Juana Domínguez

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Domingo Luján, apparently the man of this name killed in an accident in 1693,1 had come to re-settle New Mexico. His widow, Juana Domínguez, who afterwards married Lorenzo de Madrid, made her last will in 1717, in which she named a son, Juan, and three daughters, Antonia, Josefa, and a third [Leonor?] whose name is obliterated. She left land in Analco to two sons-in-law, José de Quintana and Cristóbal Jaramillo, to her daughter Josefa, and to a María Luján [Martín], who was the wife of her son Juan. Her children by Domingo Luján had the following consorts: Juan married María Martín in 1698; Antonia became the wife of José de Quintana in 1696;5 Josefa married Matías Martín after refusing his cousin, Antonio Martín; and Leonor was the wife of Cristóbal Jaramillo.


~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 9322-9335

• Background Information. ²⁵⁰
In a petition presented to fray Nicolás Hurtado dated April 8, 1682 at El Real de San Lorenzo near El Paso del Norte, José Domínguez de Mendoza (ONMF: 169-70) requested to enter into the state of matrimony according to the order of "Nuestra Santa Madre Yglesia," "Our Holy Mother Church." He identified himself as a native of New Mexico and a son of Ana Velásquez and an unknown father. According to a marriage certificate, he was married on April 19, 1682 with Juana López (ONMF: 58), a daughter of Sargento Mayor Diego López Sambrano and María de Suaso, all natives of New Mexico, originally residents of the Villa de Santa Fe. From this union there was born a son, Domingo Domínguez, and a daughter, María Domínguez prior to the death of Juana López.

A widower by 1692, José Domínguez de Mendoza, holding the military rank of alférez, participated in the efforts of don Diego de Vargas to restore New Mexico to the Spanish crown. In this endeavor, he was reunited in October 1692 with his sister, Juana Domínguez, who had been taken captive by the Pueblo Indians during the revolt of 1680.

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Sources: SANM I: 233; SANM II: 606; AASF Roll # 61: DM 1717, April 28 (no. 2), Santa Fe (see also, Chávez, "New Mexico Roots, Ltd.", p. 1102); Esquibel, "Sacramental Records and the Preservation of New Mexico Family Genealogies from the Colonial Era to the Present" in Seeds of Struggle: Harvest of Faith, Catholic Cuarto Centennial Publication, LPD Press, Albuquerque, forthcoming, 1998.

• Web Source.
Juana Domínguez: A woman Between Two Culture, written by José Antonio Esquibel and published in El Palacio

Juana married Juan Domingo Luján, son of Francisco de Luján and María Ramos. (Juan Domingo Luján was born in 1655 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵² and died in 1693 ²⁵².)