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Contents: Domínguez de Mendoza, Estrada (Godines-García de la Riva-Sandoval Martínez),
Fernández de Pedrera (Sandoval, Tafoya), Luján-Gómez del Castillo, Manzanares, Márquez,
Montes Vijil, Rael, Robledo, Romero de
Pedraza-Gómez Robledo,
Sáez, Vallejos, Vázquez de Lara
DOMINGUEZ de MENDOZA
Elena
Ramírez de Mendoza
(ONMF: 24), the wife of Tomé Domínguez, was also known as Elena de la Cruz. Chávez also accounted for
a sister of hers, Juana de la Cruz y Mendoza, who had come to New Mexico (ONMF: 25).
On August
8, 1625,
Tomé
Domínguez and Elena de la Cruz, citizens of Mexcio City gave power of attorney to Francisco Franco in regard to traveling to
the city of Vera Cruz in Nueva España in the
matter of verifying the proof of lineage of Elena de la Cruz. Testimony was taken from
August 30-September 10, 1625 in Vera Cruz. Six
witnesses declared that Elena de la Cruz was a daughter of Bentio París and Leonor Francisco, both deceased and former
residents of Vera Cruz. Her paternal grandparents were identified as Juan González and Isabel Gallega, also former residents of
Vera Cruz (and very likely deceased by 1625). Her maternal grandparents were Francisco de
Mendoza
and Leonor de Grisaldos, citizen's of Puerto de Santa María in Spain.
From this
information we learn that the Mendoza surname that Elena Ramírez de
Mendoza (aka Elena de la Cruz) contributed to the Domínguez de
Mendoza
family name came from her maternal grandfather. The varied use of surnames in
her family is an excellent example of how Spanish families did not feel
restricted to passing on the paternal surname. This also presents challenges in
doing genealogical researcher concerning Spanish families of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
The information on
the proof of lineage of Elena de la Cruz was discovered by Professor France V. Scholes many years ago.
The document had been preserved in the archives of the Biblioteca Nacional de
Madrid in Spain. Scholes made an English
typescript of the pertinent information in the document which is now part of
the collection of the France Scholes Papers housed at the Southwest Reading
Room at the University of New Mexico's Zimmerman Library. A
transcription of the entire typescript can be read here.
Researcher: France V. Scholes, Ph.D.
Sources: Biblioteca
Nacional de Madrid, MS 19258 (photos 106-12);
typescript of this record by France V. Scholes as found in: France Scholes Papers, MSS 360, Box 11, folder 1. Special thanks to
Irene Brandtner de Martínez for providing a photocopy of the typescript and to Stanley M. Hordes, Ph.D, for providing
the precise citation.
ESTRADA
In his last will
and testament dated April 19, 1713, Antonio Godines refered to his
"sobrinos" (nephews), Juan García de la Riva and Miguel de Dios
Sandoval.
This information identifies Godines, Garcia de la Riva and Sandoval Martínez as relatives. A close look
at the genealogy of each of these men reveals a common connection with a branch
of the Estrada
family of Mexico City.
In his will, Antonio Godines, b.ca. 1660, Mexico City, named his parents as don Francisco
Godines
and doña Josefa Estrada. Godines had come to New Mexico as a widower with his
daughter María Luisa Godines.
Juan
García de la Riva,
b.ca. 1682, Mexico City, came to New Mexico in 1694 with his parents Miguel García de
la Riva,
b.ca. 1654, Mexico City, and Micaela de
Velasco.
His paternal grandparents were Diego García de la Riva and María de Estrada.
Miguel
de Dios Sandoval Martinez, b.ca. 1675-79, Mexico City, also came to New Mexico in 1694 with his parents Juan de Dios
Sandoval Martínez
(b.ca. 1658) and Juana Hernández. When Juan de Dios
was married with Juana Hernández at Santa Catalina Church in Mexico City on January
6, 1674,
he named his parents as Nicolás de Arias and Juana de Estrada. In 1695, when he sought
to marry his second wife, Getrudis de Herrera, Juan de Dios named his parents as Jacinto de
Sandoval Martínez
and Juana
de Estrada.
