Guerra Web Site (Donna, TX)

My name is Ruben Guerra Jr. and I am the Site manager of this site.This site was created using MyHeritage.com. This is a great system that allows anyone like you and I to create a site for their family and even publish their family tree on the Internet.If you have any comments or feedback about this site, please click here to contact me.Our family tree is posted online on this site! There are 2181 names in our family site.The site was last updated on May 17 2024, and it currently has 53 registered member(s). If you wish to become a member too, please click here.    I have included data that was provided to me by Jose (Joe) Oscar Guerra, Jr. of Houston, who has done extensive research into the Guerra Family. Joe's Great-Grandfather Jose Esteban was my Great-Grandfather Maximiliano's Step-Brother. I started this site using hand written data collected by my Great Aunt Margarita Alameda Guerra who was married to my father's Uncle Martin Garcia Guerra. "Tia Mague" currently lives in San Antonio and at the age of 100 has an incredible memory. Using the information Tia Mague gave me I was able to determine our relationship with Joe's family line. I provided the data I had to Joe when I visited with him, his brother and his father back in the summer of 2000 at their lumber yard (Olsen-Guerra Lumber) . His dad remembered visiting with Papa Max when he was a Barber down in Donna.HOW CAPITAN ANTONIO GUERRA CANAMAR (IGNACIO'S FATHER) REACHED NUEVA ESPANA (MEXICO) Our first ancestor came to America circa 1622, landing in the port of Vera Cruz, Mexico, with the annual fleet from Spain. Around forty Spanish galleons usually came into the Vera Cruz harbor around mid-August, taking their turn to deliver goods and passengers coming to the New World.Captain Antonio Guerra y Canamar was born in 1602, in the mountains of Old Castile. It is assumed from general history that he was like every young man in Spain at the time. Knowing that a new world had been discovered by Columbus and knowing about the explorations of Cabeza De Vaca, Coronado, De Soto, Pineda, and Cortez, Antonio pursued service in the King of Spain’s army that allowed him to literally see the new world. When Antonio came to Mexico circa 1622, he was about twenty years old, and records show he was a Captain in the Spanish Army. He married Luisa Fernandez Del Rio Frio on December 22, 1624, in the Cathedral of Mexico City. Luisa Fernandez Del Rio Frio was a Mestiza of both Indian and Spanish descent. Her lineage could have been Olmec, Aztec, Tlascalan, Haustec, Mixtec, or of any other combination that lived in Mexico City by 1624. By this time most of the Indians were of mixed lineages. The information provided above was obtained from a news paper article written September 16,2009 by Ben Figeroa of Kingsville titled "TEJANOS - WHERE WE CAME FROM" Ben's lineage also comes from the same one as ours.   The following information was taken from a Website Developed by Joe Guerra, Jr Titled the Descendents of Ignacio Guerra Canamar. It gives a brief Biography of Ignacio Guerra Canamar. Note that our line of the Guerra family goes down through his son from his first marriage Andres Guerra Canamar. Descendants of: Ignacio Guerra Canamar Ignacio Guerra Canamar was born in Mexico City on the 6th of November in the year of 1633. In his will, he listed his parents as Capitan Antonio Guerra Canamar and Dona Lucia Fernandez de Rio Frio. Ignacio married Maria de la Garza, the daughter of Juan Cavazos and Elena de la Garza in his first marriage and Catarina Fernandez, the daughter of Capitan Gregorio Fernandez and Beatriz Gonzalez, in his second marriage. He listed children of the first marriage with Maria de la Garza as follows: Elena Guerra Canamar Jose Guerra Canamar Juan Guerra Canamar Domingo Guerra Canamar - Priest Antonio Guerra Canamar Clara Guerra Canamar - also took the name as Clara de la Garza at times Ignacio Guerra Canamar Andres Guerra Canamar The children of the second marriage were as follows: Cristobal Guerra Canamar Maria Guerra Canamar Francisca Guerra Canamar Luisa Guerra Canamar Clara Guerra Canamar - a second daughter named the same as one from first marriage Manuela Guerra Canamar Catalina Guerra Canamar Gregoria Guerra Canamar Ignacio's will was either written or entered into the Protocolos de Monterrey on the 20th of November of 1701 and it was recorded that he died on 7th of December of 1701 in Cerralvo. He was 68 years of age when he died. The will stated that he wanted to be buried in a humble spot of the Convento de San Francisco.Ignacio has been listed as Escribano Publico de la Ciudad de Monterrey ( Public Scribe, Notary, Judge Secretary of the City of Monterrey). His signature appeared on many documents that were entered into the records, Protocolos de Monterrey probably both as writer and witness. Persons in that day did not have a wide education in writing and most women could not even write their own names so educated scribes entered legal documents for them in to the records. The records dealing with mines in the areas and land transactions were items that he dealt with.It was recorded that Ignacio was on the city council government of Monterrey during his stay in the city. He held many important positions in the city. His son, Bachiller Domingo Guerra performed many sacraments listed in the books concerning Baptisms and Marriages.The will also tells us that Ignacio's first marriage to Maria de la Garza produced a dowery of $ 2000 pesos made up partially of grains, corn, and other products produced from the soil. He also received a home which he was still living in at the time of the writing of the will. His second marriage also had a dowery of $ 500 pesos that his brother -in-law, Gregorio Fernandez pledged but never produced. Guerra Name Meaning: Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian: nickname for a belligerent person or for a soldier, from guerra ‘war’. In some cases the Italian name may represent a short form of various compound personal names containing this element, for example Vinciguèrra. The Iberian name may in some cases reflect a misinterpretation of the Basque base ezquerra, esquerra, from esker‘left-handed’.Basque: Castilianized form of Basque Gerra, a topographic name for someone who lived in a break or depression in a range of hills, from Basque gerri ‘waist’.