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Matias, as far as I know Mesta is, like Maestas a variation of Mestas. Or perhaps
Mestas is a variation of Mesta. I have some cousins who claim that our last name was in fact originally Mesta. Also many Maestas may have originally been Mestas. I do not know if this is in fact correct. However, in this forum there's a claim to that effect by another contributor. Census records from New Mexico prior to 1860 show that there were only Mestas in New Mexico. So what is the significance of this?? Did the Maestas arrive later? No! When speaking of ancestors many Maestas refer to Maestas and Mestas as the same name. Long ago, in the 1600's,
some people in Mexico - newly arrived from Spain may have pronounced Mestas without the "s" sound and that might explain Mesta instead of Mestas. Some areas of Spain also pronounce the "e" not like a short "e" in English but differently and this might also explain the different pronounciation as in Maestas.The spoken language may have differed from the written. More on another posted message.Louis J. Mestas
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