Perhaps Juana de Estrada was married twice, and Nicolás Arias was the stepfather of Juan de Dios
Sandoval Martínez.
The common
relations between the Godines,
García
de la Riva and
Sandoval
Martínez
families of New Mexico were the Estrada women, doña Josefa de
Estrada, María de Estrada and Juana de Estrada. Based on this
information, Antonio Godines, Miguel García de la Riva and Juan de Dios de Sandoval were first cousins, and
they traveled together from Mexico City to Santa Fe in 1693-94 to become
settlers of New Mexico. It is not surprising that
Godines referred to the sons of
his first cousins as "nephews", which was a common practice in
Spanish society.
A search of the Santa Catalina Martir Church marriage records for
1650-1676 did not turn up any marriage records for the Estrada sisters. A search of these
records was made because there are several records pertaining to the García de la
Riva and Sandoval
Martínez
families in these church records indicating they were parishioners of Santa Catalina Martir Church. It may be worthwhile to
report that a woman named Juana de Estrada, a native of Mexico City and a daughter of Tomás Pérez and Getrudis de
Estrada,
who was married at Santa Catalina Martir Church on 31
May 1666
with a Nicolás Méndez, an orphan and a native of Ayunpango. Whether Nicolás Méndez was the same person as Nicolás Arias is yet to be determined.
The marriage does not mention that Juan de Estrada was a widow.
Additional research
into the Estrada
family of 17th century Mexico City is now in order and could
produce the additional information to fully confirm the relationship inferred
from the current available information.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: José Antonio
Esquibel and John B. Colligan, The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico: An Account of the Families
Recruited at Mexico City in 1693, Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1999: 194-199, 207-212,
336-346.
FERNÁNDEZ de la
PEDRERA
Teresa
Fernández de la Pedrera (ONMF: 175, 283 & 291) made her last will and testament in
Santa
Fe on May 11, 1785, while ill and bed-ridden.
She beagn her will by professing her faith in the Catholic Church and
entrusting her souls to God. She declared she had been married twice. Her first
husband was Felipe de Sandoval by whom she had four children: Antonio José
Sandoval,
deceased; María Ygnacia Sandoval, deceased; Pablo de Jesús Sandoval, deceased; and Felipe Sandoval, living. Through her
marriage with Felipe Sandoval, she had acquired the house that she owned in Santa Fe. She declared that her son
Felipe
Sandoval was her
only heir of this marriage.
Teresa further stated she was
married with don Felipe Tafoya by whom she had these six children: José Miguel
Tafoya; María Felipa
Tafoya,
deceased; María Manuela Tafoya, deceased; María Josefa Tafoya; María Francisca
Tafoya,
and Antonio José Tafoya, deceased.
Her second husband
proceeded her in death and had given to their son Antonio José the mill that Felipe Tafoya had opperated in his
lifetime. Teresa
claimed one tract of land in Santa Fe as her property. She gave
her clothes to her daughter María Framcisca, and the house she owned to her daughter María Josefa. She also left one cow to Juan Domingo, el negro, and one
cow to Felipe,
el indio, presumably servants of
hers.
In concluding her
will, she asked that masses be said for her soul and that of her son, Antonio José. She named as executors of
her estate: Felipe Sandoval, don Juaquín Layn, and Diego Montoya. The wil was witnessed and signed by Antonio José
Ortiz, José Miguel
Ortiz and Pedro Nolasco
Ortiz
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Source: Hinojos
Family Papers, Box 1, Folder 1, Will of Teresa
Fernández de la Pedrera, May 11, 1785.
LUJÁN-GÓMEZ del CASTILLO —Promising Lead
Juana
Luján (ONMF:
187) has been identified as the progenitor of the Gómez family of 18th
century New Mexico. She is known to have had
three children: Francisco Gómez del Castillo, Juan Gómez del Castillo and Luisa Gómez de Castillo. To date, there has not
been any clear evidence presented to tell us how her children came by the
surname of Gómez del Castillo. Fray Angélico Chávez suggests that Juana Luján her three children at
Guadalupe del Paso by a Gómez Robledo
man. Evidence from two important census records of 1693 and 1697 shows that Juana Luján came to northern New Mexico with her parents before
any of her children were born. Additional evidence confirms that she was
long-time resident of the Pojuaque area from as early as 1703. In addition,
there is information on a young woman named Juana Luján, a resident of Santa Fe around 1701-02 who had an
illegitimate son born circa. This Juana Luján was idendtified as a
daughter of Matías Luján
and Francisca
Salazar, who
left Santa Fe to settle in the Santa Cruz area. Could this be the
same Juana Luján
who was the mother of the three Gómez del Castillo children? A comparison of
the available information on these women offers some intriguing insights into
this possibility.
