ROSA GALLEMÍ BALAGUÉ-ANTONIO PUIG S.A. 3RD DELIVERY

Photo of my grandmother Roser Sans Andreu, who returned from Mérida de Yucatan, and her daughter and aunt Elisa Balagué Sans, married to Francesc Castello Carreras, the two of them entering their 1,000 m2 estate at Carrer del Art, 98 in Barcelona. This farm owned by my grandmother and acquired with the inheritance of my deceased grandfather in Mexico, years later it ended up in the hands of the Puig family, later I will explain how. My grandmother Roser Sans and my aunt Elisa Balagué

Grandmother Roser's home, on Calle Art 98 As I mentioned before, when my grandmother Roser was widowed in Mexico, she returned to Barcelona with her 4 children, Maria my mother, Rosa, Salvador and Elisa. She remarried Ramón Castello Carreras, a mechanic with a workshop on Calle Bailén, Barcelona, ​​who moved to my grandmother Roser's home, on Calle Art 98. Ramón, who was not married, had two children, Fancesc and Antonio Castelló Carreras, with the same surnames, since they were the children of his first cousin. My grandmother Roser did not give them her surnames, but instead the ownership of the Art Street farm to her stepson, her son-in-law and my uncle Francesc. With her husband Ramón, my grandmother Roser had a son who died shortly after birth. Roser also had a sister, Conxita, mother of the founder of the La Santboiana Rugby Club, a gardener by profession and who created the gardens of the Maria Reina Pedralbes Church in Barcelona. Ramón Castelló Carreras, married to my grandmother Roser, had a sister, Emilia Castelló Carreras, mother of Antonio Puig Castelló, founder of Antonio Puig S.A. Therefore, my uncle Francesc was Antonio's first cousin. Ramón Castelló, grandfather of my uncle Francesc and with the same name as his father, had a sheet and towel factory in Sant Ginés de Vilassar. His brother had a son of the same name, Raymond Castelló, who emigrated to the United States and was Export Director of the firm "La Voz de su Amo", in Camden, Philadelphia. Grandfather Ramón also had two sons, one a painter and the other an engineer, with properties in Sant Ginés de Vilassar and who, under strange circumstances, were declared alienated. He also had two daughters, we called them Paquita and Papeta, who together with his cousin Raymond, owned the estate at Calle Sors, ​​23, in Gracia, Barcelona. called Casa Josep Castelló, a cataloged modernist building built in 1910. My parents and I lived before we got married, in the Principal of this estate and I remember that Josep Mª Puig Planas came regularly to collect the rent that he had to send to Raymond from the United States.

Raymond Castelló at his home in Camden, Philadelphia

Two Charcoal Female Nudes from 1901 painted by Josep Castelló

Oil painting by Josep Castelló i Carreras, painted in Sant Ginés de Vilassar in 1918

My parents' and maiden home on Calle Sors, ​​in Gracia

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