Researching Juan Escobar
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1 people with the Escobar surname? In that year Escobar was ranked number 3578 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Juan means "form of JOHN - God has given" and is of Spanish origin.
Records of Juan Escobar on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Juan Escobar and the Escobar Family Tree
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Escobar Genealogy Databases
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Escobar Forums
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Miscellaneous Escobar Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Juan Escobar. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Juan Escobar
Juan de Ayala y Escobar
Juan Francisco Buenaventura de Ayala Escobar (1635 – May 28, 1727) was a prominent Spanish soldier and administrator who governed Spanish Florida from October 30, 1716, to August 3, 1718. The succeeding governor, Antonio de Benavides, a zealous reformer, accused Ayala of trading in contraband with the English, and had him arrested and briefly jailed in the Castillo de San Marcos of St. Augustine. He was eventually exiled to Cuba, where he died in 1727, before he was exonerated and all charges dropped in 1731.
Source: Juan de Ayala y Escobar, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Escobar
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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