María Medina de Cabrera

  Noted events in her life were:

• She had a residence on 13 Feb 1704 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ¹⁵¹⁰
Juana María de Medina is listed as the widow of Ayudante José Luis Valdes who sold a hollow the widow of Sayago (María de Mora).

Early settlers of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, 1695-1715, p. 52

• Background Information: ²⁵²
José Luis Váldez was a native of the City of Oviedo in Spain, and thirty years old in 1694. Two years later he was a sergeant at Santa Cruz. His wife was María Medina de Cabrera, a native of Mexico City, who came with him in the colony of 1693 with their two children: José, four, and Ana, one and a half.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 301

María married José Luis Váldez in Ciudad de Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².^,1510 (José Luis Váldez was born about 1661 in Oviedo, Asturias, Iberia ²⁵² and died on 4 Mar 1703 in Zuñi Pueblo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)