Francisco Xavier Benavidez

  General Notes:

Aquí Se Comienza, p. 93
Herencia, Vol. 3, Issue 4, Oct 1995, p. 43-50 ⁵⁰⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Francisco Xavier Benavides, apparently a brother of Nicolás & therefore son of Juan Esteban de Benavides and María de Diezma, had a son, Juan Antonio, by his wife, Jacinta Romero.

~Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 6317-6319

• Background Information:
Francisco Xavier Benavides (ONMF: 147) and Jacinta Romero had another son in addition to the one (Juan Antonio) already identified. This second son was Francisco Benavides who was a citizen of El Paso. On 30 August 1758, Francisco Benavides made his last will at El Paso in which he named his parents and declared that he had been married three times and named a total of five children. Francisco was first married with Pascuala Ávalos, a daughter of Cristóbal Ávalos, and this couple had two sons: Santiago Benavides and Vicente Benavides.

Francisco's second wife was Juana Lucero with whom he had these two children: María Antonia Benavides and Isidro Benavides.

Francisco was married a third time with Juana Martín, and they had one daughter: Lorenza Benavides.

Researcher: Rick Hendricks, Ph.D.

Sources: Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives, Roll 6, bk. 1, 1758, f. 596-98 (Will of Francisco Benavides, El Paso, 30 August 1758), in the microfilm collection of the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP); also see brief extraction given in Rick Hendricks, Ph.D., "Wills from El Paso del Norte, 1754-1817," Nuestra Raíces (Quarterly Journal of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America), Vol. 6, No.4, Winter 1994, 164.

Francisco married María Jacinta Romero, daughter of Baltasar Romero and María Francisca Montoya, on 15 May 1708 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².^,509 (María Jacinta Romero was born about 1694 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died before 1731 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
1708, Santa Fé. Francisco Xavier Benavides (16-18), soldier, widowed of Josefa Tamaris, and Jacinta Romero (14), daughter of Baltasar Romero and doña Francisca Montoya,deceased, of Alburquerque.

Witnesses: Juan de Paz Bustillos, notary; Antonio Silva (42), and Sebastian Salas, soldiers of Santa Fé; Juan de Medina, Antoni Godines, españoles.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 218