Juana Catalina Romana Torres

  Noted events in her life were:

• Baptismal Record: ³⁴
Juana Cathalina Romana Tórres, Spanish, baptized 22 Aug 1744, daughter of Capital Diego Tórres and Rafael Baca. Padrinos: Capitan Bernabel Baca and Doña Margarita Pelaes.

~Isleta Marriages and Baptisms, pg. 117

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1750, in Belén, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Household #9
Diego Torres : wife, Raphaela Baca; children: Cayetano, Juan Domingo, Martin, Nicolas, Bartholomé, Manuel, Catharina Romana, María, Josepha de la Luz, Lugarda - de pecho (infant)

Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 94

• Census: Spanish, in 1790, in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Second Plaza of Belen
Household # 762
Gregorio Varela, Spanish age 55 & a carpenter with his wife María Torres, Spanish age 43 along with two sons ages twenty-two and seventeen; and four daughters ages ten, eight, seven and 1 year.

New Mexico Spanish and Mexican Colonial Censuses, p. 42

Juana married Gregorio Varela, son of Jacinto Varela Jaramillo and Valentina González Bas, on 6 May 1759 in San Augustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Gregorio Varela was born in Mar 1735 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España, baptized on 16 Mar 1735 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España,⁵⁰⁹ died in 1795 in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and was buried on 5 Aug 1795 in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁵⁰⁹.)

  Marriage Notes:

San Augustín de la Isleta Marriages & Baptisms, p. 12 6 May 1759
Catharina Torres, daughter of Capitán Diego Torres, deceased and Rafaela Baca of Belén married to Gregorio Varela, son of Jacinto Varela and Valentina Gonzales. ³⁴