Juan Canaveris

Juan Antonio Domingo Jugluns de Canaverys
Official in the Buenos Aires Cabildo
In office 1770s – 1809
Personal details
Born	Gioann Antòni Dumini Canaverij 1748 Saluzzo, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia
Died	August 22, 1822 Buenos Aires, United Provinces of the River Plate
Resting place
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Patriot
Spouse(s)	Catalina Bernarda de Esparza
Occupation	Government Farmer
Profession	Legal

Juan de Canaveris (or Canaverys) (1748–1822) was an Italian lawyer. He served as accounting officer in the Tribunal de Cuentas de Buenos Aires, during the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata. Canaveris had achieved a high social status in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (member of the Church), where supported the revolutionary movements of May, being the only Italian who attended in the Open Cabildo, on May 22, 1810.

Giovanni Antonio Domenico Canaveri was born in 1748 at Saluzzo (Principality of Piedmont), son of Gabriele Antonio Canaveri and Margherita Jugluns, belonging to a noble family from Verzuolo, and whose ancestors (of Piedmontese and Ligurian origin), were inhabitants of different points of the territory of the County of Savoy (including Bra and Canavese) and County of Provence (south of France). Giovanni probably lived and studied in Genoa, in the census of 1807 and 1809 is indicated as of Genoese origin.

Juan Canaveris arrived at Buenos Aires about 1770, in times of the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Empire. He married at the Cathedral of Buenos Aires on May 4, 1772, with Catalina Bernarda de Esparza, a lady, daughter of Juan Miguel de Esparza and María Eugenia Sánchez.

Canaveris and his wife lived in the neighborhood of San Nicolás, had twelve children, six boys and six girls: María Ramona (1773), María Antonia (1774), sister of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, wife of Fernando Linera, merchant, employee in the Consulate. María Dominga, married to Mariano Lazcano, member of the Court of Auditors.

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