I have a very little amount of information to contribute on the Iniguez family. It's unfortunate that hispanic-surnamed families did not carry on the tradition of passing down any kind of family lineage history to their subsequent generations. My own mother can barely remember anything about her closest relatives and she's not elderly or enfirm, by any means.
My grandmother's name was Trinidad Iniguez born and raised in Tepatitlan until the age of 14 when she was abducted from her family and village and taken to the next village over - Ocotlan, Jalisco - by a wealthy young man named Faustino (Gutierrez?). They had three children: Maria, Juan, and Francisca Iniguez. It's unclear if this young man ever married my
grandmother. However, as he was wealthy and his family owned vast amounts of land in this mountainous region, the Federales were always trying to find a way to wrest it from them. Faustino was killed by the Federales defending one of their homesteads. My grandmother's in-laws denied her any support and she left her three children in the care of a relative
- either Christino or Leandro Iniguez - to come to the United States to find work to support her children in Jalisco. She was only 19 years old. She marries Francisco Moreno in Dallas, Texas where they have several children, my mom included: Antonio, Linaro,and Luz Iniguez Moreno. They eventually all move back to Ocotlan, Jalisco. My mother and four of my
aunts and uncles moved back to the U.S. All of the Iniguez relatives that I have met in Ocotlan and Texas are/were very light-complexioned with hazel, blue or green eyes. My mother and uncle have creamy, pale skin with colored eyes and jet black hair. My grandmother had dark blonde hair with green eyes. The rest of my surviving relatives, that I remember,
all had light skin and either dark hair and colored eyes or very light hair (even a few redheads) and green, blue or dark-hazel eyes. We tried to locate my grandmother's relatives or records of her relatives in 1970, 1985, and again in 1998 with very little luck. I still have 3 relatives I can get more information from and I am awaiting a response from them.
I was told of an old man named Don Fidencio in Ocotlan who was an oral historian of all of the families when there were only 4 or 5 major surnames in the region - he knew everyone in every family for every generation back from when they had moved to Mexico from Spain! We attempted to track down his family but ran out of time. If any of you recognize any of
the names in this paragraph, I would appreciate any information you could provide. Thank you, Iniguez kin.