Via Teresa Herrero

The Estrada-Palma Family Tree

Teresa Herrero, possibly a cousin of mine has been kind enough to send me this geneology of my family. I hope you will find it and some information I included about my immediate family interesting. Here it is:

Francisco Duque de Estrada y Valderrama, Captain of the Spanish infantry, from Asturias and Luisa Lopez de Estrada from Salamanca had:

-Capitan Andres Duque de Estrada y Lopez who arrrived in Bayamo in the mid 1500s and was named Lieutenant Governor of Santiago de Cuba. He married Leonor Tovar y Pacheco and had:

-Manuel Duque de Estrada y Tovar, Regidor Perpetuo and Alcalde Ordinario de Bayamo in the late 1500s.

-Andres Duque de Estrada y Gutierrez
-Juan Duque de Estrada y de la Vega
-Manuel Duque de Estrada y Silva
-Manuel Duque de Estrada y Ramirez de Arellano born in Bayamo in 1727

-Manuel Duque de Estrada y Odoardo born in Bayamo in 1749, married Ma. Teresa de Palma y Odoardo who had:

-Tomas Estrada y Palma who married Santos Guardiola’s daughter Candalaria who’s second child Tomas was my grandfather who we called “Hoppy.” That’s because we heard our older cousins the Reilly’s (my Aunt Candita’s Kids) call him “Poppy” and we mispronounced that nickname for the one that he would be called for the rest of his life – Hoppy. Hoppy and my grandmother had two daughters and a son – my father Tomas Douglas. He married Mom, Alyce Mae Carroll and I was born first followed by my brother Pat then my sisters Candita and Kathleen. I have a 19 year-old daughter Tiree, a 17 year-old son Alex, 15 year-old Mathew and 12 year-old Andres. Pat has 3 daughters and Candy has 3 boys and a girl. My sister Kathy just adopted a girl from China. Pat’s middle daughter has two boys making my younger brother a grandfather before me. Ha ha ha! Best of all his oldest grandson refers to Pat as “Bugga.” Needless to say that boy is okay with me.

In addition Teresa says:

Another artilcle with "Origenes of the elite Cubana" also includes information on Duque de Estrada. It also has de Cardenas, another old name from the 1500s, which is in my mother's line (Her grandmother was a de Cardenas from that family).

If you get interested in genealogy you will be marveled at what you will be able to find. I'm a history major (and masters in sociology) and it's been a lot of fun to trace my father's family (Romagosa) back to the 900s. I can't take much credit, since the family in Spain did most of the research, although I traced the Cuban branches and their linkage to the Catalan family. Some interesting items: St. Francis slept in one of the family houses in the early 1200s, Hugo de Romegos (an ancestor) was the veguer (like a governor) of Carcassonne in France in 1172-79, and his descendants are mentioned as knights that guaranteed accords for Counts, etc.

I thank Teresa Herrero for kindly providing me this information, the source of which is:

Herencia (Herencia Cultural Cubana, Vol. 10, No. 3, Fall 2004), www.cubanculturalheritage.org email culturacubana@bellsouth.net

Articles: "La Isla de Cuba: Conquistadores, Pobladores y Libertadores" by Juan Bruno Zayas de la Portilla, pp. 4-14; and "Origenes de la Elite Cubana, Siglos XVI al XXI" by Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza, pp 15-24.

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Tomás Estrada-Palma