 | Aguirre
 | Coahuila
Pedro de Aguirre was born 1610
in Laredo Navarra, Spain and arrived in Saltillo
sometime in the 1630's. |
|
| Albornoz (Ahlbornoz
| Mexico (Nueva España)
Rodrigo de Albornoz Chico
arrived in Mexico in 1519 with the Pánfilo de Narváez
expedition. (230-198)
In 1524, he again arrived in Mexico with Alonso de Estrada
and two other royal servants and officers and was
described as a Contador from Paradinas. (230-333). Estrada and Albornoz
temporarily served as lieutenant governors while
Cortéz was away marching against Cristobal de
Olid, who had served as a captain and conqueror
with Cortéz. Later, on a return trip to Cuba
Olid and Diego
de Velázquez plotted to rise against Cortéz
(230-23)
Alonso Albornoz de Sosa,
the great-great grandson of Alonso de Estrada, is
one of the first verifiable of this surname to be
born in Mexico. He was born in 1549 in Xochil. |
|
| Ayala
| Nuevo Leon
Leonor de Ayala married Diego De Tremiño's
son Jose de Treviño. Their first two sons Jose
and Diego carried on the Ayala surname. These two
sons were present in Nuevo Leon in 1603 as
children.(117-93) |
|
| Balli
| Mexico (Nueva España)
Balli actually was first known as Vailly and
originates in the provinces of Verona and Paudua,
Italy. The first Balli we have record of in
Mexico, is Pierre Vailly who settled in Mexico
City in 1569. Pierre Vailly was born in
Estrasburgo, France and was the son of Juan
Bautista Vailly, and Catalina
Rodriguez. His father was French and his
mother was Italian. The Vaillys were members of
the Order of Santiago and were mercenaries who
fought against the Moors. Their Coat of Arms is
dated 1326. Pierre Vailly later
Castillianized his name to Pedro Balli.
Pedro set up a printing press in 1574 and ran a
shop, which his heirs operated till at least
1632. Pedro married Catalina del Valle and they
had four sons, Juan Bautista, Jeronimo, Alonzo,
and Pedro. |
|
| Benavides (Baez Benavides)
| Nuevo Leon
Capitan Francisco
Baez Benavides arrived
in Nuevo Reino de Leon in 1620. He was born on
the Island of Tenerife in the Canaries in 1594
and was the son of Gonzalo Baez de
Benavides and Martha Lopez. He married Ines
Rodriguez daughter of Juan Navarro and Maria
Rodriguez. (117-93) |
|
| Barrera
| Nuevo Leon
Melchor Barrera was born 1600 in
San Vicente, Reinos de Castilla, Spain. He
married Mariana de Treviño and
had at least eight children. Mariana was the
daughter of Marcos Alonso de Treviño
the son of Marcos
Alonso De la Garza Falcon and Juana de
Treviño. |
|
| Cantu
| Nuevo Leon
Jeronimo Cantu (1600-1656)
arrived in Nuevo Reino de Leon in the 1640's. He
had a brother named Jose. He married Juliana
de Treviño and had at least six
children. Their daughter Maria
Cantu married Diego
de Hinojosa and had at least
seven children.(117-93) |
|
| Cardenas
| Nuevo Leon
There was a Vicente Cardenas Gutierrez de
Lara circa 1750's which apparently lived
in Sabinas
Hidalgo. He was married to Gregoria
de Los Santos Villarreal. Some of his
descendants remained in Sabinas until the late
1800's. |
|
| Casas (De La)
| Nuevo Leon
Bernabe de
las Casas (1567-?) son of Miguel
de las Casas and Maria Lopez
was from the same town on the Island of Tenerife
as Francisco
Baez de Benavides. He first arrived in New
Mexico in 1597 and sometime in the first decade
of the 1600's arrived in Nuevo Reino de Leon. He
married Beatriz Navarro Rodriguez
daughter of Juan Navarro
and had at least seven children. Their daughter
Maria married Alonso de Treviño
son of Diego De
Tremiño. |
|
| Cavazos (Cabazos) (Italian)
| Nuevo Leon
Capitan Juan
Cavazos who was born in the Villa of
Santa Maria, Castilla Vieja, and entered into
Nuevo Reino de Leon in 1626. He was Alcalde
(Mayor) of Monterrey
among other titles, for six separate terms during
the mid 1600’s. He married Elena De
la Garza Rodriguez daughter of Blas
De la Garza Falcon about 1630 and had
nine children.(117-93,159) |
|
| Chapa
| Nuevo Leon
Juan Bautista Chapa (1630-1695)
was born in Arbisola, Italy. He studied in Mexico
City, and around 1650 migrated to Cadereyta with
and served as the personal secretary, man at
arms, and general assistant of General Alonso de Leon.
