There are two of the Del Pozo siblings who were in New York in 1920 and who stayed in the US for all or most of the remainder of their lives. They seem to stand out from the others: Teodoro and Alberto Del Pozo.

Alberto Del Pozo (born 1896)

Alberto was the youngest son of Pastor Del Pozo Marin and at the time of his birth in 1896, Ines Santos Muentes (Pastor’s wife) would have been 52 years of age (she was born in 1844). Alberto arrived in New York some time before the fall of 1917 and he was probably employed by W.R. Grace there at that time.¹ In the fall of 1917 Alberto’s nephew Ramon arrived on a ship all the way from Guayaquil (presumably a ship carrying W.R. Grace cargo) and told the immigration officer there that he was going to meet his “Uncle Alberto Del Pozo c/o W.R. Grace Co.”. Later Alberto shows up on a New York Census document in 1920. It shows him to be 24yrs of age and living on the 6th floor of 612 W. 135th street with his 17-year-old wife who was an Ecuadorian girl “Juanita” Carillo. They both told the Census official that they had come to the US in 1918. This would mean that she had been 15yrs of age and he would have been 22yrs of age at the time of their arrival in the big City. A later document gives Juanita’s time of arrival as November 1918 (it’s in her second husband’s naturalization application). This would mean that by the time Ines and Maria Teresa arrived in 1919 Juanita and Alberto, as a couple, would have been in New York for about half a year and Alberto would have been there for about two years.

In late summer of 1919 Juanita would conceive a child. She was pregnant in January 1920 at the time of the Census and she would give birth to a Son, Alberto (Jr) on May 27th (or 24th) 1920, just mere weeks before the death of her sister-in-law Maria Teresa Del Pozo at a hospital also in New York. Two years later she and Alberto would travel to Hamburg Germany and there give birth to their second son – whom they named “Nicolas A.” in November of 1922². In 1923 documents show Alberto and Juanita to be arriving separately at Key West on ships that embarked respectively from Havana (Alberto) and Dominican Republic (Juana). Juana had the boys with her and a “Servant” named “Olivia” was also traveling with her. Juana reported her destination as her “Husband A Del Pozo, 70 W.87th St NY” but the immigration document for Alberto doesn’t say anything about him living in New York at that time. On Alberto’s arrival document the “Final Destination” and “Residence” both show Havana Cuba.

The trip to Germany and birth of son Nicolas
A ship’s manifest shows that in June of 1921 Alberto and Juana passed through the port of New York “In transit to Germany” (Hamburg). Their one-year-old baby Alberto was with them and a 22-year-old “Carlos Carillo” was also with them. We don’t know who Carlos was but it seems likely that he was the older brother of Juana. The ship’s origin is listed as Cristobal (Panama canal) so they were probably coming from Guayaquil. They were to remain in New York for a week before departing for Germany and the occupation of both Carlos and Alberto is listed as “Merchant”. Perhaps this trip to Germany was related to their job; currently we don’t know. But we do know that their second son “Nicholas” would be born in 1922 (9/12/22). A present-day descendant of Nicholas, Natalia Del Pozo, lists her ancestor Nicholas’ place of birth as Hamburg Germany (on Ancestry.com). This would suggest either that they stayed in Germany for more than a year or that they made more than one trip to Germany.

Alberto’s marriage to Juana didn’t last – it apparently ended in divorce. Three years later, in October 1926, Juana married her second husband – a certain John Camps who had come to New York from Barcelona Spain. Some documents after that time would show John as “Father” or “Stepfather” to the boys and a 1931 ships manifest goes so far as to list the older son’s surname as “Camps” – replacing Del Pozo, the name of his biological father. Earlier travel documents show her to have given her name as “Juana de Camps” or “Juanita Camps” but later documents show her to be reverting to her maiden name of Juanita Carillo. The marriage to John Camps ended sometime in the mid 1930’s³. On travel documents as late as 1956 Juana would be with one or both of the sons. Although Alberto Jr. was born in the US, three decades later when he was 31 years of age his father’s naturalization document would state that both he and his brother Nicolas resided in Guayaquil. However perhaps Alberto wasn’t sure where his sons lived by that time; there are travel documents showing them to have traveled back and forth to Miami but although those documents show them to have sometimes been traveling with their mother Juana they never show their father Alberto to have been present. Nicholas was almost certainly a US resident by the late 1940’s.

