I am a descendant of the Juan Caliz also. I descend throught the Arredondos who married Santos COy and the Yslas Palacios of the mining area of Villaldama, Nuevo Leon who also married Santos Coy.

THe dna testing the results posted out on Gary Felix's Genealogy of Mexico website suggest a semitic origin to the family.

http://members.tripod.com/~GaryFelix/index63.htm
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Esther A. Herold

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> Hi Ed,
>
> Bernardo de los Santos Coy does appear to have created his name, although
> we cannot be sure since no one has been able to find the genealogy of his
> parents, especially his father, Juan de Caliz.
>
> However, the "Coy" part of his name is from his mother, Catalina Gomez de
> Coy. The musing about a Scottish visitor named McCoy traveling in Spain comes
> from Rodolfo Gonzalez dela Garza in "Mil Familias de Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon,
> Coahuila y Texas, Tomo III." His extensive info comes from documents & personal
> interviews. I suspect that the idea was oral Santoscoy family history suggested
> to Mr. Gonzalez decades ago when he did his original interviews.
>
> Jan
> Edward Serros wrote:
>
> There is a connection between the de los Santos Coy/de la Garza Falcon families
> of Saltillo/Monterey and Valparaiso, Zacatecas.(Ranchos area). I tried to attach
> the marriage dispensation record from the Sagrada Mitra de Guadalajara which
> documents such a connection to my file in the Ranchos data but I was
> unsuccessful. I will retry later.
>
> I would like to communicate with anybody with any connection with the Santos Coy
> of the Ranchos area. My Felgueres family has two separate marriages with the
> Santos Coy or de los Santos Coy or simply Coy or Coi family in the late 1700's
> and early 1800's.
>
> It is clear to me that the Coys (or McCoys) of Scotland and England have
> absolutely no connection with the de los Santos Coy surname of Mexico which was
> created arbitrarily by the original Bernardo de los Santos Coy (see book "The
> Coy Family Reunion" by Robert Garcia and Yolanda Kirkpatrick, plus other
> sources). The Spanish of the 1500's and 1600's took great liberties with
> apellidos (surnames).
>
> Ed