Roque Gutiérrez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Roque Gutiérrez was a native of New Mexico who lived in the middle of the century, and he was dead by the time of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. He was likey stationed as a soldier at the Guadalupe de Paso Mission and was present for the dedication there in 1668. He was married to María de Tapia, as is mentioned in his children's marriage records. Their children were Alejo, who married María Naranjo; María, wife of Juan Cedillo; Lucía who married Baltasar Francisco de la Peña; Isabel, wife of José Gonzalez de Apodaca; and perhaps, a Juan Roque associated with them.

Roque Gutiérrez and his wife María Tapia had children who returned with the reconquest colony. According to his daughter's marriage testimony, Roque died prior to 1686.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, pp. 44 & 194

Roque married María de Tapia, daughter of Juan de Tapia Capitán and Elena Ruíz, about 1677.²⁵² (María de Tapia was born about 1657 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died after 1697 in Nueva España.)