Miguel de Archibeque

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Miguel de Archibeque, legitimate son of Captain Juan de Archibeque and Antonia Gutiérrez, married María Roybal, daughter of Captain Ygnacio Roybal and Francisca Gómez, at San Ildefonso, November 2, 1716. Both parties gave their age as twenty. Three years later his widowed father married María's elder sister. Miguel was absent from Santa Fe, trading in Sonora for his merchant father, when the latter was killed. Miguel made his own last will in 1727, dying on August 15 of that year. In it he declared that he had been married to María Roybal for eleven years, and that they had only two children: a boy, Lorenzo Claudio, who died in infancy, and a girl, Juliana. Juliana married Juan Gabaldón on July 26, 1735, with her aunt María de Archibeque and husband Francisco Casados as witnesses.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 5587-5598

Miguel married María de Roybal, daughter of Ygnacio Roybal y Torrado and Francisca Gomez Robledo, on 2 Nov 1716 in San Ildefonso, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵²

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
24 Oct 1716, San Ildefonso. Miguel de Archibeque (20) of Santa Fé, son of Capitán Juan de Archibeque and doña Antonia Gutiérrez, deceased, and doña María Roybal, native of New Mexico living in Pojoaque, daughter of Capitán Ygnacio de Roybal and doña Francisca Gómez of the San Ildefonso jursidiction.

Witnesses: Juan García de la Riva (34), Alguacil Mayor of the Holy Office and present Alcalde of Santa, native of Mexico City and married; Capitán Francisco Lorenzo Casados (46), native of the Realms of Castile; at San Ildefonso, Miguel de Sandoval Martínez, notary; Juan de Mestas (58) and Pedro Sisneros, both natives of New Mexico and married.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, pp. 88-89