Trujillo, Peru. This is the first meeting of this nature organized by the young Trujillo Basque Club which brought together members of the Lizarzaburu family via Zoom who attended from places as diverse as Mutriku, Deba, Tolosa, Paris, Amsterdam, Santiago, Lima, Trujillo, Guayaquil, Quito, Ciudad Juárez and California. “The reunion focused on the founding farmhouse Lizartzaburu in Lizartza, Gipuzkoa, to rescue the family values that were cultivated and developed under its shelter,” Wilfredo Lizarzaburu, club vice-president and coordinator of the event told EuskalKultura.eus.
The event began at 10am local time and 5pm in the Basque Country. It was supposed to last an hour but it lasted two. “The majority of the participants didn’t know each other, even if they were from the same family,” Wilfredo Lizarzaburu explained, as organizer he knew many of them. “The most skeptical, but at the same time, the most spontaneous were those from th Basque Country, he says, recalling that “to date we have held physical meetings at this side of the ocean with the last one in Guayaquil (Ecuador) six years ago,” and also in the Basque Country, “where the general Lizartzako Klana is based,” he said, but not together yet.
The initiative is part of a project that the Trujilloko Euskal Etxea has launched to bring families of Basque origin together around their surname, trying to awaken their curiosity about their roots and thus bringing them closer to the land and the Basque culture from which they come. The Lizarzaburus were chosen to inaugurate the program because they have already established a structure as a group. Its Basque origin is located in Lizartza, Gipuzkoa, with branches that passed, at the end of the 17th century, to Deba and Mutriku, as well as to Elorrio. Three brothers born in Donostia left for America on that date as members of the Army.
“Of those who left for America, one, Martin Felipe, died in combat against the French, in front of Cartagena, Jose Antonio was captured, taken to France from where he escapes, goes to Madrid and is later sent to Argentina, ending up one of his sons in Chile, Jose Alfonso is sent to serve to the Viceroyalty in Peru in 1718, and begins the Peruvian and Chilean branch. Pedro Ignacio, the third brother, settles as an encomendero in Riobamba and begins the Ecuadorian branch. From Peru and Ecuador, they left for the United States,” Wilfredo concluded.
Reunion Program
Begins at 10am (Peru), 5pm (Basque Country)
1 Opening and welcome: Germán Lizarzaburu Ahumada
2 Our family, origins: Manuel Lizarzaburu Aginaga (Surname origins, Lizarzaburu house, Farmhouse Lizarzaburu)
3 Genealogy: Wilfredo Lizarzaburu Muñoz (General Genealogy, Origins of the two main branches: Basque Country and America
4. Anecdotes and comments with everyone’s participation
5 Dynamics of integration: Danny Lizarzaburu Aguinaga
6 Tools and media (Facebook, forms, and Zoom): Danny Lizarzaburu Aguinaga
7 Closing and farewell: Wilfredo Lizarzaburu Muñoz
The next family reunion will be for the Verastegui / Berastegi family.
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