Joaquín Cedillo Rico de Rojas

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Joaquín Cedillo Rico de Rojas, a native of New Mexico, was twenty-one in 1695 when he married María Varela in Santa Fe. They moved down to the Rio Abajo and reared a large family, as follows: Isabel, born January 13, 1701; Ana, August 1, 1702; Antonio, October 9, 1704, who married Gregoria González; a second Isabel, April 13, 1707; Domingo Francisco, August 16, 1709; Juana, wife of Carlos López, and then of Francisco García; and Magdalena, who married Juan de Dios Martín, and then Antonio Martín in 1734.

~Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 285 (Kindle Locations 12792-12804)

Joaquín married María Varela Jaramillo, daughter of Pedro Varela Jaramillo Captain and Lucía de Madrid, on 30 Oct 1695 in Santa Ana Pueblo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ^248,252.^,509 (María Varela Jaramillo was born about 1675 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
26 Sep 1695. Santa Fé. Joaquín Rico de Rojas (21), vecino of New Mexico, son of Capitán Pedro Sedillo de Rojas and Isabel López de García, vecinos of New Mexico ,both deceased, and MaríaVarela (20) of unknown parentage.

Witnesses: Antonio Martín (44), single, Juan Trujillo (40), married.

The couple married 30 Oct 1695, with witnesses Diego Romero and Josefa de Hinojos.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1788