Bartolomé Romero de Pedraza

  General Notes:

Herencia, Vol. 11, 2003, chart on the "Romero-Robledo and Related Families of Seventeenth Century New Mexico" p. 10 ¹⁵⁰⁵

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Bartolomé Romero de Pedraza was an adjuntant when he escaped from Santa Fe with Governor Otermín and his people in 1680. He was referred to in the following year as the Adjutant, not married at the time, a native of New Mexico, and forty years old. He was slender, of good stature, having a thick heavy beard and thick wavy hair. A pre-Revolt house at La Cañada was mentioned in 1696 as that of Bartolomé Romero, very possibly this man's, since Romero de Pedraza folk returned to this general area; or it could have belonged to any of the many Bartolomés of the century. It appears, from post-Reconquest data, that his wife was Luisa Varela, and that they had a son, Matías, who married Angela Vallejo, and a daughter, Juana, who became the wife of Juan de Ribera.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 97-98 (Kindle Locations 4408-4417)

Bartolomé Romero de Pedraza was the son of Captain Matías Romero and Isabel de Pedraza, both mentioned as deceased when he was residing as Adjutant at San Pedro de Alcantara in 1681, when he married Doña Lucía Varela Jaramillo (DM, 1681, no. 8). Besides Matías and Juana, mentioned in ONMF, of whose parentage now there is no doubt, they had two other daughters: María, who married Francisco García Perea in 1707; and Antonia, who became the wife of Sebastián Varela in 1711 (DM, 1707, no. 8; 1711, no. 14). Bartolomé died in Santa Fe shortly after the Reconquest, "three years ago," when his widow married Antonio Felix Valencia on May 17, 1696 (DM, 1696, no. 29). Chavez, Fray Angelico. Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period (Kindle Locations 16655-16661). Museum of New Mexico Press. Kindle Edition.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 16653-16661.

• Census.
1684 Stated family of 3 persons. Has 2 fanegas of corn. Much of corn harvest was lost to lack of water. clothing is indecent so that even private parts are exposed. Has a saddle, fire-arm, sword and dagger and leather jacket. Living in a hut.

1692 Living in San Lorenzo near El Paso.

• Census: Diego de Vargas, Dec 1692-Jan 1693, in San Lorenzo del Paso, Nuevo Méjico, Nuevo España. ²⁸⁷
Thirteen household, one son, two daughters

Bartolomé Romero de Pedraza, married to doña Lucía Varela, with three children, the son named Matías, nine; Juana, three; and María, nursing. He states that he has been and is his majesty's loyal vassal and he is ready to go settle this kingdom of New México, being given the aid he needs, without which, he could not go.

Royal Crown Restored, p. 53.

Bartolomé married Lucía Varela Jaramillo, daughter of Pedro Varela Jaramillo and Lucía de Madrid, after 27 Sep 1681 in Real de San Pedro Alcantara.²⁵² (Lucía Varela Jaramillo was born in 1664 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
1681, September 17, Real de San Pedro Alcantara. Ayudante Bartolomé de Pedraza, son of Captain Matias Romero and Doña Isabel Pedraza, both deceased, and Doña Luisa Jaramillo, daughter of Captain Pedro Varela Jaramillo and Doña Lucia Madrid. Witnesses: Sargento Mayor Diego del Castillo (96), Alferez Francisco Xavier (27), Juan Pachéo (36) who knew pair for 10 years and more.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1578.