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Beyond ONMF Volume 2
CONTENTS:
Abendaño, Abeyta, Alderete, Armijo, Benavides,
Cháves, Delgado, Domínguez, Esquibel, Gallegos, González Lobón, Hurtado,
Ledesma (Salazar), López Gallardo, López Holguín, Manzanares, Márquez, Mestas,
Martín Serrano-Monuera, Montoya, Moraga, Pérez Granillo, Romero, Ruiz Cáceres, Sáenz
de Garvizu, Sánchez, Tenorio de Alba, Torres, Trebol Navarro, Trullijo, Vásquez
Borrego, Velarde, Vera, Vigil, Zamora (Montoya)
Completes
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ABENDAÑO
Simón
de Abendaño
was in actuality the son-in-law of Juan López Holguin and Catalina de
Villanueva.
See López Holguin below for details.
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ABEYTA —Promising Lead
Diego de Vectia (aka Diego de Beitia and Diego de Abeytia; ONMF: 119) described himself as español, a
native of Durango in Nueva Vizcaya, and the natural son of Diego de Ribera and Juana de Abeytia, both
Durango natives when he sought to marry Juana Torres at Santa Fe
in 1696 (a marriage which apparently never took place, as he was still single
in May 1697 when given livestock by Governor don Diego de Vargas —SANMI II:
63). He gave his age as 16, indicating he was born circa 1680, and was a
soldier of the Santa Fe Presidio at the time. Diego was recruited at
Durango by Governor Vargas as a settler in the recolonization of New Mexico. In
January 1698, at Santa Fe, he declared he had left Durango as a single man on
June 18, 1693 and was given 70 pesos (approximately $210).
A search of the International Genealogical
Index (IGI) reveals that the Abeitia family was
residing in the City of Durango as early as 1624. This family name appears in
the marriage and baptismal records of El Sagrario Metropoliano and San Juan
Bautista de Analco (churches located in Durango) as Veitia, de Veitia, Veytia, de
Veytia, Abetia, Abeytia, Abitia, Beitia, de
Beitia, Beytia and de Beytia. The variation in spelling of this surname provides
particular challenges for researching the genealogy of this family.
A review of the IGI for
The IGI provides this information on the Abeitia/Veitia family of
Martín de Abetia and Ana de Frias had two
children baptized at the Sagrario Metropolitano, Victoria de Durango:
1. María de Abetia Frias, bt. 3 June 1626.
2. Martín de Abetia Frias, that was bt. 30 April 1626.
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Antonia de Abetia md. 16 July 1626, Sagrario Metropolitano, Victoria de
Durango, with Diego Núñez.
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Anna de Veytia md. 20 February 1645, San Juan Bautista de Analco
Church, Victoria de Durango, with Tomás Mena.
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Pedro de Veitia md. 4 February 1652, San Juan Bautista de Analco
Church, Victoria de Durango, with Beatriz Rodríguez. There
is a second entry for this couple, most likely a veiling record among the
marriage records, dated 6 November 1654, San Juan Bautista de Analco Church,
Victoria de Durango.
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Martín de Veitia (possibly
the son of Martín de Abetia and Anna
de Frias), md. 29 April 1652, San Juan
Bautista de Analco Church, Victoria de Durango), with Mariana de Montealegre. This couple had four known children baptized at the
Sagrario Metropolitano, Victoria de Durango:
1. Ana María de Veitia Montealegre, bt. 28 July 1653.
2. María de Veitia Montealegre, bt. 20 September 1655.
3. Juana de Veitia Montealegre, bt. 21 March 1658.
4. Pedro de Veitia Montealegre, bt. 18 July 1661.
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Antonia de Veitia md. 21 December 1665, San Juan Bautista de Analco
Church, Victoria de Durango, with Alonso Muñoz. There is a
second entry for this couple, most likely a veiling record among the marriage
records, dated 11 July 1667, San Juan Bautista de Analco Church, Victoria de
Durango. In this second record, Antonia's surname is given as
'de Abeitia'.
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Martín de Veytia and Mariana Egurrola (perhaps
the same couple named as Martín
de Veitia and Mariana de Montealegre) had this one daughter baptized at the Sagrario
Metropolitano, Victoria de Durango:
1. Juana de Veytia Egurrola,
bt. 12 July 1668.
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Ana de Veytia (possibly the daughter of Martín de Veitia and Mariana
de Montealegre) md. 18 December 1673, San
Juan Bautista de Analco, Victoria de Durango, with Gabriel de Aragón. There is a second entry for this couple, most likely
a veiling record among the marriage records, 9 January 1674, San Juan Bautista
de Analco Church, Victoria de Durango.
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Antonia de Veytia md. 3 November 1680, Sagrario Metropolitano, Victoria
de Durango, with Gerónimo
Sorantes.
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Martín de Veytia md. 13 June 1694, Sagrario Metropolitano, Victoria de
Durango, with María Leal. This may actually be a record of veiling since there
is a baptismal record for two children of this couple:
1. Antonia Margarita de Veytia Leal, bt. 4 November 1693, Sagrario Metropolitano.
2. Joseph Caietano Abeitia Leal, bt. 11 November 1695, Nombre de Dios.
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Some diligent research into these church
records and other historical documents pertaining to the City of Durango in the
seventeenth century may eventually lead to revealing the lineage of Diego de Beitia, progenitor of the Abeyta family of New
Mexico.
Researchers: José Antonio
Esquibel and John B. Colligan
Sources: Chávez, New Mexico
Roots, Ltd.", page 1 (DM 1696, Jan. 24, no. 21, Santa Fe); John B.
Colligan, "Vargas' 1693 Recruits for the Resettlement of New Mexico,"
in Genealogical Journal: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral
Research, Vol. II, 1995, 202; Spanish Archives of New Mexico (SANM) II, no.
63; International Genealogical Index (IGI), Family History Library (Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints).
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ALDERETE
Juan
de Alderete
(ONMF: 124) and Ana María Lucero de Godoy, had two sons: Juan Tomás Alderete (deceased by June 1763)
and José Antonio Alderete, a citizen of El Paso who made his last will at El
Paso on 7 June 1763. José Antonio Alderete was married twice and had a total of thirteen
children. He was first married with Lutgarda Durán, a citizen of Isleta
(presumably Isleta del Paso), and they had the following children:
1. Juana Antonia
Alderete.
2. María Josefa
Alderete.
3. Ana Lucía
Alderete.
4. Blas Lorenzo
Alderete.
5. Joaquín Antonio
Alderete.
6. José Julián
Alderete.
Widowed
of Lutgarda
Durán, José Antonio
Alderete
married María Manuela Ruiz, the widow of Joaquín Domínguez. From this union were born
the following seven children:
7. José Antonio
Alderete.
8. Ana María
Alderete.
9. Lutgarda
Alderete.
10. Francisca
Alderete.
11. Juan Francisco
Alderete.
12. Manuel Alderete.
13. María Vicenta
Alderete.
Researcher: Rick Hendricks,
Ph.D.
Sources: Ciudad
Juárez Municipal Archives, Roll 7, bk. 1, 1763, f. 179-182 (Will of José
Antonio Alderete, El Paso, 7 June 1763), in the microfilm collection of the
University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP); also see brief extraction given in Rick
Hendricks, Ph.D., "Wills from El Paso del Norte, 1754-1817," Nuestra
Raíces (Quarterly Journal of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America),
Vol. 6, No.4, Winter 1994, 167.
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Antonio
Durán de Armijo
(ONMF: 136-137) and his wife Barbara Montoya (a daughter of Clemente
Montoya and Josefa Luján —q.v. MONTOYA in Beyond ONMF Vol. I) had a daughter named María Gertrudis
de Armijo
as identified by Chávez. Antonio
died around 1745, and Barbara Montoya died at Taos on 12 December 1747. On 18 May 1748, all three of
her legitimate children by Antonio Durán de Armijo were identified as
follows: María Gertrudis, age 3 (b.ca. 1743), Santiago, age one and a half (b.ca.
1746), and José Antonio, b. 12 December 1747 and died five months later (circa May
1748). Miguel de Alire was appointed as the guardian of María Gertrudis in 1748. In a declaration
of August 1748, her father, Antonio Durán de Armijo, was mentioned as being
the uncle of José Antonio Durán de Armijo (ONMF: 137) who was identified as a son of Juan Durán de
Armijo
(brother of Antonio —ONMF:
137) and María Rubio. The name of Juan Durán de Armijo's wife was previously not identified in ONMF.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Spanish
Archives of New Mexico, Series I (SANM I): 239
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ARMIJO —Promising Lead
On 23 March 1686 at Zacatecas Antonio de Armijo identified himself as mestizo, age 60 ("de
hedad de sessenta años Poco mas o menos"), and a vecino
of Zacatecas, indicating he was born circa 1626. He provided this information
as a witness for the prenuptial investigation in the proposed marriage of Francisco Moreno Cortés and Ana Macías, both mestizos.
