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Featured Fourquet Family |
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Well,
since many of you have no idea who I am, I will start this off with my
father. Similar short biographies of different families will be found in
this area.
~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Manuel Fourquet Nuñez was born on April 4, 1934, behind the
old church Iglesia del Carmen in La Playa de Ponce. Carlos, the
second of four children, born to Alejandro Fourquet Rivera and Maria
Antonietta Nuñez Velasquez grew up playing in the streets and cane
fields of la La Playa and swimming in the blue waters of our
island.
When Carlos was 18, now a strapping young man (pictured with
his sisters Eleanore and Iris), he met a young woman who had come to
live with her mother. Carmen Lydia Batiz Sierra had been raised in a
huge house on la Calle Villa, near el parque de bomberos in town.
She had lived sheltered and well off until her grandmother died. She now
lived above the well known colmadito called La Mina de Oro, which was
run by her step-father Felipe Arroyo and mother Isidora (Lola) Sierra. Later, Carlos went to serve in the U.S. Army and after serving came to New York and stayed with his brother and his "madrina". Carmen Lydia Batiz Sierra came to New York in the late 50’s
from Ponce to have surgery done on her hand. She had had an
accident In 1961, they had their first child together, Charles Fourquet Batiz. Two years later, a girl, Wanda Eleanor Fourquet Batiz. Carlos and Carmen raised their children in Brooklyn. He worked in a frame factory while mom served as a Pentecostal church minister and pastor at a local church. Carlos and Carmen were divorced in 1980 and he later remarried and had two more children, Charlene Fourquet and Jasmine Lumar Fourquet, with Nereida Martinez, who had a child of her own, Rafael Rodriguez. Carlos was ready to start again, raising Rafael as his own and the two new additions to the Fourquet family. Today, Carlos still lives in Brooklyn with Nereida, a teacher with the Board of Education in New York City. Charlene attends college in Long Island and Jasmine is enrolled in high school in NYC. Wanda married a Ponce native, Roberto Mayol, having a little girl together, Abbaid Mayol Fourquet. Wanda and her daughter now live in the Bronx, New York. ....and Charlie, well he attended college in Brooklyn, majoring in accounting. He now works as a Network Administrator for a major list company in New York City, while serving as Vice-President and co-founder of the Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York. His curiosity with his family past has made for a fulfilling hobby which he hopes to continue for the family. |
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This shy beauty, her green eyes and light complexion a stark contrast
from the sun coppered people of the area. Carlos fell in love and dated
Carmen and hoped to one day marry her. 
when she was younger. The tendons on her right hand had been
severed and had never properly healed. Carlos found out she was in
NY, he sought her and found her. They married in a New York Presbyterian
church in 1960.
