A Son

Pujol was inaccurate when stating that after a year of marriage Concepción gave birth to her son.
She was married in 1873. On November 15, 1877 the son of Luis and Concepción, named Luis
Maximiliano Jacoby, was born at their residence on the Calle de Presiados in Madrid, Spain. We
learn this from a birth certification registered in Mexico City on February 25, 1895.24 The
registration and the Spanish documentation was provided by Martin Jacoby, the brother of Luis
and uncle of Luis Maximiliano. The reason for this late registration was perhaps to establish the
Mexican citizenship of Luis Maximiliano, facilitating the inheritance of his family’s estate in
case of his father’s death. The only known photograph of Concepción is from early 1878, at the
front of the Hacienda Obrajuelo with her husband Luis, her baby, and her brother-in-law Martin
(see Figure 6).

Figure 6: Photo of the Jacobys at Hacienda Obrejuelo in early 1878

Front four from the left: Luis Jacoby, Concepción with her baby son Luis, unknown man, Martin Jacoby
(with white coat and cigarette). Reproduced with kind permission of Concepción’s great grandsons, Jean-
Eric Schoettl and Christian Schoettl, who provided this photo.

Separation and Divorce

We have no details of the relationship before, during or after the wedding, but the marriage
eventually ended. Around 1898 Concepción empowered the influential businessman Iñigo
Noriega Laso (1853-1953) to be her representative in the trial separation of assets, part of the

24
México, Distrito Federal, Registro Civil, Nacimientos, 1861–1934, 1895, No, 72, 28v-29r. Archivo Estatal de
Distrito Federal Archivo Estatal de Distrito Federal. Courtesy of the Academia Mexicana de Genealogia y
Heraldica.