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I am simply copying and pasting a letter that I sent off today to friends and relatives relaying an update on my most recent discoveries on the Ayes Surname.
I have been researching this surname for many years now and I have come to a very high point in that research that will serve as more fuel to fire up some more motivation.
Thus far I have traced my Ayes to the medieval days of the middle 1100's. I find this very exciting.
Before I copy and paste the update herein I want to create a chart of organizational hierachy that was within the Order of the Templars.
Organisation Hierarchique
Grand Maitre du Temple
En Orient En Occident
Senechal Visiteur
Marechal Maitre
Commandeur de Jerusalem Maitre dans le Provinces
Commandeur de Tripoli, Antioche Chevaliers,Sergents, Freres de
Metiers,
Serviteur
Now you will understand what is contained within the body of my writing concerning Aime de Ayes.
I am writing this to Jose de Herrera and I figured that you should read the content's of this E mail as well as an update to the research on our family.
Jose was kind enough to share a URL link that would take me to the Ellis Island archives.
I don't belong to Ellis Island Site but I pickede data off their Site for free once in awhile. (I never pay for what research I do that comes from refusing to pay for exhibiting my art. I figure that my art is far too superior for me to pay some idiot whose only true interest is what's in my pocket than in hanging the art because of its value to society).
I had found my Mom and Grandmother as well as Arturo Ayes listed there immigrating from Puerto Rico in 1920 to New York. Arturo came on the ship, Ponce and mom and grandma came via the ship, Porto Rico. It was an interesting find.
Writing about interesting finds: But before I do,
Research and story Copyright 2008 John J. Browne Ayes
Yesterday I went all the way to Medieval France. If you will remember, Mom's mtDNA has a strong French sequence that came from her father's side of the family. Huh? You are asking, how did your mother's mtDNA end up with her father's sequences?
I have written in the past that both the mothers and fathers of us all contribute their genetic material equally into the Genome where the mtDNA and yDNA cells reside. The mtDNA and the yDNA cells are but small bits of genetic sequences inside the genome. FTDNA and another "expert", refused to agree with me that the mtDNA and the yDNA both contain and reflect the genetic material that is within the bigger genome. They both said no, the mtDNA and the yDNA contain only that which a father contributes to the boy child from his male ancestors. And the mtDNA only contains the material that our maternal ancestors have passed to us.
Yet, they both turn around and tell us that the mother is the only one of the two sexes that can pass genetic data to both the male and the female. That the male in turn cannot pass that genetic data derived from his ancestral mothers to his children. He can only pass yDNA to his male descendants.
The scenario painted by the scientists is so out of balance that it has become a syllogism -
Logic twisted to reflect and justify the illogical.
What I found yesterday reflects and confirms my theory that the maternal mtDNA reflects the genetic stuff that the father's have also contributed.
While browsing the French Internet I typed in de Ayes....This is what came up at
L'Ordre du Temple ou Les Templiers
Visiteur Cismarins:
Aime de Ayes dates: 1179 - 1188
There was another record:
This time he was listed as a Maitre D' Aragon
Aime de Ayes dates: 1202 - 1206
I have estimated his date of birth between 1172/ 1175 since boys became men very quickly in the days when knights were bold and daring. Around 15 to 16 years of age serving as pages to some lord until they proved themselves on some battlefield on behalf of their lord and King.
Aime de Ayes must have been quite a warrior or a man of means because the Templars had a very strict pecking order and one had to rise up from the lowest ranks to gain access to the next level. Aime had risen up through the ranks to level two within the order of the Templars.
You will remember that I had found Martin de Ayes inheriting a palace in Asieso which is situated very close to the Ebro River depression which lies right on the border of France and Spain. Aragon is just a hop and a skip away from that place, the Asieso Valley.
The fact that Martin de Ayes was given a palace in Asieso by Toda Perez who was family to Pedro de Traba is very interesting...
I already had within my family tree bits of family data relative to the Froila. The connections are astounding because the Froila weave in and out of the Casas of 1: King Fernando II de Leon who had Teresa Fernandez de Traba a child, Ferdinand Born 1178 died 1187, Fernando II de Leon was the son of Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon and of Berenguela. That family had another son, Ordono IV who became a King as well.
