Fernando Calderon y Bustamante, clerk of the Montevideo’s Douane, was appointed Administrative Aid, with a salary of 300 pesos yearly, the 18 August 1784 (A.G.Ind)
At 3 June 1783 the Viceroy Vertiz conceded license to “distinguished soldier of the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion of Savoya Regiment” Fernando Calderon, which “deserved by his good disposal, to be employed as official of the Douane of this City” to remain freely in Montevideo.
The document (which original can be see framed in the Management Office of the “Bank of Montevideo” in Montevideo) mentions “his heigh of 5 feet and one line (total 140,02 cms. -55,12 inches-) hair and eyebrows blonds, eyes honey colored, nose flat, a little lunar near the right eye, round face”
The 2nd Battailon of Regiment of Savoya was part of the troop of the expedition of Cevallos in 1777, bring to the conquest of the Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia, Uruguay (the portuguese City in front of Buenos Aires, Argentina, still there) then, Calderon y Bustamante was came to the Rio de la Plata in this occasion.
(from Apolant, entry for Maria Inés AGUADO)
At the birth of a daughter to Fernando CALDERóN and Maria Inés AGUADO in 1794 the father is recorded as Fernando Ruiz Calderón, and the grandfather is recorded as Juan Ruiz Calderón.
(Veronika
102 17/7/02)