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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:45
AM
Subject: [ranchos] Re: double
surnames
Linda:
I got some persepective on this issue from
Mssrs. de la Torre Berumen
and Valdes Salazar while I was down in
Mexico.
Apparently, soon after the Mexican independence, President
Vicente
Guerrero (who was mulatto) decreed that all Spaniards be expelled
from
Mexico. In reality, many were exempted but certainly all of
those who
had been loyalists during the war of independence and those that
had
royal ties (since Mexico was now a republic) were
expelled.
Those Spanish families that remained became weary of being
labeled
Spanish and particularly loyalists or royalists and thus those
with "composed names" such as "Carlos y Godoy" or "Fernandez de Jara
Quemada" quickly dropped parts of their names to mexicanize them. I
think it was somewhat arbitrary which parts they dropped.
On a
similar note, I would appreciate hearing any perspectives people
may have
about how children chose whether to take on the mother's
family name vs.
the father's family name. I have run across many
instances,
particularly in the 17th century where children of the same
family took on
different names, i.e. some siblings took on the father's
name
"Covarrubias" and other siblings in the same family took on the
mother's
name "De La O" so you have siblings with different last names.
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ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Erlinda Castanon-Long"
<longsjourney@y...>
wrote:
>
> I'm hoping you can help me with double surnames.
Is there a
> difference when they use De or Y? Such as Alvares del
Castillo or
> Ochoa y Garibay? How long did they usually keep the
double surname?
> I haven't found a reason why some families
ended up using the surname
> they chose.. Villasenor y Jaso, some went
Villasenor and others went
> Jaso.. same family!
Linda:
In my case, My family started with "González de
Hermosillo" in 1467 in Burgos , Spain. They came to Mexico City in
1540. The "González de Hermosillo" name was kept all the way to 1704,
when the part "de Hermosillo" was dropped. that happened over 100 years
before the war of independence from Spain.
this might not have happened with other
"Gonzalez de Hermosillo" I am just referring to my direct line of
ancestors from Jalostotitlán Jalisco.
I know, that still does not answer your
question. I am sure somebody in the group will come up with an
explanationfor the difference between "de"
and " y" in the double
surnames.
John Gonzalez
Wildomar, CA.
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