I represent Doña Josefa Suarez Falcon de la Rua, a European woman born in the town of Tirajana, Canary Islands around 1770. I was the daughter of Joseph Suarez Falcon and Ysavel Vedala.
At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 50 years old, widowed, and living with my five children. (We had at least two other children: a daughter Luisa, who married Francisco de la Rosa in New Orleans in 1804; and a son, Josef Yldefonso, born in 1791 in New Orleans.) My late husband was Don Francisco Xavier de la Rua, “native of the town and court of Madrid.” He died suddenly in 1811 at the age of 66.