Petra Antonia Rivas

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1790, in Belén, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Plaza 5 de Belén

Household #845
Santiago Romero, mestizo, 39, farmer; married to Petra Rivas, española, 25; two sons, ages sixteen and thirteen; and two daughters, ages six and four

New Mexican Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790 * 1823 * 1845, p. 46

Petra married Santiago Romero on 1 Jan 1781 in San Agustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Santiago Romero was born in 1751 in Río Abajo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ^33,248.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record: San Agustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España. ^34,248
15 May 1774 - Santiago Romero, coyote of Bethelem, married María Pasquala Quintana, coyota of the same place. Testigos: Gregorio Barela and Juana Catalina Torres.

San Agustín de la Isleta Marriages and Baptisms, p. 20

1 Jan 1782 - Santiago Romero, widow of Pasquala Quintana, married Petra Antonia Rivas, daughter of Manuel Rivas and María Escovedo, all of Belén. Padrinos: Feliciano Montoya and his wife, María de la Trinidada García Jurado.

San Agustín de la Isleta Marriages and Baptisms, p. 29

In Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1587, Santiago's age is given as thirty, and Petra Antonia was eighteen.