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Refugio Fernandez <cnsfernandez1943@sbcglobal.net> Date: 2011/10/25
Subject: Tejanos Fernandez, Fifteen Volumes
Dear Family,
Attach is a copy of the first pages & table of contents for 15 volumes/books regarding our Fernandez lineage. I decided to start with Volume 3. I have not found everything I need, so I had to make some assumptions and include alot of good and interesting information I have found already. I have much material for each of the volumes. I probably will follow with Volume 4, then 5 etc...
Comments from anyone?
God Bless You and Yours
The Tejanos Fernandez
Volume 3
The First Fernandez to the New World
1450 to 1600
By
Refugio Salinas Fernandez
2011
Introduction
This work provides fourteen volumes of books with a detailed and comprehensive background from what makes the Fernandez DNA from pre-historic times, through the growth of Fernandez ancestors' nobility from the time that Jesus' disciples preached the Catholic Faith within Spain from about 35 AD, through the wars against the Moors to drive them out of Spain. This work includes historical, political, natural and supernatural events and personal information about what may have affected decisions by my tenth generation grandparents Hernando Fernandez de Castro and Teresa de Figueroa in 1535 through their descendents to my grandfather, Jose Refugio Fernandez (1882 to 1941) including the courting, marriage and life of my parents, Fidel Fernandez and Lupita Salinas (1935 to 1997).
These writings provide historical information from the Spanish Government Ancestry web site "Portal PARES.com" as well as information from various sources in the internet (primarily Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.com, and Google Books, among other sites) and books from the LBJ Library at the University of Texas, UT Latin American Studies Library, and the libraries at Beeville, Alice, Corpus Christi, and San Antonio, Texas. Other sources were the General Land Grant Office in Austin, Texas. It was difficult to obtain information from the Center for Genealogy Studies at the Pan American College in Brownsville, Texas. Information from the time of my grandfather, Jose Refugio Fernandez (called Papa Refugio by the immediate family) through 1941, was provided primarily by my parents, Fidel and Lupita Fernandez, my grandmother Dolores Fernandez (Mama Lolita), uncle Reynaldo Fernandez, my aunts Alicia Benavidez and Eloisa Benavidez, and cousins Raul Benavidez, Alonso Benavidez, Dolores Ramos, Magdalena Albert, Amalia Garcia, and Lucilla Casarez.
Because my ancestors, the Fernandez and Salinas, were so devoted to the Catholic Church and all it teachings, this work includes supernatural events which include the Blessed Mother and which affected the lives of those ancestors. My ancestors left a deep impression in my mind and on my soul about the presence of God and the Blessed Virgin Mary in our lives.
My sons Michael and Robert also performed research of our ancestors at the various libraries and the internet, and they found old newspaper clippings to verify some stories by the older relatives, all of which have already passed away. My wife and I visited farming areas and towns where my grandfather was born, raised, married and raised his family. Around 2007, it was impossible to gain access into the Norias Division of the King Ranch, where my grandfather was born, at El Topo Ranch. Only if you were a hunter who could afford to lease land, could you enter the property. "Not at this time," was the response I received from the King Ranch Office in 2007. Two years after I requested permission from the King Ranch office in Kingsville to visit the site, the El Topo Ranch site was razed by the King Ranch and all evidence of early life was destroyed, based on Google Earth photos I was lucky enough to record before and after the event. I also visited the "Mexican Cemetery" at Gussettville, Texas, near George West, Texas, where my great grandparents, Marcelino Fernandez, Teresa Salinas and Remigio Fernandes are buried. I also had the opportunity to interview several key people with knowledge about the unmarked Mexican Cemetery.
This account has information about the weather, epidemics, the economic, social and political unrest in Mexico and South Texas from the 1700s to the 1900s, which forced my Fernandez ancestors to move to safer places to raise their families. It gives some information on the hardships of farm life and the eventual move of the family to Corpus Christi to establish a successful family grocery store.
The sketches are by the author and some are composites of several photos, which will be explained during the course of the writing.
I give special thanks to my parents, Fidel and Lupita Fernandez, my aunts, Alicia and Eloisa Benavidez, and Cousins Dolores Ramos, Amalia Saldivar, and Raul and Alonso Benavidez for information concerning the early life of my grandparents Jose Refugio and Dolores Fernandez, and for identifying unknowns in old family photos. I also give thanks to my sons Michael and Robert for their efforts to research difficult facts to find concerning our ancestors, especial, about Eugenio Fernandez in the late 1700s. I also would like to thank in a special way, my wife, Celestina "Sally" for her patience in my search for information and for writing this book.
I dedicate these books to my cousin Raul Benavidez who kept urging me to write this book: "Don't just talk about it! Do it!"
