Greetings!
My name is Ron Schuler and I am primarily researching the following surnames and locations:
MARQUEZ ● VALDES ● GOMEZ ● DE LA TORRE
JEREZ, ZACATECAS; “LOS CUERVOS”
Marquez - Gomez Lines
My Maternal GG-Grandfather was named Francisco Marquez. He was married to Aleja Gomez, who died before December 1899. They had at least four children:
* Petronilo Marquez, b. May 31, 1859, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico; d. February 09, 1943, Los Angeles, California.
* Juana Marquez, b. July 05, 1868, Los Cuervos, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico; m. Jose Ines Rivera, November 29, 1899, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico; b. Abt. 1874.
* Maria Rufina Marquez, b. July 25, 1869, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico.
* Tomas Marquez, b. March 12, 1871, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico.
According to family tradition, my G-Grandfather, Petronilo Marquez, was a wealthy landowner and distiller in Jerez who was forced from his land during the Mexican Revolution. He married Higinia Valdes (see below), and they had the following children:
* Aurelia Marquez, b. April 14, 1899; d. October 14, 1977; m. Jesus Beruman; b. February 05, 1889; d. May 31, 1960.
* Alfonso Marquez, b. February 23, 1901, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico; d. June 12, 1968, Los Angeles, California.
* Fernando “Joe” Marquez, b. May 30, 1904, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico; d. February 12, 1999, La Habra, California.
* Luis Marquez, b. August 25, 1910, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico; d. May 09, 1978, Industry, California; m. (1) Gloria ?; m. (2) Doris A. Rivera.
* Dolores “Lola” Marquez, b. March 29, 1912; d. August 05, 2003, La Mirada, California.
Petronilo and his family emigrated to the Los Angeles area in 1916.
Valdes - De La Torre Lines
My G-Grandmother Higinia Valdes (b. January 11, 1879, Mexico; d. August 16, 1963, Los Angeles, California) was the daughter of Jose Maria Valdes and his wife Tomasa De La Torre, my GG-Grandparents. Jose Maria and Tomasa had at least one other child, Amalia, b. July 29, 1886, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico. Family tradition holds that the 1950s-era Mexican film actress Martha Valdes is related to our Valdes line.
I have more information regarding the descendants of Petronilo Marquez and Higinia Valdes, but I have a lot of work to do with respect to my GG-Grandparents’ generation and their ancestors. I would to hear about potential connections to my GG-Grandparents.
I look forward to hearing from and trading info with anyone researching these lines.
Thanks in advance,
Ron Schuler
Introduction - Jerez, Zacatecas: Marquez, Gomez, Valdes, De La T
I can relate to this very well. My family also owned several haciendas, ranchos and ejidos in Aguas and Zacatecas and Jalisco, several of them were hacendados and the goverment and the notably the Zaptistas arrived on May 1913 in my mother's family hacienda and burned everything, they put them under house arrest for over a month according to my grandfathers grandmother who lived through this event she died in 1979 at the age of 100. It was said the Zapatas were burning all the wealthy spanish landowners lands until they reach the capital of Zacatecas. My 3rd gf who was the hacendado and his son i descend from him three times (intermarried alot) he and his son Celso died protecting the hacienda once they were able to rebel against Zapata. That is the reason why my family emmigrated to the USA. They went from "an upper class spanish family" and for the first experianced what is it like to work. According to my grandfather they learned alot from that experiance, be happy gratefu
l for everything. After all their possesion was lost they were happy almost the whole family lived.
-Daniel
del Camino
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