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Hola prim@s,
In the past couple of years, I’ve been able to accumulate bits and pieces of information regarding the immediate descendants of Cristobal Navarro, which I thought I’d share here.
That he was the brother of Francisca and Maria Gabay, we learned from these two documents (Note: if any of you know of any other documents linking him to them, please feel free to share. Thanks!):
- Dispensation of Joseph de Torres and Elvira de Ulloa, 5 Jan 1689. The bride and groom were great-grandchildren of siblings Cristobal Navarro and Francisca Gabay.
- IM of Geronimo de los Rios and Francisca de Siordia, 25 Feb 1681. The groom and bride were at 3 with 5 degrees consanguinity, because his grandfather, Cristobal Navarro, was the brother of her great-great grandmother, Maria Navarro (Gabay).
The relationships given in both of these documents link to Cristobal Navarro through his daughter, Maria Navarro, who was said to be his hija natural, her mother’s name is not given. This implies that Cristobal Navarro wasn’t married - another explanation for why he never appears in church archives.
Seeing how his daughter lived in Teocaltiche, I image that he lived there, too. On 16 May 1634, in Teocaltiche, a Cristobal Navarro appeared as the padrino for the confirmation of Luis, son of Esteban Tejeda and Luisa Delgadillo. I also located a document, dated 19 Jun 1640, regarding a “Cristobal Navarro, vezino y labrador en su hazienda de la Mendosina deste Valle,” and the diezmos (tributes) he had paid the previous year of 1639. I don’t know if these are the same Cristobal Navarro.
MARIA NAVARRO
His daughter, Maria Navarro, aka Maria Gabay, was married to Joseph de la Cruz. They married around 1625, and had at least 8 children:
- Petrona Navarro, m. Nicolas Yepes
- Josepha de los Rios Cruz, c. 16 May 1634, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal; m. Juan de Torres, 27 Apr 1646, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal.
- Tomasa de la Cruz, c. 16 May 1634, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal; m. Mateo Perez de Frias.
- Martin de la Cruz, c. 16 May 1634, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal; m. Jacinta de Moya e Yañez
- Teresa de la Cruz, c. 29 Jun 1648, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal.
- Juan de la Cruz, b. 30 May 1640, c. 29 Jun 1648, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal.
- Ana de la Cruz, c. 29 Jun 1648, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal.
- Maria de la Cruz, c. 29 Jun 1648, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal.
After the death of her husband, Maria Navarro was involved with Rodrigo Osorio de los Rios, a relationship which resulted in the birth of at least one illegitimate child:
- Geronimo Osorio de los Rios, born ca 1648, m1. Juana de Ornelas y Mendoza, 03 Feb 1669, Nʳª Sʳª de los Dolores, Teocaltiche, Jal; m2. Francisca de Siordia, 09 Mar 1681, Nochistlan, Zac.
Several of Maria Navarro’s children and grandchildren appear in the 1681 padron of Teocaltiche, while others ended up in Mexticacan.
I hope you all find this useful!
Manny Díez Hermosillo
When adding dispensas to my…
When adding dispensas to my tree I generally don't consolidate them with other lines without more information due to name similarities. As such, I never joined the Rios-Siordia dispensa Manny provided to my tree of confirmed descendants of Martin Navarro and Petronila Moctezuma.
IM for Geronimo de los Rios m. Francisca Siordia teaches:
Cristobal Navarro 1. Maria Navarro
Maria Navarro 2. Antonio Siordia
Geronimo de los Rios 3. Francisca Siordia
4. Maria de Chaves
5. Francisca Siordia
Now I understand the trunk of this tree is supposed to be Martin Navarro and Petronila Moctezuma but I was wondering if there was any "smoking gun" that you all are aware of to prove this (i.e. force consolidation with known lines). I get that Maria Gabai y Moctezuma ( i.e. 1. Maria Navarro m. Pedro Hernandez de Vaulus) had a daughter named Juana Siordia so this is a big indicator this is correct. However Antonio Siordia and Maria Iniguez's marriage record does not name parents. Also when reanalyzing this line I noticed Francisca Siordia m. Juan Chavez Salguero's marriage occurred in 1633 while her parent's occurred in 1631. I thought that was strange!
Antonio de Siordia cc Maria Iñiguez
Hola Alex,
The Geronimo de los Rios cc Francisca Siordia IM is the only document I know of that names Antonio de Siordia’s parent/s. It’s also the only document I know of that names his mother as “Maria Navarro” as opposed to “Maria Gabai” (in all of the Aguascalientes sacramental records, she was called “Maria Gabadi”).
It’s obvious that Francisca de Siordia - and her brother, Nicolas de Siordia, who married in 1643 - were born illegitimately. Francisca as born no later than 1621, since 12 years was the legal marrying age, and her brother, around the same time. They would’ve been legitimized by the 1631 marriage of their parents.