Juana Luján #1:
Juana
Luján,
daughter of Matías Luján
(native of La Cañada) and Francisca Romero, was enumerated in her parents household in the
1693 census of residents of El Paso willing to return to Santa Fe with Governor Vargas. In
this census, Juana's
age was given as age eight, indicating she was born circa 1684-85 (RCR: 60).
Her parents were residents of Santa Fe in 1694 and 1696 (NMR:
1924, DM 1694, January 26, no 17, Santa Fe; NMR: 1580, DM 1696, Feb. 8, no. 4,
Santa Fe). Her mother, Francisca Romero, was listed as a resident of Santa Cruz in the 1706 census of that
jurisdiction.
Juana
Luján #2:
Juana
Luján,
daughter of Matías Luján
and Francisca
de Salazar
(natives of New Mexico), filed suit against Buenaventura de
Esquibel when
he sought to marry another woman. Esquibel had impregnated Juana and she had given birth to
a son who was born circa 1701 in Santa Fe (NMR: 488f: DM 1702, April
15, no. 5, Santa Fe). He had promised to marry
her and then was forced to do otherwise through the intervention of his
brother, Antonio de Esquibel, and Governor don Pedro Rodríguez Cubero. In the DM for this case, Juana Luján gave her age as 16 in
1702, indicating she was born circa 1685-86. Juana was awarded 200 pesos (the
equivalent of approximately $6,000).
Juana Luján #1:
Matías
Luján and Francisca Romero, parents of Juana Luján #1, were in the area of
San Ildefonso by 1701 when they were padrinos for Indian child baptized at San
Ildefonso on 18 December 1701, and for another Indian
child baptized 2 February 1704 at San Ildefonso. In
addition, Francisca Romero was also a madrina for another Indan child baptized at San
Ildefonso on 10 Jaunuary 1703, and for an orhpan girl baptized 25 March 1703,
San Ildefonso. Juana Luján
was in the San Ildefonso area as early as 6 October
1703
when she was a madrina with Baltazar de Matha for an Indian girl. She was also a madrina for two
other Indian children baptized at San Ildefonso on 5
December 1703
and 11 May 1704. Among the marriage
records of San Ildefonso Mission are the following records: Juana Luján and Gabriel Cabrera were padrinos for Bartolomé Lobato and Juana Carillo who were married at San
Ildefonso on 21 August 1714; she and José Trujillo, el mozo, were padrinos for Gerónimo de
Ortega and Sebastiana de
Jesús who were
married at San Ildefonso on 9 July 1715. This Juana Luján is known to have purchased
land near San Ildefonso Pueblo in 1714, and was later married with Francisco Martín (ONMF: 187).
Juana
Luján #2
Juana
Luján,
daughter of Matías Luján
and Francisca
de Salazar,
worked as a cook at the Santa Fe Presidio. In 1702, she declared that her
parents were residents of Santa Cruz. She was a first cousin of
Salvador
Olguín, Felipa
Manzanares,
and Simón
Martín. (NMR:
488f, DM 1702, April 15, no. 5, Santa Fe).
By all
appearances, Salvador Olguín was the same person of this name who was a son of Juan López
Olguín and Ana María Luján (ONMF: 244-45). Juan López
Olguín and Ana María Luján were married in El Paso
del Norte on 30 May 1682 (NMR: 1379, DM 1682, May
30, no. 8). Juan López Olguín was a son of Captain Salvador Olguín and Magdalena
Fresqui. Ana María Luján was a daughter of Juan Luis Luján and Isabel López del
Castillo. This
information indicates that Juana Luján's father, Matías Luján was also a son of Juan Luis Luján and Isabel del
Castillo.