The familia Froila also connected themselves to the Casa de Egas Muniz, (Monis) The progenitor of Diego Columbus' maternal line the Monis, or Muniz from which my wife is a descendant of.
It doesn;t stop there either because within the Monis - Muniz family line Lourenzo Soares de Riba Douro Died 1219 who was the Alferez Mayor of Alfonso IX King of Leon between 20 May 1195 to 12 Feb 1196
and also became Mayor Domo Mayor between the years 13 Jan 1205 and 17 Dec 1205, married Urraca Sanches daughter of Sancho I king of Portugal and his mistress, are you sitting down?
Maria Ayres de Fornelos who eventually died 1256. She was the Senora of Villanova and a former wife of Gil Vasquez de Soverosa and she was Daughter of Ayres Nunez de Fornelos and Mayor Pirez. Pirez is another surname variation of Perez.
If you go back to my Tribal Pages you will type in the name again of Martin de Ayes and you will see all the photos that are associated with the palace that was given to him. In one of those photos you will see a gargoyle who is standing in what at first seems in fear for his life standing between two lions, but if one has really read the the historical data I have written above herein, one can see why there are two lions. They
represent the two Casas de los Leon who were kings. The man is standing not in a pose of quaking fear but in a pose of humble service.
A genealogist has to focus themselves in learning the many arts that are associated within genealogy.
A genealogist has to learn to see the hidden meaning within the many symbols that were in use within his ancestor's time lines.
A genealogist has to learn to acquire the mind of a detective, moreso learning to wear the mocasins of his ancestors so that he can see the world of their day through their eyes.
My wife and I as well as my two sisters and their children have some very blue blood running within our family trees as well as within our viens. We are in essence, a family who has descended from princes and princesses and probably from the Caciques of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Azteca and Peru. Like is attracted to like because there can be no other within the world of the Alpha male and female of the human pack.
I say the above not in a derisive way because I was born in a humble environ in the Hub of the South Bronx. That's where my wife and I met each other, on Third Avenue in front of Hearn's Department store, or was it Alexander's? It was so long ago I can't remember. But when our eyes met for the first time there clicked something deep within the foundation of ourselves that said,
"well, what are you standing there for? Go on, you are right for each other."
That little voice that spoke to my wife and I was the vocal vibrations of our genetics recognizing each other.
In any case, much later on down the timeline one branch of the Ayes immigrated to the Filipine Islands, that data came by way of Ms. Betty Hubbard who found them listed within a microfilm. The record therein spoke to her about the Ayes receiving an econmienda in the Filipine by way of Cedula Real.
The Ayes name has evolved into many variations along the passage of time. There is a town that is very close to Asieso that bears the name Ayesa, another town that bears the name Alles, I have also gotten in contact with the Ayestaran who live in the town that also bears the family name. So, we are looking at
Asieso, which is another spelling variation of the illustrious surname of Ayes. To own a run of towns tells me that the family Ayes were entitled. Commoners cannot own towns they worked in the fifes that surrounded the towns that were owned by the Lords of the fifes.
Now, onto my ancestor, Juan Luis Alles who married Juana Evangelista de Jesus Ramos de Silva. That wasn't her name, but if I was living in Mexico that's what her name would be. Reflecting every name that was in her ancestral line. I think we should go back to that surname system because we all need to know who and where we came from and that system would remind us everytime we spoke our names.
In any case, I have found three documents from the island of Cuba that bear the surname Juan Alles.
The men associated with those documents were merchants who plyed the ocean as a means and end to a living. They owned ships that transported goods to the Caribbean. One document spoke of Juan Luis trying to initiate trade with his American contacts to bring harina into Cuban ports. I had run across another document within PARES that spoke of trouble for merchant marines who went ahead to initiate trade with America before a Cedula was issued.
My Juan Luis Alles all of sudden like shows up immigrating to Puerto Rico from one of the islands.
In his Cedula Real de Gracia it says that he already has had contact with Juana Evangelista de Jesus Ramos de Silva. Because he is immigrating to Coamo Puerto Rico to live with her. Were they married before the Cedula Real de Gracia was issued? Did they know one another already before that Cedula Real de Gracia was issued? The answer is quite obvious. YES. A Cedula de Gracia wouldn't speak of two strangers unless its issuer was a psychic seeing events of the future unfold before his eyes while writing the Cedula de Gracia. This tells me that Juan Luis Alles had already been coming into Puerto Rico, specifically the port of call was the town of Coamo. He must have been conducting his business of merchant marining in Coamo before he was granted the Cedula that granted him the right to live there officially with his wife, Juana Evangelista de Jesus Ramos de Silva.
