Fifth Generation
28. Gumersindo BELLIDO DE LUNA was born about 1780 in Jaen, Andalucia, SPN. He died before 1875 at the age of 95. Maria Magdalena GUZMÁN and Gumersindo BELLIDO DE LUNA were married on 26 December 1811 in Regla, La Habana, Cuba.5 They were married in the Church of Our Lady of Regla. 29. Maria Magdalena GUZMÁN was born about 1790 in Regla, La Habana, Cuba. She died on 24 August 1875 at the age of 85 in Regla, La Habana, Cuba. Children were: 14 | i. | Dr. Miguel José BELLIDO DE LUNA. | | ii. | Maria Simona BELLIDO DE LUNA was born (date unknown). | | iii. | Maria de Jesus Homobona BELLIDO DE LUNA was born on 15 January 1815. She died on 13 July 1853 at the age of 38. She married Guillermo Gonzalez-Gazorla in New Haven, CT. | | iv. | Francisco Javier Gertrudis BELLIDO DE LUNA was born on 17 November 1818. He died on 11 October 1880 at the age of 61 in Cuba. He was imprisoned and executed by the Spanish government. He married twice in New York, NY. He was a US citizen. | | v. | José Gumersindo Arcadio BELLIDO DE LUNA was born in 1820 in Regla, La Habana, Cuba. He died on 5 February 1892 at the age of 72. | | vi. | Maria Adriana BELLIDO DE LUNA was born (date unknown). | | vii. | Leonor Luciana BELLIDO DE LUNA was born on 7 January 1823. She married Jose Milla-Coll of Barcelona, Spain. | | viii. | Antonio Cornelio BELLIDO DE LUNA was born on 16 September 1825. He married Teresa Spenser-Gomez and was a US citizen living (in 1885) Guanabocoa, Cuba. In 1885, he sued the Spanish government over the imprisonment and death of his brother, Francisco. | | ix. | Juan Sandalio BELLIDO DE LUNA was born on 3 September 1827 in Matanzas, Cuba. He died on 30 April 1902 at the age of 74 in Havana, Cuba. Participated in the Vuelta Abajo independence conspiracy of 1852, buying weapons in Havana that were smuggled to the rebels in the countryside. Confidential correspondent in Cuba of the Cuban exile newspaper La Verdad, published in New York. Editor and writer of the clandestine independence newspaper La voz del pueblo cubano in Cuba. The printer, Eduardo Facciolo was arrested by the Spanish authorities and executed. Bellido de Luna fled Cuba in 1852, leaving behind his commercial business, on a ship for the United States. He was sentenced to death in absentia. He was one of the speakers at the Cuban Junta meeting in New York City on October 11, 1852. Returned to Cuba after the general amnesty of 1856. He was imprisoned in 1866 for illegal political activities, in San Severino fortress, Matanzas, and upon his release, returned to exile in the United States. In 1869, a year after the start of the Ten Years' War, he was arrested while leading an armed expedition to Cuba, and deported to Spain. He fled Europe in 1870, and once again sought refuge in New York City, where he was active in Cuban revolutionary politics. In 1888, he wrote a pamphlet published in New York advocating the annexation of Cuba to the United States. He returned to Cuba after the Spanish-American War and lived his last years in Guanabacoa, outside Havana. | | x. | José Narciso Fortunato BELLIDO DE LUNA was born on 29 October 1829. He died in March 1850 at the age of 20. |
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