Pacheco Family Genealogy Resource


Brief History of Francisco Pacheco and family

PACHECO
My Great-Grandfather, Francisco Pacheco, and the extended Pacheco family emigrated to the Kekaha Sugar Plantation, in Kauai, Hawai'i in 1894.
They came from the coffee plantation village of Yauco, Puerto Rico, where there are many Pacheco's today.

MARTIN
Juan Benito y Martin and Dolores Campos y Llama emigrated from Martín de la Jara and Casariche, Seville, Andalucía, España (Spain) to Kauai, Hawai'i landing in April, 1913.

CARAVALHO
My Great-Grandmother, Guillerma Caravalho, her sister Maria-Juana Caravalho, and brother Bernardo Caravalho emigrated with the Pacheco family from Yauco, Puerto Rico.
The Caravahlo family originated in Salamanca, Spain.
Other spellings of the family name inlcude: Carvalho, Caraballo, Carabally, Carballo, Caravahlo, Carvahlo, among others.

See all the descendants of Francisco & Guillerma Pacheco.
See photos and documents from the family in the Pacheco Family Album.

See all the descendants of Juan Benito y Martin and Dolores Campos y Llama.

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Pacheco Surname Etymology
This ancient surname can be traced to southern Spain under Roman rule, 98 years before Jesus was born. General Vivio Pacieco was an ancestor of Lucio Viminio Pacieco, who served under Julius Caesar in Andalucía. Pacieco's descendants also settled in Portugal.
In the late 1500's, a Pacheco family line from Trujillo, Spain, appeared in Mexico. A Pacheco was also a conquistador in Mexico's Yucatán peninsula. In North America, a 40-year-old soldier named Luis Pacheco served in Santa Fe in 1632.
Captain Alonso Pacheco lived in what is now New Mexico before 1668, but his descendants lost their surname through marriage. Governor Pacheco arrived in New Mexico in 1641.
Source: Hispanic Online.com and Instituto Genealógico e Histórico Latinoamericano.

Heraldry and Civic Emblems
Heraldry and family crests are very popular with genealogists. Every one wants to believe that their family surname has some regal lineage.
The reality of heraldry is that the coat-of-arms is family specific, not attached to the entire surname. There are many companies that will sell you a coat-of-arms based on your surname, and obviously there are many, many people willing to pay for this. Do yourself a favor, and do the research. If your specific line does in fact have a coat, congratulations.
Here is a better explanation of the subject: Heraldry from Medivalgenealogy.com.uk
Having said that, I will no longer show any coats-of-arms on this website. I do however, have a number of civic emblems attached to a number of villages and cities that my families came from.

This is the emblem for the village of Yauco, Puerto Rico. It encorporates many elements of the most popular Pacheco heraldic coat-of-arms, including the intertwined basket with seven serpents.
This is the official flag for the city of Yauco, Puerto Rico.

The following history of Yauco, PR was VERY roughly translated into English, using the AltaVista Babelfish translation tool. As soon as I can I will clean up the syntax. Also, I will give proper credit/link as soon as I can remember where I found this.

The foundation of the Shore of Our Lady of the Rosary of Yauco goes back officially to the 29 of February of 1756, by Real Decree of S.M. Fernando IV being named like first Lieutenant to Don War Fernando Pacheco. The origin of its name is taíno, who called to the Coayuco region that means sowing of yuca. The region was the center of the political power of the taínos Indians, was established yucayeque of Agüeybana here.
Juan Ponce of Leon entrevistó with Agüeybana in 1508, sealing to its alliance of friendship, giving him beginning to the conquest and Spanish colonization. When dying Agüeybana, his Guaybaná brother replaced who initiated the rebellion taína against the Spaniards in 1511 One of the first Spanish establishments, in the island fué Villa Tavora, founded on 1510 by Cristóbal de Sotomayor in the neighborhoods of the town of Guánica.
This establishment had to be relocalizado as a result of a plague of mosquitos, as much so the town was gotten to know like the Mosquital. The town was relocated several times in the Watered down area of, where it underwent attacks of Indians (1510) and French (1528, 1538, 1554). To request of the neighbors, they are transladan again to the area of the cove of Guayanilla in 1556, establishing the town of Santa Maria de Guadianilla. In its new location it is attacked by the Caribbean Indians in 1567 and the French in the 1569. These attacks caused a new order of relocalización to Hills of Santa Marta in which he is today San Germán, changing itself the town between 1569 and 1573. Of the original nucleus of settlers, some decided to remain.
Among them they appear neighbors with the last names: Muñoz, Pacheco de Matos, Towers of Figueroa, Rodriguez of the Silk, González, of the Toro Quiñonez, Ortiz of the Rent, and others. It is the this main nucleus of settlers of Yauco, Barinas, Indians, Macaná and Guayanilla between years 1573 to the 1756. The population concentrated itself in the valley of Barinas and special in the bay of Guayanilla.

Quickly they settled down trapiches of cane and already for end of century XVII, existed a hermitage in Barinas, under the invocation of Our Lady of the Rosary. In 1747, it passes to be temporary chaplaincy and in the 1753 to chaplaincy in property, transladando itself church to its present location. Prmer parish priest in property of Yauco was it Jose Lopez de Victoria. The coffee already was cultivated in Yauco for century XVIII, but it was not until the following century that its culture acquires economic importance. He is during century XIX that settles down in the area origin families privateering, canary and Creoles to develop the yaucana coffee industry of world-wide fame. This together with its excellent port of Guánica, drove one of the most important economies of Puerto Rico.
In 1833, Guayanilla is defined of Yauco to form an independent town. For end of century, Yauco was the town number five in population with 27,119 inhabitants. During the Hispano-American War, the American troops invade to Puerto Rico by the port of Guánica the 25 of July of the 1898, occupying to Yauco the 28 of July.
Guánica continued being part of Yauco until its establishment like independent municipality in 1914. The economic disaster as a result of the hurricane San Ciriaco of the 8 of August of the 1899, the loss of their main port in Guánica and the American interest by the sugar cane fomented the virtual disappearance of the great coffee plantations.
Today this industry has risen and tries to recover the lost markets, in special those of the coffee gourmet that as much fame gave Yauco. Shield military revolt by a cross to the center that represents the cristiandad. In the first and quarter, the shield of the family Pacheco, in honor to its founder and first Lieutenant to Don War Fernando Pacheco.

The description of the shield of the family Pacheco is as it follows next:

In silver field a jaquelada gold boiler and saber, gringoladas of seven of seven necks and heads of sierpe of sinople in each handle, linguadas of gules three to the right hand, confronted with four to the left-hand side. Jaqueada Bordura of gold and saber in two orders The second and third quarter, in field of gold, two flowers of coffee plant of five leaves of silver and four points of gules.
The flower of coffee plant and the grains of coffee, represent their culture in the yaucana municipality. The edge of the shield represents the accounts of the rosary. The crown mural of three towers, establishes his categoria of town. Flag The flag of Yauco consists of two horizontal strips of equal width, green superior and gold the inferior one. To the center the official shield of Yauco.