María Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo (abt. 1635)

Born about 1635 in Santa Fe, Nuevo México, Nueva España [uncertain]

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Biography

María Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo was born about 1635 to Diego de Trujillo and Catalina Márquez Vásquez (see Research Notes).^[1] She used many surnames during her life, some from far back in her ancestry.^[2]

Name: María Bernardina/ de SALAS y TRUJILLO/

Name: María Bernardina/ de SALAS y OROZCO

Name: María Bernardina/ OROZCO de SALAS y TRUJILLO

Name: María Bernardina/ de SALAS Y OSORIO

Name: María Bernardina/ de SALAS

In about 1650, she married Andrés Hurtado and he gave her an interesting and difficult life.^[3] By 1661, he was a captain in the military and by 1664 a Syndic of the Franciscans. Because he was close to the friars, he was treated horribly by Governor López Mendizábal, who forced him on the infamous journey in the dead of winter from Sandía to Santa Fé with his pregnant wife and five small children.^[4] Their youngest daughter suffered frostbite and Bernardina took ill, possibly suffering a miscarriage.^[5]

They had a full house. In addition to 9, possibly 10 children of their own, she also raised 2 of Andrés natural children and 3 half-Zuñi girls that her father brought to her so that she could raise them as "true Christians for their being part Spanish."^[6]

Children:

Francisco Hurtado

Catalina Hurtado

Lucía Hurtado de Salas

María Hurtado de Salas

Diego Hurtado

Martín Hurtado

Andrés Hurtado

Isabel de Salazar

Mariana Hurtado

Step-children (natural children of Andrés Hurtado)

Manuel Hurtado

Juana Hurtado

Adopted Daughters

María Josefa de Hinojos

Juana de Salazar

María de Salazar

Andrés died before the Revolt but Bernardina managed to escape with all her children except for Andrés' natural daughter Juana Hurtado who was captured by the Indians along with her 2-year-old daughter María.^[4] Juana was rescued by her brother Martín 12 years later, just before the colonists returned, with her 14-year-old daughter María, 8-year-old Bernardina, and 4-year-old José.^[7][8]

Bernardina lived in Guadalupe del Paso and El Real de San Lorenzo during the exile, arranging marriages for her children and trying to survive.^[7] They were very poor, their "Clothing, very indecent."^[9] When it was time to return, 3 of her sons had died so she returned with her son Martín and her married daughters, with all their families.^[10]

She lived in Santa Fé at first with her daughter Isabel's family because it was still too dangerous to return to her home in the Rio Abajo area.^[11] In 1706, Bernardina, with many of her children and grandchildren, became one of the Founding Families of the new Villa de Alburquerque.^[12] When and where she died is unknown.

Research Notes

1. In Origins of New Mexico Families, Cháves wrote that Bernardina's father was Francisco de Trujillo but offered no proof. However, in Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families, Esquibel makes a very good argument that she can't be Francisco's daughter because of her probable birth and marriage dates.^[3] It is more likely that she was his sister and her parents were Diego de Trujillo and Catalina Márquez Vásquez.
2. There is some confusion regarding which women are the adopted girls from the Zuñi tribe, with different sources claiming different women.^[6]
3. There is no record of Bernardina dying in Santa Fé on 2 Feb 1729. Her daughter Lucia died 3 Feb 1729 in Albuquerque. Bernardina most likely also died in Albuquerque but their burial records don't begin until 1727, when she would have been 92 years old. I checked FHL microfilm for Santa Fé 1729 and Albuquerque 1727-1730 with no success. Korte-201 04:39, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ Kessell, John L., Rick Hendricks, and Meredith Dodge, editors, To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-1694, (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press,1995), p. 84, note 48.
2. ↑ José Antonio Esquibel, Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families, revised Jan 2019, (https://sites.google.com/site/beyondoriginsofnmfamilies/ : accessed 14 Aug 2019), Trujillo.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Esquibel, Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families, Hurtado.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Chávez, Fray Angélico. Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, revised 1992), p. 49.
5. ↑ Valencia, y V. G. M., Aquí Se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa De San Felipe De Albuquerque. (Albuquerque, New Mexico: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2007), p. 51.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo's adopted daughters.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Valencia, Aquí Se Comienza, p. 53.
8. ↑ Kessell, To the Royal Crown Restored, p. 46.
9. ↑ 1684 El Paso Census, Hispanic Genealogical Research Society, Herencia, January 1998, Volume 6, Issue 1, p. 30-31, 35.
10. ↑ Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 197.
11. ↑ Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 209.
12. ↑ Valencia, Aqui se Comienza, p. 17 and 39.

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Wilson.ged on 14 September 2010.
• WikiTree profile Trujillo-33 created through the import of jefflorrie(1).ged on Sep 10, 2011 by Jeff Johnson.
• WikiTree profile Trujillo-49 created through the import of Holguin Family Tree (2).ged on Jun 12, 2012 by Miguel Holguin.