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| Don Diego De Montemayor | Colonel Ernest A. Montemayor, U.S. Air Force, (Retired), of Hispanic American Genealogical Associates, is one of the pioneers of Hispanic genealogy research in the United States having dedicated over fifty years to this effort accumulating in the process an extensive personal library of over 10,000 volumes and files. His large collection of books, journals, and other investigative materials of Hispanic families, covers the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, The Caribbean, the Philippines, and Spain and Portugal. |
The Descendents ofDona Juana Porcallo y de la CerdaCompiled by John D. InclanGeneration No. 11. JUANA3 PORCALLO-Y-DE-LA-CERDA (VASCO2 PORCALLO-DE-FIGUEROA, LORENZO1 SUAREZ-DE-FIGUEROA) was born Abt. 1530 in Portugal, and in 1581 she was killed by her husband, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. She married GOVERNOR DIEGO DE HERNANDEZ-MONTEMAYOR 1569 in Mazapil, Zacatecas, Mexico, son of JUAN DE MONTEMAYOR and MARIA HERNANDEZ. He was born Abt. 1528 in Malaga, Spain, and died Apr 1611 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.Notes for GOVERNOR DIEGO DE HERNANDEZ-MONTEMAYOR:In 1596, he founded the City Of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.From the book, With All Arms by Carl Laurence Duaine.Source:Index to the Marriage Investigations of the Diocese of Guadalajara. Page 269.Source:Historia del Nuevo Reino de Leon by Eugenio del Hoyo.Children of JUANA PORCALLO-Y-DE-LA-CERDA and DIEGO DE HERNANDEZ-MONTEMAYOR are:
i. DIEGO4 DE MONTEMAYOR-Y-PORCALLO, d. 1611, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,Mexico.2. ii. ESTEFANA DE MONTEMAYOR-Y-PORCALLO, b. 1573, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico; d. Abt. 1660.
Generation No. 22. ESTEFANA4 DE MONTEMAYOR-Y-PORCALLO (JUANA3 PORCALLO-Y-DE-LA-CERDA, VASCO2 PORCALLO-DE-FIGUEROA, LORENZO1 SUAREZ-DE-FIGUEROA) was born 1573 in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, and died Abt. 1660. She married CAPTAIN ALBERTO DEL CANTO Abt. 1585 in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, son of SEBASTIANO DEL CANTO and MARIA VIEIRA-DIAZ. He was born 1547 in Isla Terciaria de los Azores, Portugal, and died Dec 1611 in Saltillo,Coahuila, Mexico.
Notes for CAPTAIN ALBERTO DEL CANTO:
A resident of Durango, in 1577, the Alcalde mayor and Captain, Don Albert del Canto founded the settlement at Ojos de Santa Lucia (Monterrey), Villa del Saltillo, and Trinidad (Monclova).From the book, With All Arms by Carl Laurence Duaine. Page 103.Source:From the book, The North Frontier of New Spain by Peter Gerhard.Fundadores de Nueva Galicia - Guadalajara - Tomo I, by Guillermo Garmendia Leal. Page 37.Nueva Vizcaya, Heartland of the Spanish Frontier, by Oakah L. Jones, Jr.
Children of ESTEFANA DE MONTEMAYOR-Y-PORCALLO and ALBERTO DEL CANTO are: i. MIGUEL5 DEL CANTO-MONTEMAYOR, b. 1586, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico; d. Aft. 11 Oct 1643, Hacienda de los Nogales, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; m. (2) MONICA RODRIGUEZ-TREVINO, 1624, Mexico City, F.D. Mexico; b. Abt. 1592, Mecixo City, D.F., Mexico; d. 30 Jun 1681, Hacienda de los Nogales, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.Notes for MIGUEL DEL CANTO-MONTEMAYOR:
A.K.A. Miguel de Montemayor.Birth date from the book, Historia del Nuevo Reino de Leon, by Engenio del Hoyo. Page 102His will is dated October 11, 1643, Source:With All Arms by Carl Laurence Duaine. Page 108.Testamentos Coloniales de Monterrey, by Lilia E. Villanueva de Cavazos. Page18
ii. ELVIRA DEL CANTO-MONTEMAYOR, b. Abt. 1590, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico; d. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; m. (1) JUSEPE TENORIO; d. Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico; m. (2) PEDRO DE-LA-VEGA; d. Aft. 1635, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.Notes for JUSEPE TENORIO:
Killed by indians. Source:With All Arms by Carl Laurence Duaine. Page 108.
Marriage Notes for ELVIRA DEL CANTO-MONTEMAYOR and PEDRO DE-LA-VEGA:
Marriage source:From the book, With All Arms, A Study of a Kindred Group, by Carl Laurence Duaine.
iii. DIEGO DEL CANTO-MONTEMAYOR, b. 1590, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico; d. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.Notes for DIEGO DEL CANTO-MONTEMAYOR:
A.K.A. Diego de Montemayor.iv. MARIA DEL CANTO-MONTEMAYOR.