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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 9558944, member: 1476&quot;]I found a snippet on Google Books that may actually fit.&nbsp; (Yeah, I know...&nbsp; A long, long shot.)&nbsp; The book is entitled Coat of Arms and Surnames.&nbsp; Quick translation...</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="4">&quot;Don Juan Escudero, a resident of Tudela, appeared in 1563 before the Courts of Navarra, proving to be... Sergeant Major of the Royals</font></i></p><p><i><font size="4">Armies, that he went on to reside in New Spain, from where he carried out the following...&quot;</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, because it&#039;s edited, one can&#039;t be sure the Sergeant Major reference is about don Juan but it very well may be.</p><p><br /></p><p>New Spain is, of course, any Spanish possession in the Western Hemisphere.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]456924[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here&#039;s another snippet with quick translation.&nbsp; (It repeats some of the information above.)</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Don Juan Escudero, a resident of Tudela, appeared in 1563 before the Courts of Navarra, proving to be a descendant of the noble houses of his surnames located in Buñel and Cascante, and Don Miguel Martin, Don Juan and Don Jerónimo Escudero, brothers, residents of Valtierra , went there for the same purpose in 1550. All of them were recognized for their nobility of blood.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>In Vergara, Guipúzcoa, lived a branch of this surname, to which Don Juan Escudero belonged, born there in the year 1580, who, with his wife Doña Catalina de Arnedo, procreated Don...&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]456926[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The children of don Juan Escudero and doña Catalina de Arnedo would have carried the surnames Escudero y Arnedo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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