The following is derived from: Familia descrita en el libro de Guillermo de la Cuadra Gormaz, Familias chilenas (Origen y desarrollo de las familias chilenas), Editorial Zamorano y Caperán, Santiago, 1982, Tomo II: P-Z. …………… Francisco Ravest, oriundo de Francia; c.c. Rafaela Améstegui Canales de la Cerda [h. Francisco Améstegui y Lorenza Canales de la […]
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Gaston Ravest
Gaston Ravest, a French man, arrived in the New York on 11 May 1897 from Pot-au-Prince. Ellis Island records give his age as 37y 3m. He arrived on the Prins Willem III. (In 1917, under its later name, Geogios Antippa, this ship was sunk by a German submarine while carrying coal from Sunderland to France. […]
Cornelia Louisa Revest
Cornelia Louisa Revest was an artist. She won second class medals in 1819 and 1831 in Paris. She was born in Amsterdam in 1795 and died in Paris 1856. Pupil of Serangely and Vafflard in Paris. In 1814 she painted Magdalen at the feet of Christ for a church in Marseilles. She painted portraits and […]
l’abbe Edmund Revest
1907: L’Abbe Edmund Revest, cure des Angles (Gard), is recorded as having received a second prize for a poem at the l’Academie de Vercluse, France.
Dona Rafaela Amestegui Canales de la Cerda
Dona Rafaela Amestegui Canales de la Cerda married Francisco Ravest and is therefore the”mother” of the Chilian, (and hence UK), Ravests. She was the daughter of don Francisco Amestegui and dona Lorenza Canales de la Cerda y Leon. Dona Lorenza came from an illustrious family which can trace its ancestry to Hernando de Canales y […]
Early French Ravests / Revests
Place names It seems likely that the family name originated from a place name. There are several villages which include Revest as part of their name. It can be no coincidence that these villages in the south east corner of France are in the same area where most of the Revests continue to live. More […]
Guillermo Ravest, my Grandfather
My grandfather, Guillermo Oliva Ravest, was the start of the UK Ravests. I have found only a few records concerning my grandfather. He is recorded in the 1911 UK Census as an engineer, aged 30, and being married for 8 months to my Grandmother, Maudie, aged 19, [full name Ethel Maude Ravest, 1891-1973]. It records […]
Francisco Ravest
Francisco Ravest appears to be the founder of the Ravest family in Chile. He is identified as coming from France in the following extract from: Guillermo de la Cuadra Gormaz, Familias chilenas (Origen y desarrollo de las familias chilenas), Editorial Zamorano y Caperán, Santiago, 1982, Tomo II: P-Z. ” RAVEST, DON FRANCISCO. De Francia. Celebro […]