Antonio de Armijo stated he had known Moreno Cortés very well for
more than twenty-five year in Zacatecas. He knew that Moreno Cortés was first married at Somberete with María de Santiago,
mestiza, who was now deceased and buried in the parish church of
Sombrerete. Armijo did not sign his testimony as he did not know how
("no firmo por no saver").
Six days later, on 29 March 1686, Antonio de Armijo was a witness for another prenuptial invetigation and
identified himself similarly as mestizo, age 60 ("de hedad de
Sessenta años Poco mas o menos"), again indicating he was born circa
1626. In addition, he gave his occupation as "maestre de zapatero"
(master shoemaker) and said he was a vecino of Zacatecas. The
prospective bride and groom were Antonia Ortiz and Juan de Frías, Maestre de Zapatero. Armijo
declared he had known Juan de
Frías for more than thirty years in
Zacatecas, and had known Antonia
Ortiz for twenty-five years. He further
stated that Frías was a widower of Ysavel de los Reyes,
mestiza, who died in Zacatecas fourteen years ago, more or less, and was
buried in the parish church of Zacatecas.
Two years late, on 24 June 1688, Juan de Armijo was a witness for the prenuptial investigation of the
proposed union of Juan
Guerrero (español, natural de
Zacatecas, hijo natural de Anna de Contreras)
and María Pérez de
Abascal (española, hija lejitima
de Victorio Pérez de
Abascal y María Álvarez). Juan
de Armijo identified himself as mestizo,
"oficial de sapatero" (occupation of shoemaker), vecino
of Zacatecas, and age sixty, indicating he was born circa 1628.
What relationship there may have existed
between Antonio de Armijo and Juan
de Armijo is not known at this time. However,
either one of these men could have been the father of José de Armijo who married Catalina Durán (ONMF:
136). The children of this couple settled in New Mexico in 1695, and were known
to be mestizos.
Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel
Sources: Diligencia Matrimonial (DM), 23
March 1686, DM 29 March 1686, and DM 24 June 168, LDS microfilm #0283371
(Marriage Investigations, Sagrario, Zacatecas). For the mestizo
designation of the Armijo family members in New Mexico, see John B. Colligan, The
Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695: Fraud in Recruiting Colonists for New
Mexico, (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press: 1995), 40-41.
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BENAVIDES
Francisco
Xavier Benavides
(ONMF: 147) and Jacinta Romero had another son in addition to the one (Juan Antonio) already
identified. This second son was Francisco Benavides who was a citizen of El
Paso. On 30 August 1758, Francisco Benavides made his last will at El Paso in which he named his parents
and declared that he had been married three times and named a total of five
children. Francisco was
first married with Pascuala Ávalos, a daughter of Cristóbal Ávalos, and this couple had two
sons:
1. Santiago
Benavides.
2. Vicente
Benavides.
Francisco's
second wife was Juana Lucero with whom he had these two children:
3. María Antonia
Benavides.
4. Isidro Benavides.
Francisco
was married a third time with Juana Martín, and they had one
daughter:
5. Lorenza Benavides.
For more
information on the family Benavides family, please see Beyond ONMF Vol. 1
Researcher: Rick
Hendricks, Ph.D.
Sources: Ciudad
Juárez Municipal Archives, Roll 6, bk. 1, 1758, f. 596-98 (Will of Francisco
Benavides, El Paso, 30 August 1758), in the microfilm collection of the
University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP); also see brief extraction given in Rick
Hendricks, Ph.D., "Wills from El Paso del Norte, 1754-1817," Nuestra
Raíces (Quarterly Journal of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America),
Vol. 6, No.4, Winter 1994, 164.
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CHÁVES
Don Fernando Durán y
Cháves II
(ONMF: 20-21, 160-161) who returned to New Mexico under Governor Vargas
identified himself as a son of don Pedro Durán y Cháves, and thus was not a son of
the first Fernando Durán y Cháves as originally documented in ONMF. The following
translation of a documented dated 28 October 1692 at Mejía in New Mexico and
part of the original documents pertaining to the Atrisco land grant provides
this valuable genealogical data: "Don Fernando de Cháves requests ….the tract is
also on the Rio Grande, commonly called Atrisco, also of agricultural land with
its acequia madre and this one in from the bluff where there is an old
house in which Juan de Perea
lived going down the riverside as far as some corrals which Colonel Juan Dominguez, my brother-in-law, had
and on said tract my father, Don Pedro Duran y Chaves, lived and also some other
persons by permission."
Researchers: Gerald
Mandell and Margaret Buxton
Sources: Spanish
Archives of New Mexico, Series I, Roll 37, frs. 727-728 (U.S. Surveyor General records,
Court of Private Land Claims, Atrisco Land Grant); Margaret Buxton, The
Other Luna Family, privately published.
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Gertrudis
Cháves
(ONMF: 163), wife of Francisco Silva (ONMF: 289), was not a daughter of Nicolás Durán y
Cháves as
documented in ONMF. Prior to marriage, Nicolás had a son, Juan José, by Juana Montaño. While traveling out of
New Mexico, Juana Montaño
had given birth to a boy christened Nicolás and was pregnant with her
thrid child, Getrudis,
when Nicolás
returned to New Mexico. Nicolás,
the younger, and Gertrudis,
natural children of Juana Montaño,
were said to have been fathered by "a decent man named Urbán." Nicolás Durán y
Cháves was
forced to marry Juana Montaño.
This information
comes from the testimony of Antonio Cháves, half-brother of Gertudis Cháves, given during the
pre-marital investigation of José Manuel Silva and María Josefa
Silveria Sánchez.
Researcher: John B.
Colligan
Sources: Archivos
Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango (AHAD)-30, f. 56-71, DM 14 April 1778-13
March 1779, Isleta; and Rick Hendricks, ed. & John B. Colligan, compiler, New
Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado
de Durango, 1760-1799, Rio Grande Historical Collections, New Mexico State
University Library, 1996: 38-39.
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DELGADO
Don Manuel Delgado (ONMF: 168) was married at
the church of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in El Paso del Norte (located in
modern-day Juárez, Chihuahua, Mex.) on 22 March 1779 with doña María Josefa
García de Noriega.
Don Manuel was identified as Teniente del Real Presidio de San Elizario, a
native of the Real y Minas de Pachuca, and a son of don Antonio Delgado and and doña Xaviera
Chabarría,
vecinos of Pachuca. María Josefa was a legitimate daughter of don José García de
Noriega
and doña Rosalía Velarde (ONMF: 308), vecinos del Paso.
Researcher: Edmundo
Delgado
Source: Marriage records
of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Church, Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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DOMÍNGUEZ
Fray Angélico
Chávez stated that the Domínguez family arrived in New Mexico around the
mid-1600s. One of the earliest documents of the New Mexico Archives is dated
December 15, 1636, Pueblo de Socorro, and is the official appointment of
Capitán "Thome Domingues" (Tomé Domínguez, the elder; ONMF: 24-25) as Captain and
Squadron leader of a group of soldiers. The document verifies that with his
appointment he received all the honors, graces, exemptions and liberties that
by reason of his official position were now his. This information places the
Domínguez family in New Mexico earlier that previously known, and indicates
that the occupation of Tomé Domínguez was that of a soldier and military leader.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: "New
Mexico Archives: Documents (Facsimiles of Manuscripts at Santa fe,
1621-1683)", located at the Southwest Research Room, University of New
Mexico, Zimmerman Library (Call no.: 928.908,1421d, #1-8, 12-16).
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ESQUIBEL
Francisco
Esquibel
(ONMF: 173), husband of Clara González, was a son of Rosa Lucero and Buenaventura de
Esquibel
(ONMF: 173). This is verified from the following lineages documented in the
dispensation of marriage for José Antonio Quintana and María Juliana
Benavides
who were related in the fourth degree of consanguinity:
Diego Lucero 1st
degree Rosa Lucero
Marcos Lucero 2nd
degree Francisco Esquibel
María de Jesús Lucero 3rd
degree Rosa Esquibel
José Antonio Quintana 4th
degree María Juliana Benavides
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Buenaventura
de Esquibel
(ONMF: 173) was baptized 19 November 1684 at the Catedral de México, Mexico
City, Nueva España. He was the legitimate son of don Antonio de
Azqueta y Arana
and doña María de Esquibel y Fernández de Mancilla. This couple entered into
matrimony at the Catderal on 15 October 1665. According to their banns of
matrimony recorded on the same day, don Antonio was a native of Mexico City and
a son of don Juan Bautista de Azqueta and doña Michaela de Arana. Doña María de
Esquibel
was a native of Mexico City and a daughter of Juan de Esquibel Santiago and doña Antonio
Fernández de Mancilla.
Researchers: John B.
Colligan and José Antonio Esquibel
Sources: Archives of
the Archdiocese of Durango-357, f. 61-66, DM Aug. 21-Oct. 18, 1800, Santa Fe;
José Antonio Esquibel, "The Ancestry of Buenaventura de Esquibel,
1570-1684, Part I" in Herencia (Quarterly Journal of the New Mexico
Hispanic Genealogical Research Center), Vol. 4, Issue 2, April 1996, 10-24.
