Juan Gonzáles Bernal

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Land Grant: ²⁸⁹
In 1696, a group of settlers signed a petition to relocate from La Villa Nueva Santa Cruz de la Cañada to Alameda, and in 1710 Governor Peñuela awarded a large tract of land to Capitán Francisco Montes Vigil. Two years later, Vigil sold the grant to Juan González who built a chapel and large corrals, some of which were in the area across the river that became known as Corrales. Soon other settlers followed, mostly from Alburquerque.

• Dates & Events: ²⁵²
Juan must have found his wife outside New México proper since Zaldívar Jorge is an unusual name, or she could have reached back some generations to an ancestral name, as sometimes happened in this century.

A young woman named Inez lived with her grandother, Apolonia Varela, in Santa Fe. She had a brother named Juan, who was a silversmith. These two were, in all likelihood, the children of Juan Gonzáles Bernal II.
~Origins of New Mexico Families, pgs. 189 & 360

Juan married Nicolasa Josefa Zaldívar Jorge in 1664 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. (Nicolasa Josefa Zaldívar Jorge was born in 1644 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died about 1679 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)