Nicolás Chávez

  General Notes:

Santa Fe - Burials - St. Francis & Military Chapel - 1726-1834, p. 51

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Connection: ⁴⁰⁰
Parroquia de San Francisco de Asis Baptismos - Santa Fé, p. 6

Padres: Nicolás Chaves y Juana Romero
Padrinos: Juana Bernarda Casillas y José Gonsales

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Antonio Romero de Pedraza married Nicolasa del Castillo on April 30 Apr 1726. He was, perhaps, a son of Francisco Romero de Pedraza. His residence and property were at La Cieneguilla, south of Santa Fe, in which general area his immediate descendants lived. Antonio died on 19 Nov 1736, and his widow, who had married Miguel Ortiz, died a widow on January 8 Jan 1783. Their children were:

Juana, wife of Nicolás Chaves, and then of Cristóbal Montoya
María, who married Juan Antonio Baca
Miguel, husband of Rosa Montoya
Domingo

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 271

Nicolás married Juana Teresa Romero, daughter of Antonio Romero de Pedraza and Nicolasa Álvarez del Castillo.