"The People of El Camino Real"
JOSÉ ANTONIO ESQUIBEL
excerpt from
The Royal Road: El Camino Real from
Mexico City to Santa Fe
Photographs by Christine Preston
Text by Douglas Preston and José Antonio Esquibel
University of New Mexico Press, July 1998
Copyright
ã 1998
Additional Settlers of Seventeenth Century New Mexico, 1601-1680
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro brought a steady trickle of new settlers into New Mexico. During the course of any given year, wagon trains made the trek into New Mexico bringing various goods to trade. Men came as drivers of the supply wagons and as soldiers who protected those wagons, often without the initial intention of settling in New Mexico. Every four to six years new governors came to the region with their group of officials. Although the governors never remained any longer than their official terms, several of their aides decided to stay in New Mexico.
El Camino Real was the only route by which people entered New Mexico, and the Spanish government kept strict control over travelers coming into and leaving New Mexico. Residents of New Mexico were required to seek license from the governor to travel out of the kingdom. Without permission to relocate to another region, these travelers were expected to return to New Mexico. Very few family groups arrived in New Mexico between 1601 and 1680. The new settlers were mainly single men who married the daughters and granddaughters of the earlier settlers.
The family names listed below entered into New Mexico during the period of 1601-1680. These names appear in the lineages of people with Hispano roots in New Mexico, and those in bold can still be found among Hispano families of New Mexico today. Following each name in the earliest know year for which the family appears in New Mexico records followed by the place of origin, if known.
Abendaño (before 1622, Ciudad Rodrigo, Castilla); married into the López Holquín family.
Arbizu/Albizu (1623)
Anaya Almazán (1626, Mexico City, Nueva España); married into the Pérez de Bustillo family.
González de Apodaca (1655)
Candelaria (before 1680)
Cisneros/Sisneros (1662)
Domínguez de Mendoza (circa 1650, Mexico City, Nueva España); married into the Durán y Cháves family.
Fresquis/Fresquez/Fresques (1617, Flanders/Belgium)
Gallegos (1677, Parral, Nueva Vizcaya); married into the Baca family.
Gamboa (1661)
García de Noriega (1660, Zacatecas, Nueva Galicia); married into the Varela family.
Gómez (1604, Coina —near Lisbon, Portugal); married into the Robledo family.
González Lobón/González Bas (1617, Portugal); married into the Carvajal and Griego-Bernal families.
Guillén (1608)
Gutiérrez (1626)
Hurtado (1661, Zacatecas, Nueva Galicia)
Jorge (1661); married into the Baca family.
Leyba Nevares (1661, Valle de San Bartolomé, Nueva Vizcaya); married into the García Holgado family.
López (before 1680)
López de Castillo (1628); married into the Archuleta and Griego families.
López de Gracia (1638)
López Sambrano (1642, San Miguel, Culiacán, Nueva Galicia)
Lucero de Godoy (1616, Mexico City, Nueva España); married into the Montoya family.
Luna (1654)
Madrid/Madril (1603); married into Márquez family.
Maese/Maes/Maez (1632)
Manzanares y Sandoval (1636)
Martín Barba (1632)
Mestas/Maestas (1655, Asturias, Castilla); merchant.
Miranda (1636)
Mizquía (1677, Villa de Motrico, Guipúzcoa, Castilla)
Mondragón (1637)
Montaño (1640)
Moraga (1632); married into the Greigo-Bernal family.
Naranjo (between 1600-1643)
Nieto (1616)
Pacheco (1628); married into the Cadimo family.
Padilla Villaseñor (1668, Querétaro, Nueva España)
Paredes (1662, Mexico city, Nueva España); married into the Montoya family.
Perea (1655)
Pérez Granillo (1617, Nueva Galicia)
Ramírez de Salazar 91626)
Rodríguez (1642); the Rodríguez surname was passed on in New Mexico by families that came later.
Sáez/Sáiz/Sáes (1665, Valle de san Bartolomé, Nueva Vizcaya)
Salazar Hachero (1625)
Sánchez de Iñigo (1660)
Sedillo/Cedillo Rico de Rojas (1669, Querétaro, Nueva España)
de la Serna (1626); married into the Luján family.
Suazo (1646)
Tapia (1607)
Telles Jirón y Zapata (1660, Cuyoacán, Nueva España); married into the Romero family.
Torres (1619)
Trujillo (1632, Mexico City, Nueva España)
Vera (1622, Tenerife, Canary Islands)
Zamora (before 1680)