This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sotolongo, Recio de Morales Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kRC.2ACE/3587.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I have since learned that: The 2 wives of Manuel Rafael were not sisters...they were first cousins. First he married November 26, 1789 in the Cathedral of Havana with Maria Isabel del Rosario Sotolongo Morales (1771-1793) daughter of Baltasar Sotolongo Gonzalez de Carvajal and Maria de los Dolores Morales GONZALEZ DE CARVAJAL. Then he remarried Feb.2, 1798 at the Cathedral of Havana with MarÃa de los Dolores SOTOLONGO SARAVIA (1779), daughter of José MarÃa SOTOLONGO GONZALEZ DE CARVAJAL and MarÃa Catalina de Jesús SARAVIA PALMA-VELOSO. The two wifes were first cousins...granddaughters of AgustÃn SOTOLONGO PEREZ DE LAS ALAS and Inés GONZALEZ DE CARVAJAL POVEDA. And they were also cousins of Manuel.