María Josefa Medina

María married Diego Romero, son of Salvador Romero de Pedraza and María López de Ocanto, in 1714 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Diego Romero was born about 1689 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial, 5 May 1714, Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁴⁸
Diego Romero (25), native of New Mexico, son of Salvador Romero and María Lóoez de Ocanto, deceased, natives of New Mexico, and María Josefa Medina (19), native of New Mexico living in Santa Fé, daughter of Capitán Diego de Medina, deceased, and María Telles Jiron, natives of New Mexico. - Imprdiments bourght up by witnesses: Miguel Marín (30), married, says that the groom had become engaged to a woman at El Real de Chihuahua; Nicolás Sinsneros (24), native of New Mexico, single, and Francisco Trujilllo (22), native of New Mexico living in Santa Fé, married; Pedro Sánchez de Iñigo (26), native of New Mexico, married, who says that groom was about to marry at San Pedro near Chihuahua, but that the woman already had twp children besides being pregnant at the time. - Now Groom Diego Romero says it is false that he asked to marry one Ignacia de Solis at Las Carretas, Chihuahua. He did have relations whith her as with a woman of the world, at which time she told an uncle of hers, Pedro Gonzales, that he had ruined her; but she already had children, and the wife of Perea el Cojo knew who had deflowered that Solis woman; hence he never gave her his word of marriage. (Incomplete)

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, pp. 1581-1582