Gregoria de Góngora

  Noted events in her life were:

• Physical Description, 1 Sep 1693, Ciudád de Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁸⁷
Gregoria de Góngora, native of Mexico City, three years old, fair and blond, large eyes, and a wide nose when she was recorded as one of the members of her family who came to New Mexico with the new settlers in 1693. She married Antonio Gutiérrez in 1702 and was living in Isleta in 1719.

~ To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, p. 269, 326

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Juan de Gongora, a wax-worker of Mexico City, joined the colonists of 1693 with his wife, Petronila de la Cueva, and their five children: Christobal, twenty, Maria Gertrudis, nine, Francisca, six, Gregoria, five and Juan Jose, seven months old.

Juan died in Mexico City before starting out, but his widow undertook the journey to New Mexico with her family.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 188

In 1716, Antonio asked for lands below Isleta Pueblo that had belonged to Cristóbal de Tapia before 1680. He was 38 in 1710 and a resident of Alburquerque. Antonio and his wife, Gregoria Góngora were living in the Isleta jurisdiction in 1719.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 194

Gregoria married Antonio Gutiérrez, son of Felipe Gutiérrez and Isabel de Salazar, on 4 Nov 1702 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (Antonio Gutiérrez was born in 1672 in Zacatecas, Nueva Galicia, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
1702, Santa Fé. Antonio Gutiérrez (20), son of Felipe Gutiérrez and Isabel de Slazar, and Gregoria Gongora (14), española, daughter of Juan de Gongora, deceased, and Doña Petronila de la Cueva. ~ Witnesses: Cristóbal Gongora (notary), Miguel de Sandoval Martínez (26), José de Atienza Alcala y Escobar (53), José Mascareñas (33), Alferez Martín Hurtado (29), Sebastian de Salas (34). Pair married 4 Nov 1702 with witnesses Baltasar de la Peña and María Gutiérrez.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 799