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Indeed, Blas Maria de la Garza Falcon's mother is Beatriz de Villarreal.
The coat of arms for Villarreal has a yellow star of David in the upper right hand corner with an engle looking towards it. Below the engle are two dolphins.
Here is the site:
http://members.aol.com/daniel5822/Coatofarms.html
with this information:
Jewish Origins
Oral History and written History Confirms Jewish Origins. Would that be the reason for the Star of David on the top corner of the Coat of Arms.
It is said that the double rr in the name was kept there in order to remind us of our Jewish past. What have you heard does your oral history
reflect this. Lets find out, if you know Id like to include it in this web page.
A friend of mine responded to this question with the following:
Danny, I happened to show my boss, who happens to be Jewish, the Villarreal coat of arms. We both agreed that the star was definitely the Star
of David. I told I did not know the significance of the Eagle. She told me that at Torah study they were going over Exodus 19. In verse 4, God
tells Moses: Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself."At any rate, she
indicated that the Eagle in this case was symbolic of anexodus (from Spain). In reading a book by Cecil Roth there is mention of the Villareal
families of Castile who added the name Cohen to Villareal. Cohen means high priest. Many had forgotten their original names but they knew
that they came from a priestly caste or at least semi-priestly. This could add to their reluctance to deny their religion. Further research in a book
by Seymour Liebmann, The Jews of New Spain, Liebmann talks about how Judaism evolved from a religion to superstition. In further
conversation with my boss, I told her about some Mexican superstitions, in particular the evil eye. She informed me that the evil eye is a Jewish
mystic symbol. This is probably one of those old vestiges brought over by the Spanish Jews. Liebmann stated that the women knew a great
deal about herbs and cures.
Here is my source for this for my information for Blas's mother:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fga66.html
GARZA FALCÓN, BLAS MARÍA DE LA
(1712-1767). Capt. Blas María de la Garza Falcón, colonizer of South
Texas and Tamaulipas and the first settler of Nueces County, Texas,
was born in Real de las Salinas, Nuevo León, Mexico, in 1712 to Gen.
Blas de la Garza Falcón, twice governor of Coahuila, and Beatriz de
Villarreal. His five brothers and six sisters spent their childhood at the
hacienda Pesquería Chica near Monterrey. He probably received his
education in Monterrey. By 1734 he was a captain at Presidio de San
Gregorio de Cerralvo in Nuevo León. On January 4, 1731, Garza
Falcón married Catarina Gómez de Castro, daughter of Capt. Antonio
Gómez de Castro and Nicolasa Baes de Treviño, at the mining town of
Boca de Leones, present-day Villaldama, Nuevo León. One daughter,
María Gertrudis de la Garza Falcón,qv and two sons, Juan José and
José Antonio de la Garza Falcón,qv were born to this marriage. After
the death of Catarina, Garza Falcón married Josefa de los Santos Coy,
daughter of Nicolás de los Santos Coy, alcaldeqv of Cerralvo, and Ana
María Guerra. No children were born to this marriage.
In 1747 José de Escandón,qv colonizer of Nuevo Santander, chose
Garza Falcón to explore the south bank of the Rio Grande. Garza
Falcón led a contingent of fifty men from the presidio of Cerralvo to
the mouth of the river. Escandón's plan, as implemented by Garza
Falcón, was to establish seven settlements along the river-Revilla,
Camargo, Mier, Dolores, Reynosa, Laredo, and Vedoya. On March 5,
1749, Garza Falcón arranged for forty families from Nuevo León to
settle at Camargo on the banks of the Rio Grande. He founded the
villa of Camargo, a presidio for the military squadron, and a mission,
San Agustín de Laredo, for the Indians. Escandón named him captain
and chief justice of Camargo, the first settlement founded on the Rio
Grande. In 1752 Garza Falcón established a ranch, Carnestolendas,
now the site of Rio Grande City, Texas, on the north side of the river.
After two unsuccessful attempts to settle and colonize land near the
Nueces River, Escandón gave the assignment to Garza Falcón. By
1766 Garza Falcón had established a ranching outpost named Santa
Petronila five leagues from the Nueces River in what is now Nueces
County, Texas. He took his family and employees there and started a
ranching enterprise that served as a camp for the Spanish soldiers
from Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto who explored the vicinity
while patrolling in 1767. The ranch, eight miles east of the Nueces
River, served as an outpost and way station.
In 1767 Garza Falcón returned to Camargo, where he died and was
buried in his private chapel, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. After his
death the land grants were distributed to the settlers; his family
received land extending from the Rio Grande to the Nueces River in
South Texas.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Herbert Eugene Bolton, Texas in the Middle
Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and
Administration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1915; rpt.,
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970). Carlos E. Castañeda, Our
Catholic Heritage in Texas (7 vols., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones,
1936-58; rpt., New York: Arno, 1976). Estado General de las
Fundaciones Hechas por D. José de Escandón en la Colonia del
Nuevo Santander, Costa del Seno Mexicano (2 vols.,
Publicaciones del Archivo General de la Nación 14 and 15
(Mexico City: Talleres Gráficos de la Nación México, 1930). Hubert J.
Miller, José de Escandón, Colonizer of Nuevo Santander
(Edinburg, Texas: Nuevo Santander Press, 1980). Florence J. Scott,
Historical Heritage of the Lower Rio Grande (San Antonio: Naylor,
1937; rev. ed., Waco: Texian, 1966; rpt., Rio Grande City, Texas: La
Retama Press, 1970).
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