Historia de la familia Castelazo

  In this blog we will comment on the findings of the first Castelazos in Mexico. I want to assume that the Castelazos that appear in these acts are our relatives although in some cases I cannot say for sure. Tradition tells us that the first Castelazos were miners and in the Tlalpujahua acts we will find the oldest vein of our family tree, that is, the family line from which the vast majority (and very possibly all) of the Castelazos who live today in Mexico descend with all certainty. Additionally, there are some records from the early seventeenth century (1600s) in which some Castelazos appear in Mexico who were most likely the first of our family to arrive in this country. The difference with those of Tlalpujahua is that we do not have an uninterrupted line of the generations that existed between those first Castelazos and the first ones that are recorded in the family tradition and of which we have official records. There are two ways to search for the records on the familys...

 Many years ago, like many children in the Castelazo families, I was told this version of the family's origin: "In colonial times, two Italian brothers arrived in Mexico, they were expert miners, one settled in Hidalgo and the other in Guanajuato. All the Castelazos in Mexico are descendants of those two brothers." The traditional story began to become more accurate for me when about 20 years ago, my cousin, Agustín García Castelazo, gave me a copy of the family tree he had inherited from our grandfather, Constantino Castelazo Vergara. Years later, at the last Castelazo Convention, which took place in Guanajuato, in 2006, a family tree almost identical to the one I had was distributed. Apparently, the initial source had been the memory or records of some prominent family members such as Juan Bautista Castelazo Alamán on the part of the Castelazos of Guanajuato, as well as Manuel Castelazo Fuentes and Constantino Castelazo Vergara on the part of those of Hidalgo. This ...