At the time of the marriage, Blanque purchased a house at 409 Royal Street in New Orleans for the family, which became known later as the Villa Blanque. In June 1808, Delphine married Jean Blanque, a prominent banker, merchant, lawyer, and legislator. Delphine and her daughter returned to New Orleans afterwards. Stanley Arthur's 1936 report differed he stated that on March 26, 1804, Don Ramón Lopez was recalled to Spain "to take his place at court as befitting his new position," but that Lopez never arrived in Madrid because he died in en route, in Havana.ĭuring the voyage, Delphine gave birth to a daughter, named Marie-Borja/Borgia Delphine Lopez y Angulo de la Candelaria, nicknamed Borquita. Grace King wrote in 1921 that the trip was Lopez's "military punishment" and that Señora Delphine Lopez met the Queen, who was impressed with Mrs. In 1804, after the American acquisition, Don Ramón had been appointed to the position of consul general for Spain in the Territory of Orleans.Īlso, in 1804, Delphine and Ramón Lopez traveled to Spain. Luisiana, as it was spelled in Spanish, had become a Spanish colony in the 1760s.
Marie Delphine Macarty married Don Ramón de Lopez y Angulo, a Caballero de la Royal de Carlos, a high-ranking Spanish royal officer, at the Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. Delphine's Uncle, by marriage, Esteban Rodríguez Miró, was Governor of the Spanish American provinces of Louisiana and Florida during 1785–1791, and her cousin, Augustin de Macarty, was Mayor of New Orleans from 1815 to 1820.
Both were prominent in the town's white Creole community. (The Irish surname MacCarthy was shortened to Macarty or de Macarty.) Her mother was Marie-Jeanne L'Erable, also known as "the widow Le Comte", her marriage to Louis B. Her father was Louis Barthelemy de McCarty, originally Chevalier de MacCarthy) whose father Barthelemy (de) MacCarthy brought the family to New Orleans from Ireland around 1730, during the French colonial period. Marie Delphine Macarty was born 1780, one of five children.
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