| | Pedro RONQUILLOBirth: 1650 50 — Nueva Vizcaya in Nueva España (Parral, Mexico) Death: |
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Pedro RONQUILLO de AMAYABirth: 1600 — Fregenal de la Sierra, Extremadura, España Death: 1654 — Nueva Vizcaya in Nueva España (Parral, Mexico) |
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Note: A court case starting in 1649 contains dozens of pages concerning the settling Pedro Ronquillo's de… A court case starting in 1649 contains dozens of pages concerning the settling Pedro Ronquillo's debts before and after his death in 1654. Declarations by his widow Isabel Benitz clearly establish that she was Pedro's widow, that she was married previously to Simon Cordero and that Andrea Ronquillo and Pedro Ronquillo (Jr) were minor children Of Pedro's at the time of his death in 1654.
The entire records are in the Fondos de Parral archives.
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Civil case- widow trying to collect on estates of 2 dead husbands
Serial Number 100-00285
Title Civil case- widow trying to collect on estates of 2 dead husbands
Date 11-00-1649
Documentation San Bartolome. November 1649 thru September 1656 orig. Sgnd.
Summary This very long Series of documents deals with, first, debts incurred by Capt. Ronquillo to Alonso Moralez Garcia and then Bartolome Garcia. Then Ronquillo Dies in fall of 1654, and the rest of the documents primarily concern Isabel Benitez zuida establishing the case that Ronquillo was her Husband, and she thus is entitled to a certain sum of goods of the estate - because she was first married to Simon Cordero and it appears had owned many articles and goods from his estate when he died and left her a widow. These things she brought to the Ronquillo estate when she married him and wants back now. Persons- captain Pedro Ronquillo de Amaya of San Bartolome; Alonso Moralez Garcia y Toribio, Parral; Bartolome Garcia, citizen and merchant of Parral; Isabel Benitez zuida?; alfarez Simon Cordero; captain Diego de Aquileta y Peralta, Alcalde mayor, and capitan de Guerrera, of Pueblo of Valle de San Bartolome. (Roger Davis) (1975)
Persons Ronquillo de Amaya, Pedro (Captain)Moralez Garcia y Toribio, AlonsoGarcia, Bartolome (Citizen) (Merchant)Benitez , IsabelCordero, Simon (Alferez)Aquileta y Peralta, Diego de (Alcalde Mayor) (Capitan de Guerrera)
Places San Bartolome
First Location AZU Film 0318 rl. 1649c fr. 1274-1373.
Original Location AP, Parral, Mf. rl. 1649c fr. 1274-1373
Batch Reference Number 1010
| | Note | Note taken from familysearch.org by Zulema Trejo & José Marcos Medina
at https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/35503030
"I have gleaned fragments of their story. I believe Isabel was baptized
1613 in Albacete, Spain in the church of San Juan Bautista. (When
referencing online where the Spanish colonist of Parra Chihuahua
mainly came from in Spain I found reference to Andalusia which fits
with Isabel’s origins.) I don’t know why Isabel came to be in the ValleY
of Allende, Chihuahua but she shows up here in the church records
having married Simon Cordero and have three or more children with
him beginning in 1636, again verified with baptismal church records.
Isabel would been 23 at the baptism of her first child. Simon Cordero
was named as one of the original settlers of this area. Simon is also
references as ‘tutor’ to Pedro Ronquillo de Amaya for a position of
Encomendero de San Bartolomé for the Conchos Indian people. This
title and practice of ‘encomendar’ is explained in the below critique.
“Another type of forced labour was the encomienda system by which
certain Spaniards had the obligation of christianizing a native group
and in return the indigenous people had to give tribute.” Simon dies
and Isabel and Pedro marry in 1650. They have three children,
Pedro, Andrea and Angela. Her second child, Pedro Ronquillo de
Amaya Benitez is our ancestor. Isabel was 37 at this point. Pedro dies
either from a fall or in the fall of 1654 and leaves much debt. (Here is
a part of the story that is a mystery. Why if Pedro inherits Simon’s
wealth of land and animals, which was substancial, does he die in
debt?) After his death two men come forward and claim the whole lot.
Isabel enters into a civil suit to get back her property, property she
brought from Simon into the marriage with Pedro."
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