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13 enero 1814: En la ciudad de México…en esta parroquia de Santa Catarina Virgen y Mártir, yo bachiller don Cristóbal Terrazas, teniente del señor cura don Juan Antonio Gómez de Cosió…asistí al matrimonio, confesados e instruidos en la doctrina cristiana, contrajeron por palabras de presente, don José Ignacio Coronel, soltero, natural de esta parte, hijo legítimo de don Agustín Coronel y de doña Ignacia Salazar; con doña María Francisca Romero, natural de Toluca, doncella, hija de don José Manuel Romero, difunto, y de doña María Rosel; ambos contrayentes españoles, vecinos de esta ciudad y feligreses de esta parroquia. Fueron testigos a verlos y oírlos contraer Antonio Vallejo y Macedonia Amaro e inmediatamente los conferí las bendiciones nupciales; siendo padrinos el teniente don Vicente González y doña Manuela Enríquez.[1]
Jose Ygnacio Franco Coronel was born in 1796 in Federal District, Mexico. He married Maria Josefa Francisca Romero on January 13, 1814. They had eight children in 24 years. He died on December 21, 1862, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 66.
Jose Ygnacio Franco Coronel was born in Mexico City, during the colonial New Spain period. He joined the Spanish army and by 1814 rose to the rank of corporal of the cavalry. He married Maria Josefa Francisca Romero (1802 –1871), a native of Toluca.
In 1834, as a part of the Híjar-Padrés Colony, Ygnacio brought his family (two sons, Antonio F. Coronel and Manuel F. Coronel, four daughters, and his nephew Agustin Olvera) to Alta California, where he started a new life as a civilian. Ygnacio Coronel was a schoolmaster. His son, Antonio, married Mariana W. de Coronel.
In 1836, Coronel was appointed commissioner of the securalized Mission San Miguel Arcángel. In 1837 he taught in the Pueblo de Los Angeles, and afterwards he was secretary of the Ayuntamiento (Los Angeles City Council). In 1843 he was granted Rancho La Cañada.
Ygnacio Coronel died in 1862, after the U.S. statehood of California in 1850.
Ver también:
LDS FamilySearch.org,"México matrimonios, 1570-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JHYR-RVS : 10 February 2018), Ygnacia Salazar in entry for Jose Ygnacio Coronel and Maria Francisca Romero, 13 Jan 1814; citing Santa Catarina Martir,Santa Catarina-Mexico Ciudad,Distrito Federal,Mexico, reference ; FHL microfilm 36,032.
LDS FamilySearch.org, "México, Distrito Federal, registros parroquiales y diocesanos, 1514-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6LP9-G4L?cc=1615259&wc=3PXZ-VZS%3A122580201%2C129314101 : 20 July 2015), Asunción Sagrario Metropolitano (Centro) > Bautismos de españoles 1817-1819 > image 176 of 708; parroquias Católicas, Distrito Federal (Catholic Church parishes, Distrito Federal).
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