Apolonia Varela de Losada

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Bernal of the seventeenth century, whose wife was Apolonia Varela, from all indications turns out to be a son of the original Sebastián González who married Isabel Bernal of the Juan Griego family. Of the daughters of Juan there mentioned, Melchora and Antonia, the latter was the wife of Apolinar Martín Serrano (DM, 1692, no. 6). Two known sons were Juan II, who married Nicolasa Zaldivar Jorge, and Sebastián, husband of Lucia Ortiz. Their mother appears to be the same Apolonia Varela whose marriage to Juan Bautista Zaragoza was annulled in 1641, a cause célèbre of the period.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 359 (Kindle Locations 15741-15745)

• Census: Don Diego de Vargas El Paso Muster, Dec 1692-Jan 1693, El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁸⁷
Twentieth household, his mother, one orphan girl, one female dependent, three of her children:

Sebastián Gonzáles, Single, has in his household his mother, Polonia Varela, seventy, and one orphan girl named Inés, thirteen. He also has a dependent named Antonia, who has three children named José, thirteen; Ventura, two; and Estefana, fifteen. He states that he will go to build his house when I go and will take his family later, being given aid.

To The Royal Crown Restored, p. 54

Apolonia married Juan González Bernal, son of Sebastian González and Ysabel Bernal, in 1643 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. (Juan González Bernal was born about 1627 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died about 1679 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)