His parents were Bartolome Schiapapria
and Batestina Badi. It appears
that the Italian surname SCHIAPAPRIA was changed
to CHAPA. Juan married Beatriz Olivares
Treviño the great grand daughter of Diego de Tremiño
(1540-?). He is known as a writer of early
histories of Nuevo Leon. He held various titles
and accompanied De Leon on many of his
expeditions. |
|
| Cuellar
| Nuevo Leon
Bartolome Cuellar (1674-?) was
the son of Antonio Lizzarrarraz
and Ana Cuellar. It appears that
some of his descendants migrated to Marin and Revilla,
some apparently remained in the Monterrey area.. |
|
| De Leon
| Nuevo Leon
Alonso De Leon
was born in Mexico City in 1605 and was the son
of Lorenzo Perez and Adriana
De Leon. He arrived in Nuevo Leon about
1636. His family was reportedely from Huichapan
which is now in the State of Hidalgo. During the
early years he participated in many Indian
hunting expeditions and was soon leading
companies as Captain. He was one of the founders
of Cadereyta
and lived there most of his life. (117-139)
He later became a governor of Coahuila. De
Leon married Josefa Gonzalez in
Huichapan in September of 1635 and had at least
10 children, one of them being the General Alonso
de Leon. |
|
| Escamilla
| Nuevo Leon
Francisco Perez de Escamilla was
born in 1600 and held a congregation of Indians
in Monterrey in 1640. |
|
| Estrada
| Mexico City (Nueva España)
Alonso de
Estrada (1470-1530) was a treasurer
from Ciudad Real who arrived in Mexico City in
1524 and served with Cortez. He was the reputed
son (natural) of Ferdinand the Catholic. He
married Mariana Gutierrez Flores
also from Ciudad Real and had six children. When
he arrived in Mexico he boasted of royal blood
and demanded a high rank among Cortez’s new
government. |
|
| Flores
| Nuevo Leon
The brothers Pedro and Juan Flores
appear in records as early as the 1630's in Nuevo
Reino de Leon. They apparently had two sisters.(117-93) |
|
| Garcia
| Nuevo Leon
Lucas Garcia
son of Baltasar de Sosa and Ines
Rodriguez married Juliana
Quintanilla. He had at least five sons
and one daughter and some of them signed their
name as Garcia de Quintanilla or simply
Quintanilla. He is mentioned in records as early
as 1624.(117-93)
Anton Garcia who was married to Juana
de Sepulveda arrived in Nuevo de Reino
de Leon from Zacatecas in 1625.(117-94) |
|
| Garza (De La)
| Nuevo Leon
Marcos
Alonso De la Garza Falcon born 1540
in Lepe, Huelva Spain and married Juana
de Treviño Quintanilla in 1563. This
family was among the first settlers of Monterrey.
Several children from this family decided to
carry the maternal name De La Garza while other
children used the Treviño surname. |
|
| Gomez |
| Gonzalez
| Nuevo Leon
Marcos Gonzalez
arrived in Nuevo Reino de Leon about 1603 and
married Mariana Navarro daughter
of Juan Navarro. Two
of his daughters Beatriz and Anastacia
Gonzalez Hidalgo Navarro married into
the family of Marcos
Alonso De la Garza Falcon to his sons Blas
and the younger Marcos De la Garza Falcon
respectively. |
|
| Guerra (Guerra Cañamar)
| Mexico City (Nueva España)
One of the first Guerra's to arrive in Mexico was
Antonio Guerra
Cañamar, who was born in Spain in
1602 and in 1624 married Catalina
Fernandez De Rio Frio in Mexico City.
They had four sons Jose, Antonio, Ignacio and
Vicente. |
| Nuevo Leon
A Vicente Guerra Cañamar born
about 1609 was the Capitan of Cerralvo in 1637
and appears in the record books as early as 1628.
