Francisco Benavidez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Benavides from Beyond Origins.
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 Aug 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 Fabiana Valentina Martín on 30 Aug 1756 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. (María Fabiana Valentina Martín was born about 1710 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)