Juan Maestre de Góngora

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Juan de Congora was a wax-worker in Mexico city when he joined the colonists of 1693 with his wife Petronila de la Cueva, and their five children, Cristóbal, 20; María Gertrudis, 9; Grancisca, 6; Gregoria, 5; and Juan José, 7 months old. Juan died in Mexico City before starting out, but his widow undertook the journey to New México with her family.

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

• Census: List of colonists from México City, on 1 Sep 1693, in Ciudád de México, Nueva España. ²⁸⁷
Juan de Góngora, chandler; his wife, Petronila de la Cueva; with five children, Cristóbal, twenty years; María Gertrudis, nine; Francisca, six; Gregoria, five; Juna José, seven months.

Royal Crown Restored, p. 247

Notes from p. 326: ²⁸⁷
Juan Maestre de Góngora was a native of Mexico City and the son of Bartolomé de Góngora and María de Salas Sotomayor. His wife, Petronila de la Cueva y Almonacid, was baptized on 9 Jul 1646 in Mexico City and was the daughter of Lorenzo de la Cueva and María Gómez de San José (Almonacid). Juan and Petronila married on 17 Jun 1674. Together they had the following children: Cristóbal, baptized on 1 Aug 1675; María Gertrudis; Francisca; Gregoria; Josefa; and Juan José.

Juan died in Mexico Dity before the colonists departed, by his widow continued on the New Mexico. In 1694, she married Juan de Chaves Medina in Santa Fe. In 1714, María lived with Petronila in Santa Fe.

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁹⁹ Juan de Góngora, son of Bartolomé de Góngora and María de Salas Sotomayor married Petronila de la Cueva at the Ssgrario cathedral on 17 Jun 1674. Nineteen year later, in July of 1693, Juan de Góngora was forty-two years old. At this time he and his family were enlisted to join the Velasco-Farfán colonist who were on their way to settle New Mexico. Juan died before they left in Sep 1793, yet his wife and children went to New Mexico and arrived in Santa Fé on 23 Jun 1694.

New Mexico Genealogist, June 2023, Vol. 62. No., p. 56

Juan married Petronila de la Cueva y Almonacid, daughter of Lorenzo de la Cueva and María Gómez de San Jose Almonacid, on 17 Jun 1674 in Ciudád de México, Nueva España.²⁵² (Petronila de la Cueva y Almonacid was born in Jul 1656 in Ciudád de México, Nueva España, baptized on 9 Jul 1656 in Ciudad de Méjico, Nueva España ²⁸⁷ and died after 1714 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁸⁷.)