María Gregoria García Jurado

  General Notes:

Gregoria is shown as an orphan in the 1750 census living with Bárbara García Jurado, the widow of Luis García de Noriega. It wasn't unusal for New Mexicans to take in orphans and raise them as their own children. Gregoria is likely a relative of Bárbara García Juardo.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1750, in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
#109 Bárbara Garía Jurado, Spanish age 34 & widow of Capt. Luis García de Noriega; her five children: Luis age 14, Ana María age 10, Rosa age 8, Lazaro age 6; orphan: Gregoria, age 4; Teresa, India, age 40 with her son Tomás, age 16; and Bárbara, India, age 10.


Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 81

María married Julian Gallegos, son of Juan Roque Gallegos and María Juana Silva, in Dec 1763 in Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³² (Julian Gallegos was born about 1738 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
13 Dec 1763, Bernalillo. Julian Gallegos (25, español, son of Juan Roque Gallegos and Juana Silva, and María Gregoria García Jurado (15), no parents given. Dispensed, closed 4th degree consanguinity.

Witnesses: Felipe Jacobo Romero, notary; Toribio García (32), testimoney Unclear. Eugenio Perea (40), says the bnride's great-grandfather and the grooms great-grandmother were full brother and sister, and who produced the grandparents of both parties; said bride's greandmother produced her mother, while the groom's grandfather was a second cousin of the bride's grandmother. Andres Antonio Romero (34), says that the groom's grandfather and the bride's grandmother were first cousins, this grandmother being the product of first cousins of the groom's grandfather.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 3, pp. 543-544