Catalina Pérez de Bustillo

  General Notes:

ONMF p. 86-87 & 110

  Noted events in her life and other information:

• Dates & Events: ²⁵²
Catalina came to New Mexico in 1598 with the Don Juan de Oñate party which started the first Spanish settlement in New Mexico.

Her family were among the Loyalists who stayed in New Mexico.

Catalina married Alonso Varela, son of Pedro Varela and Unknown, about 1600 in San Gabriel, Rio Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (Alonso Varela was born in 1578 in Santiago de Compostela, Galica, España ^252,274 and died after 1632 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)