--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Raymond Jauregui" <rayjaur@e...> wrote:
>> José,
>> My mother's line is the Iniguez I am researching.  She once told me her family (the 
number of people) was not very large and my search so far seems to confirm this.  

Iniquez appears to be Basque also. See http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/
KateMonk/Europe-Western/Basque/Surnames.htm. If you look up the surnname in the 
Mormon database, a large percentage of Iniquez people in Southwest Europe are from the 
Basque Countries. 

In addition, there is a reference in one of the message boards to Iniquez and a French 
person. See http://genforum.genealogy.com/iniguez/messages/1.html. This would not be 
unusual since the French Basques and Spanish Basques had much in common, as did the 
French Catalonians and Spanish Catalonians. Spain is a nation but there are many 
dissenters still; the Basques and Catalonian are passionate about their lands and people. 
The French Catalonia area is just as much "Spanish" as "French."

I have mentioned this before: there was a huge influx of Northern Spaniards (Galicians, 
Asturians, Cantabrians--aka Montañeses--- and Basques in the 1700's to the area we are 
all studying.

Ed