Salvador Romero

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Salvador Romero, away at Casas Grandes in 1680, passed muster the next year as a native of New Mexico, twenty-one years old and single. He had a good slender build, a long beardless face, and long black hair. Sometime later he married María López de Ocanto, and both returned with the Reconquest.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 4428-4433

Salvador Romero, a native of New Mexico, returned in 1693 with his wife, María López de Ocanto. A daughter, Pascuala, was born in Bernalillo on April 7, and baptised in extremis on 11 Apr 1702. A grown daughter, Agustina, married Mateo Márquez in this same year; and in 1714, a son Diego, married Josefa de Medina of Santa Cruz.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period. Kindle Locations 12198-12205.

Salvador married María López de Ocanto, daughter of Domingo López de Ocanto and Juana de Mondragón, on 4 Jan 1683 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España ²⁵².^,1465 (María López de Ocanto was born in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died before 5 May 1714 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ¹⁴⁶⁵.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencias Matrimoniales: ¹⁴⁶⁵
4 Jan 1683, San Pedro de Alcantara. Salvador Romero, 22, resident of this province of New Mexico, and resident of the jurisdiction of San Pedro de Alcantara, son of Capitán Diego Romero and Sevastina Martín, both deceased, with María Lopes de Ocanto, daughter of unknown, and native of this province.

Witnesses: Luis Maese, 39 more or less; Agustín Luján, 29, a single resident of the province of New Mexico, and presently living here; Alonso Maese, 49, resident of the province of New Mexico; Domingo Martín Barba, 44, a resident of the province of New Mexico, and presently living at the Real de San Pedro de Alcantara.

With no impediment, the could were married and veiled on 17 Jan 1683 by Fry Diego de Mendoca with witnesses Cristóval Tapia and wife Juana de Balensia.

"NM Roots, Ltd., and Addendum, Installment Number Four," NM Genealogist, Vol. 49:4, Dec 2010, p. 188