He was known as the discoverer of the
"Peregrina" mines in the San Gregorio
(Cerralvo) district. It is unclear if he had any
descendants, but was wounded by Indians in 1632. 117-109
Ignacio Guerra
Cañamar arrived in the Nuevo Reino
de Leon in 1659. He was Alcalde (mayor) of
Monterrey during the 1660's and 1670's and had as
many as 15 children. |
| Nuevo Santander
Vicente Guerra Cañamar
(1705-1753) grandson of Antonio Guerra
Cañamar (1602-?) was the Capitan
and one of the founders of Revilla. |
|
| Guajardo
| Nuevo Leon
There is a Francisco Martinez Guajardo
in the Cerralvo record books in 1627.
A will also from Cerralvo and dated 1649 names as
heirs a Pedro Guajardo and his
wife Magdalena de Sosa. |
|
| Gutierrez (Gutierrez de Lara)
| Nuevo Leon
A Tomas Gutierrez appears in the
Monterrey record books in 1694. |
| Tamaulipas
Bernabe Gutierrez de Lara was
one of the early settlers of Revilla
and probably came from Nuevo Leon. He married Antonia
De la Garza Falcon and had at least
eight children. |
|
| Hinojosa (Ynojosa)
| Nuevo Leon
One of the first in Nuevo Reino de Leon was Lt. Diego de
Hinojosa Montaño born
in Rio Blanco
1640 and was killed by Indians in 1673 in the
Valley of San Antonio. Diego was the son of Alonso
Montaño (1540-?) and Vitalia
Hinojosa. He married Maria Cantu about 1663
and had at least seven children. |
|
| Longoria
| Nuevo Leon
A Diego de Longoria was a citizen of Monterrey in
1636 and was known to have a hacienda
about four miles outside of town.(117-94) |
|
| Lopez
| Nuevo Leon
There was a Juan Lopez that
arrived with Carbajal in 1577. (117-94)
Alonso Lopez de Bahena also
appears in records as early as 1609. (117-94) |
|
| Maldonado
| Nuevo Leon
Juan Maldonado appears in
Monterrey record books as early as 1631. He was
the son of Diego Maldonado and Antonia
de Paz.(117-95)
A Carlos Maldonado son of a Antonio
Maldonado also appears in 1653 records. (117-95) |
|
| Martinez
| Nuevo Leon
Juan Martinez appears as a
witness in Monterrey in 1635. (117-95) |
|
| Mier
| Nuevo Leon
Francisco de Mier Noriega
"hombre de noble espendor y natural de los
Reinos de Castilla" was the first in Nuevo
Leon. He was married to Maria Margarita
Buentello de Morales. |
|
| Montemayor
| Nuevo Leon
Diego de
Montemayor was the first governor of
Nuevo Leon and founded Monterrey in 1596. |
|
| Morales |
| Navarro
| Mexico (Nueva España)
Juan Navarro
(1533-1594) married Maria Rodriguez
and had at least seven children. His father Juan
arrived in Mexico as early as 1524. |
| Nuevo Leon
Juan's daughter Beatriz married Bernabe de las Casas
and his daughter Mariana married Marcos Gonzalez. His
grand-daughter Isabel daughter of Ines
Navarro and Francisco Martinez
Guajardo married Francisco Baez
Benavides and had at least eleven children. |
|
| Ochoa
| Nuevo Leon/Coahuila
Martin Ochoa Elijalde (circa
1610) married Maria Navarro. Their
daughter Ana Maria married Jose Guadalupe
Treviño, who was the son of Marcos
Alonso De la Garza Falcon in 1640. |
|
| Olivares
| Nuevo Leon
Juan de Olivares (1590-1669)
arrived in Nuevo Reino de Leon in 1618 and first
settled in Cerralvo.
He married Juana de Treviño
granddaughter of Diego
De Tremiño. His daughter Beatriz married Juan
Bautista Chapa. (117-95) |
|
| Peña (De La)
| Nuevo Leon
Juan Peña arrived with Bernabe de las Casas
in Nuevo Reino de Leon in the first decade of the
1600's. His son Juan lived in Cerralvo and left
descendants there |
|
| Perez
| Nuevo Leon
A Juan Perez de los Rios shows
up in the Monterrey record books in 1605. (117-95) |
|
| Quintanilla
| Nuevo Leon
Some of the descendants of Juliana
Quintanilla who married Lucas Garcia took on the
Quintanilla surname.
