Diego Jirón de Tejeda

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Diego Jirón de Tejeda and María Zúñiga y Cervantes lived in Mexico City prior to the resettlement, but they most likely did not accompany their sons, Diego and Tomás, who came to New Mexico with the colonists of 1693.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 200

Diego married María Cervantes y Zuniga.²⁵² (María Cervantes y Zuniga was born in Ciudad de Méjico, Nueva España.)