Our Spanish ancestors

Maria Robiana de Bethencourt

of Lanzarote, Matriarch of the Granado family and head of the 14th family from the Canary Islands.

Modern painting that once hung in the Bexar county courhouse that was rescued by one of her descendants..

Description of the Granado family after their arrival at Quautitlan, the Yucatan, Mex. in 1730.

  1. Maria Robayna de Bethencourt

    daughter of Manuel and Paula Umpierres, native of Lanzarote, about twenty-seven years of age, good figure, slender, long face, fair complexion, black hair and eyebrows, thin nose.

  2. Pedro Rodriguez Granado

    son of Juan Rodriguez and the foregoing, about thirteen years of age, good physique, fair complexion, broad shoulders, full face, light brown eyes, thin nose, light chestnut hair and eyebrows, pitted with smallpox.

  3. Manuel Francisco Rodriguez Granado

    son of the foregoing, native of Lanzarote, about three years of age, fair complexion, reddish hair, blue eyes.

  4. Josefa Rodriguez Granado

    daughter of the foregoing, native of the same [place], full faced, about ten years of age, fair complexion, Roman nose, golden eyes, chestnut hair.

  5. Paula Rodriguez Granado

    daughter of the aforesaid, about eight years of age, native of the same [place], fair complexion, Roman nose, round face, black eyes hair and eyebrows.

  6. Maria Rodriguez Granado

    daughter of the aforesaid, five years of age, native of Lanzarote, round face, fair complexion, reddish hair and eyebrows, brown eyes.

  7. Juan de Acuña, Rodriguez Granado

    son of the aforesaid, native of Cuautitlán, about one month old, round face, fair complexion, blue eyes, reddish hair and eyebrows, flat nose.