Felipa
Manzanares was
very likely the person identified as Felipa Sandoval who was a daughter of Antonia de
Sandoval y Manzanares
(RCR: 60). Antonia Sandoval, mestiza, age 50 (b.ca. 1652) and single, testified in the case
of Juana
Luján against Buenaventura de Esquibel. Antonia declared she was related
to Juana
Luján, but did
not know how they were related.
At this time, the
parents of Simón Martín
have not been positively identified.
Also, testitfiying
on the behalf of Juana Luján
was Ana
Luján,
mestiza, age 45 (b.ca. 1657) and a widow, who declared she was a first cousin
of Juana
Luján. By all
apperances, this Ana Luján
is the same person of this name who was listed as the widow with her son Luis Durán in the 1697 cattle
distribution census (BB: Book 2, 1143).
________________
Were both Juana Luján's contemporaries, or were
they one and the same individual? Could the wife of Matías Luján have had a Romero father and a Salazar mother, or vice versa? If
so, this could account for the use of two different surnames: Francisca Romero and Francisca de
Salazar. To
complicate matters, Chávez indicates there was another man named Matías Luján who was also a resident of
the Santa Cruz area in the early 1700s and was married with Catalina Varela (ONMF: 213) However, this
couple does not appear in the 1706 census of Santa Cruz.
If these two Juana Luján's were one and the same,
could she have used the money from her suit against Buenaventura de
Esquibel to
establish herself in the San Ildefonso area? If they were the same women, we
would have an explanation for the 'del Castillo' part of the Gómez surname coming from the
paternal grandmother, Isabel López del Castillo, but still no clear explanation has be uncovered
for the 'Gómez'
part of the name.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: AASF Roll
28, San Ildefonso Church, Baptismal Records (1703-1728) and Marriage Records
(1700-1726); Fray Angélico Cháves, "New Mexico Roots, Ltd." (NMR):
488-90 (DM 1702, April 15, no.5, Santa Fe); NMR: 1379, DM 1682, May 30, no. 8;
NMR: 1924, DM 1694, January 26, no 17, Santa Fe; NMR: 1580, DM 1696, Feb. 8,
no. 4, Santa Fe; John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dogde, eds., To
the Royal Crown Restored, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,
1995: 60; John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dogde, eds., Blood on
the Boulders, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1998: Book 2,
1143; Donald S. Dreeson, transcriber, "Parish Census of Santa Cruz de los
Españoles," New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 28, No. 1, March 1989: 22.
MANZANARES
There are two
undated Manzanares
wills that are part of the collection of Morfín Papers housed at the New Mexico Records Center and Archives. The first is
the will of José Manzanares, resident of the Plaza de San Antonio del Guache along the Rio
de Chama. In his will he declared he was married with Francisca de
Paula Lucero
and that together they had ten children of which eight girls and one boy were
deceased and only one daughter was living, María Micaela Manzanares.
José
Manzanares
further declared that he had two houses, one with three rooms and another in
the Plaza with four rooms. In addition, he had arancho in the Rio de Chama area
with 1400 varas for planting on the bank of the river and 600 varas on a hill.
His other rancho in the Plaza consisted of 134 varas, and he had still another
piece of land in the Plaza that consisted of 65 varas. Below the Plaza he had
100 varas of land and on the upper side of the same plaza he had 240 varas. His
livestock consisted of 16 cows, 3 mules, a mare with a colt, less that a year
old, and 64 head of sheep and goats.
José
Manzanares
identified the following men as being in debt to him: Pablo Urbán, Cristóbal
Herrera, Vicente Crespín, Francisco
Salazar, Mateo de Herrera, Juan Simón
Sandoval, Manuel Gregorio
Torres, and Juan Domingo de
Herrera. Manzanares also named his son-in-law,
Pedro
Serda, as the
executor of his estate, as well as Juan Romero. (Morfín Papers, Folder
19, Doc. # 23).
There is a
marriage record for José Manzanares and Francisca Puala Madrid, md. 8
September 1766, Santa Clara Pueblo. This could be the same
couple dealt with above.
