Antonia Antoni (right) with her granddaughter Blanca Célia Lugo Penchi
Born: October 10, 1851
Birthplace: Brando, Haute-Corse, Corsica
Died: April 25, 1928
Deathplace: San Germán, Puerto Rico
Occupation: Housewife
Spouse: Luis Penchi Mattei (m.1872)
Children
Lucía Antonia Penchi Antoni (c.1877)
Two Natimuertos
Andrea Penchi Antoni (c.1882-1934)
José Galo Penchi Antoni (c.1885-1961)
María Francisca Penchi Antoni (c.1886-1905)
Juana Penchi Antoni (c.1887-1940)
Ángel Penchi Antoni (c.1890-1921)
Luis Penchi Antoni (1892-1961)
Father: François Antoni
Mother: Marie Jeanne Cardi
Sex: Female
Antonia Antoni Cardi
Biography
Marie Antoinette Antoni was born October 10, 1851 in Brando, Corsica. She was the eldest of three sisters and would marry Louis Penchi in 1872. Soon after this marriage she would travel to Puerto Rico with her husband with Spain's Real Cédula de Gracias, a decree intended to grant land to European Catholics to colonize Puerto Rico. She would travel with her husband and her sister Marie Épiphanie Antoni. The assumed year of this voyage is 1875 from census records, but it may have been completed a year or so earlier. Here she changed her name to Antonia Antoni Cardi. The couple would found the Penchi Antoni family with seven children who resided in Caín Alto and Guamá, San Germán. In 1914 her husband, Luis Penchi, died after forty-one years of marriage. In 1920 she was living in Segundo, Ponce with her children Juana Penchi Antoni de Fernández and Luis Penchi Antoni and her grandchildren Luis and Salvador Fernández Penchi. She died April 25, 1928 at 9pm in San Germán.
Author's Notes
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Antonia was born Marie Antoinette but never used the name María Antonia in Puerto Rico.
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Family legend asserts that three individuals came from Corsica to Puerto Rico through the port in Guánica before settling in Caín Alto, San Germán.
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A grandson of Antonia through her eldest daughter Lucía, Lisandro Lugo Penchi, was mayor of San Germán from 1941 to 1968.
Timeline
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1851 - Born in Brando, Corsica
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1872 - Married Louis Penchi
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c. 1875 - Immigrated to Puerto Rico
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1910 - Residence in Caín Alto, San Germán
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1920 - Residence in Segundo, Ponce
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1928 - Died in San Germán
Sources
Marriage: AD 2B Brando 2 E 2-22/1 vues 229 & 230; https://en.geneanet.org/archives/releves/depgn38234/657
Census (1910): "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VWV1-VT5 : accessed 23 April 2020), Antonia Antonia Y Cardi De Pencil in household of Luis Pencil Y Matteo, Cain Alto, San German, Puerto Rico; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 506, sheet 5B, family 52, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1777; FHL microfilm 1,375,790.
Census (1920): "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9WC-CJY : accessed 23 April 2020), Antonia Antone Y Carde De Pench, Segundo, Ponce, Puerto Rico; citing ED 624, sheet 28B, line , family 330, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 2065; FHL microfilm 1,822,065.
Death (1928): "Puerto Rico, Registro Civil, 1805-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJZ-5LFH : 14 October 2019), Antonia Antoni y Cardi, ; citing San Germán, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Departamento de Salud and Igesia Catolica (Puerto Rico Department of Health and Catholic churches), Toa Alta.