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The Sanchez family name is originally from Spain and is of course patronymic. According to the scholars the oldestand most pervasive type of surname is that derived from a given name. Perhaps the name was given or taken from the font name of the grandfather.
The name Sanchez derives from the personal name Sanchez from the Latin word Sanctus meaning holy or sacred. The ending “ez” denotes son or descendant of and the name Sanchez is from the area of Spain around Galicia and Santander where the Sanchez family had its ancestral seat in earlier times.
One of the earliest references that we can find on this name is a record of Andres Sanchez de Eagle Bustamante born in Santillana in 1664 where it was found that he married Josefa de Valdivieso in Santillana in1691. The Marquis of Solanda was the famous general Pedro Javier Sanchez de Orellana and he was born in Loja.
Family histories and other recordings and references to this name in Spain is Agustin Sanchez son of Christoval Sanchez and Juana Lopez who was christened at the Santa Maria de la Esperanaza church in Penas de San Pedro, Albaceta on the 20th of December 1699.
The surname Sanchez was also recorded in Latin America from around the seventeenth century, and we can see th wedding of Madalene Sanchez and Juan Diego took place at the church of La Asuncion in Tecamachalco,Puebla, Mexico on the 28th of April 1660.
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