Josefa Xavier (aft. 1686 - 1735)

Born after 1686 in Nuevo México, Nueva España [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Luis García de Noriega — married 27 Aug 1704 in Bernalillo, Nuevo México, Nueva España

Descendants

Died 20 Jan 1735 before age 49 in Albuquerque, Nuevo México, Nueva España

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Biography

Josefa was born about 1676/1677^[1] to Francisco Xavier and possibly Francisca Baca .^[2] In 1704 she married Luís García de Noriega^[2][3] and they had one daughter, Rosalía.^[4] Josefa died in 1735.^[1]

Research Notes

1. In 1680, Francisco Xavier was a widower with a 3 or 4 year old child, both surviving the Pueblo Revolt and making it safely to El Paso.^[5] He left this child with relatives in El Paso when he was transferred to another Presidio down south in Nueva España. There is some circumstantial evidence that Josefa is the daughter that survived the Pueblo Revolt and then was raised by family members in El Paso, returning to New Mexico with them in 1693. Her 1704 diligencia matrimonial does not say her mother was already deceased but instead appears as if she is alive and living with Francisco in Nueva Vizcaya.^[2] In fact, Francisco Xavier and Francisca Baca were both witnesses to a marriage in 1684 In El Paso.^[6] If Josefa is the child that survived the Pueblo Revolt, then she was born about 1677 and Francisca Baca is most likely her stepmother, with her mother remaining unknown.
2. When she married Luis García de Noriega, she used the name Josefa Xavier. However, her burial record^[1] and her husband's will lists her surname as Valverde. Before Josefa was married, she was living in Bernalillo while her parents were living in Nueva Vizcaya in Mexico. Also living in Bernalillo around that time was a family headed by Asencio Valverde.^[7] Asencio was a soldier which explains why he doesn't appear on any of the colonist lists. Maybe this is the family that raised Josefa and she took their name at the end of her life. This needs more research.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Catholic Church, Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, San Felipe de Neri, (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Burials, 1726-1776, Book Bur-2 Albuquerque, p. 14, Josepha Valberde, "forty something," wife of Luiz Garzia, death, 20 Jan 1735; manuscript on film, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3L-53C3-4?i=21&cat=355358 : accessed 23 Oct 2020), FHL microfilm #16,645, image 22.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} 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. #4, p. 591, Luis Garcia and Josefa Xavier.
3. ↑ Catholic Church, Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Our Lady of Sorrows, (Bernalillo, New Mexico), Marriages, 1700-1712, Luis Garzia and Josepha Xavier, married 27 Aug 1703; manuscript on film, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSPR-T3G4-4 : accessed 20 Mar 2023), FHL microfilm #16,725, image 31.
4. ↑ Valencía y Valdez, G. M., editor. 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. 291.
5. ↑ Hackett, Charles W, and Charmion C. Shelby. Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermíns's Reconquest, 1680-1682: Introduction and Annotations by Charles Wilson Hackett, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1970), Vol. VIII, p. 152.
6. ↑ Chávez, New Mexico Roots, Ltd, Vol. #1, p. 155, José Baca and Josefa Perez Pacheco.
7. ↑ Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 398.

• 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. 113.
• 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. 4, p. 591.