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GALLEGOS
In 1656, at San
José del Paral, Nueva Vizcaya, Captain Alonso Morales García brought a suit to collect
333 pesos against Alférez Diego Gallegos, father of New Mexico settlers José and
Antonio Gallegos (ONMF: 31; BFA: 483 n45). The document mentions
"cathalina de Ribera mujer legitima del alferes diego gallegos vezo
de este Rl…" ("Catalina de Ribera legitimate wife of Alférez
Diego Gallegos, resident of this Real…"). As part of the investigation
into this suit, the "bienes" (possessions/goods) of Gallegos were
inventoried. Most of these goods were placed in the custody of Nicolás de
Rivera,
most likely a close relative of Catalina's. In his response to the suit,
Gallegos wrote the following information which identified his wife's parents:
"…como yo El alferez Diego Gallegos vessino del Rl y minas de
San Joseph del parral de la jurisdicion de la nueva viscaya digo que por cuanto
al tiempo ysason que se trato y conserto cassamiento entre mi y Cathalina de
Rivera mi legitima mujer hija legitima de Franco miguel difunto y de
maria de ortega…" ("that I, Alférez Diego Gallegos, resident of the
Real and Mines of San José del Parral of the jurisdiction of Nueva Vizcaya,
state that during the time that I contracted and joined in marriaged between
myself and Catalina de Rivera, my legitimate wife, legitimate daughter of Francisco Miguel, deceased, and María de Ortega…")
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: El Archivo de
Hidalgo del Parral, 1656B, frames 1034-1043 (El Capitan Alonso Morales Garcia
contra el Alferez Diego Gallegos, vecino deste Real) microfilm copy from the
collection of the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces, NM.
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GONZÁLEZ
LOBÓN
Juan
González Lobón
(ONMF: 39) gave his age as 52 in 1660 (AGN, Inq., t . 587: 312) and not age 40
as indicated by Chávez. This gives his estimated birth year as 1608. In
addition, he declared he was born "en la billa de San Gabriel que fue la
primera de estas dhas provincias y despues de esta de Santa Fe" ("in
the Villa of San Gabriel, the first one in these said provinces and after this
[he was] from this one of Santa Fe"). With this information, it appears
that Juan's father, Domingo González (ONMF: 38), was in New Mexico and at San Gabriel
as early as 1608, nine years earlier that previously known. Giving testimony at
Santa Fe on 14 June 1660, Juan González Lobón spoke poorly of the Franciscan friars,
complaining that they gave dispensations between related couples too easily.
Furthermore, to illustrate the incompetence of the friars and their neglect of
duty in administering the sacraments, Juan testified that his father took him and his
siblings to the plaza of the Valle de San Bartolomé to be confirmed by the
bishop. Specifically, he recalled he was confirmed in the Church of San Pedro
in the Valle de San Bartolomé.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archivos
General de la Nación, Mexico, Inquisisión., t. 587: 309-312.
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HURTADO —Promising Lead
Andrés Hurtado (ONMF: 49)
was a native of Zacatecas, born circa 1628. There is a record of veiling found
in the Zacatecas marriage book for Pedro Hurtado and Catalina de Salazar dated 17 July 1617. The record reads: "En diez
y seis de Jullio del año de seiscientos y diez y siete aso velo El
Licdo Dio
de herra y Atriaga [Diego de Herrera y Arteaga] cura bndo. a po hurtado
y a catalina de
salazar, fueron sus padrinos Juo co--cais [illegible] y Juana maria su
mujer vso [vecino] de esta ciudad".
If it can be proven that Andrés Hurtado, native of Zacatecas and a settler of New Mexico in
the seventeenth century, was a son of Pedro Hurtado and Catalina de Salazar, this would offer an explanation for the use of the Salazar
surname by his daughters (Lucía
de Salazar, Isabel de Salazar, María
de Salazar —ONMF: 49).
Further research into land records and civil
records of Zacatecas may produce some promising results regarding the Hurtado
family.
Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel
Source: LDS microfilm #0283371 (Marriage
Investigations, Sagrario, Zacatecas) —this microfilm contains an early book of
marriage dating from 14 February 1606 - 7 November 1619).
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LEDESMA
(SALAZAR)
Bartolomé
de Ledesma
(ONMF: 52, 101) was still living in 1662 when he gave testimony in the case
against Governor López de Mendizábal on March 8th. He declared he was married with María Martín de
Monuera
(see Martín Serrano-Monuera below), a vecino de Santa Fe, and gave his
age as 43 (more or less), indicating he was born circa 1619.
Chávez suggested
that Bartolomé de Ledesma may have been the same person as Bartolomé de
Salazar.
However, Salazar's
wife, known only as María,
was already a widow in 1662, and Chávez writes that Salazar "died prior to
1662."
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archivo
General de la Nación, Mexico, Inquisición, tomo 593, ff. 292-94.
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LÓPEZ
GALLARDO
Pedro
López Gallardo
(ONMF: 208), native of Querétaro, Nueva España, son of Pedro López and Antonia Gallardo. Was married 30 May 1694
with Sebastiana Martín (see ONMF: 367-8). Sebastiana was born circa 1679 and
was a daughter of Domingo Martín Serrano
and Josefa de Herrera (RCR: 60). Besides their one known son, Pedro López
Gallardo and Sebastiana
Martín had a
daughter named María Josefa López.
From a prenuptial
investigation initiated on 18 October 1792, the following lineages were given
to show the relationship between the prospective couple, Mariano Martín (son of Santiago Martín and Antonia Vallejos) and Barbara Rosalía
López
(daughter of Antonio José López and Barbara Anaya):
Blas
Martín 1st degree Sebastiana Martín
Pedro
Martín 2nd degree María Josefa López
Santiago
Martín 3rd degree Antonio José López
Mariano
Martín 4th
degree Barbara Rosalía
López
Antonio
José López was
first married on 30 April 1763, Santa Fe, under the name Joseph Antonio
López with María Antonia
Tenorio.
This couple had the following children, all baptized at Santa Fe:
1. María Francisca
López, bt.
4 November 1764. Padrinos: Don Manuel Tenorio and doña Magdalena Tenorio.
2. Barbara Rosalía
(I) López,
bt. 13 January 1766.
3. José Manuel
López, bt.
19 March 1767.
4. Antonio José
López, bt.
2 January 1769; md. (1) 2 January 1790, Santa Fe, New Mexico, with María Manuela
Armijo.
Known issue:
1. José Miguel
López, bt.
1 October 1804, Santa Fe, NM; md. María Isidora Lucero, daughter of José Miguel
Lucero and María Josefa
Romero. (see
San Juan baptisms dated: 9 January 1835, 20 May 1837, 25 February 1842, 5 May
1844, 20 May 1849, 7 March 1852, 15 July 1857, and 8 September 1961)
2. Salvador López, md. (1) María Apolonia
Martín,
bt. 11 April 1811, San Juan, daughter of Juan Miguel Martín and María Manuela
Peralta. (see
San Juan baptisms dated: 25 July 1824, 1 October 1826, 26 October 1828, 8
October 1834, 5 February 1837). Salvador López md. (2) María Dolores Timotea
Romero,
daughter of José Rafael Romero and Ana María Ortiz. (see San Juan baptisms dated: 12 April 1841, 6 September
1846, and 10 March 1852).
Widowed
of María Antonia Armijo, Antono José López md. (2) 18 March 1806,
Santa Fe, with María Manuela Cháves, daughter of José Hermenegildo Chávez and María Manuela
Valencia.
This couple resided at the Plaza de San Francisco in the jurisdiction of San
Juan de los Caballeros (see San Juan baptisms dated: 14 April 1807, 23 October
1808, 9 November 1812, 6 March 1816, 26 January 1820, 29 June 1823, 8 May
1827).
5. María Loreto
López (López-Tenorio), bt.
6 December 1770.
6. María Ysabel
López
(López-Tenorio) bt. 7 December 1772.
Antonio José López, identified as a widower of María Antonia
Tenorio,
entered his second marriage with Barbara Anaya Almazán in Santa Fe on 23 April
1775. The children from this union baptized at Santa Fe were:
7. María Gertrudis
López, bt.
16 May 1776.
8. Barabara Rosalía
López,
b.ca. 1777, Santa Fe; md. ca,1793, Mariano Martín, bt. 7 October 1766, Santa
Clara, NM, son of Santiago Martín and Antonia Silva.
9. Ana María López, bt. 8 March 1782.
10. María Teresa
López, bt.
6 April 1785.
11. José Domingo
López, bt.
27 November 1786.
12. María Guadalupe
López, bt.
21 March 1789.
Antonio José and his wife Barbara left Santa Fe to settle at
La Cañada. They had two additional children baptized at San Juan de los
Caballeros, a daughter who married in this area, and Barbara Rosalía baptized at Santa Fe:
13. María de los
Dolores López,
bt. 23 January 1791.
