FAMILIA : PALOMO

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In Spanish, "palomo" means a male dove or pigeon.  Thus the bird in the coat-of-arms above.  There are around 16,000 people in Spain who carry this surname, mainly in the south : Sevilla and Malaga.

The Palomos don't show up in a Guam census until the 1758 census, and under one man - Bernardo Ignacio Palomo, who is listed as a Spanish soldier.  Whether he was from Spain, Latin America or the Philippines is unknown.  But people with Spanish blood, whether they were "pure" Spaniards from Spain, or either "pure" or mixed blooded from Latin America or the Philippines, would have been listed as "Spaniards."

Bernardo married Maria Teresa Tenorio.  There are three Tenorios listed in the 1727 census, all in the Spanish list.  One of them married a Chamorro by the last name Taimaktos (meaning "unending") and the other two married a Cardenas and a Benavente.  We don't know which of these is Maria Teresa's family.

I wouldn't be surprised if the famous Padre Palomo was the grandson or great-grandson of Bernardo Ignacio, because Padre Palomo's full name was Jose Bernardo.

By 1897, there were three big clans of Palomos :

PALOMO-RODRIGUEZ

Silvestre Inocencio Rodriguez Palomo (the father of Padre Palomo)
and his wife Rita Cruz Torres

Juan Rodriguez Palomo
and his wife Florentina de Leon

some of their descendants married into the Sablan family (Sablan-Palomo clan)

PALOMO-DUEÑAS

Luis Dueñas Palomo
and his wife Dolores Blas

they had many children, especially daughters

PALOMO-QUINTANILLA

Luis Quintanilla Palomo
and his wife Rosa Duenas Palomo (relatives!)

Vicente Quintanilla Palomo
and his wife Ana Ramirez Roberto

two of their daughters married into the Perez (Boñao) family
another daughter, Maria, married Pedro Ada
a son, Jose, was the first Chamorro to obtain a PhD

There were other Palomos in the 1897 census, but I cannot identify yet their inter-connections.

SOME BETTER KNOWN PALOMOS

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ANTONIO MANIBUSAN PALOMO

Former senator and historian/author

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BENIGNO MANIBUSAN PALOMO

Former senator, GHURA director, civil servant

and brother of Antonio

PATRICK PALOMO

Pianist Extraordinaire

composer and recording artist

FATHER JOSE BERNARDO TORRES PALOMO

First Chamorro Catholic Priest

1836-1919