Individual Details

Maria Rafaela Mestas

(18 May 1765 - )

Events

Birth18 May 1765New Mexico
Baptism24 May 1765Santa Cruz, New Mexico
Marriage22 May 1786Santa Cruz, New Mexico - Salvador Medina

Families

SpouseSalvador Medina (1736 - )
ChildMaria Manuela Medina (1787 - )
ChildMaria Micaela Medina (1788 - )
ChildMaria Josefa Medina (1790 - )
ChildMiguel Antonio Medina (1792 - )
FatherBartolome Mestas ( - 1786)
MotherMicaela Vigil (1728 - 1807)
SiblingJuana Mestas (1752 - )
SiblingBaltazar Mestas (1754 - )
SiblingTomas Gregorio Mestas (1755 - )
SiblingMestas (1758 - )
SiblingJoseph Antonio Mestas (1760 - )
SiblingBarbara Antonia Mestas (1761 - )
SiblingAmbrosio Ramos Mestas (1762 - )

Endnotes

1. Fray Angelico Chavez, New Mexico Roots LTD: A Demographic Perspective from genealogical, historical and geographic data found in the Diligencias Matrimoniales or Pre-Nuptial Investigations (1678-1869) of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (Santa Fe, New Mexico: n.p., 1982), 1208.

2. Virginia Langham Olmstead, Trans., Marigaret Leonard Windham, Evelyn Lujan Baca, Comp., New Mexico Baptisms Santa Cruz de la Canada Church: Volume 1, 1710-1794 (Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 1994), 120.

3. Virginia Langham Olmstead, Trans., Marigaret Leonard Windham, Evelyn Lujan Baca, Comp., New Mexico Baptisms Santa Cruz de la Canada Church: Volume 1, 1710-1794 (Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 1994), 120.

4. Henrietta Martinez Christmas, Patricia Sanchez Rau, 100 Years of Marriages 1726-1826: Santa Cruz de la Canada, New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2006), 56.

5. Fray Angelico Chavez, New Mexico Roots LTD: A Demographic Perspective from genealogical, historical and geographic data found in the Diligencias Matrimoniales or Pre-Nuptial Investigations (1678-1869) of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (Santa Fe, New Mexico: n.p., 1982), 1208.