Here is the list of the sixteen founders of the Villa de Santiago del Saltillo present day Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. I extracted the following portrait of Alberto del Canto and the names of the founders from the book titled “The Conquistadores and the Crypto-Jews of Monterrey“.
Among the list are 3 of my ancestors that I know of. I have included their relationship next to their names. Saltillo was founded in 1577.
Mural depicting the Founding of Saltillo by Alberto del Canto
The founding of Saltillo by Alberto del Canto. From the mural by Helena Enriqueta Huerta Muzquiz in the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Saltillo, Coahuila. Photo: Henry Gomez
List of the Sixteen Founders of Villa de Santiago del Saltillo
- Captain Alberto del Canto, Portuguese (my 10th great grandfather)
- Juan Alonso, Portuguese
- Julian Gutierrez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Cristobal de Sagastiberri, Basque
- Agustin de Villa Sur
- Santos Rojo, Basque.
- Manuel de Zirua
- Juan de Erbaez, Basque
- Manuel de Mederos, Portuguese
- Antonio Hernandez Grimon
- Baldo Cortes, Spaniard
- Juan Navarro, Basque (my 12th great grandfather)
- Mateo de Barrasa
- Juan Perez Chocallo, Portuguese
- Gines Hernandez, Portuguese
- Baltazar Castano de Sosa, Portuguese (my 11th great grandfather)
Let me know in the comments if your ancestors are also listed in this list. If you are interested also in the early settlers of Saltillo I highly recommend that you check out my previous post: Aquellos Primeros Saltillenses, eBook by María Elena Santoscoy Flores
Alberto del Canto is my 12th great grandfather according to my family tree. Glad to see we are related down the line!
Let me know if you want to trade information to see exactly how we are related.
I also related
From whom of the founders?
sure. email me at anthonygarza08@me.com
Moises are you related to Juan Navarro too? Remember we had a connection before via Cuellar from Guerrero, Tamaulipas.
Yes I am, it is through my cuellar and two other lines.
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Carmen,
Glad to see your comment, let me know if you need any help with your family genealogy.
Hola Moises,
We have two common ancestors, Juan Navarro is my 11th great grandfather and Baltasar Castaño de Sosa is my 11th great grandfather. I do not have a website, but my tree is on Ancestry.com.
I am glad to meet you prima. Let me know if we can trade information. I ma very interesting in adding you to my family tree.
Good Afternoon,
Does any one know the birthdate to Ines Rodriguez De Montemayor wife of Baltasar Castano de Sosa? Baltasar is my 12th great grandfather.
Thank you
We have the same three great grand fathers and I’m also related to Julian Gutierrez.
Then, we are primos many times over. That is soo cool.
Mo’ I have Baltazar Castaño De Sosa as my 13th Great grandfather
The sixteen founders all Jewish?
Juan Alonso, Portuguese
Capitan Juan Navarro is my 11th g-grandfather, and Baltasar Costano de Sosa is my 12th g-grandfather. Where do you have your family tree?
Oh wow, i am so excited to see this. My last name is Sosa and have been trying to track down my Sosa lineage and having no luck. With this post maybe i can find a link to my fathers family from the Tamaulipas areas. This is so awesome. I had found that the Sosa name was actually of Portuguese decent instead of Spaniard as we had originally thought. Is there a family tree somewhere for Baltazar Castano de Sosa that i can take a look at. I would really love to get my hands on a copy of his family tree.
Wow, after looking at some of the postings on here seems there are quite a few relations to the Sosa funny how many of the last names are not even Sosa thought. I would never have imagined.
Many people have Sosa in their tree even though they may not carry the last name. That is why it is vital to research every branch including all females. Don’t just focus on your last name.
Among my ancestors are Juan Navarro, Baltazar Costa no Sosa, and Juan Alonso. Many of my ancestors are written about in the book The Conquistadors and the Crypto Jews of Monterrey including Baez Benavides.
Orfa we are distantly related and that book is a great read.
Thank you for this list. Five of my ancestors are listed: Alberto de Canto, Juan Alonso, Santos Rojo, Juan Navarro and Baltazar Castano de Sosa. All are in my Grandmother Garza’s line. I probably with find others when I research my Grandfathers tree.
Awesome we are related. Hope you are doing great.
Alberto del Canto is my 9th great grandfather, Baltazar Castano de Sosa is my 10th great grandfather. Juan Navarro is my 9th great grandfather.
We are also distant cousins then.
Baltazar Castano de Sosa, Juan Navarro, Basque, Santos Rojo, Basque, and Captain Alberto del Canto, Portuguese are my 13th Great Grandfathers. All are in my Garcia line.
Cool we are very distant cousins!
Hola, how can I get access to the family trees on Monterrey founders? my family is from and al lives in Monterrey Mx, we are- de la Garza/Garcia, my great grandparents were Perfecto de la Garza Paz, Genoveva Garcia Guerra. I am Lopez Ancer ( my grandmother married a Monterrey Lebanese)
Any info would be great, Im trying to fill in grandmas side of the family tree- jlopezan@uark.edu
Hello Jeny, the only books that I know of are the ones by Guillermo Garmendia Leal. You can read about one of them here: https://www.wearecousins.info/2014/07/familias-de-monterrery-sus-descendientes-tomo-ii/