As a young man, Antonio de Siordia rented an estancia de ganado menor located near Mexticacan, which belonged to Diego Mateos. On 24 Oct 1616, during the oidor Don Juan Davalos y Toledo’s visit to Mexticacan, among other transgressions, he received reports that Siordia had been carrying on (amancebado) with a Spanish woman from the pueblo, whose name wasn’t given, to protect her reputation. He’d come into town, stay at her place, she’d cook him meals - you know, scandalous stuff. They were likely ordered to cease and desist. My hypothesis is that Maria Iñiguez was the woman. Source: 207 [Al margen] Contra Antonio de Siordia sobre amancebamiento: https://books.openedition.org/cemca/1599?lang=en
Saludos!
Manny Díez Hermosillo
Ha thats funny I was just…
Ha thats funny I was just reviewing the 1616 document (the original) but my spanish is no where near good enough to understand those details. Thanks for the info. I don't think there will be a "smoking gun" for now but the situation does meet the "more likely than not standard" (very scientific, I know lol).
I suspect the non-contemporaneous last name (yet still technically correct) due to the number of generations that had passed
CRISTOBAL NAVARRO - hijo de
Thank you Manny. My wife has “De la Cruz” ancestry in San Juan de Los Lagos. Do you know if the De La Cruz from Lagos descends from this line?
Thanks Again for your wonderful work,
Rick A. Ricci
de la Cruz
Manny,
Mr. Ricci's question makes me wonder if you noticed any connection between these de la Cruz's and Maria de la Cruz from San Juan de los Lagos and Jalostotitlan, wife of Lazaro Martin del Campo. She also used the names Lopez de la Cruz, Lopez de Lizaldi and Martin de Sotomayor.
Danny
Re: de la Cruz
I don’t know if any of their descendants have ended up on Lagos - I’ve only documented grandchildren of Joseph de la Cruz cc Maria Navarro in Teocaltiche and Mexticacan. One of Josepha de la Cruz and Juan de Torres’ daughters, Nicolasa de Torres, married Geronimo Aramburu, and ended up in Tepatitlan, but that’s the only one I’ve seen outside of Teocaltiche and Mexticacan.
Maria Lopez de la Cruz, who married Lazaro Martin del Campo, was daughter of Licenciado Juan Baptista Valli and Maria de Estrada, who were married in Guadalajara in 1601; Maria de Estrada was daughter of Diego Lopez de la Cruz (from whom Maria Lopez de la Cruz got her surname) and Bernardina de Estrada y Alcantara; Diego Lopez de la Cruz was born in Santa Olalla, Toledo, Spain, son of Francisco Lopez de la Cruz and Alfonsina de la Paz, of Santa Olalla, who were early settlers in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Manny Díez Hermosillo
MORE POSSIBLE DESCENDANTS OF CRISTOBAL NAVARRO
Hola prim@s,
In this post, I am going to touch upon some of the families who descend from Maria Navarro y Gabai and Joseph de la Cruz, most who lived in Teocaltiche. Early church records in Teocaltiche are incomplete, and there are missing years; in some cases, I don’t have specific records sayings so & so was married to so & so, but from using baptism and confirmation records, with known family members appearing as padrinos for children of others, and then cross-referencing them with the 1681 padron, I think I’ve been able to establish certain family groups. But there is still the possibility that I am wrong. So, please keep that in mind. Thanks.
PETRONA NAVARRO cc NICOLAS DE YEPES
From records I have seen, Petrona Navarro is likely the oldest child of Maria Navarro and Joseph de la Cruz. She was obviously named for her great-grandmother, Petronila de Moctezuma. Petrona Navarro was married to Nicolas de Yepes (or Yepez). I have them with six children. Petrona died before 1681, because in the padron of that year, Nicolas de Yepes appears married to Geronima de Gamboa. I don’t know if this union produced any children.
The children of Nicolas de Yepes and Petrona Navarro are:
⁃ Maria de Yepes y Navarro, c. 29 Jun 1648, Teocaltiche; m1. Nicolas de la Mora, 26 Jan 1653, Teocaltiche; m2. Joseph Perez
⁃ Mateo de Yepes, c. 29 Dec 1666, Teocaltiche; m. Olaya Gomez Fuentes, dispensed 20 Apr 1690, Teocaltiche.
⁃ Nicolas de Yepes, m. Ana Perez y Medina.
⁃ Magdalena de Yepes, c. 29 Jun 1648, Teocaltiche; m. Nicolas Chavez, 27 May 1664, Teocaltiche.
⁃ Catalina Navarro de Yepes, c. 29 Jun 1648, Teocaltiche; m. Diego Lopez de Castro.
