Petronila Riquelme
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c. 1808
Petronila Riquelme O'Higgins
Petronila Riquelme O'Higgins de Pequeño
Petronila Riquelme y Letelier
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| Born | Petronila Riquelme Rodríguez c. 1808 Hacienda Las Canteras near Los Ángeles, Captaincy General of Chile, Spanish Empire |
| Died | 29 March 1870 (aged 61–62) Chilean Sea near Valparaíso, Chile |
| Resting place | Cementerio Nᵒ 1 de Valparaíso |
| Other names | Petronila O'Higgins Petronila Riquelme O'Higgins Petronila Riquelme O'Higgins de Pequeño Petronila Riquelme y Letelier |
| Occupation | Servant |
| Spouse |
José Toribio Pequeño
(m. 1837, separated) |
| Children | 5 |
| Father | Bernardo O'Higgins |
| Relatives | Rosa Rodríguez y Riquelme (aunt) Isabel Riquelme (grandmother) Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquess of Osorno (grandfather) |
| Family | O'Higgins family |
Petronila Riquelme Rodríguez (c. 1808 – 29 March 1870), known posthumously as Petronila O'Higgins, was a Chilean and Mapuche–Pehuenche servant and the unacknowledged daughter of Bernardo O'Higgins.[1][2]
Riquelme was born around 1808 at her father's estate Hacienda Las Canteras[a] near Los Ángeles to Bernardo O'Higgins and Patricia Rodríguez, a Mapuche–Pehuenche servant and nanny to the O'Higgins family.[1][2][3] As O'Higgins' unacknowledged daughter, Riquelme was given her paternal grandmother's, Isabel Riquelme, surname as her second family name.[4] Through her father's relationship with Rosario Puga, Riquelme was the elder half-sister of Pedro Demetrio O'Higgins.[2]
Riquelme spent her early years at the Hacienda Las Canteras alongside both her parents.[2] Though technically a servant, Riquelme held a special status within in the household and received an education.[2][4] On 19 July 1823, Riquelme joined her father, grandmother, half-brother and aunt Rosa Rodríguez y Riquelme in exile in Peru.[2]