Gómez & Rosales Family of El Paso, Texas

UAir Collections › Documentary Relations of the Southwest › Master Index 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

UAir Collections › Documentary Relations of the Southwest › Master Index Pedro Ronquillo de Amaya. Arrendamiento de una hacienda (Pedro Ronquillo de Amaya, Lease of a hacienda.) Serial Number 100-00408 Title Pedro Ronquillo de Amaya. Arrendamiento de una hacienda Author(s) Ronquillo de Amaya, Pedro Date 06-09-1652 Documentation San Joseph del Parral. June 9, 1652. 4p. Original. Signed. Summary Pedro Ronquillo tutor and executor of the estate of the late Simon Cordero, rents a hacienda, Santa Ana in Valle de San Bartolome to Joan Payan. Inventory included. Cost is 1,400 pesos a year. (R. Davis) (1977) Persons Ronquillo de Amaya, Pedro (Tutor y Curador) Vegaica, Geronimo de Payan, Juan Cordero, Simon Morales Garcia, Alonso Venitez Cordero, Josephina Places San Joseph del Parral (Real)San Bartolome (Valle) First Location AZU Film 0318 rl. 1652c fr. 1049-1051.

UAir - University of Arizona Institutional Repository Documentary Relations of the Southwest Serial Number 100-00445 Title Pedro Ronquillo de Amaya. Pleito criminal. Author(s) Ronquillo de Amaya, Pedro Date 10-27-1652 Documentation San Joseph del Parral. October 27, 1652. Original. Signed. Summary Justicio mayor Geronimo comes upon a fight with Pedro Ronquillo beating up an Indian, Miguel de Silva. Both are arrested and testimony shows Miguel had wounded a mulato slave of Pedro's. Miguel is ordered to prison for unspecified term. (R. Davis) (1977) Places San Joseph del Parral (Real) First Location AZU Film 0318 rl. 1652d fr. 1767-1771. Original Location AP, Parral, Mf. rl. 1652d fr. 1767-1771

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."