Maria Francisca (Romero) Luján (abt. 1655 - abt. 1716)

Born about 1655 in Santa Fe, Nuevo México, Nueva España [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1716 at about age 61 in Nuevo México, Nueva España

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Biography

Maria Francisca was born about 1655. There are no known sources regarding Francisca's origins or parents. She used two different surnames on records: Romero^[1] and de Salazar.^[2] She was married to Matías Luján sometime before the Pueblo Rebellion in 1680.^[3] They survived and made it safely to El Paso with their children and 1 or 2 of Francisca's brothers. In 1684 they were living in Guadalupe del Paso and were extremely poor with no provisions whatsoever.^[4] Somehow they survived these conditions and returned to New Mexico in 1693 with the rest of the original colonists.

Matías and Francisca had at least nine known children. They settled in the new villa Santa Cruz de la Cañada along with the new colonists from Mexico City, most likely because they had land there from before the Rebellion. ^[3] By the 1707 Census, Matiás was dead and Francisca was raising her family alone.^[5]She died about 1716.

Research Notes

1. It is very unlikely that Francisca was the daughter of Francisco Romero de Pedraza and Francisca Ramírez de Salazar. He was still single in 1664^[6], long after Francisca's birth. She may have been a natural daughter but there is no evidence of this. For this reason, I am detaching them as her parents. Korte-201 00:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
2. He was reattached as her father through a merge. Detaching him again.Korte-201 06:14, 26 April 2023 (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), pp. 60 and 92, note 93.
2. ↑ Chávez, Angélico. New Mexico Roots Ltd: a demographic perspective from genealogical, historical and geographic data found in the diligencias matrimoniales or pre-nuptial investigations (1678-1869) of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. PDF image copy, UNM Digital Repository, http://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cswr_reference/5 : 1983, vol. 3, p. 488; Ventura Esquibel and Rosa Bernardina Lucero de Godoy.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Chávez, Fray Angélico. Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, revised 1992), pp. 63, 213, and 369.
4. ↑ "1684 El Paso Census." Herencia, Vol. 6 (January 1998): 23-35, specifically 30.
5. ↑ Esquibel, José Antonio. Early Settlers of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, 1695-1715. (No place: Self-published, 2015); PDF, Sierra Azul Monograph No. 1 (2015), Beyond Origins of NM Families, https://sites.google.com/site/beyondoriginsofnmfamilies/early-settlers-of-santa-cruz-de-la-canada-1695-1715, p. 67.
6. ↑ Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 98.

Acknowledgement

• This profile was created through the import of Wilson.ged on 14 September 2010.
• WikiTree profile Romero-106 created through the import of jefflorrie(1).ged on Sep 10, 2011 by Jeff Johnson.
• WikiTree profile Romero-254 created through the import of Peak_2012-08-12_2012-08-12_AutoBackup_2012-11-01_01.ged on Nov 2, 2012 by Andrea Peak.
• Romero-396 was created by Tim Trujillo through the import of Tim D Trujillo Family_2014-03-15.ged on Mar 15, 2014.