María Manuela Roybal

  Noted events in her life were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
1719, Santa Fé. Juan de Archibeque (48), native of Bayona in France, widowed of Antonia Gutiérrez, native of Mexico City among the families who came to settle the Kingdom and widow of Fulano Hita, son of Claudio de Archibeque and María de Armaña, both deceased, and doña Manuela Royball (22), native of new Mexico, daughter of Capitán Ygnacio de Roybal, Algucia Mayor of the Holy Office, and doña Francisca Gómez (Robledo), native of New Mexico.

Witnesses: don José Manuel Giltomey, notary; Francisco Lorenzo de Casados (48), who knew the groom for 23 years, and learned about the death of first wife while at El Alamo in 1703; Diego Arias de Quiros (60), who saw first wife buried; Capitán Cristóbal Torres (51) and Juan de Mestas (59) of Pojoaque. Pair married 8 Aug 1719.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 89

María married Bernardino de Sena y Valle, son of Agustin de Sena and María Ynez de Amparano, on 25 May 1727 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Bernardino de Sena y Valle was born in 1687 in Tezcuco, Valle de México, Nueva España,²⁵² died on 11 Nov 1765 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵² and was buried in Nov 1765 in San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
13 May 1727, Santa Fé. Bernardino de Sena (40), native of Mexico city, widowed of Tomasa Gonzales, and Doña Mauela Roybal (31), widow of Capitán Juan de Archibeque, killed in 1720 Villasur Expedition.

Witnesses: Antonio de Ulibarri (45), Juan de Media (54), Vicente Armijo (50), married; Felipe Tamaris (41) and Manuel Tenorio de Alba (28), both soldier survivors of the 1720 Villasur Expedition; Santiago Giravalle, servant of Archibeque who stayed with him until he died, and then escaped with a bullet shot in his chest and several other wounds. Pair married 25 May 1727.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, pp. 1807-1808

María next married Capitán Juan de Archibeque, son of Claude L'Archevêque and Marie d’Armagnac, on 8 Aug 1719 in Río Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Capitán Juan de Archibeque was born in 1671 in Bayonne, France ²⁵² and died on 16 Aug 1720 Near Present Day Platte River on the Villasur Expedition ²⁶⁹.)