Help needed connecting famed Spanish golfer

Question

This month's WikiTree Sport Challenge features past winners of the Master's Golf Tournament. We have connected all but two of our featured golfers. Of those still unconnected, one is legendary Spanish golfer Seve Bellasteros. Perhaps someone knowledgeable about Spanish records would like to help us out here. Even if we can't get him connected, we'd love to at least see his CC7 go up by a few digits.

 

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Ballesteros married a Botín. There are many notables and aristocrats in that line, so it should not be very hard to make a connection...

Answer 1

I'm out of my comfort zone, but had a look nevertheless, using Roglo, a good start for all profiles linked to European aristocrats and their allies.

According to the Wikipedia page of Paloma O'Shea, his mother-in-law, she was a descendant of an Irishman William O'Shea, who came to Spain in the late 1700.

According to Roglo, this Willam O'Shea could be a brother of Henry or Enrique O'Shea, the father of Mary Joséphine Roche O'Shea, who has a connected profile.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/O'Shea-415

Henry/Enrique died 1860 in Biarritz, France, so I should be able to find out his death record. More to come.

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Looking twice, this is very shaky ground. The death record of Henri O'Shea in Biarritz says he was the son of Guillaume (translation of William) O'Shea and Marguerite O'Grady, and spouse of Sabina Spalding. No mention of previous marriage ...

https://earchives.le64.fr/archives-en-ligne/ark:/81221/r18810zp60hf7k/f63

Answer 2

If there is no problem to connect through living persons, there is a French connection to Napoleon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:

Seve Ballesteros has a Botín brother in law that married a D’Ornano(1), daughter of Hubert d'Ornano(2). His paternal great-grandfather, Rodolphe-Auguste d'Ornano(3) was the son of Philippe Antoine d'Ornano(4), Comte d'Ornano, a french soldier and politician, Ornano-2 in Wikitree. He was second cousin of Napoleon.

Hubert d'Ornano(2) married Countess Isabelle Potocki, daughter of Count Józef Alfred Potocki (Potocki-139) and Princess Krystyna Maria Radziwi (Radziwill-147). Isabella's uncle was Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, who married Caroline Lee Bouvier (sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis).

(1) https://www.revistavanityfair.es/poder/articulos/la-saga-botin-y-sus-posibles-herederos-al-frente-del-santander/19509

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_d%27Ornano

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphe-Auguste_d%27Ornano

(4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Antoine_d%27Ornano

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A Spanish connection: 

Seve Ballesteros has a Botín sister in law that married The XI marquess of Deleitosa(1)(2). His uncle Luis Gómez-Acebo (3) married the infanta Pilar (4), (wikitree Borbón-13 ), sister of the former king of Spain (wikitree Bourbon-77).

(1) https://www.revistavanityfair.es/poder/articulos/la-saga-botin-y-sus-posibles-herederos-al-frente-del-santander/19509

(2) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesado_de_Deleitosa

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_G%C3%B3mez-Acebo,_Duke_of_Badajoz

(4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanta_Pilar,_Duchess_of_Badajoz