I am trying to work on my husband's family tree which is very hard. He is from Huipana, Michoacan, Mexico. Does anyone know any Ceballos from there? Or any history on the Ceballos surname. I know there is a town in Durango Mexico with the name Ceballos. Any information or comments feel free to e-mail me at huipana@aol.com. Thanks.
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Hi, Kelly:
My name is José Antonio Ceballos and I live in Sevilla (Spain). I was searching for information about my last name and I found your request of information about the origin of Ceballos.
Ceballos surname came from Santander (Cantabria), in the north of Spain. We are mainly in Spain, South America an North America. I´ve read a history about how the last name born, and it´s something like the following:
When the romans conquered almost entire Spain, there was a few tribes remaining free. They was celtic and protoceltic tribes living in mountain places. When Rome noticed that the cantabrian tribe was a real problem, they sent and envy to converse. They proposed three combats between one hundred of skilled roman soldiers against one hundred cantabrian warriors.
The first combat was in Cantabria. The cantabrians won, dressed with animal furs and armed with axes and rudimentary weapons, because they was really fierce and faster than the armored roman warriors. The second combat was in Rome, at Tiber River shore. Roman generals analyzed the cantabrian way of fighting and they found their weak points, so they almost won the battle. But when everything was wrong for the cantabrians, their chieftain went to the center of the battleground and began to shout: "Kevelion!, Kevelion!" (something like "hit them in the belly". where the romans had no armour). They finally won the battle and his liberty for some decades.
Some of the warriors remains in Italy to be part of the roman elite forces, and a lot of them returned to Spain, to their homeland. They was named Kevelion, a word that went to Ceballos with the coming of spanish language.
I´m trying to confirm this story but it´s a difficult thing. It was in a cantabrian history book, so I suposse that it´s true, but I prefer to be sure about it.
Sorry for my bad english. I hope you will find this usefull.
-José Antonio Ceballos-
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Kelly, My grandfather, Jesus Ceballos was from Guanajuato, Mexico. He and his brother Ramon ran away from home after their mother remarried. He lost track of his brother and so we have no information about what may have happened to him. My grandmother said my grandfather was a Villista. Eventually he and my grandmother (she was from El Paso and Chihuahua) settled in the San Francisco Bay Area. He died in the late 1940s and she died in the early 1970s. They had eleven children that survived - 9 boys and 2 girls. Only three of the boys and the two girls remain. Do you know anything about Ramon Ceballos?
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Hello I'm from Cuba and the only thing that I have to say is that my mother have this surname too:
Madeleine Marcelo Ceballos
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Hey my dad is from Huipana and my boyfriends second lastname is Ceballos and he is also from Huipana, do you know anything of your husbands parants maybe I can ask my dad or boyfriend, let me know....at leoncita_@netmio.com
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My grandfather was from Durango....as I saw on your first post. His name Was Jose Ceballos born on 1897 in Ceballos Durango.
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My dad is from hipana and all my dad's family's last name is ceballos and currently live in huipana
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