Saludos, Leyendo Familias Cubanas acerca de los antepasados de los Sotolongo, de quienes deben existir tantos descendientes, se me ocurre preguntar al grupo si alguien sabe sobre el origen del apellido DAVILA-MENDOZA. La primera persona sobre la que puedo encontrar datos en Cuba es Vicente D'Avila Mendoza, quien parece haber sido Alferez de La Habana, alla por los 1600. Caso con Catalina Perez Borroto, segun Familias Cubanas, y tuvieron hijos, entre ellos a Leonor, quien caso con Juan Solares Sotolongo. Estos D'Avila-Mendoza, serian de alguna familia de Sevilla o del sur de España? Alli aparecen algunas personas con este apellido en los 1600 y 1700s. Segun una corta busqueda por internet, esta combinacion de apellidos (Davila - Mendoza) parece provenir del hijo mayor de don Diego Arias Davila (el famoso consejero del rey Enrique IV), casado con una Maria de Mendoza, grand-daughter of the Marquis del Santillana. Juan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings, While looking through Familias Cubanas for information about the ancestors of the Sotolongo family, which seems to have so many present-day descendants, i came across the Davila-Mendoza surname. Has anybody from the group being able to locate the origin of this surname, if not of the family? The first person who bore this surname in Cuba appears to be one don Vicente d'Avila Mendoza (sometimes written Davila), who is said to have been Alferez of the town of Havana, back in the 1600s. According to Familias Cubanas, he married Catalina Perez-Borroto. This couple had some children, including Leonor, who married Juan Solares Sotolongo. Question: Are these Davila Mendoza related to the family of the same surname (is it a composite name?) back in Sevilla and southern Spain? People who bore that surname appear in Spanish records in the 1600s and 1700s. From what one can find online, the combination of surnames Davila y Mendoza may have originated with the eldest son of don Diego Arias Davila (the famous counsellor of King Enrique IV of Castile). This son was married to one Maria de Mendoza, a grand-daughter of the Marquis of Santillana. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=156&letter=D Just curious Juan