14. Barbara Rosalía
López, bt.
29 October 1792, Santa Fe.
15. José Pablo López, bt. 30 January 1793.
16. María del Carmen
López, md.
Pedro
Antonio Durán.
For their children see San Juan baptisms dated: 18 May 1817, 22 August 1819, and
5 February 1823.
This Antonio José
López (husband
of María
Antonio Tenorio
and Barbara
Anaya) appears
to be the same man of this name identified in a military enlistment record
dated 18 March 1776 as "Anto José Lópes, son of Anto
Lopes and Maria Lopes, of Santa Fe" and
gave his age as 39 (born circa 1737). He signed his enlistment record and was
discharged on 31 August 1804. If this is the case, then 'Maria Lopes' may be the same person as María Josefa
López,
daughter of Pedro López Gallardo.
Researchers: Benceslado López,
Jr. & José Antonio Esquibel. Thanks to Paul Andrews for sharing some
additions and corrections to the above genealogy.
Sources: Archivos
Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango (AHAD)-97, 18 October 1792-17 January
1793, Santa Cruz de la Cañada presented in Rick hendricks, ed. And John B.
Colligan, compiler, New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos
Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799, Rio Grande Historical
Collections, New Mexico State University Library, 1996, 110-111 (see also:
Samuel Sisneros, "Diligencias Matrimoniales Discovered in Durango Mexico
Records," Herencia —Quarterly Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical
Research Center of New Mexico— Vol. 2, issue 2, April 1994, 3); Virginia L.
Olmsted, "Spanish Enlistment papers of New Mexico 1732-1820," in National
Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 67, No. 4, 296; Kessell, Hendricks
& Dodge, eds. To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of don Diego de
Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-94, University of New Mexico Press, 1995, 60;
Santa Fe Marriages: AASF Roll #31, frames 375 & 454; Santa Fe Baptisms:
AASF Rols # 15 & 16; and San Juan Baptisms: AASF Rolls # 9 and #10.
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LÓPEZ
HOLGUÍN
In the records
relating to the colonists that came to New Mexico in 1600, Juan López
Holguín
(ONMF: 81), native of Fuenteovejuna and a son of Juan López
Villasaña,
is also named as Juan López Villasaña. There is a record that names his wife as Catalina de
Villanueva
and his two daughters as María Ortiz and Anna Ortiz. Together, this family
arrived at Oñate's colony in New Mexico on Christmas Eve of 1600. María Ortiz became the wife of Simón de
Abendaño (ONMF:
1), a native of Ciudad Rodrigo, Castilla.
Curiously, the Villanueva and Ortiz surnames also appear in
the Baca family that also came to
New Mexico in 1600. In fact, Juan López Holguín served under the command of Cristóbal Baca (ONMF: 9), husband of Ana Ortiz (a daughter of Francisco
Pacheco).
Could it have been that Catalina de Villanueva and Ana Ortiz were siblings and that Catalina christened one of her
daughter's Anna Ortiz
as a namesake of her sister, and that it was Ana Ortiz's side of the family that
brought the Villanueva
surname into the Baca
family? (e.g. María de Villanueva was a daughter of Cristóbal Baca and Ana Ortiz). This is only a
hypothesis and requires additional research. However, the above information
corrects a long-standing assumption that considered Simón de
Abendaño to be
a son of Juan López Holguín.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: George P.
Hammond and Agapito Rey, eds., Don Juan de Oñate, Colonizer of New Mexico,
1595-1628 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1953): Vol. I, 537,
554.
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MANZANARES
In 1636, the estancia
of Mateo Manzanares was described as being more than three leagues
from the Pueblo of San Felipe. This person may have been the same man
remembered as Mateo de Sandoval y Manzanares, the father of Ana (Antonia de
Sandoval y Manzanares
(ONMF: 219). On 7 December 1636, Mateo Manzanares prepared a petition before
the local Justicia Mayor. Witnesses were Alférez Juan Ruys de Ynojos, Diego Pérez
Granillo, and Francisco García (who said he lived in the
jurisdiction of Galisteo). Supporters of Manzanares were identified as Sargento
Mayor Francisco Gómez, Capitán don Roque de Casaus, Hernan Martín Serrano, el mozo (the younger), and Maese de Campo Tomás de Arbiso
(Albizu).
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archivos
General de la Nación, Mexico, Provincias Internas, t. 34:1 (folio 22/20), Reel
#5, microfilm copy available at the New Mexico State Records Center and
Archives.
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MÁRQUEZ
Capitán Diego Márquez (ONMF: 221), married with Juana Martín
Serrano,
died at Santa Cruz, NM, on 29 April 1729. He age was given as 46, indicating he
was born circa 1683. His wife was a daughter of Domingo Martín Serrano, and a sister of Blas Martín
Serrano
according to a pre-nuptial investigation record dated 27 April 1800, Abiquiu,
that provides the following lineage:
Domingo
Martín,
father of
Juana
Martín
[md. with Diego Márquez],
mother of
Francisca
Márquez
[md. w/ Pablo Manuel Trujillo], mother of
Pablo
Trujillo
[md. w/ María Teresa de Jesús Hurtado], father of
María
Josefa Trujillo
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: Archives of
the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Roll 39, Santa Cruz Church, Burials: 1726-1859;
Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango (AHAD)-337, fr. 0037, DM 27
April 1800, Abiquiu (microfilm copy at the Rio Grande Historical Collections,
New Mexico State University Library.
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MÁRQUEZ —Promising
Lead
Gerónimo Márquez (ONMF: 69) came to New Meico in 1598 with relatives.
In Canto XXVII of his Historia de la Nueva México, 1610, Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá makes this intriguing reference: "The next post
in order he gave/ To captain Marcelo
de Espinosa,/ With Gerónimo Márquez and Juan Díaz,/ Pedro Hernández and Francisco Márquez,/ These
four all brothers…".
Did Pérez de Villagrá intend to
say that these four men were brothers by blood, or that they were brothers by
marriages, brothers-in-law. Although it is possible all four men were siblings
using different family surnames, it is more likely that Gerónimo Márquez and
Francisco Márquez were brothers and that Juan Díaz and Pedro Hernández were brothers-in-law. Were Díaz
and Hernández married to sisters of the Márquez
men? Or, was the wife of Gerónimo
Márquez a Díaz or Hernández woman?
Additional research into the Oñate expedition
records, particularly the known muster rolls, is certainly needed. Another
source to consult would be the list of pasajeros traveling from Spain to
the New World. In particular, a search of the surname index (Díaz,
Hernández, and Márquez/Martín
Sambrano) and the place name index (San
Lucar de Barameda) for the years prior to 1598 may be worthwhile.
Researcher: José Antonio
Esquibel
Sources: Gaspar Pérez de
Villagra, Historia de la Nueva México, 1610 (A Critical and Annotated
Spanish/English Edition Translated and Edited by Miguel Encinias, Alfred
Rodríguez, and Joseph P. Sánchez), Paso Por Aquí Series on the Nuevomexicano
Literary Heritage, ed. by Genaro M. Padilla and Erlinda González-Berry,
Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1992, Canto XXVII. Clarification
that Ana de Mendoza was not the wife of Gerónimo Márquez can found in these two
articles: José Antonio Esquibel, "On the Identity of Doña Ana de Mendoza
(Supposed Wife of Gerónimo Márquez), in New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 35,
No. 3, September 1996, 74; José Antonio Esquibel, "Clarification on the
Marriage Relationship of Doña Ana de Mendoza (Supposed Wife of Gerónimo
Márquez), in Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 1996, 144-47.
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MARTÍN
SERRANO-MONUERA
At Santa Fe, on
March 7, 1662, Capitán Hernan Martín Serrano (ONMF: 72) declared he was
56 years old and a "vecino y natural" (citizen and native) of Santa
Fe, indicating he was born circa 1606. He named his wife as "Ysavel de
Monuera."
According to Chávez, Capitán Hernán Martín Serrano was a widower in 1664. His wife, Ysabel de
Monuera must
have died sometime between 1662-1664. Thirty years earlier, on September 25,
1632, at Santa Fe, Hernán Martín Serrano declared he was a mestizo, a
soldier, a vecino of the Villa de Santa Fe, and age 25 (b.ca. 1607).
In the 1660s,
Capitán Hernán Martín Serrano owned and operated an "obraje"
(manufacturing shop) that used Indian laborers. It is not certain what product
his obraje produced.
It is interesting
to note that in another record, Hernán Martín Serrano gave his birthplace as El
Yunque, most likely referring to the settlement of San Gabriel del Yunque (see
ONMF: 72).
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: Archivo
General de la Nación (AGN), Mexico, Inquisición (Inq.), tomo 593, f. 288; AGN,
Inq., tomo 304, f. 184 (Testimony of Hernán Martín, 24 May 1632, Sandia
Pueblo); AGN, Inq., Trial of Bernardo López de Mendizábal, 1662 (Concurso de
Peñalosa), tomo 3, legajo 1, no. 1, f. 74 (microfilm available at the New
Mexico Records Center and Archives).
