Gregorio Ramos Mexía

He was born in Seville, Spain, and arrived at the Río de la Plata from Cádiz, on March 14, 1749.[4] He served for forty years the position of councilman of the Cabildo, occupying the position that had been of Miguel Gerónimo de Esparza, the oldest regidor that had the city of Buenos Aires, who resigned his position at the age of 88.[5] As dean councilor he took part in the meetings held by the city council, where topics related to the death of Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, the preparations to receive the new governor Francisco de Paula Bucarelli[6] and the Falklands Crisis of 1770.[7]

He was in charge of the realization of the second Buenos Aires census in 1778.[8] He also held the post of alcalde of Buenos Aires, serving on an interim basis for several periods.[9] As a faithful executor he was in charge of the control of commercial activities in the Río de la Plata. He also served on several occasions the position of defensor de menores of the city.[10]

Gregorio Ramos Mexía was the son of Juan Ramos Mexia and María Josefa Márquez de Velazco, belonging to a noble Sevillian family. He was married in the Buenos Aires Cathedral to María Cristina Ross del Pozo Silva,[11] daughter of Guillermo Ross, a Scottish military man, who professed the Protestant religion and Maria Antonia del Pozo Silva y Toledo, born in 1719 in Buenos Aires.[12] He and his wife were the parents of numerous children, including Hilario Ramos Mexía, Francisco Ramos Mejía and Ildefonso Ramos Mexía, Governor of Buenos Aires Province in 1820.[13]

Gregorio was the patriarch of the Ramos Mexia family in the Argentina, related to the founding of the city Ramos Mejía in Buenos Aires Province.[14] Through his descendants his family became related to the Canaveris and Esparza families. His wife María Cristina Ross was registered in the Spanish notarial archives of the 18th century with Juan Canaveris, a neighbor of the Ross family around 1780.[15]

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