Esther:

Hello, we are distant cousins concerning the Arriola family. Our direct ancestors are Juan Ramos Arriola and María Melendez. You descend from the couple´s daughter Agustina Arriola and I descend from a couple´s son Juan Ramos de Arriola who had several children. I descend from three of this children: Jacinto Ramos de Arriola, José Ramos de Arriola and Mariana Ramos de Arriola.

1-Jacinto Ramos de Arriola
*Juana Ramos de Arriola Guajardo
**José Jacinto González de Paredes Ramos de Arriola
***María Josefa González de Neyra
****María Antonia Siller González
*****María de la Trinidad Zertuche Siller
******José de Jesús María de la Fuente Zertuche
*******David de la Fuente Barrera
********Guadalupe de la Fuente Rodríguez
*********Sylvia Guillermina Villarreal de la Fuente
**********José Humberto Suárez Villarreal

2-Jose Ramos de Arriola y Flores
*Francisco Xavier Ramos de Arriola
**María Guadalupe Ramos de Arriola de Cárdenas Pinillas
***Pedro José de Aguirre Ramos
****Ana María de Jesús Aguirre de León
*****Julio Zertuche Aguirre
******María Francisca Domitila Zertuche Barrera
*******Humberto José Villarreal Zertuche
********Sylvia Guillermina Villarreal de la Fuente
*********José Humberto Suárez Villarreal

3A-Mariana Ramos de Arriola
*Pedro José de Aguirre y Ramos
**José Joaquín de Aguirre y Aguirre
***Pedro José de Aguirre Ramos
****Ana María de Jesús Aguirre de León
*****Julio Zertuche Aguirre
******María Francisca Domitila Zertuche Barrera
*******Humberto José Villarreal Zertuche
********Sylvia Guillermina Villarreal de la Fuente
*********José Humberto Suárez Villarreal

3B-Mariana Ramos de Arriola
*Juana Gerónima de Aguirre y Ramos
**Ana Ventura de Cárdenas Pinillas Aguirre
***María Guadalupe Ramos de Arriola de Cárdenas Pinillas
****Pedro José de Aguirre Ramos
*****Ana María de Jesús Aguirre de León
******Julio Zertuche Aguirre
*******María Francisca Domitila Zertuche Barrera
********Humberto José Villarreal Zertuche
*********Sylvia Guillermina Villarreal de la Fuente
**********José Humberto Suárez Villarreal

On the Villarreal side, from my most direct Villarreal ancestor I don´t have much information, haven´t been able to find it yet. This is what I have:

Nicolás Villarreal married on August 24, 1811 in Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Salinas Victoria, Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León, México to Petra Cantú. They had:
María de Jesús Leocadia Villarreal Cantú (1813)
María Leocadia Villarreal Cantú (1814)
María Rosalía Villarreal Cantú (1817)
María Dominga Villarreal Cantú (1819)
Juan de Diós Villarreal Cantú (1821)
José Emiliano Villarreal Cantú (1823)
María Andrea Villarreal Cantú (1835)

All of them were christened in Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Salinas Victoria, Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León, México

I just have info about José Emiliano Villarreal Cantú, he married (I don´t know where) María Gela Villarreal or María Angela Villarreal and they are the parents of my great grandfather Antonio L. Villarreal Villarreal who was born in 1857 and married in 1893 María Francisca Domitila Zertuche Barrera (1863).

José Emiliano and María Gela or Maria Angela had another child, Albina Villarreal Villarreal in 1862 who married in 1880 Hilario Vilarreal González, son of José María Villarreal y Gutiérrez and María Sóstenes González. I don´t know if they had children.

My great-grandparents Antonio and María Francisca Domitila had just 3 children. A girl named Guillermina Julieta died at just two months of birth. Then comes my grandfather Humberto José (1904-1985) who married my granda Guadalupe de la Fuente Rodriguez daughter of David de la Fuente Barrera and Ecliceria Rodriguez Cantú. My grandparents had 3 children, one aunt unmarried, my uncle Humberto married, he has 5 children, 2 of them married and there are 3 grandchildren, and my mom Silvia Guillermina, married to a very distant cousin José Ramos Suarez Rotter, descendant of Diego Temiño de Velasco, whom is the same ancestor of my mother. It´s my sister, married and has two sons and at last its me, single.

My grandfather had only one sister besides the one who died as a baby. She was my aunt Ampara Villarreal Zertuche (1907-1996), she married, had 2 daughters still alive, six grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. As you see my direct Villarreal family is small, although there are many Villarreales out there I haven´t been able to link Nicolás Villarreal to anyone else.

Keep in touch.
Jose Humberto