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- Pedro Jos\u00e9 Uberuaga Gerrikagoitia, born in 1833 in Gerrikaitz, Bizkaia, and Maria Ygnacia Kareaga-Telleria Aranburu, born in 1851 in Aulesti, Bizkaia, had 6 children, which they raised in their baserri in Gerrikaitz (Munitibar): Ana Josefa, Pedro Jos\u00e9 Bernabe, Juan Jos\u00e9, Jos\u00e9, Domingo, and Venancia. Pedro Jos\u00e9 Bernabe was my great-grandfather. Three of these siblings \u2013 Juan Jos\u00e9, Jos\u00e9, and Domingo \u2013 immigrated to Idaho, where they became fixtures in the Boise Basque community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Juan Jos\u00e9 \u201cJohn\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was born in 1884 and died in 1960. He came to the US in 1905. In 1910, he married Juana Ygnacia Arriola Ymas (or Imaz), a native of Mutriku, Gipuzkoa. Together, they had 8 children. They ran the Arriola\/Saracondi boarding house on 6th Street beginning in 1911, though earlier John\u2019s brother Jos\u00e9 had been listed as the owner. Saracondi was John\u2019s nickname, supposedly inspired by the name of the baserri of John\u2019s parents, though I can\u2019t confirm such a baserri existed \u2013 the baserri that my dad and his grandfather were from was Goikoetxebarri. After they left the boarding house, John worked at McGuffin\u2019s Feed and Fuel before working as custodian at the Statehouse. John and Juana were the parents of\u00a0Jay Uberuaga Hormaechea<\/a>, who established Basque dancing in Boise.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Jos\u00e9 \u201cJoe\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was born a few years later in 1887. He died in 1954. He immigrated to the US in 1907, arriving in New York aboard the ship\u00a0La Lorraine<\/em>. In 1913, he married Hermenigilda Bernedo Urionaguena, who was from Bolibar, Bizkaia. They had 5 children. Together, they ran what is now the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga boarding house in Boise from 1917 to 1959.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Domingo<\/strong>\u00a0was the youngest of the three, born in 1888. He also died the earliest in 1952. The last to immigrate, he arrived in New York aboard the\u00a0Oceanic<\/em>\u00a0in 1910. He married Damiana Erquiga Aboitiz, of Ispaster, Bizkaia, in 1913. In 1920 he began working for the Boise Payette Lumber company, where he worked until his death.\u00a0Julia Uberuaga<\/a>, for whom an island off of Antarctica is named, is Domingo and Damiana\u2019s granddaughter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- While these three brothers immigrated to the United States, my great-grandfather, Pedro Jos\u00e9 Bernabe, stayed in the Basque Country. This pattern repeated itself a generation later with Pedro\u2019s own sons,\u00a0with three coming to the United States \u2013 Juan Jos\u00e9, Juan, and Santiago \u2013 and the eldest son \u2013 Teodoro \u2013 staying behind<\/a>. In fact, as my cousin Jon told me, when\u00a0Juan<\/a>\u00a0was considering coming to the US, his dad told him \u201cDon\u2019t go. I also had three brothers that went and I hardly know anything about them and I\u2019ve never seen them again.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Other Uberuagas also left the Basque Country for other parts, not only the United States but also Australia, Argentina, and Chile, amongst other countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
A full list of all of Buber’s Basque Facts of the Week can be found in the Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Primary sources: Basque Boise Walking Tour<\/a><\/em>;\u00a0Basques in USA: Amerikanuak<\/a><\/em>; Estorn\u00e9s Lasa, Mariano; Totoricag\u00fcena Egurrola, Gloria Pilar.\u00a0Estados Unidos de Am\u00e9rica. Oeste americano<\/em>. Au\u00f1amendi Encyclopedia, 2025. Available at: https:\/\/aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus\/en\/estados-unidos-de-america-oeste-americano\/ar-50446\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the best memories I will carry forward from Jaialdi was meeting so much extended family. Boise is full of Uberuagas, but as a kid, I barely knew they all even existed. For reasons I\u2019ll never know, my dad never really interacted with them \u2013 perhaps they were too distant of family and he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[836,5],"tags":[42,4184,4185,4186,2071],"class_list":["post-7657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basque-fact-of-the-week","category-diaspora","tag-boise","tag-domingo-uberuaga","tag-jose-uberuaga","tag-juan-jose-uberuaga","tag-uberuaga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-1Zv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7659,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions\/7659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Jos\u00e9 \u201cJoe\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was born a few years later in 1887. He died in 1954. He immigrated to the US in 1907, arriving in New York aboard the ship\u00a0La Lorraine<\/em>. In 1913, he married Hermenigilda Bernedo Urionaguena, who was from Bolibar, Bizkaia. They had 5 children. Together, they ran what is now the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga boarding house in Boise from 1917 to 1959.<\/li>\n\n\n\n