Juan Roque Gutiérrez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁸⁷
Juan Roque Gutiérrez was the son of Roque Gutiérrez and Maria de Tapia and the bother of Alejo. Juan was born in New Mexico arround 1671.

~ To the Royal Crown Restored, p. 169

• Marriage Investigation: Jan 1692, El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁸⁷
Juan Roque petitioned to marry María García in January of 1692 in El Paso. This petition was opposed by Antonia Martín. She stated that Juan had deflowered her and perjured himself because the alcalde, José had treated to garrote him if he refused to marry María García. Governor Diego de Vargas intervened in the case and ordered Juan to marry Antonia Martín. They had a daughter named Josefa, who married Diego Gallegos in 1709.

Juan Roque Gutiérrez was an alcalde in Santa Fé in 1707, and most likely died in Bernalillo by 1709.

~To The Royal Crown Restored, p. 170

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Juan Roque Gutiérrez was a native of New Mexico, and a soldier twenty years of age, in 1692. In 1707 he was a captain in charge of the garrison at Halona. He and his wife, Antonia Martín, were dead in 1709 when their daughter, Josefa, married Diego González at Bernalillo.

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

Juan married María Antonia Martín Serrano, daughter of Luis Martín Serrano and Antonia de Miranda, on 18 Feb 1692 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España ^248,252.^,1465 (María Antonia Martín Serrano was born about 1670 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died By 1709 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
16 Jan 1690, El Paso del Norte. Juan Roque Gutiérrez (19), soldier of the Presidio, son of Roque Gutiérrez, deceased, and María de Tapia, natives of New Mexico, and María Garcia, daughter of Juan Garcia, native of the city of Zacatcas, soldier at the Presidio de Conches, and Margarita Márquez, deceased, native of New Mexico.

Impediment brought up:
Testimonies:
Juan de Suazo (30) of El Paso, married, said he knew the groom almost since his birth in New Mexico
Alferez José Domímguez (26) of El Paso, Presidio soldier
Andrés Gonzales (41) Presidio soldier who knew groom for seven years in El Paso, said that Pedro Luján, a cousin of his, had remarked that the groom could not marry María García because she had accepted a rosary from him (Luján) and had been his.
José de Apodaca (35), Presidio soldier and Pedro Luján's brother-in-law
Francisco de Apodaca (30), Josés brother, both of whom had heard Luján say the above, but only as a joke.
Pedro Luján (20), Presidio soldier and married, who denied everthing, except the rosary gift.

Another impediment brought up by Antonia Martín (20), native of New Mexico living in El Paso, daughter of Capitán Luis Martín and Antonia de Miranda, deceased, both natives of New Mexico. She claimed that the groom had deflowered her with the promise of marriage. Gutiérrez replied that he did give his word to this Antonia Martín and had also deflowered her, adding that he had perjured himself because Alcalde José Telles Jiron had threatened to garrote him if he did not marry María García.

As a result, Juan Roque Gutiérrez married Antonia Martín instead of 18 Feb 1692, by order of Governor don Diego de Vargas.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 979