María
Micaela Manzanares,
daughter of José Manzanares and Francisca de Paula Lucero, was married at Santa Clara Pueblo on 14
April 1804
with Pedro Cerda,
son of Juan de la Cerda and María Rosa Salazar. At the time of her marriage María Micaela and her parents were
residents of Chama (San José de Chama).
The second Manzanares will is that of Juan Manzanares, resident of the Puesto de
San José de Chama. He declared that he was married with María Madrid and that they had eight
children, four sons and four daughters, all unnamed in the will, except for one
son, Andrés Manzanares. There is no indication in the will about the identity of the
other seven children. Andrés Manzanares was married at Santa Clara Pueblo on 2
November 1755
with Josepha Sisneros. (Morfín Papers, Folder 19, Doc. # 25).
Two daughters of Juan Manzanares and María Madrid were:
1. Barbara
Manzanares, española,
bt. 5 May 1737, Santa Clara Pueblo
(Padrinos: Pablo Martín
and Antonia
Serda). She is
very likely the same Barbara Manzanares, española, who was married at Santa Clara Pueblo on 26
September 1753 with Juan Lorenzo Atencio, español. This couple were named as Juan Lorenzo
Atencio and Barbara Madrid when they were padrinos
for Marcelino
Manzanares and
Barabara
Martín, md. 15
January 1765,
Santa
Clara Pueblo.
2. Juana de
Manzanares who
was married at Santa Clara Pueblo on 29
October 1757
with Cristóbal Cháves, son of Bernardo Cháves and Catarina Salazar.
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: Morfín
Papers (Folder 19, Documents #24 & #25), Special Collection, New Mexico
Records Center and Archives; AASF Roll #12, Church of Santa Clara Pueblo,
Baptisms: 1728-1805; AASF Roll #30, Church of Santa Clara Pueblo, Marriages:
1726-1832.
MÁRQUEZ
One main branch of
the Márquez
family of New Mexico begins with Bartolomé
Márquez
and his wife Damiana Durán, residents of Santa Fe in the mid-1700s. At this
time, no information has been uncovered from printed or archival sources to
confirm the names of the parents of Bartolomé Márquez, the husband. In fact,
there is not enough information available to make an educated guess as to the
family origins of Bartolomé Márquez. However, it is known that his wife, Damiana Durán, was a sister of José Durán (also known as José Rincón), both children of Miguel Durán and María Sebastiana
Rincón
(SANM I : no. 550)
Durán-Rincón
In early April 1708,
Miguel
Durán
submitted his prenuptial petition to marry María Rincón, daughter of Mexico City
natives Antonio Francisco Rincón de Guemes and Antonia de
Valenzuela
(Chavez, NMR, 445, DM 1708, April 2, nos. 7 & 11, Santa Fe). Miguel was born circa 1668 at the
hacienda of don Juan Ruiz de Závala (location undetermined). He did not know the names
of his parents and was the widower of María de la Rosa. Miguel Durán and María Rincón were married and they
resided at Santa Fe. Miguel died at about the
age of sixty and was buried in Santa Fe on July
3, 1727.
His burial record identified his widow as María Sebastiana Guemes Rincón.
María
Sebastiana Rincón de Guemes was baptized at the Sagrario of the Cathedral of Mexico City
on August 17, 1686 (LDS microfilm #0035174).
She was the legitimate daughter of Antonio Francisco Rincón de Guemes and Antonia de
Valenzuela,
and her padrino was Bachiller Cristóbal de Paredes. Her parents were married
at the Sagrario of the Cathedral of Mexico City on July
25, 1683
(LDS microfilm #0035269). Antonio Francisco was a son of Lázaro Rincón and María de León and his wife, Antonia, was a daughter of Juan de
Valenzuela
and doña Melchora del Castillo.