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María
Martín de Monuera,
mentioned as the wife of Bartolomé de Ledesma (see Ledesma-Salazar above), was very likely
the daughter of Capitán Hernan Martín Serrano and Ysabel de Monuera. As Chávez noted, Hernán was the executor of Ledesma's estate.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: AGN, Mexico,
Inq., tomo 593, ff. 292-94.
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MESTAS
Juan
de Mestas
(ONMF: 73) had come to New Mexico in the mid-summer of 1656 in the company of
Governor don Juan de Manso. Testimony given in 1662 by Capitán Miguel de
Hinojos
(age 41; b.ca. 1621), encomendero and resident of Santa Fe, gave mention
of "Juan de Mestas, mercador" ("Juan de Mestas, merchant").
Furthermore, in July 1662, Juan de Mestas was described as "camarada y
paisano del dho Don Juo Manso" ("pal and
countryman of the said don Juan Manso"). This information indicates a very close
friendship existed between Governor Manso and Mestas. Being a good friend of Governor Manso, Mestas may have traveled with him
from Spain to the New World.
Governor don Juan de Manso (b.ca. 1628; Governor:
1656-1659) was a younger brother of fray Tomás Manso, Franciscan
Procurator-general in New Mexico for 25 years, provincial of his order in 1655,
and later named as bishop of Nicaragua. Both were natives of Luarca (Loarca),
an Asturian seaport on Spain's north coast. It is probable that Juan de Mestas, who was also Asturian,
knew the Manso brothers from Asturias and may even have been a native of Luarca
himself or from some nearby village or town.
Juan de
Mestas stored
his commercial goods in a room at the Governor's Palace. In early 1659, two
Indians by the name of Juan Zuñi and Cristóbal el Meco encountered the door to
the storeroom of Mestas
slightly open. The two stole goods that they eventually distributed to others
in the Villa de Santa Fe. Mestas suspected Zuñi, but when confronted, the Indian denied the theft.
Some of the stolen goods came into possession of the wife of Captain Bartolomé Romero who had purchased the
goods from an Apache Indian women named María, a servant of Capitán Hernan Martín and the wife of Nicolás Durán, "el mozo"
(the younger). An investigation, and subsequent testimony of several citizens,
lead authorities to arrest Juan Zuñi and El Meco. Most of the stolen items were returned to Mestas.
During the residencia
of Governor Manso
(1659), Governor López de Mendizábal placed Manso under house arrest. Concerned for his life, Manso wrote several letters to
the viceroy of Nueva España. He entrusted copies of his letters to three men: Juan de Mestas, Padre fray Nicolás Chávez, and Diego González
Lobón.
These men traveled together and fulfilled their mission.
By July 1662, Juan de Mestas was mentioned as being in
Mexico City, having provided information to the Real Audiencia of Nueva España
regarding the case of his compañero, Governor don Juan de Manso. Mestas was still in Mexico City
as of May 1663.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: Archivo General
de la Nación (A.G.N.), Mexico, Concurso de Peñalosa, tomo 2, leg. 1, no. 9, f.
19; tomo 3, leg. 1, no. 1, f. 48, f. 74-75 & f. 103; Adolph F.A. Bandelier
and Fanny R. Bandelier, Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Nueva
Vizcaya, and Approaches Thereto, to 1773, edited by Charles Wilson Hackett,
Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1923: Vol. 3, 154 &
170.
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MONTOYA
Lucía
de Montoya
had a daughter named María de Tejeda. They were both residents of Santa Fe in early 1662. María de Tejeda maintained an affair with Luis Durán, also a resident of Santa
Fe, by whom she had two children, according to the testimony of Juan Estebán de
Fagoaga
given at Santa Fe in April 1662.
[Note: Juan Esteban de Fagoaga was a native of the Valle de Ollarzu in the
Province of Vizcaya (Spain), age 55 in April 1662 (b.ca. 1607). He was a single
man who was a vecino of the jurisdiction of Sandia and lived 12 leagues
(approx. 36 miles) from Santa Fe at the "estancia de Santiago." At
the time of his testimony at Santa Fe on 8 April 1662, Fagoaga was very ill. He died May 18, 1662 and was
buried on May 19th in the church of Sandia by fray Salvador de Guerra.]
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archivo
General de la Nación, Mexico, Inquisición, tomo 593, f. 320.
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MORAGA
On March 7, 1662, Juan de Moraga (ONMF: 79) provided
testimony to the fact that he heard it said that Governor don Bernardo López
de Mendizábal
was a Jew. In his testimony, Juan de Moraga declared he was a "vecino y natural de
Santa Fe" ("citizen and native of Santa Fe"), married with María Montaño, and gave his age as 31
(more or less), indicating he was born at Santa Fe circa 1631.
For additional
information that identifies Juan de Moraga as a son of Diego de Moraga (ONMF: 79) see Beyond
ONMF Volume 1 (Part 1).
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archivo
General de la Nación, Mexico, Inquisición, tomo 593, ff. 286-88.
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PÉREZ
GRANILLO
Francisco
Pérez Granillo,
mestizo and native of New Mexico, was married at Mexico City on 28 August 1638
with María Hernández, a free mulatta and a native of Mexico City. According the
marriage record, Francisco
had been living in Mexico City since 1632. By all appearances, this Francisco Pérez
Granillo is
the man of this named identified by Chávez and Francisco Pérez Granillo II (ONMF: 88). If so, this
new information identifies a previously unknown wife of this man who was
remembered as the husband of Sebastiana Romero before the Pueblo Indian
revolt of 1680. Or, perhaps there were two men of this name, one remaining in
New Mexico and the other living in Mexico City. The original record from the
church of Santa Catalina Martir reads:
'En la ciudad de Mexco a
beintiocho días del mes de Agosto de mill y seisientos I trienta iocho años yo
el Br Pedro de Meras, Presvitero de licencia del Sr Dor
Juan de Poblete, cura Bdo de la iglesia de Sta
Catalina…..Franco Péres Granillo, mestiso, nl de nuebo Mexco
i residente enesta ciudad de seis años a esta pte con María Gernándes, mulata libre de
cautiverío, nl de esta ciudad. Testigos: Bartolomé de
León, gernando de Xara
y Diego
de Mendoça."
Researcher: Charles D.
Martínez y Vigil
Source: LDS microfilm
# 0036027, Santa Catalina Martir, Mexico City, Mexico, Marriages.
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ROMERO
Bartolomé
Romero (ONMF:
95) was born 6 April 1563, Corral de Almaguer, Spain, where he was baptized. Bartolomé was named as a son of Bartolomé Romero and María de Adeva. This couple had at least
two other children born at Corral de Almaguer: Juan Romero, born 12 November 1559,
and Catalina Romero.
Researcher: Gloria
Trujillo
Source: Nuestra
Raíces (Quarterly Journal of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America),
Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 1995, 92 ("While touring through Spain and Portugal…Gloria
Trujillo, GSHA-SC member, was fortunate enough to find this information in the
records of Corral de Almaguer, Espana." —presumably located in baptismal
records from the church at Corral de Almaguer).
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RUIZ
CÁCERES
Juan
Ruiz de Cáceres
(ONMF: 99) died intestate (without a last will and testament) before 11
December 1636. At this time, his estancia was in possession of "su Magd"
(su Magestad/His Majesty) when two of his servants, Diego Hernández and Juan Jacobo, both "Yndios
Méxicanos," complained to government officials about the behavior
of Padre fray Francisco de la Concepción. They declared that the friar had posted a notice
of excommunication on the door of the church at the pueblo of Isleta bearing
their names. They claimed the friar excommunicated them for not attending "un
dia de fiesta a misa" (one feast day). From this information, it
appears that the estancia of Juan Ruiz de Cáceres was located in the
jurisdiction of Isleta Pueblo.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archivos
General de la Nación, Provincias Internas, t. 34:1 (folio 24/22), Reel #5,
microfilm copy available at the New Mexico Records Center and Archives.
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SÁENZ
de GARVIZU
Manuel
Sáenz de Garvizu
(ONMF: 277) had traveled to Mexico City where he became ill in bed and dictated
his last will and testament on 3 December 1756. He declared he was a native of
Pamplona, Navarra (Basque region of Spain), and a son of Juaquín Sánchez and Agustina Garvizu. He further declared he
was married with María Ignacia Lucero with whom he had the following children:
1. Juana Sáenz de
Garvizu,
age 14 (b.ca. 1744).
2. Manuel Sáenz de
Garvizu,
age 12 (b.ca. 1746).
3. María de Loreto
Sáenz de Garvizu,
age 4 (b.ca. 1754).
4. José Manuel
Sáenz de Garvizu,
age 2 (b.ca. 1756).
Manuel
Sáenz de Garvizu
recovered from his illness and returned to New Mexico, presumably dying around
1758 at El Paso where his last will and testament was filed and preserved.
Researcher: Rick
Hendricks, Ph.D.
