Buber's Basque Page: Arosteguy

AROSTEGUY this is a basque surname very tipical, and exists in all the basque regions, but the form you write it, it is clear from Iparralde (Iparralde: North part, or French Basque Country, in Hegoalde (South Basque Country) the tipical form is Arostegui, although the correct form to write it is AROSTEGI, following the modern basque ortography , in any case the ortography is not for the surnames so anybody can use the tradition of the family or the modern rules.

The meaning of Arostegi is "The Carpenter's House" AROTZ: carpenter, TEGI: place or house, can be Blacksmith's house, because in some parts of the country, Arotz is blacksmith.

Mr. Jaime Kerexeta says in his book that the origin of the surname is Bermeo, and there are bransches in the other regions, but I don't believe that, a surname can have many original places, because basque surnames are names of houses, and families toke their surnames from the name of the house they lived, until the Trento Council that oblished to make baptism records and to put to the children the same surname that their parents. There exists families with this surname in Donibane-Garazi (St. Jean de Pied de Port) and Baigorri (In Behenafarroa), and of corse in many villages of Nafarroa, Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia, but it is clear which is the origin of your surname.

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juanchicafrune at yaoo dot com dot ar 23-Dec-2009 19:19	`#10610`
`Hola, mi nombre es Juan Agosteguis, soy de la ciudad de La Plata en Argentina, tengo 29 a�os y soy arquitecto, entiendo que mi apellido original es Arostegi,por ello desde hace algun tiempo intento conocer algo mas sobre mis origenes, es interesante leer sobre posibles parientes lejanos que se buscan y me interesaria estar en contacto, saludos y abrazos a todos los vascos.`

ginajoaquina at hotmail dot com 05-Jan-2009 15:46	`#8939`
`hii hola soy iam florence arosteguy and i just wanted to say iam proud for being my self y yo quiero decir que estoy feliz por ser yo misma`

rfu dot 2 at uol dot com dot br 04-Jun-2008 11:05	`#7627`
`Meu nome é MiltoN Martins, Tenho 53 anos e sou filho de Vasco Arosteguy da Silva, falecido, casado com Cely Martins da Silva, procuro parentes e gostaria de pesquisar a descendencia da familia Arosteguy, manter contato atraves do emeil acima`

comvisual at yahoo dot com dot br 13-Dec-2007 13:28	`#6576`
`encontro familia brasilia, tiaq primos e prima`

arostegui dot eduardo at gmail dot com 15-Jun-2007 16:48	`#5470`
`Ol�! sou Eduardo Jos� Arostegui, nasci na argentina, moro no brasil na cidade de Rio das Ostras, sou dentista especialista em ortodontia,sou orgulhoso do meu sobrenome, e de ser descendente do povo Basco.`

viparosteguy at gmail dot com 24-May-2007 1:04	`#5242`
`Sou paulistana, moro em Brasília. Sou apaixonada pelo meu sobrenome e muita curiosidade para conhecer os outros Arosteguy do mundo. Meu Avô Gumercindo Maciel Arosteguy nasceu em Dom Pedrito.`

miss_nanie408 at yahoo dot co dot uk 26-Oct-2006 1:49	`#3851`
`Hello my name is Lenora Arostigui. I was just curios to see the mening of my last name I'm also very intrested and knowing more of my basque backround.`

ginavercoe at aol dot com
23-Aug-2006 12:43 #3484

My maiden name was Georgia Ann Arosteguy, grandfather Jean (John) Arosteguy, born 1880 in Beyrie, Basses-Pyremess. France. His parents Pierre and Marie (Borderampe) Arostegny (spelling may have been eroneous in resource book) or name changed upon entry to the United States. He left home at 21 coming to the United State via Buenos Aires where he worked as a dairyman for two years before making his way to San Francisco and then on to to Fresno, California. He was the eldest child of four. It would be wonderful to locate those related to those who would be my great uncles or aunts. We have a great Basque population in the central valley of California.

mrarosteg at yahoo dot com
21-Dec-2005 10:01 #2366

Hi, my name is Samuel Arostegui As it has previously been mentioned by some of you, for the longest time I had a difficult time in finding about the history of our surname but I guess now thanks to the internet everything is changing. I could only recall a few bits and pieces of information that my grandfather gave me about the family name. Basically that it was Basque in origin but not much else. I currently live in El Paso, Texas which is predominantly Hispanic of a Mexican background. You can imagine the many attempts people try to make to pronounce my name correctly even here close to Mexico. Many initially believe or think that we are of Middle Eastern descent and hesitate in accepting that the surname is Spanish as the majority found in my region. I was surprised to see various links on the web to this surname. A couple of years back this was not the case. I usually let people know that any Arostegui out there is my relative and up to now it has been true, well at least, here in the regions of Texas, Chihuahua(MX), and New Mexico. My grandfather is Blas Arostegui and he and his family came from Santa Barbara, Chihuahua (Mexico). Both my sister and I are currently teachers with the goal of becoming College professors one day. Please e-mail me if you wish.

ANGUSJHUCK at aol dot com
20-Dec-2005 19:45 #2358

AOSTRI, Burgos, may well be another place with AROTZ in its name. This was recorded in 1108 as AJOSTRE. From this we can postulate a Pre-Basque <*ALOST-URI "settlement of the smith or carpenter". In Pre-Basque and Iberian, the word seems to have been ALOS or ALOTS. Indeed, this word is used exceptionally as an Iberian personal name compound element (I know of one instance). Changing TEGI to TIGI has a fascinating historical parallel. In Iberian, the word was TIGI, hence the Roman towns, Artigi, Astigi, Cantigi, Lastigi, Saltigi, Sosontigi, all of them in the South of Spain.

fiercefrau at yahoo dot com 06-Dec-2005 19:30	`#2298`
`hello, my name is janeen and i have been trying to find out about my heritage for the longest. i haven't seen my last name anywhere and didn't even know its meaning. thanks for the info.`

piaarosteguy at yahoo dot com 10-Aug-2005 20:04	`#1852`
`Hello, I'm Maria Pia Arosteguy Fernandez from Chile. My grandfather cames from the Basque region of Spain in 1900. By`

jarostigui at yahoo dot com 22-Mar-2005 12:43	`#1320`
`Hello, My Name is Jacquelene Arostigui. I have been looking up my family history. My grandfather was basque Im told. he died when I was a very small child. IM not sure how we ended up with the i in our name. My grandmother said it was e however it got changed somehow when my grandfather migrated to America.`

darostegui at interlap dot com dot ar 18-Aug-2003 13:12	`#68`
`Very useful link in spanish http://es.geocities.com/heraldica03/apellidos/apellida_10.html Arostegui House (one of them) http://www.bergara-udala.org/Herria/Irudiak/Arostegi`

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