Re: Zepeda of Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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In reply to:
Zepeda of Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
7/04/01
Many of the Cepeda, sometimes Zepeda families, of Northern Mexico can trace their ancestry to Ambrosio de Cepeda one of the founding families of Saltillo. Ambrosio was married to Juana de la Fuente. Ambrosio died in 1643 in Saltillo. he had six children, Alonso, Esteban, Juan, Franicsca, Ambrosio, and Juana. Ambrosio was also married to Maria de Herrera and they had one child to my knowledge named Felipa Bautista. Alonso Cepeda married Bernarda de Herrera and he had five children that i have found so far. Antonio, Margarita, Alonzo, Rodrigo, and Joseph. Antonio married Ysavel Garcia. They had seven children, Joaquin, Isabel, Bernarda, Margarita, Josepha, Juan Cayetano, and Maria. My grandmother Juana Zepeda is descended from Joaquin Cepeda who married Josefa Flores de Valdes on or about May 22, 1728. Joaquin had a son Antonio who married Maria Gertrudis Ramos on January 10 1772, and had a son Jose Luis Cepeda born in 1780. Jose Luis married Maria Regina Ontiveros on April 20, 1806 and they had at least five children, Mateo (born Feb 27,1821 in Villaldama), Maria Juliana (b.1813), Margarito (1829), Jose Francisco (1810), and Jose Teodoro (1816).