Sources: Ciudad
Juárez Municipal Archives, Roll 6, bk. 1, 1758, f. 548-57 (Will of Manuel Sáenz
de Garvizu, El Paso, 3 December 1756), in the microfilm collection of the
University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP); also see brief extraction given in Rick
Hendricks, Ph.D., "Wills from El Paso del Norte, 1754-1817," Nuestra
Raíces (Quarterly Journal of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America),
Vol. 6, No.4, Winter 1994, 164.
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SÁNCHEZ
When María Luján (ONMF: 213 & 280),
widow of Pedro Sánchez de Iñigo (279-280), recorded her last will and testament on
13 December 1734 she declared that during the course of their marriage they had
a total of eleven children and were named in this order: 1) Antonia Sánchez; 2) Manuela Sánchez; 3) Antonio Sánchez; 4) María Sánchez; 5) Olaya Sánchez; 6) Joseph [José] Sánchez; 7) Juana Sánchez; 8) Lugarda Sánchez; 9) Figenia [Efigenia]; 10) Francisca
Xaviela [Francisca
Xaviera] Sánchez; and 11) Xptoval [Cristóbal] Sánchez.
Of these children,
only Lugarda
was deceased at the time when the will was recorded. She also mentioned that
her husband was deceased. María Luján gave the following possessions to her children:
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In his compilation
of The Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Vol. I, Ralph Emerson Twithcell
catalogued a sale of land (SANM I: 828) from Pasqual Trullijo to Pedro Sánchez (ONMF: 279-280) in the
area of La Cañada in 1713. In his book, Twithcell provides a translation of a
document which he mistakenly attributed to Pedro Sánchez, the elder (Twitchell, The
Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Vol. I, no. 828) and which appears to
actually be in regard to his son Pedro Sánchez, the younger. The
translated document is not part of SANM I: 828, instead it is part of a
collection of documents under the Ramón Vigil Grant (SANM I, Roll #16 ,
fr. 1474 - 1477). A closer look shows that the request of Pedro Sánchez with a family of twelve
children and three orphan nephews was not that of the elder Pedro Sánchez who was dead by 1720, but
that of another Pedro Sánchez,
most likely his son and namesake, the younger. A royal land grant was given to
this second Pedro Sánchez
on 20 March 1747, and the boundaries of the property were given as:
North
-lands of the Indians of San Ildefonso
South
-lands of Capt. Andrés Montoya
East
-the Río del Norte [Rio Grande River]
West
-the Sierra Madre [Jémez Mountian Range]
Additional
documents pertaining to the Ramón Vigil Grant verify that the property of this second
Pedro Sánchez was purchased by Francisco Sánchez on 15 August 1749. Over a
hundred years later, a man identified as Antonio Sánchez sold the grant to Ramón Vigil on 8 August 1857. At this
later time, the boundaries of the property were regarded as:
North
-the Río de los Ayuages and the Pueblo of San
Ildefonso
South
-the Río de los Frijoles
East
- the Rio Grande river
West
-the top/highest part of the Sierra Madre [Jémez
Mountains]
Researchers: José
Antonio Esquibel and James Moore
Source: Gov. Prince
Papers, Ramón Vigil Grant, Will of María Luján, 13 December 1734; Spanish
Archives of New Mexico (SANM), Series I, no. 828, and Roll #16 (frs.
1473-1496); Ralph Emerson Twitchell, comp. The Spanish Archives of New
Mexico: Compiled and Chronologically Arranged…(Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch
Press, 1914): no. 828.
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TENORIO
de ALBA
Miguel
Tenorio de Alba (ONMF:
293 & 395), native of Zacatecas and born circa 1675, had a brother named Nicolás Tenorio who was married in
Zacatecas on 8 December 1686. A premarital investigation record dated 22
November 1686, Zacatecas, identified Nicolás "Thenorio" as español and a
legitimate son of "Juan Thenorio y Da Josepha Lopes Sandobal." Nicolás sought to marry María de Rada, española and a
native of Zacatecas, legitimate daughter of Joseph de Rada, deceased, and Ygnes de Arteaga. All these individuals
were identified as españoles and originarios of Zacatecas. This
indicates that Juan Tenorio
and Josefa
López de Sandobal were
natives of Zacatecas.
Nicolás
Tenorio signed
his petition to marry María de Rada. In further testimony, he declared he was age 25 (b.ca. 1661)
and that his parents were españoles y vecinos of Zacatecas. The three
witnesses to the investigation were: 1) Nicolás Mendoza, age 60, español and
vecino of Zacatecas, who knew the couple since birth in Zacatecas and
decalred there was no known impediment to their proposed marriage; 2) Nicolás de Trevo, age 51, español and
vecino of Zacatecas, gave the same testimony, having known both since
their birth; 3) Juan Bautista Gorrogín, age 25, español and vecino of Zacatecas,
had known both all of their lives, and was aware of no impediment to the
proposed marriage.
There is a
premartital investigation dated 10 July 1686, Zacatecas, for Juan Bautista
Gorrosín,
age 24, español natural y vecino of Zacatecas, son of Juan de Gorrosín, deceased, and Nicolasa Ramírez
de Briseño,
who sought to marry Juana de Mendoza, age 18, española and daughtter of Nicolás de
Mendoza and María Francisca
de Ulibai.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Informaciones
Matrimoniales, Zacatecas, 1673-1692 (10 July 1686 & 22 November 1686), LDS
microfilm # 0283372. Special thanks to Charles Martínez y Vigil for acquiring
the microfilm at the Santa Fe Family History Center.
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TORRES
Cristóbal
de Torres
(ONMF: 294 & 396) was buried at Santa Cruz de la Cañada on 2 December 1726.
His age was given as 77, indicating he was born circa 1649. His wife, Angela Leiba (ONMF: 54, 294, & 396)
was buried four months later at Santa Cruz on 1 April 1729. Her burial record
identified her as age 70 (b.ca. 1657) and as the widow of Cristóbal de
Torres.
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One important
branch of the Torres family of northern New Mexico was founded by Manuel Torres of Las Trampas, b.ca.
1773, who was identified as the natural son of Pasquala Martín when he sought to marry María de
las Nieves Valdés,
a native of El Pueblo Quemado (modern-day Córdova, NM) and a daughter of Francisco Valdés
y Bustos
and Diega Tafoya.
By all
appearances, Manuel's
natural mother, Pasquala Martín is the same individual of this name who had been married to Joaquín Torres. If so, Pasquala apparently had a son out
of wedlock whom she reared as a Torres. On 29 May 1794, Manuel Torres submitted his request to
marry María de las Nieves Valdés to church authorities as part of the customary
pre-nuptial investigation process. He declared he was 21 years of age and the
natural son of Pasquala Martín, a widow.
In March 1795, María de la
Nieves gave
birth to the couples first born son who was baptized at the mission church of
San Lorenzo de Picurís on 25 March and christend José Antonio de
la Encarnación Torres.
Almost eighteen months later, the second son of this couple was born at Santa
Barbara and baptized at Picurís on 5 November 1796 and named Manuel de los
Santos Torres.
This child died less than eight weeks later and was buried at San José en el
Río de Las Trampas on 26 December 1796. Immediately following this burial record
was that of the child's father, Manuel Torres, deceased at age 23, and
who died without having received the sacraments.
Genealogy:
1. Pasquala Martín, her son
1. Manuel Torres, b.ca. 1773, Las Trampas,
died December 1796, buried at Las Trampas (jurisdiction of Picurís); md. ca.
May 1794 with María de las Nieves Valdés, native of Quemado, daughter of Francisco Valdés
y Bustos and Diega Tafoya.
Known
children:
3.1
José
Antonio de la Encarnación Torres, bt. 25 March 1795, Picurís. This individual was
married three times:
Md.
(1) 13 June 1817, Picurís, José Antonio Torres, español, single, legitimate son of Manuel Torres, deceased, and María Valdés, residents of Santa
Barbara, with María de la Luz Mestas, española, single, legitimate daughter of Ygnacio Mestas, deceased, and Juana Torres, residents of Santa
Barbara. Married and vieled, no impediments to the marriage. Known son:
4.1
Diego
Torres,
b.ca. 1825 [1850 census,
Taos
County, sh. 181]; md. María Dolores Medina, daughter of Antonio Medina and María Ygnacia
Espinosa.
Known children:
5.1
Juan
Cristóbal Torres,
bt. 25 November 1842, Picurís. (Grandparents are named in this record).
5.2
María
Altagracia Torres,
bt. 15 Feb.1845, Picurís.
5.3 María Luisa
Torres,
bt. 24 January 1847, Picurís.
5.3
José
Candelaria Torres,
bt. 12 Feb. 1849, Picurís.
5.4
María
Benigna Torres,
bt. 16 March 1851, Picurís.
5.6
María
de las Nieves Torres,
bt. 2 Feb. 1853, Picurís.
5.7
María
Eustaquia Torres,
b.ca. 1857.
5.8
Manuel
Torres,
b.ca. b.ca. 1859.
