Pedro Sánchez de Iñigo

  General Notes:

Herencia: Vol 9, Issue 4, October 2001, "Sanchez Decendants," Patricia Sanchez & Henrietta Martinez Christmas

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Diego de Vargas Spanish, 22 Dec 1692-2 Jan 1693, El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁸⁷
Thirty-fourth household, Pedro Sánchez de Iñigo, married to Leonor Baca. he states that he is ready to enter to settle this kingdom.

~The Royal Crown Restored, p. 45

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Pedro Sánchez de Iñigo was born "in New Mexico," the natural son of Ana (Juana) López. On January 7, 1692, he married Leonor Baca at El Real de San Lorenzo. A Francisca Sánchez de Iñigo, the wife of Captain Juan García de Noriega, was most likely his sister. And he could well be a "Pedro López de Yñiguez" who was soldiering at Guadalupe del Paso prior to the Reconquest. Pedro first settled in the Rio Arriba area, and in 1696 his wife was killed by the Indians of San Ildefonso with her mother, a brother, and her two children.

By the turn of the century Pedro had married a María Luján at Bernalillo, moving shortly afterwards back to the Rio Arriba country. At Santa Cruz, in 1710, he gave his age as thirty-six, stating that he was a resident there, and married. In 1713 he was mentioned as a brother-in-law of Diego Martín, son of Domingo Martin. He was dead by 1720 when a daughter got married.

He had a son, Pedro II, who gave his age as twenty-seven in 1727, being therefore a son by the second wife. Other children were: Manuela, born January 13, 1701 ; Olaya, who married Diego Gonzalez of Santa Cruz in 1720; Francisca Xaviera, December 13, 1715, who became the wife of Juan Quintana; and Antonia, wife of Juan José de la Cerda.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 12511-12531

Pedro married Lenora Baca, daughter of Ygnacio Baca and Juana de Anaya Almazán, on 7 Jan 1692 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Lenora Baca was born in 1678 in San Ildefonso, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸ and died in 1697 in San Ildefonso, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
10 Dec 1691, Real de San Lorenzo. Pedro Sanchez de Iñigo (18), native of New Mexico, son of Juana López, and doña Lenor Baca (13), native of New Mexico, daughter of Sargento Mayor Ygnacio Baca, deceased, and doña Juana Anaya Almazan. Witnesses: Sebastian Gonzales (37), Antonio Sisneros (28), Pedro Madrid (55), all of San Lorenzo. Pair married 7 Jan 1692 with witnesses Capitan don Pedro Ladron de Guevara, Capitan Alonso del Río, Saregento Mayor Francisco Anaya Almazan.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1695

Pedro married next María Luján, daughter of Matías Luján and Francisca Romero, in Jan 1698 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁵¹⁰ (María Luján was born about 1680 and died after 13 Dec 1734 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
27 Jan 1698, Santa Fe. Pedro Sánchez (25), soldier of Santa Fe, widowed of Leonor Baca killed at San Ildefonso in the Indian Revolt of 1696, the son of Juana López, and María Luján (18), daughter of Matias Luján and Francisca Romero, natives of New Mexico. ~ Witnesses Antonio Sisneros (30), Alcalde Mayor of Galisteo; Diego Durán (30), Salvador de Santisteban (20), soldier.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1697