldiers who served in the Spanish Army during the reign of Philip V of Spain, including Francisco Muñoz and Gerónimo de Vieyra, alférez and artillero, of the Fuerte de Buenos Aires towards the beginning of the 18th century. 
  Canavery and his wife were descendants of the Melo Coutinho-Ulloa families, she through her 18th century ancestors Antonio Roberto, the son of a Milanese soldier, and Josefa Lucía Jaimes, a creole in turn related to the families Jaimes-Chiclana. Curiously, both spouses are also related to the Cabral de Melo Alpoim families
caption: Calle de la Victoria in Monserrat, circa.1880. (his natal neighborhood)
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