The sons of Alberto and Juana – adult years
Currently we don’t know anything about the adult years of Alberto and Juana’s older son (Alberto Jr.) but we do know that as an adult Nicolas lived in the U.S. – possibly New York at first but later Miami – and that he married Alicia Trujillo. We don’t know when⁴ or where the marriage took place but we know from two sources that Alicia Trujillo is the woman to whom he was married: it is mentioned in a Miami Herald wedding announcement for the wedding of their daughter Monica and Alicia also shows up as his wife in an ancestry.com family tree of a present day descendant named Natalia Del Pozo. Living in Miami, this Alicia Trujillo was the vice consul of Ecuador and cousin of Mrs. Lucia Santos de Arosemena (wife of Otto Arosemena, president of Ecuador from 11/66-8/68). Looking at the aforementioned family tree of Natalia we can see that Nicholas and Alicia had a son but we don’t know his name or anything else about him. We also know that they had a daughter named Monica who was born in New York in 1947 and who married in Miami in 1968 because there was a wedding announcement in the Miami Herald.

Alberto, meanwhile, would remain single for two decades. In 1946 he would marry a woman who had been born in New York named “Pauline”. Pauline was a widow at the time and she was 51 years of age. Before marrying Alberto her name had been Pauline Ralph⁵. Her first husband, Lester Ralph, had been an artist and illustrator (there’s a wikipedia page with more information about Lester Ralph). Pauline had three daughters from this marriage to Lester Ralph: Pauline, Gene and Eileen born in 1915, 1917 and 1919 respectively – so Alberto would have become their stepfather though they were all in their late 20’s or early 30’s at the time of the marriage.
In 1946 and 1949 Alberto and Pauline took trips to Europe lasting 9 and 7 months respectively; these trips were documented on his naturalization application and in some cases the vessel manifests are available. Agnes Wilson Del Pozo (Sheehan) would later mention the names of both of Alberto’s wives to her niece Patty Wilson saying that Pauline worked at one time in a department store photo department taking portrait photos⁶. This occupation of hers is substantiated by her answers given to a US Census taker (and there are traces of it in documents from the time of her first marriage). Her father was from Argentina and her mother was from New York.  In 1951 Alberto applied for US Citizenship and listed his place of residence as 401 NE 109 St., Miami. There is a Social Security death certificate document showing that Alberto died in June 1976 and that his last known residence was in Miami⁷. In that year he would have turned 80 years of age.

Teodoro Del Pozo (born 1879)

Teodoro Del Pozo is the second individual who is known to have been in the New York area during the time the Maria Teresa Del Pozo (de Martinez) was there and whose parentage seems somewhat mysterious although Pastor Del Pozo Marin’s wife Ines Santos Muentes could easily have been his mother as she would have only been 45 years of age at the time of his birth. However he was born in the spring of 1879 and his sister Rosa is listed in the document “Los Santos De Charapoto” as having been born in that same year. So the year of his birth forces us to question his parentage. It should be noted, however, that at at least one point during his travels he gave his name as “Del Pozo Santos” which would indicate that his mother was indeed Ines Santos Muentes. In his earlier years, Teodoro is known to have joined the French Foreign Legion, he seems to have been impoverished in later life and family members (ie: Mary Agnes, Ramon) did not seem to treat him with the same respect given to similar close relatives although they did maintain some contact with him. There seems to be no record of his nephew Bonifacio Martinez having had any contact with him at all. His year of birth, as recorded on his application for US Citizenship, was 1879 so he was 17 years older than Alberto. As a very old man in his declining years in the 1950’s and 1960’s he would show up perhaps once or twice a year at the Connolly residence first in Keansburg New Jersey and later in Staten Island New York, perhaps stay for dinner and then return to a residence – believed to be a room in a house – somewhere within the city limits of New York …no one living seems to know where he lived but he spoke no English and seems to have been impoverished.  The Yavar Nunez Daughters in Ecuador reported that a family in the New York area took him in (presumably from pity) allowing him to live in a room in their house but nothing more is known about who this family was or where they were located.  In 1938 when he applied for citizenship at 59 years of age he gave his occupation as “Mechanic” and ten years earlier in 1930 a US Census document shows that he had told the census taker that his occupation was “Helper” in a “Garage”.

Teodoro seems to have first arrived in the U.S. in April of 1920, ten months after the arrival of his very ill older sister Maria Teresa and just a few months before her death. At Key West, his port of entry, he told the Immigration official that he was headed for a hotel in New York where he would join his brother Alberto Del Pozo, that it was his first time in the U.S., that his last permanent residence was Havana, Cuba,  and that he had been born in Bahia Ecuador⁸  Later, in 1923, he shows up as having arrived at Ellis Island on a ship from Barcelona, the SS Montserrat.  The record shows his full correct name Theodoro Del Pozo Santos with the same incorrect birth date that he had used in 1920 (1896). His use of the maternal last name “Santos” would indicate that he was saying that Ines Santos was his real mother.  This is the only document where he gave that two-part last name. The document shows that he was detained for some reason by immigration officials but ultimately allowed to enter.

