Monday, July 20, 2009

Los Hacendados

Matanzas is home to one family of hacendados, los Barrientos, and was clearly influenced by an elegant nearby hacienda to the North, in the town that to some is known 
as La Colonia.  My family, the Martinez, have roots in this hacienda.  We know of stories that our family worked as gardeners and as linen keepers for the family that lived at the time.  My sources point to French origins for these hacendados, but I will verify that at some point.  
(if you have any info to share, please let me know).

1 comment:

  1. los barrientos no son los primeros dueños de la hacienda eso es un error historico los verdaderos dueños eran los gonzalez despues fueron los ndiaz de len y al final los barrientos

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