Francisco Tomás de Espínola

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Fray Francisco Farfán, 7 Sep 1693, Ciudád de Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁸⁷
Don Francisco Francisco de Espínola, forty-seven, tall, fair, narrow forehead, a nole on the left side of the throat.

~The Royal Crown Restored, p. 276

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Don Francisco de Espínola was a smelter of precious metals who joined the colonists in 1693 with his wife, Doña Marí de las Heras, and three daughters: Catalina, thirteen, María Magadalena, nine, and Juana Antonia, seven. The first two girls were born in México City, while Juana Antonia was born in Zacatecuas.

Francisco and María did not reach New México. They may have died on the journey from Zacatecas, but their daughters continued alone with the colonists to Santa Fé. In late 1694, Antonio Jorge married Catalina. Antonio died within a year, and she married a widower, Francisco Lucero de Godoy in 1695.

Maria Magdalena became the wife of Salvador Anaya Almazán, and Juana Antonio married Ramón García Jurado in 1697.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 172

Francisco married Maria de las Heras, daughter of Andres de Las Heras and Catalina de la Vara, on 5 Feb 1679 in Catedral de Méjico, Ciudád de Méjico, Nuevo España ²⁴⁷.^,250 (Maria de las Heras was born about 1648 in Tenango, Nueva España ²⁴⁷ and died in Dec 1693-Dec 1694 in Nueva España ²⁴⁷.)