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Re: [ranchos] Gonsalez, Garcia, Hernandez surnames

 
Dear Dora,
Thank you for sharing your family history. My grandmother was Felipa Gonzalez, and her parents names were Antonia Friere and Isidro Pedro Gonzalez. Antonia and Isidro were from Zacatecas but I don't know which town. Felipa was born there in 1888, and had several brothers and sisters. They all moved to Durango because there were terrible threats and fights over land rights in the 1880's-1890's. My grandfather Luis had to leave when he was a young boy with his family due to the threats since my great grandfather was labelled a revolutionary. Both Luis and his brother Gen. Juan Pablo Gonzalez were in the Mexican Revolution and knew Pancho Villa. My dad tells me that his uncle Juan Pablo was ambushed in the early 1900s with the governor of Chihuahua, a second cousin named Abraham Gonzalez. I am trying to verify all of this as it is oral history in my family, given to me by my dad who recently passed away at age 90. He loved history and knew of many people and families in Durango and relatives from Zacatecas. Apparently, his grandfather was Leon Gonzalez who worked on La Hacienda Trancoso and met my great-grandmother Julia Hernandez there. She was the daughter of an administrator there, and she and her father had come over from Spain in the early 1850's. I am researching my great grandparents Leon and Julia, as I have all their kids names and the data on my father's side since 1868, however, this is where I'm stuck.
I looked on the map for Zacatecas, and see in panel 6 and 11 a reference to El Mesquite, and Mesquital. I could not locate them so they must be small. It seems that people who were born and baptized in the area had their records sent to Fresnillo de Garcia Echeverria, which have been microfilmed by the Mormons. Do you have their web site? Que dios de bendiga. Josie 



From: dora gomez <golcala01@...>
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos] Gonsalez, Garcia, Hernandez surnames
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 05:20:58 -0700 (PDT)

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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