Table of Contents
Volume 1 – Fernandez DNA Makeup from Prehistoric Times
Volume 2 – Origins of the "Fernandez" Name
Volume 3 – The First Fernandez to the New World
Chp 1 Aztecs Interpret Celestial and other Phenomenon Announcing the Coming of the "white god" from the East
Chp 2 First Fernandez to the New World: 1492 to 1530
Chp 3 God Intervenes in the Catholic Evangelization of the New World: 1531
a. Condition of the Indigenous People in Early 1500s
b. Celestial Signs of Coming Events
c. Effects of Friar's Evangelization Among the Indigenous Nations
d. The Celestial Visitor
e. Interpretation of the Image
f. Why Roses?
g. Position of the Catholic Church
Chp 4 Tenth Generation Grandparents in Spain: 1485 to 1535
Hernando Fernandez de Castro and Teresa de Figueroa
Chp 5 Ninth Generation Grandparents in New World: 1517 to 1610
Juan Fernandez de Castro and Mayor de Renteria
a. Passage to Santo Domingo
b. Passage to Gold and Silver Mines in South America
c. Passages to Gold and Silver Mines in Zacatecas, Mexico
d. Construction of Refinery and Large Haciendas
e. Marriage to Mayor de Renteria
f. Death of Juan Fernandez de Castro
Volume 4 – Fernandez in the Founding of Nuevo Leon: 1600 to 1648,
Eight Generation Grandfather, Gonzalo Fernandez de Castro
Chp 1 Dealing with Juan's fortune
Chp 2 Military Governor of Nuestra Senora de Monterrey
Chp 3 Dealing with Epidemics and other natural disasters
Chp 4 Protection of Monterrey against Indian Attacks
Volume 5 – Life of a Fernandez Soldier and Ranchero in Monterrey: ~1600 to 1690, Seventh Generation Grandfather, Lazaro Fernandez de Castro
Chp 1 Returns Home to Zacatecas, after a long absence
Chp 2 Portion of Grandfather Juan Fernandez de Castro's fortune
Chp 3 Participation in Church Weddings
Chp 4 Family
Volume 6 – Ranchero in Monterrey: 1650 to 1748, Sixth Generation Lazaro Fernandez, Son of Lazaro de Castro Fernandez
Chp 1 Mexican Independence from Spain
Chp 1 Early Life of Lazaro Fernandez
Chp 2 First Marriage to Maria Aldape
Chp 3 Second Marriage to Micaela de la Garza
Volume 7 – Concepcion de Carricitos: Forgotten Fernandez Land Grant: 1730 to 1800 – Fifth Generation Grandfather Jose Eugenio and His Brother Bartolome Fernandez
Chp 1 Lazaro's Family Travels to Colonize Tamaulipas, 1750
Chp 2 Eugenio enters the Military and travels to Secure the Borders against Indians and Foreigners to Texas.
Chp 3 Bartolome submits a request for land and gets the Concepcion de Carricitos land grant from the Royal Government
Chp 4 Bartolome Fernandez and Widow's Last Will
Chp 5 Jose Eugenio retires from military
Volume 8 – The Fernandez Battle for Concepcion de Carricitos: 1808 to 1855, Four Generation Grandfather, Jose Antonio Fernandez
Chp 1 Jose Antonio and Brother join the Mexican Military
Chp 2 Granted Santa Rosalia Ranch near Brownsville, TX
Chp 3 Becomes Aware of his father, Jose Eugenio's ownership of Concepcion de Carricitos
Chp 4 Legal battle in Matamoros Court to Win Ownership of Concepcion de Carricitos from Los Trevinos
Volume 9 – State of Texas Recognizes Fernandez Ownership of Concepcion de Carricitos Land Grant: 1830 – 1870, Third Generation Grandfather, Jose Angel Fernandez
Chp 1 Marriage and Family
Chp 2 Legal Battle in Texas Court Wins Ownership of Concepcion de Carricitos and losses half of land to his lawyer
Chp 3 Jose Angel sells remaining parts of land to others
Chp 4 Descendents a share of his fortune
Volume 10 – Life of a Fernandez Dwarf Cowboy and Migrant Worker: 1852 to 1904, Second Generation Grandfather, Marcelino Fernandez
Chp 1 Early Life
Chp 2 Courtship with Thirteen-Yr Teresa Salinas
Chp 3 Life as a Cowboy at King Ranch's Norias Division
Chp 4 Work as a Migrant Worker at Alice, Texas
Chp 5 Work as a Migrant Worker at Puente Piedra (Oakville, TX)
Chp 6 Death of Marcelino Fernandez, and Teresa Salinas
Chp 7 "Mexican Cemetery" at Gussettville (George West), TX
Volume 11 – Life of a Fernandez Migrant Worker: 1882 to 1920, Grandfather Jose Refugio Fernandez
Chp 1 Courtship of Jose Refugio Fernandez and Dolores Fernandes
Chp 2 Life in Live Oak County
Chp 3 Lynching of Jose Refugio's God child
Chp 4 Family moves to Blanconia, TX
Chp 5 Mexican Refugees Force Fernandez' Decision to give up Farm Life
Volume 12 – Life of a Fernandez Merchant in Corpus Christi, Texas: 1921 to 1941, Grandfather Jose Refugio Fernandez
Chp 1 House Hunting at Corpus Christi, Texas
Chp 2 Construction of the Two-Story Grocery Store
Chp 3 Family Goes to Work
Chp 4 Searching for Concepcion de Carricitos Land Grant Papers
Volume 13 – Fernandez Merchants and Civil Servants in Corpus Christi, Texas: 1920s to 1970s
Volume 14 – A Love Story: Fidel Fernandez and Lupita Salinas: 1935 to 1997
Volume 15 – "Las Reclamaciones:" Fernandez Family Attempt to Get U.S. and Mexican Governments to Pay Descendents of Eugenio Fernandez for Concepcion de Carricitos Land Grant: Early 1950s
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