Teodoro is known to have corresponded with some regularity with his sister Carmelina who had a large family in Ecuador⁹. It seems that little is known about the communications exchanged between these two siblings. His last known contact with the family was one of his visits to the Connolly household in Staten Island in the 60’s and at that time he was not a healthy individual; he would walk slowly and was overweight and even his breathing seemed inconsistent. . Nothing seems to be known about him after that right up till his death. He must have died in New York some time in the 70’s; he would have been 91 in 1970 and in the 1960’s he did not look to be long for this world. A search yields no document that would give us clues about the year of his death.

Teodoro’s time in the French Foreign legion

The story about Teodoro having joined the Foreign legion is accepted as factual because it was confirmed by two sources. Daniel G. Connolly recounted it on the testimony of his mother Mary Agnes Martinez Del Pozo (Connolly) and Agnes Del Pozo (Sheehan) had told it to her niece Patty Wilson who had carefully written it down at the time she heard it. Agnes told Patty another interesting fact: She said that this brother of her mother who had joined the Foreign Legion realized some time afterwards that he had made a big mistake in signing this Foreign Legion contract, but “as we all know, it’s difficult, sometimes impossible to get out of the Foreign Legion”. So Teodoro was able to get a message to his relatives and that “it was only with the help of one of these relatives that he was able to get out of his contract with the Foreign Legion.”. Agnes added that this relative “was known as a person who drew political cartoons in Ecuador”. This is an important clue because it is a clear and obvious deduction for us to say that it was Teodoro’s Brother-in-law, Dr. Francisco X. Martinez who had spent time in France, who was a Freemason and who was well-known in Ecuador for the political cartoons in his publication “El Perico”, who had the necessary connections to get him out of his contract with the French Foreign Legion.

Analysis of these two brothers

When we look at the lives of these two brothers it seems that we can say that they did not fare very well. Alberto was divorced when his two sons were very little boys; there seems to be no record of his having had any contact with them for the rest of his life (travel documents show them traveling with their mother but not with their father). Teodoro had joined the foreign legion …an act usually associated with individuals who are in some state of desperation. Although he applied for US citizenship in 1938, he is not known to have spoken any English and he is not known to have had any occupation other than “helper” to a “garage mechanic” which would explain why he seems to have been impoverished in his declining years. His initial arrival in the US was just months before the death of his older sister Maria Teresa in New York city but although these two brothers were in New York City as her death approached it seems peculiar that no account of any interaction at all with their dying sister and her orphaned very young children has come down to us. It is reasonable to assume that both of them were struggling economically and that, like so many other immigrants of the time, they had come to New York expecting that it would be easy for them to find means of subsistence there.  Somehow or another, Teodoro is known to have established contact with one of these orphans, Mary Agnes, at some time after she reached adulthood¹⁰, The life stories of these two men, both of whom are missing from the list of the nine children mentioned in the Genealogical Document “Los Santos de Charapoto” seem to stand out conspicuously from their siblings.

US Gov’t1921 Alberto arrives at port of New York from Canal Zone, in transit to Hamburg Germany with his son Alberto, wife Juana, and her brother “Carlos”. Nothing is known about this trip he made to Germany.

Supporting Documents from the lives of Teodoro and Alberto

Source	Link and Comments
US Gov’t	1920 Census document showing Alberto and Juanita in New York
US Gov’t	1953 Alberto’s petition for naturalization (Citizenship); aged 57yrs and “Retired”. Still married to Pauline and residing in Miami.
US Gov’t	Alberto and Juana’s son Nicolas was married to Alicia Trujillo. She arrived on a flight from Guayaquil in 1946 and her Immigration Document is available. Their permanent residence shows up on that document as 304 W. 91st Street, NYC at that time.
US Gov’t	1920 (April) Teodoro arrival at Key West from Havana in transit to “brother” Alberto in NY
US Gov’t	1938 Teodoro Naturalization (Citizenship) document. Occupation: “Mechanic”, 59yrs of age.
US Gov’t	1923 (5/14) Teodoro Del Pozo Santos arrival at New York from Barcelona. Nothing is known about why he was in Barcelona. He would have been 44yrs old at the time (too old for foreign legion?)