Juana Teresa Romero

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁵⁵⁹
Juana Teresa Romero was the daughter of don Domiongo Romero de Pedraza and María Montes Vigil. Her father had been among those with the Villasur Expedition whowere killed in a battle with Plains Indians near the Platte River. Juana's grandfather, Lieutenant Francisco Montes Vigil, was one of the few suvivors of that battle to return home to tell of the disasterous battle for New Mexican. Juana Teresa Romero moved from Santa Cruz to live most of her adult life in Belén where she died on 25 Dec 1776.

Of Juana Teresa's children, Pedro Yturrieta married María Durán y Chaves at San Agustín de Isleta parish on 19 May 1751. Bábara Yturrieta married Felipe de Luna in the same parish church on 11 Sep 1753. José Mariana Yturrieta married doña Rosa Ortiz, 21 Apr 1757, in Santa Fé. María Luisa Yturrieta married Juan Esevan Ortiz. Doña Eduarda married Luis Durán y Chaves at Isleta on 20 Apr 1747, at which time she was not as yet thirteen. Church law required that a girl must be al least twelve years old to marry.

"The Genealogy and Dowry of Doña Eduarda Yturrieta," Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico's Past, 1540-1848, p. 82-93, published 2014 by Rió Grande Books, or in Herencia, Vol. 13, pp. 32-38, published by The Hispanic Genealogical Society

• Land Grant: Spanish, 15 Nov 1740, Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ¹⁵⁵⁹
The Belén Land Grant of 1740 was made to Captain Diego de Torres from Chama, to his brother-in-law, Antonio Salazar and thirty-one petitions. Of those thirty-one petitioners were members of Juana Teresa's family. Listed are José Tenorio (Juana's step-father), María Vigil (Juana's mother), Pedro Vigil (Juana's uncle), and Juana Teresa Romero herself as well her children. The children used their mother's surname, which was very common in New Mexico. They are listed as Lugarda Romero (Eduarda Yturrieta) age six, Bárbara Romero (Yturrieta) about age one and Pedro Romero (Yturrieta) age eight. Don José Tenorio and his step-daughter Juana Teresa and her children remained at Belén, even after María Vigil had died shortly after the land grant was made.

"The Genealogy and Dowry of Doña Eduarda Yturrieta," Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico's Past, 1540-1848, p. 82-93, published 2014 by Rió Grande Books, or in Herencia, Vol. 13, pp. 32-38, published by The Hispanic Genealogical Society

Juana had a relationship with José Mariano de los Dolores Yturrieta. (José Mariano de los Dolores Yturrieta was born in Nueva España and died about 1744 in Río Abajo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ¹⁵⁵⁹.)