Antonio Romero de Pedraza

  General Notes:

Santa Fe - Burials - St. Francis & Military Chapel - 1726-1834, p. 17 - AASF, Microfilm #0016906, p. 29

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Antonio Romero de Pedraza married Nicolasa del Castillo on April 30 Apr 1726. He was, perhaps, a son of Francisco Romero de Pedraza. His residence and property were at La Cieneguilla, south of Santa Fe, in which general area his immediate descendants lived. Antonio died on 19 Nov 1736, and his widow, who had married Miguel Ortiz, died a widow on January 8 Jan 1783. Their children were:

• Juana, wife of Nicolás Chaves, and then of Cristóbal Montoya
• María, who married Juan Antonio Baca
• Miguel, husband of Rosa Montoya
• Domingo

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

Antonio married Nicolasa del Castillo, daughter of Francisco Afán de Rivera Betanzos and María de Leyva y Mendoza, on 20 Apr 1726 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (Nicolasa del Castillo was buried on 8 Jan 1783 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Marriage Notes:

Santa Cruz de la Cañada, One-Hundred Years of Marraige, p. 1 ³²⁵