Rosalía López

Rosalía married Mariano Martín, son of Santiago Martín Serrano and Antonia Gertrudis Vallejos, on 7 Apr 1793 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁵⁶¹

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴³⁸
Mariano Martín, 26, citizen of Santo Tomás de Abiquiú, single, the legitimate son of Santiago Martín and Antonia Vallejos, citizens of Abiquiú. Rosalía López, 15, citizen of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, the legitimate daughter of Antonio José López and Bárbara Anaya, citizens of Santa Fé.

Mariano Martín gave his declaration to fray José de la Prada at Abiquiú on 18 Oct 1792, when he said he lived in that area for more than fifteen years.

A certification of baptism from Santa Clara that fray Diego Muñoz Juardo sent indicated that on 7 Oct 1766, fray Mariano Rodríguez de la Torre had baptized Mariano, the legitimate son of Santiago Martín and Antonia Silva. Mariano had been born of 3 Oct 1766. His godparents were Ygnacio Gallegos and María Magdalena Valdés.

At Santa Fe, on 29 Oct 1792, before Father Patero, José Miguel de la Peña and his wife, María Francisca Rael, stated that they recalled taking from the holy font, Bárbara Rosalía López, the legitimate daughter of Antonio José López and Bárbara Anaya. They could not recall the specific day, month or year in which the baptism took place, but it was more of less a year before the arrival of Governor Juan Bautista de Anza in 1778. They areed that minister at the time of Rosalía birth was the lat fray Juan José Llanos.

Witnesses:
Pedro Trujillo, 80
Antonio Trujillo, 68
Both witnesses were citizens of the Abiquiú jurisdiction and stated that Mariano had lived in the area for more than fifteen years.

Father de la Prada sent the proceedings to fray Ramón Antonio González at Santa Cruz. Rosalía states that she was related to Mariano in the 4th degree of consanguinity on traverse lines, was related in some way to two-thirds of the families in the area, was poor, and that Mariano had sufficient means to take care of her.

Witness:
Teniente de alcalde mayor, Pedro Ygnaco Sánchez, 74, citizen of Santa Cruz de la Cañata
Miguel Quintana, 56, citizen of San Ildefonso
Both witnesses had known Rosalía since her birth and that she had lived in the area six years.
Fray Ramón Antonio González included a genealogical outline of the rlationship:

On 17 Jan 1793, the bishop granted a dispensation with a corpora penance of a donation of 9 pesos 3 reales to be applied to the on-going work at the sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.

New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799, pp. 110-111