Also, some of Beatriz
de Quintanilla's grandchildren also took on
this surname. |
|
| Ramirez
| Nuevo Leon
A Diego Ramirez de Barrion Nuevo
arrived in Nuevo Reino de Leon with Carbajal in
the latter part of the sixteenth century.
Pedro Ramirez also arrived with
Carbajal and settled in Monterrey. Later after
Diego de Montemayor's arrival, Pedro and his
followers moved to the Cerralvo area.
A Juan Ramirez acted as a
witness in Monterrey in 1613. (117-95) |
|
| Rodriguez
| Mexico (Nueva España)
Juan Rodriguez de Villafuerte
served as captain with Hernan Cortéz in the
battle against Chalco in 1521. (230-256) |
| Nuevo Leon
Diego Rodriguez Sosa was one of
the pioneer settlers of Monterrey and arrived
with Diego de Montemayor. He was the son of Baltasar
de Sosa and Ines Rodriguez.
Diego married Sebastiana Treviño de
Farias and had at least two daughters,
Ines and Monica. Ines marred Pedro De La
Garza Falcon son of Marcos
Alonso De la Garza Falcon and had at
least six children. |
|
| Saenz
| Nuevo Leon
Diego Saenz was a witness at
Cerralvo in 1648. (117-95) |
|
| Saldivar
| Nuevo Leon
Agustin de Saldivar the son of Capitan
Vicente de Zaldivar and Maria
de Sosa appears in the record books in
1633. Vicente was with the Oñate Expedition to
New Mexico in 1590 and later returned to
Zacateces. (117-95) |
|
| Salinas
| Nuevo Leon
Pedro de Salinas was a witness
at Cerralvo in 1635. (117-95) |
|
| Sanchez
| Nuevo Leon
Juan Sanchez Camacho appears in
the Monterrey record books in 1610.
Francisco Sanchez appears in the
Cerralvo record books in 1627. He was the son of Juan
Sanchez de Ortega and Maria de
Barrera both of Lepe, Castile.
Pablo Sanchez appears in the
Monterrey record books in 1627. He was the son of
Anton Sanchez and Isabel
de Tejeda who were from Alba de Tormes,
Castile.
Fernando Sanchez Zamora appears
to have lived in San Antonio area of Nuevo Reino
de Leon in the 1660's. (117-96) |
|
| Santos (De Los)
| Nuevo Leon
Bernardo de los Santos Coy was
born 1603 in Lepe, Huelva Spain and married Beatriz
Rojo Ruelas in 1622. They had at least
three children, Bernardo, Catalina, and Pedro. |
|
| Tijerina |
| Treviño (Trevinio, Tremiño,
Treminio)
| Mexico City (Nueva España)
Diego De
Tremiño born in 1540 was one of the
first with this name in Mexico. He married Beatriz de
Quintanilla in 1563 and had at least
nine children. Many of Diego's grandchildren even
those born to daughters, carried on the Treviño
name. |
| Nuevo Leon
Juana daughter of Diego de Tremiño married
Marcos Alonso de la Garza Falcon in 1563. This
family was among the first settlers of Monterrey.
Several children from this family decided to
carry on the maternal name Treviño while other
children used De La Garza. |
|
| Uribe |
| Vazquez
| Tamaulipas
Bartolome Vazquez married Alejandrina
Sanchez de Uribe August 12, 1759 in Revilla.
Alejandrina was the daughter of Tomas Sanchez de la
Garza and Catalina de Uribe. |
|
| Vela
| Nuevo Leon
Francisco Vela arrived in
Cerralvo probably from Cuencame (Durango) in
1645. (117-96) |
|
| Villarreal
| Nuevo Leon
Diego de Villarreal arrived in
Nuevo Reino de Leon with Governor Zavala in 1625
and married Beatriz de las Casas
in 1630. Beatriz was the daughter of Bernabe de las Casas
and Beatriz Navarro. Diego and
Beatriz had at least six children.(117-96) |
|
| Yzaguirre
| Nuevo Leon
Gregorio de Izaguirre appears in
the Cerralvo record books as early as 1636 and
had a daughter named Maria among his other
children.
Diego de Izaguirre was a citizen
of Monterrey in 1666.(117-96 |
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