5.9
María
Francisca Torres,
bt. 14 October 1860, Picurís.
5.10
José
Marcelo Torres,
bt. 16 January 1862, Picurís.
Md.
(2) María de Gracia Lobato, d. 1852, daughter of Miguel Lobato and María Alberta
González.
Known children:
4.2
María
Albina Torres,
bt. 2 April 1827, Picurís.
4.3
María
Dolores Torres,
bt. 8 October 1829, Picurís.
4.4
María
Encarnación Torres,
bt. 1 May 1831, Picurís.
4.5
Antonio
Domingo Torres,
bt. 17 November
1836
(b. 12 November), Picurís - d. 9 March 1917, Maes Ranch (near Las Vegas), NM;
md. María Manuela Casillas. With issue and descendancy.
4.6
Juana
María Torres,
bt. 4 November 1841, Picurís.
4.7
José
de Jesús Torres,
b.ca. 1838.
4.8
Pedro
José Torres,
bt. 29 June 1844, Picurís.
4.9
Juana
Torres,
b.ca. 1845 (probably the same individual as 4.6 rather than a separate child).
4.10
María
Manuela Torres,
bt. 26 Sept. 1846, Picurís.
4.11
Juan
de Jesús Torres,
bt. 31 March 1849, Picurís.
Md.
(3) Juana María Espinosa. On 1 February 1860, José Antonio
Torres gave a
gift of land in Taos County to Juana María Espinosa, his wife of six years. No known issue.
3.2
Manuel
de los Santos Torres,
bt. 5 November 1796, Picurís; buried 26 December 1796, San José de las Trampas
(Picurís).
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel; and Benceslado López, Jr. (additional children of Diego
Torres and María Dolores Torres and of José Antonio Torres and María Altagracia
Lovato)
Sources: Archives of
the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (AASF), Roll # 39, Santa Cruz: Burials 1726 - 1859;
AASF Roll #28, Picurís: Marriages 1726 - 1837; AASF Roll #6 & 7, Picurís:
Baptisms 1750 - 1834 & 1835 - 1867; AASF Roll #36, Picurís: Burials 1727 -
1840; AASF, DM 1794, May 29 (no, 21), Santa Cruz; 1850 Federal Census, Taos
County, sh. 181 & 194; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Taos County, p. 295; Taos
County Probate B-2, 1851-1861 (20 January 1852) and B-3, p. 20.
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TREBOL
NAVARRO
The following
records have been located concerning the children of don Francisco Trebol
Navarro
(ONMF: 296) and doña María Ygnacia de la Luz Baca:
1. Doña María Manuela
Trebol Navarro,
md. 17 August 1785, Castrense Military Chapel, Santa Fe, NM, with Antonio de la
Cruz Alexandro Esquibel, son of José Esquibel and Juana Manuela López . (May be the same person
as # 2)
2. Ana María
Manuela Antonia Trebol Navarro, bt. 22 February 1767, Isleta, NM.
3. Don José María
Trebol Navarro,
b.ca. 1771, enlisetd as a soldier on 26 March 1787. He gave his age as 16 and
his occupation as a merchant/businessman. He was killed in combat at Gila on 3
October 1787.
4. María Luisa de la Luz
Trebol Navarro,
b. at Pajarito, NM, bt. 9 September 1772, Isleta, NM; md. 12 August 1785,
Castrense Military Chapel, Santa Fe, with Ramón Esquibel, son of José Esquibel and Juana Manuela
López.
5. María Ygnacia
Rosalía Trebol Navarro, bt. 30 January 1775, Isleta, NM.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: Archives of
the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Roll # 5 (Isleta Baptisms: 1730-1776), Roll # 31
(Castrense, Santa Fe, Marriages: 1779-1833); and Virginia L. Olmsted, C.G.,
"Spanish Enlistment Papers of New Mexico 1732-1820," in National
Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 2, June 1980: 59.
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TRUJILLO
In 1662,
Captain Diego de Trujillo (ONMF: 107) was identified as an encomendero
in a suit that he brought against Governor don Berbardo López de Mendizábal, Trujillo,
demanding to be paid 868 pesos by the governor for livestock and Apache
servants. In his claim there was mention of his son, Captain Francisco de
Trujillo,
and two son-in-laws: Captain Cristóbal Baca (husband of Ana Moreno de
Lara, aka
Moreno de Trujillo) and Antonio de Carbajal. This information
indicates that Truijillo had a second daughter whose name is not known at this
time, but who was the wife of Antonio de Carbajal.
The particular
passage from Diego de Trujillo's claim that contains the information cited
above reads: "..a su mujer y a su hixo el Capn Franco
de truxillo y a dos yernos suyos que son el Capn Xptobal Vaca y anto
de carbajal digo el Capn Andrés Hurtado y demando le cantd
de ochocientos y sesenta y ocho pesos de reses y ugues mulas y cavallos y mil
ocho piezas de Yndios Apaches…"
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archivo
General de la Nación (AGN), México, Galeria, Concursos de Peñalosa, Vol. I, f.
235/382. Microfilm copy of rolls #1-3 (Vols. I-III) of the "Concursos de Peñalosa"
located at the New Mexico Records Center and Archives.
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In records of a land dispute between San
Ildefonso Pueblo and Spanish settlers, Baltazar de Trujillo
(ONMF: 297, 396), husband of Ynéz González Bas (ONMF:
189, 297, 396) was identified as the son-in-law of Capitán Juan González (ONMF: 189)
Researcher:
José Antonio Esquibel
Source: SANM I: 1351, p. 42.
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Pablo Manuel Trujillo (ONMF: 297; son of Baltazar de Trujillo and Nicolasa de la Cruz Espinosa) and his wife María Francisca Márquez
(buried 23 May 1761, Pueblo of Santa Clara, resident of Chama; q.v. Márquez
above) resided at Pojoaque in the 1730s and had the following children baptized
at Nambé:
Antonio
Casimiro Trujillo, bt. 8 March 1729,
Nambé, NM. Padrinos: Baltazar
Trujillo y su esposa Ynéz Gonzéles.
Gregorio
Trujillo, bt. 15 May 1734, Nambé, NM.
Parents residing at Pojoaque. Padrinos: Lazaro Trujillo y Ynéz Olguín, su mujer.
Gertrudis
Antonia Trujillo, bt. 1 March 1736,
Nambé, NM. Madrina: Juana
Martín.
Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe,
Roll 36, Nambé, Baptisms: 1726-1764.
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VÁSQUEZ
BORREGO
Don Diego Vásquez
Borrego
(ONMF: 149) participated as a soldier in "la conquista y redución"
of the region of Nayarit (Nuevo Toledo) in 1721. He was Cabo de
Escuadra under the command of Capitán don Manuel José Carranza y Guzmán at the Real Presidio de
San Salvador el Verde. In The spring of 1723, Vásquez Borrego was still at the Presidio
de San Salvador el Verde. In June of this year he made a formal request to
return to his home due to his suffering of an illness. This was granted by Carranza y
Guzmán on June
23, 1723.
Don Diego Vásquez de
Borrego was
married twice. The name of his first wife is not known, but from this union was
born one son, don Manuel Vásquez Borrego who was married in Mexico City to doña Micaela Lucero. Don Manuel and doña Micaela had six children whom they
brought to the Villa de San Felipe el Real de Chihuahua.
Widowed of his
first wife, don Diego
married Rosa de Altamirano in the valley of Toluca, west of Mexico City. By
1726, don Diego
was in Chihuahua while his second wife resided in Toluca with his two sons, Juan Diego
Vásquez Borrego
(resident of Toluca) and Agustín Vásquez Borrego (died in Mexico City
before 1753). By 1730, don Diego had made his way to El Paso del Norte in New
Mexico. From El Paso, he maintained correspondence with his family in Toluca.
His wife never joined him on the frontier, and he never returned to Toluca. In
the latter part don Diego
was in the Albuquerque area where he and doña Antonia Baca stood as padrinos for a
child of Pedro Romero
and Gregoria
Baca baptized
at Albuquerque on 27 December 1733. Soon after, he petitioned for and received
a royal land grant in the area of Belen.
In the 1750 census
of Belen, don Diego Vásquez Borrego was listed as a widower with two sons: Francisco and Diego. There is no indication
that don Diego
ever married in New Mexico. The mother of one of his New Mexico son's (Diego Felipe) was named as Catalina
Gutiérrez
(see: bt. 5 July 1780, Santa Clara Pueblo). Don Diego was in Santa Fe in 1753
when he became ill. His last will and testament was made on 5 May 1753 and died
on May 10th.
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Francisco
Vásquez Borrego,
son of don Diego,
was born circa 1737 (age given as 8 in 1745) and died at San Antonio de Quemado
on 10 October 1789 (burial at Santa Cruz). He was married with Francisca
Victoria Mora
and had at least eleven children.
Diego
Felipe Vásquez Borrego, son of don Diego, was born circa 1738 (age given as 7 in 1745). He
was married with María Francisca Gurulé, bt. 9 October 1743, Albuquerque, daughter of Antonio Gurulé and Antonia Quintana. This couple settled at El
Potrero near Chimayó and had at least eight children.
