Escobedo in Zacatecas

Robert,

I thought I had lots of Escobedos [Escovedo] in my lines, but I see I have mostly Acevedos.

However, I did find one Escovedo. She was Mariana de Escovedo, an espanola (Spanish), who married a Pablo Jose Suriano, a mulato, around 1797, probably in Tepetongo or Salitrillo. That means she might have been born around 1777. Mariana was also listed in her children's birth records under various names such as Maria Ana Guadalupe [Mata] or [Flores] or [De La Torre]. This has made it hard for me to find her birth record so I don't know who her parents were or where she was born. I suspect her mother may have been a Mata or Flores or a Delatorre; those families were as prominent in Zacatecas as the Escovedos. Sometimes they used only their mother's surname.

In the pilot site for Family Search, they have transcribed the records for Tlaltenango, Tepechitlan, and Pinos in Zacatecas, and many Escovedos are listed in those communities. I might find Mariana when they get to transcribing the Monte Escobedo and other films. If her record was lost or among those not filmed, then I am out of luck.

It is interesting to me that you have relatives from Guadalupe. My father's sister Soledad Olague was born there. My father Guadalupe Olague was born in Jerez in 1903. The birth records from that time were lost during the Revolution. My grandfather Francisco Olague and his brother Ygnacio and their brother in law Jose Davila Garcia were conscripted into some army, I don't know which side, and were scheduled to be executed by firing squad but Jose's wife, sister of Francisco and Ygnacio, appealed to someone and they let them all leave on the train bound for Chihuahua City and the El Paso, Texas border. That was in 1913 when my father was 10 years old. None of them ever went back to Mexico.

I will do some research and see if I can find any ancestors and descendants of my Mariana Escobedo and see if she had a common ancestor among your ancestors. I'll let you know.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA