Juan de la Cruz Catalán

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Juan de la Cruz, also known as Juan Catalán because he was from Cataluña, came with the Oñate forces in 1598. He is described then as being thirty-two years old, a native of Barcelona, the son of Antonio de la Cruz, having a bright reddish beard and a wounded right arm. He was in the wagon-train escort of 1613 between Mexico City and Santa Fe, and by 1631 he held the rank of Alférez, his wife being a Beatriz de los Angeles, a native of the valley of Mexico who figured in several instances concerning witchcraft. She appears to be the woman of this name who came in 1700 as a servant of Cristóbal de Brito. Their two known children were Pedro and Juana, who married Juan Griego II.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 1227-1238.

Juan married Beatriz de los Ángeles.²⁵² (Beatriz de los Ángeles was born in Valle de Méjico, Nueva España and died after 1631 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)