María Francisca Rael de Aguilar

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
José Miguel de la Peña seems to have been a son of Baltasar Francisco and Lucía Gutierrez. He married María Francisca Rael de Aguilar on April 23, 1737; she was a sister of Nicolás Rael. Sometime in the third quarter of the century he was Alcalde at Jémez, and was living in Santa Fe in 1790, when he gave his age as seventy, and that of his Rael wife as sixty-five. They had a son, Juan de Dios, born March 18, 1748, who married Loreta Ortiz, by whom he had a son, Maríano. The father followed a military career. Another son, to all appearances, was José Miguel II, chanter in the church at Santa Fe, who received a grant near Santo Domingo Pueblo. This homestead of his was known as "El Rancho de José Miguel de la Peña" from 1777 to 1780; by 1791 it was shortened to "Rancho de Peña," and from 1792 on it was "Rancho de la Peña Blanca" His wife was Dolores Martín.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 11407-11423.

María married José Miguel de la Olguín y Peña, son of Baltasar Francisco de la Peña and Lucía Gutiérrez, on 23 Apr 1737 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³⁹² (José Miguel de la Olguín y Peña was born about 1720 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died after 1790 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record: ³⁹²
23 Apr 1737 - José Miguel de la Peña married to Doña María Fracisca Rael de Aguilar.

Witnesses: Bernardino de Zena y Manuela Ruibal.

Santa Fé Marriages of St Fran and La Castrense p. 7