I think I can safely infer that he was no mere carpenter like the Cedula says he said he was. I think he told the officials a little white lie. Immigrants today and yesterday lie through their teeth to immigrfation officials....without flinching.
He was no poor man either. Because his grandson, Emilio Ayes de Jesus was in a position to sign an official document that spoke of the Ayuntamiento de Salinas away from the town of Coamo. He signed it on the behalf of the Arts and Industy of Salinas. He had a very pretty handwriting by the way, which I have worked to develop by way of Caligraphy. His signiture was big and bold too. That speaks to me that he was a well adjusted person who had a lot of confidence in himself and his status within the town of Salinas.
What I have learned about the Ayes by following the scant paper trail they have left behind through the passages of time. They were achievers and served their kings as vassals. They were people that loved their family because they worked the system so that they could be very comfortable without being very showy.
Other families have pleitos within the archives of Spain that speak to me of rife over the rights of possessions and entitlements in the courts of Spain. Not a very happy bunch of people I would say they were miserable because they worried about who got what in the realm of the temporal.
The Ayes show up here and there within the archives whenever they have been granted a boon. A piece of property or land given in recognition of some good service to their kings and queens. They worked hard no doubt, but they worked behind the line quietly choosing not make make a big show of what they had done.
The fact that they served kings and queens fighting the Moors and probably they did their share of the butchering that comes with war, but even then they didn't make a big thing out of it. Yet they received a palace in Asieso.....During a time of the great Reconquista of Spain from the Moors. Aime de Ayes was a knight Templar and that tells me he was a warrior as well. A person who knew the art of slaughter in the name of his French king who betrayed the Templars in the end.
France is very close to Spain in regard to Asieso which is within the province of Jaca. The closest provence in France is Burgundy. I've been there via the Internet and I did find a town of Ayes. Ayes with an accent over the "e". The names within that province were much different but the people didn't have the name of their township tagged onto their surname yet....That's how far back I went a very long time ago....Five years ago to be exact.
After I have rested from all the work I have done all these years I shall return to begin researching that little town of Ayes in Burgundy to find my ancestors......But for now, let me sit on the laurels I've gathered, for un momento mori.
Before I forget, I found the surnames of some of our relatives within the Index du Font, Fuentes, Source Indexes. (Again, refer to my family tree online,
Economie médiévale de ANTONETTI (Guy). Éditions Presses Universitaires de France Paris, 1975 (L')
- Ecossais vert, in Le Symbolisme, n° 385-386, juillet-septembre 1968
- Eglise au moyen-âge de ARQUILLIERE (H -X ). Éditions Paris, 1939 (L')
- Eglise des Premiers Temps de Damélou (L). Éditions Seuil, 1985 (L')
- Eglise romane Notre-Dame-de-la-Joie à Merlévenez de LE TALLEC (Abbé Frédéric), 1969
- Eglise Saint Merri de Paris de GARAY (MARTIN). Éditions A C L T (L')
- Ecossais vert, in Le Symbolisme, n° 385-386, juillet-septembre 1968
- Eglise au moyen-âge de ARQUILLIERE (H -X ). Éditions Paris, 1939 (L')
- Eglise des Premiers Temps de Damélou (L). Éditions Seuil, 1985 (L')
- Eglise romane Notre-Dame-de-la-Joie à Merlévenez de LE TALLEC (Abbé Frédéric), 1969
- Eglise Saint Merri de Paris de GARAY (MARTIN). Éditions A C L T (L')
- Histoire des Templiers en Provence de AMADEO (Isabelle), LAGET (René)1988
If you are interested enough to go to the Family Tree Site find Martin de Ayes, there is an image of a baptismal font therein, there are symbols that have been pecked into the stone of the font.
Here's the key to that secret code....Either the resultant language will be in Latin or even archaic French.
I am betting, Latin.
Have fun! I did!
I am sorry, I won't share the Key here.
John Ayes
