Gaspar Pérez

  General Notes:

Herencia, Vol. 11, 2003, chart on the "Romero-Robledo and Related Families of Seventeenth Century New Mexico" p. 10 ¹⁵⁰⁵

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Gaspar Pérez, armorer, arrived in Santa Fe on 17 Sep 1619. By 1641 he was a captain when he declared that he was Flemish and a native of Brussels. He made his last will in Santa Fe, April 26, 1646, leaving all his possessions to his only son and heir, Diego Pérez Romero. Gaspar died on May 21. His widow was María Romero, daughter of Bartolomé Romero and Luisa Robledo.

Their son, Diego Romero, by which name he went afterwards, was deeply involved in matters of the Inquisition. Forbidden to return to New Mexico, he wrote his wife to join him in New Spain, and to marry off his sister to an Alonso Lucero. Diego's wife was Catalina de Zamora, daughter of Pedro Lucero de Godoy, who apparently did not heed her husband's wishes, as she appears among the refugees of 1680 with four grown nieces.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 3990-4002

Gaspar married María Romero de Pedraza, daughter of Bartolomé Romero and Lucia López Robledo, in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².^,1505 (María Romero de Pedraza was born in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)