Matías Romero

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Matís Romero, son of Bartolomé Romero and Luisa Varela, returned in 1693 withy at least his mother and sister, Juana; this girl marrried Juan de Ribera at Albuquerque in 1710, when their father Bartolomé was mentioned as dead. Matías was therefore, a newphew of the foregoing Francisco Romero de Pedraza. His name appears in civil documents in conjunction with that of a s son, Tadeo.

His wife was Angela Vallejo, widow of Miguel Lucero, by whom he had these children: Rosalia, who married Lugardo Vallejo in 1730; Quiteria, wife of Nicolás Montoño; Pascual, killed as a youth "by an arrow," 20 Nov 1744 and Tadeo who married Antonia Durán y Cháves, 20 Mar 1751.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 271

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Household 151, Mathías Romero, Spansih, 70; wife Angela Ballegos, 60; children: José Antonio, 4; María Antonia, 3; Bartholomé Romero, 32; Tadeo Romero, 30; Ygnacio, 19

Spanish Census of 1750, p. 84

Matías married Angela Teresa Vallejos, daughter of Manuel Vallejos González and María Nicolasa López Solis, about 1711. (Angela Teresa Vallejos was born before 16 Oct 1685 in Ciudád de Méjico, Nueva España ^252,250, baptized on 16 Oct 1685 in Ciudád de Méjico, Nueva España ^76,250 and died after 1750 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)