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Wow, have I got new for you! Your relatives were not at all being presumptuous. If your Ruiz Esparza relatives were truly supposed to carry the Ruiz-Esparza surname you will probably be able to easily trace them back through the 1800s. While I have no specific info on the names you mentioned, once you get to the 1700s I can take you back about 200 years with valid documentation, and another century with semi-valid documentation involving a family coat of arms.
The Ruiz Esparza surname is distinctive and the earliest bearers of that name in New Spain made sure it continued as purely as it could. Back then, and through at least the 1700s, it was Ruis de Esparsa.
The patriarch of this family in Mexico was Lope Ruis de Esparsa who is documented by the Catalago de Pasajeros a Indias (Vol. III - #2.633) as having sailed from Pamplona to New Spain on Feb. 8, 1593. He came as a servant to Don Enrique de Manleon (someone of importance?). He appears to have married c. 1594/5, because by 1618 he was having his 11th child!
He married Francisca Gabai de Moctezuma (yes, apparently related to THE Moctezuma II although I've not yet established how). Their descendancy was quite large and influential. His family intermarried with 3 other prominent Spanish families in early Aguas.: the Romo de Vivar, the Tiscareno de Molina and the Macias Valadez (aka Guerra Valadez) families.
I have direct lines to these families and when I found them they fascinated me so, that I began running a timeline of their lives in the early 1600s. This eventually led to my desire to extract ALL Spanish baptismals, marriages and burials for the 17th c. (from the parish records) and publish these (before too long). I would like to add an appendix focusing on these four families and their significance in the area.
Sorry about the length of this response, but there seems to be so much to tell. Please e-mail me and perhaps I can offer tips on how to get through the 1800s. I'd be glad to share the info I have.
By the way, Lope's oldest child was named Salvador and many more Salvadors followed.
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