Jose Pastor Del Pozo (“Pastor”) was the youngest child listed for his father Pastor Del Pozo Marin in the Genealogical Work “Los Santos De Charapoto” ¹ . He was born in Charapoto, Ecuador on October 4, 1885.

Charles Wilson remembers that when he was a very young boy in Ecuador and his Mother was mortally ill with TB, his uncle Pastor would take care of him from time to time and he has a memory of Pastor taking him to some kind of fair. And after her death when his father Carlos Wilson who was residing in Cuba sent for him, it was Pastor who escorted him (on a ship) to Panama, where his father met him and took him back to Cuba (May 1929).

Spouse and Descendants²
Jose Pastor Del Pozo Santos was married to Rosario Corral and they had four children. Ordered by oldest first they were: Francisca, German (pronounced like “Hair-mon” – his full name was really “Luis German”), Guadalupe and Britanico (b. 1924, d. 1979). Rosario, his wife, worked for the Biblioteca Nacional (“National Library”) in Quito and she died in Elmhurst in February 1981, having reached the age of 97 (born May 3, 1883).

Francisca, Britanico

Late in 1951 Pastor’s daughter Francisca, who was his oldest, came to New York intending to stay for a while with her younger sister Guadalupe who was ill at the time. Francisca’s journey to New York was motivated by the fact that Guadalupe was ill in New York with no family member to assist her in her illness. Guadalupe had originally traveled to New York with her brother German (2nd oldest in the family) but he had to return briefly to Ecuador on business and it was during this brief stay in Ecuador that Lupe had fallen ill alone in New York. Guadalupe and Francisca were very close. About three months after her arrival she decided to stay in North America and sent for her mother Rosario and her niece Sonia whom she was raising as her own daughter. By this time Rosario was in her early 70’s and had retired from her job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Quito. When Rosario and Sonia came to North America, German was on the flight with them together with two of his three children.

Francisca raised Sonia primarily in Queens New York earning her living as a highly skilled seamstress. Sonia is Britanico’s daughter. After Francisca’s original arrival in New York, she (Francisca) would live the remainder of her life in the New York area returning for a visit to Ecuador only once in 1957.

Six years after her initial arrival Francisca made extensive arrangements to bring her father Pastor – who was then in his mid 70’s – to North America but he could not bring himself to abandon Ecuador and so he remained there to the end of his life. But Rosario, his wife, stayed and after her initial 1951 arrival, Rosario never returned to Ecuador. She lived to 96 years of age and died in Elmhurst in 1981.

Sonia, meanwhile, had married and her husband’s name is Ramiro Jervis. From 1974 to 1988 she and her family had lived in Staten Island and they raised their children there initially. During their time in Staten Island they were unaware that a family of second cousins (descendants of Sonia’s great grandfather) had been living on Staten Island for more than two decades just nine miles from their home. Later Sonia’s husband’s employer transferred him to a Pennsylvania Corporate location and so they now live in Pennsylvania (2023). She has a son Ramiro who is a Medical Doctor in New York and a daughter Michele. Michele is a Speech Pathologist and she speaks English, Spanish and French so she is a bilingual Speech Pathologist. Sonia has one grandchild through each of her two children. Francisca died in 1997 in New York having reached the age of 79.

Britanico (birth name: Jose Britanico) has other descendants who reside in the U.S. – at least three from his first marriage; he married two times.

German (birth name: Luis German)

The 1950 Census shows the 29-year-old German to have been living here at 57 W. 130th Street, NYC together with his 24-yr-old first wife Alicia and their three sons German, Gonzalo Alejandro and Nelson (ages 5,4,1 yrs)

German (b. 25 Dec 1920, Quito; d. 10 Dec 2002) migrated to the US early; probably in the late 1940’s. He had married his first wife Alicia in Ecuador. At the time they first met they were both unaware that they were related; she was his first cousin once removed. Alicia’s mother (“Amelia”) was a first cousin of German. Amelia was Rosario’s niece. Amelia had migrated to New York in the 1940’s some time before German and Alicia.

German shows up on a Braniff flight in 1948 from Ecuador to Havana (probably the first leg of a journey to the US) with his three very young sons through his first wife Alicia. But we know that his initial migration to North America had occurred  before that because this Braniff document shows his permanent address to have been 1470 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC at this time (1948). Two years later the 1950 US Census picked up the family residing at 57 W. 130th Street. The census document lists all five of them; German, Alicia, and the three boys, and from their ages we can deduce that the marriage of German and Alicia in Ecuador had occurred when he was no more than 23 years of age and she was no more than 18 years of age. The 29-year-old German told the Census official that he worked as a waiter in a local restaurant. He also told the Census taker that he was not living in this same residence a year ago; that he had been in Ecuador at that time, and that the highest level of school he had attended was 12th grade.
German’s first marriage did not work out. Later he married Romelia Palomeque and from this marriage there were two children; a boy and a girl. German’s descendants live in North America.

Guadalupe

Guadalupe originally came to the US with her older brother German. She became ill and in late 1951 her older sister Francisca came to the US originally to help her younger sister during her illness and as a result of this trip Francisca would decide to stay in the US (New York). Guadalupe married a North American man named Richard Lawrence. She lived with her husband and daughter first in the Bronx and later in Queens. Ultimately the marriage did not work out but they did have one daughter named Monica who was about a decade younger than her cousin Sonia and the two were very close. Monica married but did not have children. She died at a relatively young age in her late forties with her husband by her side.

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