Miguel Sandoval Martínez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Miguel de Dios Sandoval Martínez gave the City of Mexico as his birthplace, his age as twenty in 1699, and thirty-three in 1709. He was mentioned as a captain in 1714, and was a member of the Conquistadora
Confraternity.

He made his last will in 1755. After naming his parents, he declared that he had been married to Lucía Gómez (Robledo) for fifty-eight years and two months; then he named their eight children: Manuel, Juana (both dead), Melchor, Andrés, Antonio, Juan Manuel, Miguel, and Felipe (the last two dead) . His widow, a sister-in-law of Ignacio de Roybal, died three years later, when her estate was probated in 1758; here she named some of her children and grandchildren. The first girl, Juana, had been born on July 29, 1700. The only living girl, Melchora, married Alonso Rael de Aguilar in 1729.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 12671-12683

Miguel married Lucía Gómez Robledo, daughter of Andrés Gómez Robledo and Juana Ortiz Baca, on 28 Oct 1697 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³¹.^,252 (Lucía Gómez Robledo was born in 1679 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸ and died in 1758 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
Oct 1697, Santa Fé. Miguel de Sandoval Martínez, native of Mexico City in the parish of Santa Catrina Martir, soldier, son of Juan de Dios Sandoval Martínez and Juana Hernandez, deceased, and Lucía Gómez (18), native of Santa Fé, daughter of Andrés Gómez, deceased, and Doña Juana Ortiz, natives of New Mexico. Pair engaged one year, but the bride's mother and other relatives and in-laws are against the marriage, even threatenng the groom with death. The latter formally petitions the friars, and the bride is them removed from her mother's house in presence of Notary Don José Manuel Giltomey, Capitán Diego Medina and Capitán Diego Arias, Alcalde Ordinrio; she is then deposited in the latter's home, where she pesists in her intention to marry the groom. - Witnesses: Antonio Isassi de Aguilera (44), Regidor, who knew the groom in Mexico City since he was 5 years old; Capitán Diego Arias de Quiros (41), Alcalde Ordinario; Francisco Romero de Pedraza (64), native of Santa Fé and uncle of the bride; Salvador de Santisteban (17), soldier; José de Atienza, resident of Santa Cruz. Pair married 28 Oct 1697 with witnesses Capitán Diego Arias and Ana María Pacheco.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1749