Tom McCabes Genealogy 2022

15 Mar 1706, in Santa Fé, Juan Trujillo gave testimony in the case of alleged bigamy of Diego Arias de Quirós. In this testamony, Juan referred to his son Baltasar Trujillo, who had given testimony two days earlier that he was the son of Juan Trujillo and Elivira Jiménez. Juan declared he was a "mestizo married to Ana de Herrera, Spanish, and was the son of Cristóbal Trujillo and his legitimate wife, María de Sandoval, coyota." He also stated that he was sixty years of age and a native of New Mexico.

"Revised Trujillo Family Genealogy," Herencia, 19:2, pp. 3-4

In 1693, María de Sandoval y Manzanares, the wife of Cristóbal Trujillo, was living in the third household of the Pueblo of Socorros, about 5 leagues from El Paso. Cristóbal and María were living with their two children, Melchor, 13, and Micaela, 12, along with an orphan boy named Lorenzo, 2 years old.

Status—2021

In 17th-century New Mexico, there were two Trujillo families and it is not clear if they were related since there is not yet any documentation uncovered to confirm a relationship.

Diego de Trujillo, an español and a native of Mexico City born circa 1612-1613, was living in New Mexico by 1631. There is still no documentation that confirms the names of Diego’s parents, although the use of the surnames of Moreno de Lara and Salas y Orozco by his two daughters offers a clue to his parentage.

We know from documentation that Diego de Trujillo was the father of at least three daughters and one son. Although there is no specific mention that the mother of these children was Diego’s first wife, Catalina Vásquez, there is supporting evidence to support this relationship.

Diego’s one son, Francisco de Trujillo did not leave any known male descendants. Instead, Diego is a common ancestor for people with deep Hispano roots in New Mexico through two of his known daughter, doña Ana Moreno de Trujillo and doña Bernardina de Salas y Orozco.

The Trujillo family surname was passed on in New Mexico through the sons of Cristóbal Trujillo, a mestizo and native of New Mexico, and his wife, María de Sandoval y Manzanares, a coyota, native of New Mexico and a daughter of Mateo de Sandoval y Manzanares.

There is yet no evidence of a familial relationship between Diego de Trujillo and Cristóbal Trujillo. There are several records that link the known children of Diego de Trujillo, but none of these children was described as mestizo/mestiza and none of them appear in any records related to Cristóbal Trujillo, or related to his children, as witnesses, padrinos, or neighbors.

The parentage of Cristóbal Trujillo remains on open question for additional research.

In addition to the summary information presented below, more details are found in these two articles:

José Antonio Esquibel, “Revised Trujillo Genealogy, 1626-1720,” Herencia, Vol. 19, Issue 2, April 2011.

José Antonio Esquibel, “Trujillo Family Genealogy Revised” (Revised Version), El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2011, 5-11.

More at https://sites.google.com/site/beyondoriginsofnmfamilies/nm-families-a-z/trujillo

The parentage of Cristóbal Trujillo remains on open question for additional research but it is believed that Diego was his father.