My last name is Reverón. Does someone knows if my ancestors comes from Spain, France or other place?

Does we have any crypto ancestors like the Sefardies? I live in Puerto Rico and I have find that our great-grand-father came from Venezuela. However, the origin of the Reverón seems to be european. The answers might be sent in English or Spanish.

My last name is Reverón. Does someone knows if my ancestors comes from Spain, France or other place?
The "original" place where a name comes from is often very different from the place where your ANCESTORS came from. You have already learned that your gr grandfather is from Venezuela. If he is the person of the name, then you would want to determine where HIS great grandfather came from, but you would need to use records of Venezuela.


It is history that Venezuela has persons from Spain who settled there.. but it is not limited to this.


Also, you must remember that your ancestors are all the persons, and you are also a part of them. Each of the women will have different family names from birth.
Reply:Since the name is not even common in Venezuela, I wonder if you're not related to the famous artist, Armando Reveron.





Here's some background...and it would give you a good point to start your research...Caracas.


Armando Julio Reverón (Caracas May 10, 1889–Caracas, September 18, 1954) was the most important modernist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century in Venezuela. Most of his work was inspired by the coast, landscape and people of Macuto, located in the central coast of Venezuela, and was characterized by his view and expression of the bright luminosity of the tropic.





His father was Julio Reverón Garmendia and his mother Dolores Travieso Montilla.








Reverón was raised in Valencia by a family of Canarian origin, the Rodríguez-Zucca's, who took care of him during his early childhood and sent him to the local Salesian school after his parents separated. His maternal uncle, Ricardo Montilla, who studied art in New York and started to teach him basic painting techniques, was an important early influence to the young Reverón. Also he became friends with their daughter, Josefina, who later became a model for some of his early paintings. However, after a few years he moved back with his mother, Dolores Travieso Montilla, to Caracas.
Reply:It is possible that Reveron is derived from the French surname Reviron or Baillet-Reviron which was a "grand" family in Versailles. (It certainly seems French to me.)





There is a French book "Versailles à travers ces grandes familles" by Paule-Cécile Minot, that includes information on the Baillet-Reviron family history. Unfortunately only seven libraries in the US have it (see worldcat.org for those and contact the individual libraries.) Amazon.fr has it, but I don't know their shipping policies. Of course you would then need someone to translate it.





All these need to be taken just as possible clues, however. As Wendy said you would need to research your own family to discover its true origins.