Re: [ranchos] Gonsalez, Garcia, Hernandez surnames

[dora gomez <golcala01@...>]

Dear Josephine,

 

My family is from Zacatecas and we have Gonzalez on both sides of my mother's family.  My mother's great grandfather was Andres Gonzalez Flores ( Flores being his mother's last name).  My mother recently went to Zacatecas and brought me back some more information about him.  She talked to one of his daughters; she stated that he was originally from El Mezquite near Fresnillo, Zacatecas.  Andres would have been born in the early to mid 1800's.  I am still trying to filter through all the information my mother came back with.

 

Andres married Estefana Moncivais in El Mezquite and had my Greatgrandfather, Pablo Gonzalez Moncivais.  Estefana passed away when Pablo was very young and Andres moved to Sain Alto, Zacatecas and remarried to Paula Silva Alvarado.  They started a new family there and some are still there.

 

The other side of my mother's Gonzalez family has not been researched very well.  All I know is that my grandfather Martin Gonzalez, b. 1914 lived in Sain Alto and his father Apolonio Gonzalez passed away when Martin was a boy.

 

I hope some of this will help, if not then at least we share a common last name.

 

I am still trying to filter through the information and look for El Mezquital on the map.  Good Luck with your search.

 

Dora Gomez 

Josephine Simons <navlady@...> wrote:

Dear Ranchos members,
I am a new, recently added member and if I have taken undue time to
introduce myself, please accept my apologies.  My family surnames are in
this order, Gonsalez, Garcia and great-grandmother's name Hernandez.  We
were from Zacatecas, near Jerez, and from long-standing oral history in my
family, my grandfather lived at La Hacienda de Trancoso, near Fresnillo.  I
have requested the baptismal certificate of my grandfather, Luis Gonsalez,
born in 1868, with record submitted to the catholic parish of La
Purificacion in Fresnillo.  My father told me that his grandmother, Julia
Hernandez was 6 years old and came with her father from Spain to be one of
the hacienda administrators---it looks like they had several administrators
as the hacienda was large and prosperous.  Two of her sisters were born in
Jerez, and they married wealthy men.  The story goes that because she
married a ranchero, she was looked down on by her sisters. My dad told me
his sister went to Zacatecas and found distant relatives in Jerez, but since
she passed away I cannot verify it with her.  The family name also has the
name Garcia, which were cousins of my grandfather Luis, also from Zacatecas.
   I am looking for records of Hernandez and those of Leon Gonsalez, my
great grandfather who would have been born sometime between 1830-1850 in
Zacatecas.    This is all I know about him.  My grandmother was from
Zacatecas, born in 1888.  Her last name was also Gonzalez, but my
understanding is that her grandparents were rescued and brought back to the
hacienda and given their family name. Does this make sense?  So, my dad was
Jose Luis Gonsalez Gonzalez, born in Durango in 1914.

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