Antonio
José Rincón
and Antonia
Valenzuela
recorded their intent to marry on July 18, 1683 in Mexico City as follows:
"Antonio Francisco Rincon, natural y vesino desta ciudad hijo lexitimo de lasaro Rincon y de Maria de Leon, con antonia de
balensuela,
natural desta dicha ciudad hija lexitima de Juan de
Valenmzuela
y de Da Melchora del castillo." This couple married
seven days later and their record of marriage reads as follows: "en
veinte y cinco del mes de Julio de mil seiscientos y ochenta y tres con
lizencia del Licdo D. Joseph de Lezamiz cura de esta Sta iglesia catedral despose
por palabras de presente que hizieron verdadero y lexitinmo matrimonio a Antonio frco Rincon con Antonio de
Valenzuela;
siendo testigos el Berl Antonio de Ocaranza, Baltazar de Peredo y frco de fris presente —signed by D. Joseph de
Lezamiz and B.
Dr. Cristóbal
de Paredes.
Antonio
Francisco Rincón de Guemes and Antonia de Valenzuela were among the families that volunteered in 1693
as settlers to assist with the recolonization of New Mexico. This couple came to New Mexico with five children,
including María Sebastiana Rincón de Guemes, arriving at Sante Fe in the early morning
hours of June 23, 1694. Antonio
Francisco was
a weaver by trade and was deceased by May 1697 when his widow and children were
given livestock by Governor Vargas and enumerated in a census of settlers:
"108 Annta de Velenza viuda/sus hijos Joseph Rincon/Ma
Rincon/ damiana Rincon" (SANM II: 65;
translation found in Blood on the Boulders: The Journals of Don Diego de
Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97, Book 2, John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks and
Meredith D. Dodge, eds., Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998, p.
1146 [on this page Antonia Valenzuela is incorrectly named as Antonia Valencia]).
Márquez-Durán
Damiana
Durán, wife of
Bartolomé
Márquez, was
apparently the namesake of her aunt, Damiana Rincón, the sister of María Sebastiana
Rincón de Guemes.
She and Bartolomé were
married at Santa Fe on January
25, 1728.
The witnesses to this union were Juan de Santistevan and Juana Sisneros. A document in the Spanish
Archives of New Mexico identifies Damiana Durán as having been a sister of
José
Rincón (aka José Durán). José had sold land he inherited
on the south side of the Santa Fe River in the Analco settlement
for 40 pesos (approximately $120) to his brother-in-law Bartolomé
Márquez. Márquez and his wife, and José Durán and his wife, were
enumerated in the 1750 census of Santa Fe and were listed one after
the other as follows:
Bartolomé
[no surname]; Damiana
[no surname]; Ma Olalla;
Ana María;
Ma
Sebastiana; 3
children.
Joseph Duran;
Ma
Josepha
(Virginia L.
Olmsted, Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 7)
One of the unnamed
children of Bartolomé Márquez and Damiana Durán
was their son Lorenzo Márquez. The documented evidence for this relationship is found in the
will of Diego Padilla dated 1833, Santa Fe. In this will, Diego Padilla identified his parents as
don Ysidro Padilla and doña Ana María Márquez. In addition, he named his grandfather as Bartolomé
Márquez and
his uncle as Lorenzo Márquez (SANM I: 712). Furthermore, there are a couple of other
records that clearly link Lorenzo to Bartolomé Márquez and Damiana Durán. Lorenzo Márquez and Bartolomé
Márquez were
witnesses to a marriage that occurred in Santa Fe on March
27, 1758.
Lorenzo
Márquez and Ana María
Márquez were padrinos
for an orphan girl christened María Damiana Márquez at Santa Fe on August
18, 1752.
Márquez-Griego
Lorenzo
Márquez, son
of Bartolomé
Márquez and Damiana Durán, was married with Apolonia Greigo in Santa Fe on November
3, 1761.
Unfortunately, the names of their parents were not recorded in their record of
marriage. At this time, the names of the parents of Apolonia Griego are not known. The 1750
census of Sante Fe lists only one Griego family household. José Antonio
Griego and
María
Tenorio
were enumerated with four children, two of whom were named, María and Fernando (Olmsted, SMCNM, 5). In
addition, living in the household of Bonifacio de Rezo in that same year was Agustín Griego and his wife, unnamed.
(Olmsted, SMCNM, 8).
In addition to
their own children (listed below), Lorenzo Márquez and Apolonia Griego were padrinos for
these orphan children: María Apolonia Márquez, baptized January 13, 1778, Santa Fe; José Framcisco
Márquez,
baptized April 18, 1787, Santa Fe (this child had been left in the home of Lorenzo Márquez).
