Someone asked a while back why the last name “Salado” was taken by some of their children, Cristobal, Lucas and Nicolas.

Someone asked a while back why the last name “Salado” was taken by some of their children, Cristobal, Lucas and Nicolas. I think I stumbled on the answer, if you go up 4 generations it looks like this.

Bernardo Ruiz de Esparza, his mother, Ana Francisca de Gabay, her mother, Petrolina Moctezuma (still being debated), her father, Diego de Arias de Sotelo, and last his father, Capitan Antonio Sotelo y Salgado.

I am not 100% sure on this, but I too wondered where the last name “Salado” came from, and Salgado sounds very close.

I found a link to a book that mentions the Sotelo y Salgado family.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Pi0_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA533&lpg=PA533&dq=Capit%C3%A1n+Antonio+Sotelo&source=bl&ots=-4RYJ3lOgl&sig=htYQv1wqeEgFv90wV-zbsN35xrM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=etnFVLWVAYaSyQTi_IK4BQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Capit%C3%A1n%20Antonio%20Sotelo&f=false

Thanks,
Ruben