I was catching up on
the research for my roots in the
Internet, when I chanced upon Researchers, Genealogists,
and unknown relatives, who were then on a similar genealogical
research missions of their own, and mutually interested in
tracing the consanguinity of
our families.
Apart from the hundredfold of family data that we
discovered and collected for our respective genealogical databases,
by some strange chance, we came across the "Origin of the Surname Orbeta",
through the kindness of the Basque Researchers, Blas Pedro Uberuaga and Xabier Ormaetxea.
The Surname Orbeta
According to Xabier Ormaetxea, "
Orbeta is a Basque surname and Basque surnames are usually names of houses or
farms. The names of the houses were derived from the names or topographies
of the place, or from any characteristics of the house.
Families took their
house's name as the name of the family, and that was before the Council
of Trent that obligated the making of baptismal records and naming
the children with the surname of the father. "
But, why was the house so named, Orbeta ?
Blas Pedro Uberuaga propounded that, "
Orbeta and Orueta
are the same word. In the 1704 Census of Plencia, there is no Orbeta, the house appears as Orueta, the owner was Pedro Orueta. So I think
the surname was Orueta and in the middle of the 17th century, it was
changed to Orbeta.
The meaning of Orbeta is not clear. To some historians, the Basque language adopted it
from the Latin word "Urba" or "Orbis". Other historians thought that
was "Orb" which means in Basque, Manor Place. So the
translation can be ( the house in the ) Manor Place. "
Other Related Information
Iñaki de la Torre |
Romina S. Orbeta |
Rolando O.Borrinaga, Ph.D
Jose S. Arcilla, S.J.
gorbeta@gmail.com
