Matías Romero

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Dates & Events: ²⁵²
Matías Romero was probably born before his family reached New México. He was Aférez Real and High Sheriff in Santa Fé in 1631. He was accused, along with Juan Gómez de Luna, of trading illegally with the Plains Indians and making captives for Governor Rosas.

The descendants of Matías and Isabel de Pedraza can be identified the use of de Pedraza with their name Romero.

ONMF, p. 97

• Children: ²³⁹

• Bartolome Romero de Pedraza b: 1641 in AKA: Baltasar Romero resided in Albuquerque.
• Felipe Romero b: 1639 in NM. (found in Herencia , Ap. 1999.Vol 7 #2.p.46)
• Catalina Romero de Pedraza b: 1634 in New Mexico.(Ped Res.file. disc 38). AKA: Catalina Romero and Catalina Lopez Romero.
• Francisco Romero de Pedraza b: 1641
• Inez Romero de Pedraza b: 1645
• Pedro Romero de Pedraza b: ABT. 1635
• Luisa Romero de Pedraza b: ABT. 1625

• Occupation:
Alferez or High sheriff of Santa Fe in 1631.

Matías married Isabel de Pedraza, daughter of Juan de Pedraza and Unknown. (Isabel de Pedraza was born in 1606 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)