"Naturales de la labor" means they are originally from that ranch. Rancho,
puesto, and labor are interchangeable and many of them were named from the
surname of the founder or an owner, but the name of it would not very
likely have been "La Labor de Diego Centeno". It did mean the owner was
Diego Centeno and whatever name the ranch had wasn't mentioned in that
entry. There are likely other entries that mention the name of the Labor.
An example is La Labor de Nicolas Moreno de Ortega was named "Santa Teresa"
If a marriage entry mentions La Labor de Nicolas Moreno de Ortega the
people of that period understood it was "Santa Teresa" and the opposite
would be true also. If they mentioned "Santa Teresa" they understood it
belonged to Nicolas Moreno de Ortega. The same can be said of numerous
other labores, ranchos, puestos or haciendas.

Examples of places that took on the name of the owner around Lagos de
Moreno are the following (notice they only carry the surname):

Owner or Founder........................Labor, Puesto, or Hacienda
Juan de Zurita...............................El Salto de Zurita
Pedro Veloso de Sotomayor.......Los Veloces or Lomas de Veloces
? Ávalos.........................................Los de Ávalos
Juan de Sepulveda.......................Sepulveda
Juan de Jaramillo
(Husband of La Malinche)...........Jaramillo

Saludos
Armando

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Alicia Carrillo wrote:

> Paul,
>
> It looks like it may be a location such as a rancho or puesto by the name
> of. "La labor de Diego Centeno"
>
> Many locations were named after their original masters, if they were not
> Haciendas they were ranchos or specific plots of land named after the
> owners.
>
>
> Alicia,
> San Jose, Ca
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "pcenteno@razzolink.com"
> To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 10:00 AM
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Celaya archives and Centeno
>
> I've been searching the Celaya, Sagrario images, and found the following:
> "En los dias del mes de agosto de mil seis cientos cuarenta y siete anos
> baptice puse oleo y _______ a Diego hijo de Diego Martin y de Ana Madalena
> naturales de la labor de Diego Centeno. ...." What I need to know is what
> does the term "naturales de la labor de" mean? I'm looking for Diego
> Centeno's descendents in Celaya, but am not sure if I found something of
> value or not?....
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Paul Centeno