Cristóbal Varela de Losada

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Cristóbal Varela, twenty-six years old in 1699, was then living in Bernalillo. He and Clementa de Ortega had the following children: Joaquín, July 31, 1701; Antonio, June 12, 1704; Salvador, December 10, 1706; Marciala, February 15, 1709; and Antonia Manuela, June 12, 1711.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 305

• He appeared on the Spanish census in 1750 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Household #78
Cristóbal Varela, Indian*, age 93; wife: Clementia de Ortega, age 80; son: Francisco Antonio, age 35; Antonia, Indian Servant, age 15.

~ Spanish Census of 1750, p. 79
* He may have been adopted into one of the Varela de Losada households.

Cristóbal married Clementa de Ortega, daughter of Francisco de Ortega and Isabel de Zamora.²⁵² (Clementa de Ortega was born in 1670 in Nueva España ²⁷⁰ and died on 29 Oct 1756 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²³⁹.)