Lorenzo
Márquez was a
sexton by profession. He and his wife were enumerated as residents of Santa Fe in the 1790 census. His
age was listed as 46, indicating he was born circa 1744, and he was identified
as "español." Apolonia Griego was identified as "española," age
42 (b.ca. 1748). In this couple's household were one son age 16, one daughter
age 14, and three female orphans ages 21, 16 and 7 (Virginia L. Olmsted, New
Mexico Spanish and Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790, 1823, 1845, p. 63)
One possible lead
in determining the family origins of Apolonia Griego is that Lorenzo Márquez and his daughter María Josepha
Márquez
were padrinos for Andrés Griego, baptized December
2, 1785,
Santa
Fe, son of Cristóbal Griego and María de la Luz Segura. Cristóbal Griego and María de la Luz Segura were married in Santa Fe on December
1, 1765.
Unfortunately, the parents of the couple were not recorded.
Apparently, Lorenzo Márquez was among one of the early
settlers of the San Miguel del Vado area. The will of Diego Padilla dated 1833 makes mention
of "the house of uncle Lorenzo Márquez at El Bado" (SANM I: 712).
Researcher: José
Antonio Esquibel
Sources: The sources consulted
are cited in the text above. The abbreviations used are: NMR = Fray Angélico
Chávez, "New Mexico Roots, Ltd.", Santa Fe, 1980; SANM = Spanish
Archives of New Mexico; SMCNM = Virginia L. Olmsted, Spanish and Mexican
Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, New Mexico Genealogical Society,
Albuquerque.
MONTES VIGIL
In 1997, John B.
Colligan presented information gathered from his research efforts in
collaboration with those of Dr. Rick Hendricks of the University of New
Mexico's Vargas Project concerning genealogical information about the ancestry
of Francisco
Montes Vigil
(ONMF: 311). While conducting archival research in Zacatecas, Mexico, located two wills of Juan Montes
Vigil, a
native of Mexico City and a resident of
Zacatecas. The wills are dated 2 October 1682 and 25
April 1683.
In his second will, Juan Montes Vigil identified Francisco Montes Vigil, husband of María Jiménez, as his natural
(illigitimate) son. According to the wills, Juan Montes Vigil was a son of Juan Montes
Vigil and Catalina de
Herrera Cantillana,
both deceased and natives of the kingdom of Castilla.
In addition, it
was discovered that Juan Montes Vigil, the husband of Catalina Herrera Cantillana, was a native of the
Parish of San Martino de Siera, Spain, who had sought passage to
the New
World
as an aid to don Jacinto Olmos.
Colligan extracted the record of passage while doing research in Sevilla. A summary
of the record of passage was first publised in Herencia (Quarterly
Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, April 1997:
1-2). Now, the Spanish transcription of this record of passage with the most
pertinent information concerning the lineage of the Montes Vigil family of the San Martino
de Siero area is provided here for the interested researcher. The link is found
at the end of this family section.
The first page
(folio 1) of the record of passage carries the date of 22 June 1611 and refers
to Juan
Montes Vijil
as a native of the Parish of San Martino de Siero who was seeking to go to
Nueva España via Peru as an aid of don Jacinto de Olmos, and a certified statement
was made and signed by Olmos on 3 June 1611.
The critical
document begins on folio 4. This valuable document was a prepared on behalf of Juan Montes
Vijil by his
uncle, Bartolomé de Vijil, Regidor (Councilman) of the "Villa del Consejo de Siero."
Juan presented the document to the officials of the Casa de la Cotratación de
las Indias in Sevilla. Bartolomé de
Vijil
identified his nephew, Juan Montes Vijil, as a native of the Parish of San Martino de Siero and
decalred thathis nephew was single and was committed to anyone in the form of
marriage nor religious order. He continued to provide information about the
nobilty of the Vijil
family, declaring they were hidalgos (hijos dalgo) and verifying that Juan Montes
Vijil was a
descendant of the ancient "casa y solar" (house and manor) of Vijil, one of the oldest and most
prominent families of the San Martino de Siero area.
Furthermore, Bartolome