HERÁLDICA

Armas.- Escudo cuartelado: 1 e 4, de ouro, tres bandas de prata, fileteadas de goles, cargadas de pintas de armiños de sable; 2 e 3, de goles, con cinco panelas de prata, colocadas en aspa.

Arms.- Quarterly: first and fourth or, three bends gules, each charged with a bendlet argent, each bendlet charged with ermine spots sable; second and third gules, five poplar leaves argent.

Born in Castile, Spain. by 1733, Captain Antonio Ladrón de Guevara was a resident of Nuevo León, New Spain. Conquistador of Nuevo Santander, during his first 12 years in Nuevo Leon, he undertook expeditions through the states of Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Texas. In 1739, he wrote of his account of the ranches, settlements, missions, and Spanish frontier policy. The guidebook served in planning defenses on the northern frontier and in changing local administration. Ladrón de Guevara also helped the expedition of José de Escandón for the pacification and settlement of Nuevo Santander, which, together with Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Texas, formed the Provincias Internas de Oriente. Among the Texas sites he described were the presidios of San Juan Bautista and San Antonio de "Vejar." His analysis of the role of Texas in the frontier defensive cordon is of great interest.

Source: Index to the Marriage Investigations of the Diocese of Guadalajara, by Raul J. Guerra, Jr., Nadine M. Vasquez, and Baldomero Bela, Jr.

The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain, Volume Two, Part Two, by Diana Hadley, Thomas H. Naylor, & Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller, eds.

Her paternal grandparents are, Captain Ignacio Guerra Canamar y Fernandez and his wife, Dona Maria (Cavazos) de la Garza.

Her maternal grandparents are, Alferez Real Bernardo Flores de Abrego and his wife, Dona Josefa Fernandez de Castro y de la Cerda.

Source: Index to the Marriage Investigations of the Diocese of Guadalajara, by Raul J. Guerra, Jr., Nadine M. Vasquez, and Baldomero Bela, Jr. [76-6] Page 73.