Cayetano Atienza Sevillano
(1703 - c. 1772)
Barbara Polonia Maria Gomez del Castillo
(before 1739 - after 1782)
We
know that Cayetano Atienza Sevillano
and Bárbara Polonia María Gomez del
Castillo are the parents of Francisca
Atencio y Alcalá from the records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints. That Francisca’s name
changes from Atienza to Atencio was not at all uncommon in Seventeenth Century
New Mexico.
The
Atienzas were living in the Chama Valley of New Mexico at the time of the birth
of Francisca in January of 1761, but apparently were living at Santa Clara,
Santa Fe County, New Mexico at the time of her baptism on 1 February 1761, no
doubt due to Indian troubles in the Chama Valley. The couple lived out their lives as Spanish
subjects.
Cayetano
was born about 1703 in Santa
Cruz, Santa Fe County,
New Mexico.
He was the son of José de Atienza
y Sevillano II [abt. 1676-1731] and Estefania
Moreno Trujillo [1673-?]. [LDS Disk #38 Pin #502270 and Pin #502271]. He married Bárbara 8 December 1757, at Santa
Clara Pueblo, Río Arriba County, New
Mexico. [LDS
Disk #38 Pin #502277]. In 1769 Cayetano deeded a piece of land with a house on
the Chama River
to Joseph Salazar. The deed was recorded
at Santa Cruz. [p.240, Vol. I of The Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Archive # 874] Cayetano died
sometime prior to 1775.
On 19 May 1743 Cayetano Atienza was
godfather to María Antonia , and Indian servant of his, at her baptism.
Cayetano
was the first cousin of our ancestor, Nicolás
de Quintana. Their fathers had
married sisters just before leaving Mexico City
for New Mexico in 1693.
Bárbara
was born in 1739 at San Ildefonso, Santa Fe County,
New Mexico.
Her parents were Francisco Gómez
del Castillo and Úrsula Guillén. [LDS Disk #38
Pin #506820 and Pin #506819].
Francisco died when Bárbara was young, and Úrsula, her mother, remarried
to Felix Victor Archuleta on 13 May 1774
at the Catholic church in San Ildefonso, Santa Fe County,
New Mexico. [LDS Disk #38 Pin #502144]
Felix was the son of Hilario Archuleta
and the grandson of Andrés Archuleta,
related to us in other lines; so Felix was our distant cousin.
We
can estimate the year of Cayetano’s marriage to Bárbara as about 1755. Cayetano, if the 1703 birth date is correct
for him, was more than thirty-five years older than his wife. Some sources place his birth as about 1730,
but that would have made his mother far too old for bearing children. It was not unusual in New
Mexico to find much older men marrying young
girls. Economics probably was the
motivating factor with the younger women.
Cayetano likely had a prior marriage or marriages. Most of his children
went by the surname Atencio, not an
unusual event in those times.
CHILDREN OF
CAYETANO ATIENZA SEVILLANO AND BÁRBARA GÓMEZ DEL CASTILLO
[1] Cayetano Julian Atencio was born about
1758 at Santa Cruz de la Cañada, New Mexico.
He married María Antonia Varela
on 27 June 1782 at Santa Cruz.
[2] Rosa María Atencio was baptized 9 March 1759 in the
Chama
Valley, Rio
Arriba County, New Mexico. On 2
April 1774, she married 27
June 1782 in Santa Cruz
to Francisco Xavier Tenorio. Rosa
died after 1791.
[3] Francisca Atencio y Alcalá, our
ancestor, was baptized 9 March 1761
at Santa Clara Mission, Santa Fe County,
New
Mexico. She
died after 1850, since she appeared in the U.S. Census that year. She married Gaspar Martín, our ancestor. Their biographies are elsewhere in this work.
[4] Juan Ygnacio Atencio was baptized 22 November 1761, at Santa
Clara, Santa Fe County,
New Mexico.
No information on a marriage.
[5] Catarina
de la Luz Atencio was baptized 3 May 1763 at Chama, Rio Arriba County, New
Mexico. She married Antonio Domingo Santistevan on 25 April 1779 at San Ildefonso,
Santa
Fe County, New Mexico. She may have been living in San
Juan de los Caballeros in 1817.
[6] María Antonia Atienza was baptized 24 July 1765, at Chama,
Rio
Arriba County, New Mexico. No inforamation about a marriage.
Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009.
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