Sebastián García (1878 - 1962) Photo Friday

Here is another digitized image from Vincent's cousin's collection.  This is Sebastián García, Vincent's 2nd great grandfather.  He was the son of Celestino García and Joaquina Muñoz, born 6 May 1878 in Fraga, Huesca, Spain, and died 22 June 1962 in Puerto Seguro, Salamanca Spain.  He married Maria Ribero on 9 April 1902 and they had three children:

1. Joaquín García, born 1904, married Luisa Antonia Martín in 1930
2. José García, born 1908, married María Consuelo Martín (yes, two brothers married two sisters!)
3. María Ascención García, born 1913, never married (this is Vincent's "Tia Chon")

Vincent's grandfather was Sebastián's second son, José.

Sebastián was a "carabinero" in Salamanca.  The carabineros were established in 1829 as a rural frontier guard and border patrol.   The village of Puerto Seguro was right on the Portuguese border.  Both of Sebastián's two eldest sons became carabineros during the Spanish Civil War.  In 1940 the carabineros merged with the Guardia Civil under the Franco regime. José García, Vincent's grandfather, was a Captain in the Guardia Civil until his retirement.

In the photo above the uniform would be greyish green. Some countries in South America still have a police force called carabineros, such as Chile's national police.

For more information about Sebastián García, see this blog post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-garcia-family-photo-from-puerto.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Sebastián García (1878 - 1962) Photo Friday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 9, 2019, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/sebastian-garcia-1878-1962-photo-friday.html: accessed [access date]).