Jauregui from Nochistlan, Zacatecas

Pam /Alicia,

As a Jauregui I read your comments and I must say they tickled my funny bone a little. In that it is possible for one man to have spread himself so unselfishly, the probability is low . The church was omnipotent in those days and to allow a man to behave like that is hard to rationalize. Alicia, your relatives' claim may have some truth to it, but I think time has embellished the truth. I found the first Jauregui in the Nochistlan area was, Juan Francisco Jauregui, from San Sebastian, Guipouzcoa, Viscaya, Spain. He married Josefa Chavez de Siordia in Dec 1662 in Nochistlan. They had 10 children, 7 boys and 3 girls. They in turn had large families and by the fifth generation the Jaureguis in the region numbered several hundred. This could be why the oral history has gotten colorful. Yes, one man started the Jauregui line there but not by being a "Don Juan". I DON'T THINK.

Ray Jauregui
Sammanish, WA

"Pam,

I went to a wedding in Nochistlan in August of 2007. ........... I happened to meet and talk to a few of the Jauregui's and ................... two of the Jauregui relations said that all the Jauregui's descend from one Jauregui .........................as a result of his wealth and his prowess he had many children with many women in all of the surrounding regions and ranchos ............................. they claimed he was the progenitor of most of the Jaureguis of that region.....................

Alicia Carrillo"