In a message dated 18/12/2004 04:43:25 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, golcala01@... writes:
Sylvia Robles <sylrobles@...> wrote:
I live in Southern California. San Bernardino-Riverside Inland Empire. In short I came back from Teocaltiche, Jalisco with a book written by a local historian. My husbands uncle by marriage noticed the book and his mother Arambula--how Arab can it get-- was from there.
The surname Arambula is very much a Basque, or Euzkadi, surname, not an Arab name. Arambula is just variation however of the original Basque form, which was ARAMBURU. Once over here in Mexico, they began to change the spelling aroung a lot. Arambulo, which is another variation, is one of my surnames from the Zapotlanejo area. Originally they came from the Gonzalez de Aramburu family of Nochistlan, Zacatecas.
I've seen it as Aramburu, Arambulo, Arambula, Aranburu, Aranbulo, Aranbula, Aramvuru, Aramvulo, Aramvula, Aranvuru, Aranvulo, Aranvula, and even once as Arambo. Reminds me of Sly Stallone (Hay, Rambo). Whoa!!
By far the most common forms are the first three: Aramburu, Arambula, and very rarely Arambulo. I saw something on the Aramburu/Arambula/Arambulo surname Forum on Genealogy.com that there were many Arambulo's in Peru.
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- Basque: a variant of Aramburu, from Basque Aranburu. This is a topographic name for someone who lived at the upper end of a valley, from Basque aran ‘valley’ (see Arana) + buru ‘head’, ‘top’.
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Here's a brief history of this "vasconavarro" surname and of it's various coat of arms. This Website actually is MAGNIFICENT if you are into HERALDRY, as much as I am.
Aramburu
Linaje vasconavarro. Una rama pasó a América.
Escudo de armas: De plata, un roble de sinople y un oso de sable empinado a su tronco.http://heraldicahispana.com/htm/Aramburu.swf
Los de Elgóibar traen: Cuartelado, 1º y 4º de gules, una torre de plata aclarada de azur; y 2º y 3º de oro, un roble de sinople.
Los de Tolosa traen: De oro, un roble de sinople acostado de dos calderas de sable y un oso del mismo color empinado al tronco, y en los cantones de jefe, una cruz llana de azur.
Los de Villafranca de Oria traen: De sinople, un castillo de plata aclarado de gules. Bordura de oro con ocho roeles de gules.
Los de Irún traen: Escudo partido, 1º de azur, un losanje de plata cargado ocn un castillo de azur; y 2º losanjado de oro y gules.
ARAMBURU
This is a surname that is widely extended throughout the Basque Country. It has original houses in Orduña, Vizcaya; Artiga, Guipuzcoa; and en Anzuola, San Sebastian (although carefully note that San Sebastian is not a province).
This surname comes from the name of the Valley of Aran in conjunction with "buru" (which means head or the highest or top part of something. This probably indicates that the original house may have been in the highest part of the valley or overlooking the valley.
On the coat of arms is a black bear leaning against a green oak tree with its front paws, this is on a field of silver. (Source: http://www.buber.net/Basque/Surname/A/aramburu.html)
So there you go. By the way, PLEASE DO CHECK OUT the Heraldry website I mentioned. It has virtually every single surname you could possibly imagine. These include less common surnames and from all over the entire Iberian Peninsula--from Portugal to Navarra to Galicia to Castilla to Leon to the Basque Country. Here you'll get an idea of what your families' coats of arms looked like...virtually most of them.
Oh, Oh, and before I forget...here's the website to a wonderful online Hispanic Genealogy bookstore. PLEASE TAKE A LOOK. Go to...... http://www.borderlandsbooks.com/ourbooks.asp?catid=1&sortid=ItemTitle&alphabetvar=L
Enjoy!!!
Regards,
Steven Hernandez Gamin~o, Lopez de los Reyes, Hernandez Gamin~o, Contreras, Huerta, Bravo y Salcido, Estrada, Mejia, Saldan~a-Arevalo, Flores, Morales, Ordaz, Leon, Aguirre (Sanchez), Moreno (Aranda), Guizar, etc...............y Arambulo/Aramburu.
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