La villa de Nombre de Dios was indeed part of Zacatecas, practically the "frontier" and heavily militarized (you can tell by the amount of captains that lived there) today is in the borderline of Durango facing Zac. I've had research the oldest film for this place which its until today my most difficult challenge, for anyone who venture to it I have to say that there are many pages in between that were not indexed (since is in very poor conditions and the pictures taken where really bad) and thus. although some records in the FamilySearch index point to the film, this isn't by any means the whole contents of it.
One of my oldest ancestors (Agustin Quiralte) established there and like him there were some other people with family relations in Zacatecas, I have a list of some surnames that appear in the first film, some are quite familiar if you have done some genealogy in Zac. One of the most prominent families were the Flores y Rivera same that owned (and probably constructed) the Hacienda de la Ochoa, very wealthy people, there was also the Roxas, Paez de Guzman and Galindo families who seems to be quite rich too. Another interesting fact is the amount of "black" and "mulato" people they have there. In the mid 1600's there where many Natives and slaves that have those names wich means that here baptizing them with their master/owner names was rather common.
Here is the list in case any one is interested, I've did not research this families, I was (back when I read this record) just checking what kind of last names where there.
Conde of Hacienda San Mateo,
I found it on page 106 of the PDF file.
Also on the pdf file I was reading about the colonization of San Martin De Bolanos and Francisco Ibarra baptizes San Martin as "Nombre De Dios."
I have seen that name off and on in the LDS archives "Nombre De Dios."
That one is on page 118.
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Conde of Hacienda San Mateo,
La villa de Nombre de Dios was indeed part of Zacatecas, practically the "frontier" and heavily militarized (you can tell by the amount of captains that lived there) today is in the borderline of Durango facing Zac. I've had research the oldest film for this place which its until today my most difficult challenge, for anyone who venture to it I have to say that there are many pages in between that were not indexed (since is in very poor conditions and the pictures taken where really bad) and thus. although some records in the FamilySearch index point to the film, this isn't by any means the whole contents of it.
One of my oldest ancestors (Agustin Quiralte) established there and like him there were some other people with family relations in Zacatecas, I have a list of some surnames that appear in the first film, some are quite familiar if you have done some genealogy in Zac. One of the most prominent families were the Flores y Rivera same that owned (and probably constructed) the Hacienda de la Ochoa, very wealthy people, there was also the Roxas, Paez de Guzman and Galindo families who seems to be quite rich too. Another interesting fact is the amount of "black" and "mulato" people they have there. In the mid 1600's there where many Natives and slaves that have those names wich means that here baptizing them with their master/owner names was rather common.
Here is the list in case any one is interested, I've did not research this families, I was (back when I read this record) just checking what kind of last names where there.
naxara/najera
andrade/andrada
balderrama
lexama
barruel/borroel
simental/cimental
roxas/rojas
blanco de frias
sotomaior/sotomayor
salas
gausin
yriguien/yriguyen/yreguiem/yrigoyen/...
urbina
acida/lasida
gurrola/egurrola
grusiaga/brusiaga
nabarrete/navarrete/navarreta
cossio
bobadilla
mingares/mijares
roque
balensuela
gandara/gondora
boxorques/bojorques
ueitia/usitia/uritia
cumplido