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Note: Surname Reyes or de los Reyes, http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/r/reyes.php: "(Spanish) and (southern French) from Spanish and Old French rey ‘king’ (from Latin rex, genitive regis), which could have been applied any of in numerous ways: it may have denoted someone in the service of a king; it may have been from the title of someone in a brotherhood; or a nickname for someone who behaved in a regal fashion or who had earned the title in some contest of skill or by presiding over festivities." </line><line /><line>Per William Mason, Associate Curator of California History, Natural History Museum, in 1971:
"Reyes or de los Reyes is claimed by the bishop of Orense, Don Servando, to originate with Clemente Reyes, from a noble Roman family around the year 230 A.D., father of the Santa Clara Regina. Other historians present as the progenitor of this surname Gonzalo de Reyes, in the year 611, Lord of the house and castle of Bocirios in Chantada, Lugo. From the beginnings, or others, the surname is of Bocirios in Chantada, Lugo and the surname is later found in Leon, elsewhere in Galicia, both Castilles, Andalucia, and Murcia. The surname of Reyes or its derivation de los Reyes is the 22nd most popular name in the United States among all Hispanic groups. There does not appear to be any one country where it is more prevalent.
There were many Reyes families in colonial Alta California. Antonio Faustino Reyes, son of Juan Francisco Reyes and Maria del Carmen Dominguez, was born in 1785 at Monterey, married in 1816 at San Gabriel, and died sometime before 1844. He and his wife Maria Clara Cota, had five children: Maria Inocencia, Antonio Maria, Maria Petra Canuta, Facundo or Secundino, and Ygnacio. Jose Zeferino Reyes, a brother of Antonio Reyes, was born in 1805 at Los Angeles. He married Maria Encarnacion Duarte and they had ten children."</line><line /><line />
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