Australia has one of the more recently born branch of the Elortegui name outside Spain.
The australian Elortegui family are the descendants of Valentin Elortegui Ateka, whose son Pedro Elortegui travelled to Australia as a stowaway when he was 14.
These branch of Elortegui is directly related with the actual inhabitants of the caserio Elortegui-Ena, near Arminza, a little village of the Biscay coast.
