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The Holguin Clan of San Elizario is forever immortalized by Walter Prescott Webb in his work "The Texas Rangers." Unfortunately those notorious Holguin are not around to give their version of their stories.
The San Elizario Holguin have been there probably since the first settlements of the El Paso area that date back to 1680 after the Pueblo Revolt. The 1680 census lists Salvador Holguin, great-grandson of Juan Lopez Holguin. Salvador has 20 people in his household, which included servants. See Juan Lopez Holguin Family Tree.(This data has been put together by using Fray Chavez's monumentous information contained in Origins of New Mexico Families and his Diligencias Matrimoniales.)
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 brought about 2000 refugees to the El Paso area. At that time, or shortly thereafter, the small villages of which are now Socorro, Ysleta and San Elizario were established. San Elizario was not name until c. 1810 when a fort was established. Prior to this, it was know as Rancho Los Tiburcios.
So there settled the Holguin, and their descendants. Records located for the last descendant of Juan Lopez is Antonio Holguin, son of Tomas Holguin, who was possibly the son or brother Capt. Salvador Holguin.
There are many Holguin, whose roots actually are more recent probably from Chihuhua. As any Holguin knows, there are many Holguin in that part of Mexico.
As for the conquest of Mexico. There is Francisco Garcia Holguin who captured Cuahtemoc. (Which for many Mexicans is neither a glorious feat or something to celebrate.) Nonetheless it appears that for his valor, he was granted lands in Cuba, whose city now bears the name of Holguin.
Holguin is from the Extremadura area. Which dates back to the medival ages. Even in Spain the Holguin name is scant, and particular to Extremadura, specifically Caceres and Trujillo. The name Holguin may be of French descent as is it has the same suffix as Gauguin.
Back to Juan Lopez, he was born in Fuenteovejuna. This city was immortalized by the great Spanish playright Lope de Vega. It appears that the folks in Ftja rebeled against the commendador. They killed him and threw him in a well. When the Majesties sent investigators, no one disclose the culprits, instead they said "fue Fuenteovejuna" so as to say they were all guilty.
The small village still stands between Extremadura and Andalusia on the way to Cordoba from Caceres. It's a quaint and quiet little village with lots of history.
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