⁃ Matiana de Yepes, c. 29 Dec 1666, Teocaltiche; m. Juan de Avila.
As far as I can tell, this appears to be the only family in Teocaltiche using the Yepes/Yepez surname during the 1600’s. So if you have this surname in your lines, and they were from Teocaltiche, then you might descend from this family.
THE RODRIGUEZ DE LA MORA CONNECTION
Mª ija de nicolas yepes y de petrona was confirmed on 29 Jun 1648 in Teocaltiche. Maria de Yepes, aka Maria Navarro, married twice, her first husband being Nicolas de la Mora, whom she married on 26 Jan 1653, also in Teocaltiche. Though their parents aren’t named, in some records, their children and grandchildren would use the compound surname “Rodriguez de la Mora”. The Rodriguez de la Mora in that region descend from Juan Rodriguez de la Mora and Isabel Delgadillo Calderon, who lived in Mexticacan, Jalisco. On his burial record, dated 7 Aug 1667, Juan Rodriguez de la Mora was said to have died on the rancho of his son, Nicolas de la Mora, in Mexticacan. Though I can’t be 100% certain that this is the same Nicolas de la Mora who married Maria Yepes, I have found no other record of a Nicolas de la Mora. Suffice to say that, if he is the same person, then Nicolas de la Mora and Maria Yepes and their children lived in Mexticacan, which was then in the jurisdiction of Nochistlan, Zac. At least one of their sons, Juan de la Mora, was living in Mexticacan when he married on 13 Feb 1679.
Nicolas de la Mora was already deceased by the time Juan de la Mora married in 1679, and in 1681, Maria de Yepes was living in Teocaltiche, when her name appears in the padron of that year. She was now married to Joseph Perez. I don’t know when they were married, nor whether this union produced any children.
Maria de Yepes and Joseph Perez appear twice in the 1681 padron, once with him as head of household, and once, with her as head of household:
1681 Teocaltiche padron
Casa de Joseph Peres mestiço, Mª de Iepes su mujer, Lasaro de Plasencia, Juª Rodrigues su mujer, Augustina Yañes su mujer*, Petronila Nabarro, Isabel Rodrigues, Peº Rodrigues de la Mora, Domingo de la Mora
Casa de Mª de Yepes, Joseph Peres su marido, Lasaro de Plasencia, Juª de la Mora su muger, Jů de la Mora
*Augustina Yañez was married to Juan de la Mora, whose name is apparently absent. This was likely an error of the census taker, since it says “su muger,” but Juan de la Mora’s name does appear in the other entry.
With the exception of Juan de la Mora, I have not been able to verify that the other people listed in these padrones were her children, but just in case:
⁃ Juan Rodriguez de la Mora, m. Agustina Yañez, 13 Feb 1679, Nochistlan.
⁃ Juana Rodriguez de la Mora, m. Lasaro Plasencia.
⁃ Domingo de la Mora, m. Ana de Orosco; possibly the same who was married to Maria de Rubalcava. He and Ysabel Rodriguez appeared as padrinos for a child of Lasaro Plasencia and Juana Rodriguez de la Mora.
⁃ Petronila Navarro.
⁃ Ysabel Rodriguez.
⁃ Pedro Rodriguez de la Mora.
POSSIBLE YAÑEZ CONNECTION?
Confirmed on 29 Jun 1648 was Ana, hija de Juan de la Cruz y de Maria Gavai, and her madrina was doña Antonia. I’ve got a feeling that she is the same Ana de la Cruz who was married to Gonzalo Yañez, son of Juan Yañez del Monte and Maria de Medinilla, of Mexticacan. I know that he had contact with this family - on 26 Jan 1653, he was living in Teocaltiche, when he was the padrino for the marriage of Nicolas de la Mora and Maria Navarro, a niece of Ana de la Cruz’s. This was right around the time he would’ve married Ana de la Cruz. I realize that it’s not a lot to go on, and it’s always possible that she is a Cruz Bermejo, but I’ve never seen her nor any of their descendants use the Bermejo surname. I think it’s worth looking into, for any of the descendants of Gonzalo Yañez and Ana de la Cruz.
Saludos!
Manny Díez Hermosillo
MORE POSSIBLE DESCENDANTS OF CRISTOBAL NAVARRO
Manny,
Wow, this is great information that will be very helpful to a lot of us who's family comes from Teocaltiche and Mexticacan, like mine. I descend from many of these families. Thank you so much for sharing this information.
Danny
CRISTOBAL NAVARRO - hijo de
As usual you have all the sources I already have and then some! Good work Manny, I always look forward to your posts!
Cristobal Navarro
Thanks Manny, this information is very useful.
Danny