Roque Jaramillo

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Roque Jaramillo was married and living at Santa Cruz by 1711, when he stated that he was twenty-six years old and a native of Mexico City. In 1723, at Santa Cruz, he gave his age as thirty-eight.

Roque Jaramillo's wife was Petrona de Cárdenas, also of the 1693 colonists, who made her last will at Santa Cruz in 1767. In it she declared that she was the daughter of Andrés de Cárdenas and Juana de Avalos, and the wife of Roque Jaramillo, by whom she had fourteen children: Lorenzo, Miguel (both dead), Juan, Juana, Sebastián (dead), Manuel, Gertrudis, Francisco, José, Antonio, María, Francisca Xaviera, and two Marías (the last three dead). Two of these daughters were married, one to Domingo de Herrera, and the other to José Medina.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 8789-8799

Roque married Petrona de Cádenas, daughter of Andrés Cádenas and Juana de Ávalos.²⁵² (Petrona de Cádenas died after 1767 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)