We are the descendants of Granado family that arrived in the province of Texas in the Viceroyalty of New Spain as part of a group of 16 families in the year 1731, who together founded the first civil settlement of Texas called “San Fernando”, now called “San Antonio” Texas.

Pacheco
All descendants with the name of Pacheco, come from two common ancestors, Alvino Granado y Pacheco and his wife Maria Encarnacion Pulido. Although Pacheco males have a y-chromosome from a Spaniard from the founding Canary Island families of San Antonio, many of our ancestors come from the Indigenous communities which lived at all 5 of the San Antonio missions.

As children many of us were told by our elders “Our name is Pacheco, but we are really Granados”. Alvino Granado y Pacheco, was the the first to use the name Pacheco, baptized in 1779 at the San Fernando cathedral as “Hypolito Alvino”. His godmother Barbara Victoria Ruiz (his great-aunt) claimed to have found him on her door step.

Alvino was born out of wedlock to Jose Manuel Granado and Josefa Seguro, who due to the social norms of the time, could not raise him. He was instead raised by his godmother, Barbara Victoria Ruiz, who was was his paternal grandmother’s, Maria Ruiz’s sister. Alvino first took the last name of his aunt’s husband, Juan Josef Pacheco, but he later in life used the name of his birth father “Granado”. He would use the two names interchangeably over the years, but never both at the same time in historical documents. “Granado y Pacheco” is used to distinguish this first Alvino from his later descendants. The reason that he eventually chose to stay with “Pacheco” instead of “Granado” as a surname has been lost to history. However, “Granado” continued to be used by the family in many sacramental records well into the 1800s.

Maria Encarnacion Pulido was an Indian baptized at Misión de Santa María de los Dolores de la Punta de Lampazos under the name “Maria Encarnacion” to a mother named “Maria” and a father “Jose Maria” in 1781. The last names of Indians were not traditionally listed in the sacramental records. Encarnacion and her family later moved to Misión San Jose y Miguel de Aguayo in San Antonio with her mother’s 2nd husband Bartolo Pulido of Monterrey, Mex,. They begin to appear in sacramental records beginning in 1785 and she moved to mission Espada by 1790 where she lived until marrying her first husband, Juan Timotheo Barrera in 1796. They then petitioned the governor to live at Misión San Antonio de Valero. After the death of her first husband, Encarnacion married Alvino approximately 1805.

Granado
There are no longer any descendants using the Granado name. Their descendants either had daughters, sons who died young, or sons who never had children of their own. There are numerous descendants from ancestors such as Lauriano Granado, who was the youngest half-brother of Alvino Granado y Pacheco.

What we do
We are an organization of lineal descendants that:
1. Keep our social connections of community, between the various branches of our family as they move further abroad by hosting a decennial reunion.
2. Ongoing research and sharing of historical records and artifacts of our rich heritage in the foundation of Texas, by both our Indigenous and Spanish ancestors.
3. Recording the location of and protecting the monuments of our ancestors across Texas.
4. Assisting our family in joining the various groups and historical associations that we are eligible for.
5. Assisting with sub-group reunions, helping with organizing and providing displays for these reunions.

We are a 501(c)(7) non-profit social and historical organization.