Carballo is a Galician, Spanish, Catalan and Basquesurname, originating from the Galician and Portuguese words for oak. It references the family's settlements surroundings of forest on mountainous terrain in Carballo, Galicia, northwestern Spain[citation needed]. Over the years, the surname has become more frequent in other countries, and the name has had variations in its spelling. It became widely renowned in the early 1600s in the Spanish colonization of the Americas or New Spain and greatly expanded during the 1800s. It spread from South America, Central America, Mexico, and North America, also including the Philippine Islands, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, territories of Spanish Colonialism or colonial expansion under the Crown of Castile during Spanish holdings in the Age of Discovery.
Carballo has many variations in its spelling, including Carvallo, Carbello, Carvalho, Carbalho, Caraballo, Carbajo, Carvajal, Caballer, Caballe, Carballino, partly because of illiteracy in early times. Surnames like Carballo transform their pronunciation and spelling as they travel across villages, family branches, and countries. In times when literacy was uncommon, names such as Carballo were written down based on their pronunciation when people's names were written in government records. This could have led to misspellings of Carballo. Researching the misspellings and alternate spellings of the Carballo last name is vital to understanding the possible origins of the name.
Some of the first spelling variations for the origins of the old name Carballo were found in the County of Castile in medieval Spain. While the patronymic and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the name of the father and mother, respectively, are the most common form of a hereditary surname in Spain, occupational surnames also emerge during the late Middle Ages. Many people, such as the Carballo family, adopted the name of their occupation as their surname. The surname Carballo was an occupational name for a knight or a knight's servant.
Carballo family
The name Carballo is documented as far back as 759 AD to Avilense Carballo alongside Morales, and Sebastian recorded by "Menendez Valdez, Miriano".[1] There was a religious crusade with the Archbishop of Spain, the King of Spain and the country of Italy. The first records found are of the early 16th century, starting with a military captain in the Spanish royal navy who was made Marquis for his leadership in a Spanish war. His name is Ferdinand Carballo.
The Carballo family began its travel to the Americas about the same time as Christopher Columbus. Some of the first Spanish voyagers and or settlers of this family name or its variants were among the earliest explorers or Conquistadors of the New World were Juan de Cavallón, a Spanish military captain,[2] who sailed to the Americas in the early 1500s. He claimed the territory of Costa Rica for the Spanish Crown and died in Mexico in 1565. Other early migrants to the New World included Gutierre de Caballos, who sailed to the Americas in 1512.
, Joao Lopez Carvalho, maritime pilot of the ship Concepción, acted as captain-general on May 2, 1521, who took command after Ferdinand Magellan's death in the Philippines (April 27, 1521).[3][4][5][pageneeded][6]Pedro Álvares Cabral (1468–1520) a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil. Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1499–1543) was a navigator and explorer known for exploring the west coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire. Cabrillo was the first European explorer to navigate the coast of present-day California in the United States. Port captain at Cádiz, Juan Bautista Topete y Carballo, (May 24, 1821 – October 29, 1885), a Spanish naval commander and politician, born in San Andrés Tuxtla, Mexico. His father and grandfather were also Spanish admirals.[7] Spaniard captain, Rodrigo Flores de Valdez Carballo, (c.1585), Villa de Cangas de Tineo, Principado de Asturias, Kingdom of León.[8]
The motto of the Carballo family is Upwards and Onwards[citation needed], derived from Spain's Plus Ultra, which translates to "Further Beyond" in Latin.
The Carvalho and Carvallo families
Carvalho The Portuguese branch of the lineage is traced back to Bartolomeo Domingues de Carvalho', whose son Fernao Gomez de Carvalho was a military officer under the son of King Dinis of Portugal. One of the sons of Fernao, Gil Fernandes de Carvalho, was made a nobleman in Spain as part of the Order of the Caballeros de Santiago.
The coat of arms of the Carvalho family is described as follows: "Three ostrich feathers on top of the navy blue shield. On the navy blue shield, there is one bright golden eight-point star surrounded by eight white crescent moons."
In 1738, he was appointed Ambassador to London and seven years later was sent to Vienna in a similar capacity. In 1750, Joseph I of Portugal appointed him minister of state and he soon proved his administrative talents. When the devastating 1755 Lisbon earthquake struck, he organized the relief efforts and planned its rebuilding.
He was made Chief Minister in 1756, and his powers were practically absolute from then on. Sebastião abolished slavery in Portugal, reorganized the educational system, and published a new code of laws. He affected the reorganization of the army, the introduction of new colonists into the Portuguese settlements, and the establishment of an East India Company and other companies for trade with Brazil. Agriculture, commerce, and finances were all improved. The king made him a marquis in 1770. Sebastião's power ended with the death of the king, and he retired to Pombal, Paraíba, where he died on May 8, 1782.
Carvallo The Carvallo name is the Lusitan form of the Galician name Carballo. Its origin is derived from the name of the place where one lived, or the property owner was from and the founder of the lineage.
Carvallo was taken directly from "Carballo," which was a place in the province of Lugo in Galicia. Hence, someone from that province was someone from Carballo. Carballo comes from the Portuguese word carvalho, which means oak. Therefore, this name means the place where the oaks come from.
In Portugal, Carvalho is also the name of a province in the district of Pe acova, within the Carvalho Mountains. In Spain, during the Reconquista, the name Carballo was extended from Galicia to the Iberian Peninsula and to the Canary Islands.
The spelling of the name Carvallo, with a "v", dates its origins back to Viscaya or the Biscay. During most recent findings, several members of this lineage sailed for the New World in the latter 19th century, arriving in countries like Chile, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela.
The lineage that established itself in Venezuela built roots in Caracas and Valencia. Most of the members of this lineage became businessmen, lawyers, politicians, and economists.
On the branch that settled itself in Valencia, six members have been governors of the city and its state over the last 100 years[9]
Dom Joseph I, known as the Reformer, was King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death in 1777. Among other activities, Joseph was devoted to hunting and the opera. His government was controlled by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal.
D. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oeiras, known as the Marquis of Pombal, was a Portuguese despotic statesman and diplomat who effectively ruled the Portuguese Empire from 1750 to 1777 as chief minister to King Joseph I. A strong promoter of the absolute power and influenced by the Age of Enlightenment, Pombal led Portugal's recovery from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and reformed the kingdom's administrative, economic, and ecclesiastical institutions. During his lengthy ministerial career, Pombal accumulated and exercised autocratic power. His cruel persecution of the Portuguese lower classes led him to be known as Nero of Trafaria, a village he ordered to be burned with all its inhabitants inside, after refusing to follow his orders.
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↑ Historical notes concerning Manila to accompany. United States. War Department. General Staff. p.18, 25, 52. (The Index Map of Manila, Philippines Division, Adjutants General Office), Manila 1904.
↑ Menendez Valdes, Mariano (September 10, 2010). Historia Critico-Filosofica De La Monarquia Asturiana (1881). Kessinger Publishing. ISBN978-1167626364.
↑ Ancestry.com, Books. The Carballo Name in History: Ancestry.com: Books p. 52, June 14, 2007,. The Generations Network, Inc. 360 West 4800 North Provo, Utah 84604 www.ournameinhistory.com. ASINB001CV7O2I.
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