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Luis
Antonio Vásquez Borrego, also known as Luis Borrego, was the progenitor of a
branch of the Borrego family
in the area north of the Pueblo of San Juan de los Caballeros. He was married
circa 1773 with Antonia Severina de la Serda. This couple had at least four children. This
couple appears to be the same couple listed as "Luis Antonio del
Pino y Anta
Seberina de la Cerda
españoles y vecinos de Chama" whose son, Juan Manuel, was buried at Santa Clara
on 16 September 1774.
In the latter part
of 1784, Luis Borrego
married Ana Josefa Rodríguez. Of their six known progeny, only two children are
known to have reached adulthood.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: SANM I: 103;
AASF, Roll 38, Santa Clara Burials, 1726-1832; José Antonio Esquibel, "Don
Diego Vásquez Borrego: A Biography," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 5, No. 2,
Summer 1993: 54-64; José Antonio Esquibel, "Addendum to 'Don Diego Vásquez
Borrego; A Biography'," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1994;
and José Antonio Esquibel, "Los Borregos de San Juan: Luis Borrego and His
Descendants," Nuestra Raíces, vol. 7, No. 3, Fall 1995: 116-131.
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VELARDE
Juan
Antonio Pérez Velarde
(ONMF: 308) made his last will and testament at El Paso del Norte on 9 May
1767. He declared he was a native of Muriedes in the valley of Camargo,
Santander, Spain, and named his parents as Francisco Pérez Velarde and María Velarde, both deceased. Juan Antonio was married twice. His
first wife was Juana Valverde y Cosio (ONMF: 308), daughter of Antonio Valverde
y Cosio
and María de Esparza. Juan Antonio named his children by Juana as:
Antonio María,
José
Antonio, Francisco José, and José María
According to Juan Antonio, all of his offspring by Juana died as children.
It is worthwhile
to note that the name of Manuel Valverde de Cosio (ONMF: 308), presumed to be a son of Juan Antonio and Juana, apparently was not. It is
still unclear who were Manuel's
parents, unless he is the same individual named as Manuel Blas below.
Juan
Antonio Velarde
entered into his second marriage with Jacinta Valencia with whom he had four
sons:
José Antonio,
Manuel
Blas, Juan Antonio, and
Francisco Antonio
Researcher: Rick
Hendricks, Ph.D.
Sources: Microfilm of
the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archive (University of Texas-El Paso), Roll 10, bk.
1, 1774, f. 113-16; and Rick Hendricks, Ph.D., "Wills from El Paso del
Norte, 1754-1817," Nuestra Raíces, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 1995: 87
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VERA —Promising Lead
In 1626 Diego de Vera
(ONMF: 112) named his parents as "Pedro de bera perdomo y Da
Ma de bentanco," and declared he was a native of the "isla
de tenerife". This information comes from a record that Fray Angélico
Chávez consulted for his source on Diego de Vera in ONMF.
Curiously, Chávez made no mention of the following note written by fray Alonso de Benavides: "Este diego de Vera
es sobrino de la
perdoma que por esse Sto
tribunal fue castigada aura veinte y tres años con una hija suja y dises que
unos dos hermanas o hermanos deste se avian ido aberb_cia y ay mal sospecha". This information describes Diego de Vera as a nephew (sobrino) of a woman referred to as 'la Perdoma' who was punished by the Inquisition about twenty-three years earlier
(circa 1603) along with her daughter and, as he heard said, two sisters or two
brothers. It is not clear what the behavior was regarded as "mala
sospecho" (bad suspicion). Two possibilities is that 'la Perdoma' was tried and sentence for practicing witchcraft or for practicing
Jewish ceremonies. Whatever the circumstances, it appears that 'la Perdoma' was a sister of Diego's father, Pedro de Vera Perdomo.
It would be very worthwhile to locate the
Inquisition records of 'la
Perdoma' as they would very likely
contain additional genealogical information on the Vera Perdomo family. In additions, the records could provide some interesting
history about members of the Vera
Perdomo family. If she was tried and
sentenced as a "judiazante" (a baptized Catholic practicing
Jewish religious customs), this could reveal a Jewish-converso lineage
with a connection to New Mexico.
It is not clear if 'la Perdoma' was tried by the Inquisition in Nueva España or on the island of
Tenerife, but there was another person in New Mexico who had information about
this circumstance. On 27 January 1626, Matías López de Castillo
(ONMF: 55), age 35, provided testimony in which he declared that Diego de Vera
"era sobrino de una muger que avia aestado prese en la inquisision"
("is nephew of a woman that was imprisioned through the
Inquisition").
Researcher: José Antonio
Esquibel
Source: Archivo General de
la Nación, Mexico, Inquisisión, t. 356, f. 306 & 307.
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VIGIL
Capitán Francisco Montes
Vigil died
11 September 1730 and was buried at Santa Cruz de la Cañada. His burial record,
recorded in 1731, gives his age at death as 80 (b.ca. 1650). His wife died
fourteen years late on 19 November 1745 and was also buried at Santa Cruz. Her
name was recorded as María de Enciso y Giménez, and she was described as being over age 50.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Archives of
the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Roll 39, Santa Cruz Church, Burials: 1726-1859.
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ZAMORA (MONTOYA) —Promising Lead
María de Zamora (ONMF: 77), wife of Bartolomé de Montoya,
was identified by Chávez as being a daughter of Pedro de Zamora and Agustina de Abarca.
Chávez's source indicates that Pedro
de Zamora was a former Alcalde Mayor
of Oaxaca before coming to reside at Mexico City in the neighborhood of San
Sebastián. Among the prominent citizens of Oaxaca in the sixteenth century were
members of the Pérez de
Zamora family. Members of this family
went by these interchangable surnames: Zamora, Pérez, Pérez de
Zamora, and González.
In the latter part of the 1500s there was a Pedro Pérez de Zamora of Oaxaca who was described as being "en
corregimiento," which indicates he was somehow involved as a city
official. His uncle Luis de
Zamora (aka Luis Pérez de Zamora held various alcaldías mayores for as many as
thirty years in the latter half of the 1500s.
Pedro Pérez de Zamora was married at Oaxaca and was a son of Alvaro de Zamora (aka Alvaro Pérez de Zamora). Alvaro Pérez de Zamora was a son of Alonso Pérez de Zamora, a
conquistador de México. Alvaro's wife was doña Catalina de Ocampo, the
third child of don Sebastián
de Saavedra and doña Catalina de Ocampo. (Sebastián
de Saavedra was a native of Sevilla,
and a son of Sebastián de
Saavedra and doña Isabel de Sanabria, native of Carmona —belonging to the Sanabria and Sotomayor familes of this town).
Batltasar Dorantes de Carranza recorded the
following infmation about the Zamora family: "Alonso Pérez de Zamora y Alvaro Pérez, padre y
hijo, fueron de los primeros conquistadores de esta Nueva España; dejo muchos
hijos e hijas pobres, y estan despseidos de pueblos, que son los peñoles de
Oaxaca y otros que le dieron en la Provincia de Guatemala".
Was Pedro de Zamora (identified
as Alcalde Mayor de Oaxaca and father of María de Zamora)
related to the Pérez de Zamora clan? Was this Pedro de Zamora the same
person as Pedro Pérez de
Zamora? Further research into the
genealogy of the Pérez de
Zamora family, and into the records from
sixteenth century Oaxaca may help to answer this question one way or the other.
Dorantes de Carranza added this additional
information in his account of people of Nueva España that may prove useful in
any further Zamora family research: "Alvaro de Zamora dejo un hijo y dos hijas; el hijo [Pedro Pérez de Zamora] casó en Oaxaca; tiene en la real caja 130 pesos y
200 fanegas de maíz en el pueblo de Tepozotlan. De esta caas proveen a Pedro Pérez de Zamora, en corregimiento, y a Luis de Vargas, su cuñado, en corregimiento, por hermano. De esta
casa pretende Atanasio
de Salcedo, por hermano: todos
tres pobres: de esta casa no se prover a otro". This information indicates that Alvaro de Zamora had
one son and two daughters. The son was Pedro Pérez de Zamora whose
brother-in-law (cuñado) was Luis de Vargas. Apparently, Luis de Vargas was married to one of Pedro's sisters and Atanasio de Salcedo was married to the second. All three were considered
poor.
Furthermore, Dorantes de Carranza gave this
information about the father of Alvaro Pérez de Zamora:
14. Casa de Alonso Pérez de Zamora, vecino y conquistador de México.
Jorge González…………..hijo
Luis de Zamora…………..hijo
Alvaro de Zamora………..hijo
Andrés Pérez Meléndez, por la mujer……….nieto
Legitimos
Researcher: José Antonio
Esquibel
Source: Batlasar Dorantes
de Carranza, Sumária relación de la cosas de la Nueva España, Editorial
Porrua, S.A., México, 1987, 145, 265 & 374.
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