“Por mi parte, mi casa y yo serviremos al Señor.” Josué 24:15
“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15
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From the Old World to the New, our Christian faith carried us across oceans and frontiers. Through every generation, it remains the foundation of our family and our legacy.
From the first landing in the New World, our ancestors began a journey of faith, courage, and resilience. Across the generations, their legacy endures in the family ties and heritage we honor today.
Our history is built by faithful people and strengthened by deep family ties. From the Basque valleys of Spain to the frontiers of New Spain and beyond, our ancestors carried with them a spirit of resilience, service, and devotion. Their courage in building communities, defending frontiers, and nurturing families has shaped a legacy that endures through us today — a living bond of heritage, faith, and family that continues to guide future generations.
Through centuries of change — conquest, colonization, independence, and new beginnings — our family lines have remained united by loyalty to one another and by faith that carried them through trials. Their stories remind us that true legacy is not only measured in land or titles, but in the strength of character, sacrifice, and devotion passed from one generation to the next. It is this enduring spirit that we honor and preserve as the heart of our heritage.
Lope Ruiz de Esparza Sr. (~1516 – 1597)
(1569 – 1651)
Parents
• Don Lope Ruiz de Esparza Sr
• Doña Ana Díaz de Eguino
Name & Origins
• Born around 1569 in Pamplona, Navarre (Basque Spain).
• Came from a Basque noble family that held lordship over the palaces of Esparza and Zariquiegui
Migration & Settlement
• Arrived in the New World on February 8th 1593, recorded as passenger no. 2,633 in the Catálogo de Pasajeros a Indias
• After arriving, he settled in Aguascalientes (then part of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia).
Nobility & Proofs
• Lope presented proof of his nobility in New Spain: in 1595 before the Mayor of Mexico City, he showed ancestry including his parents (Lope Ruiz de Esparza and Ana Díaz de Eguino) from Pamplona.
• His ancestral proof included documentation from the older lawsuit in Pamplona (1535), where the elder Lope had successfully litigated his nobility and claimed lordship over the palaces of Esparza and Zariquiegui.
Family & Descendants
• Married Ana Francisca de Gabadi Navarro y Moctezuma (1573-1577), daughter of Martín Navarro and doña Petronila de Moctezuma.
• Together they had at least 11 known children, many of whom married into other prominent colonial families (e.g. Tiscareño, Romo de Vivar).
Legacy & Death
• Lope and his descendants became foundational members of the highlands of Jalisco and Aguascalientes, among the earliest Spanish colonial families in the region.
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• He died on 14 August 1651 in Aguascalientes.
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Tomás Tadeo Sánchez de Barrera y de la Garza-Falcón
(1709–1796)
Background: A Spanish settler from Nuevo León. In 1755, he founded Laredo, Texas on the north bank of the Río Grande.
Family: The Sánchez de la Barrera and Garza families were part of the old Spanish landowning elite of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. Their ancestry traces back to Basque and northern Castilian settlers who migrated to New Spain in the 16th–17th centuries.
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