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Francisco Gomez del Castillo (abt. 1701 - before 1762) Ursula Guillen (abt. 1712 - before 1790) Francisco Gómez del Castillo and Úrsula Guillén were the parents of our
ancestor, María Polonia Bárbara Gómez
del Castillo [1739-after 1782], wife of our ancestor Cayetano Atienza Sevillano [1703-abt. 1772]. We know this from the baptismal record of María Polonia Bárbara on Francisco was born about 1701 in The
teenaged Juana moved with Francisco from Francisco’s
father, On On
1 August 1732, in the Taos district, Francisco
Luján [Francisco using his mother’s surname here] and Úrsula Guillén were the padrinos [godparents] for Francisco Guillén, son of Pedro Guillén and María Trujillo. Pedro was the name of Úrsula’s father, but she
could have had a brother by that name also. It is not known whether Francisco
and Úrsula ever lived in the About
1740, Francisco purchased a rancho between San Ildefonso and On The surviving children of Francisco and Úrsula were all daughters, three of whom were listed as living with their grandmother, Juana Luján, in the 1750 Census. In the San Ildefonso district, Francisco and Úrsula were listed as living with three of their daughters and eight Indian women servants. Nearby was Francisco’s brother Juan Gómez del Castillo, his wife, Antonia Quintana, six children, six Indian women servants and one Indian boy. Francisco and Úrsula’s daughter, María Antonia Gómez del Castillo, also lived nearby with her husband, Marcos Lucero, with no children or servants. Also nearby was Juana Luján and her husband, Francisco Martín, and three granddaughters, and one Indian woman servant. The Spanish in the San Ildefonso area numbered only seven households, all descendants of Don Ignacio Roybal or of Juana Luján. They were all our ancestors, or uncles and aunts, and the children of these families. In 1762 his mother, Juana Luján, died, leaving a will. Francisco Martín had predeceased her. Her rancho was divided among her heirs. Francisco Gómez del Castillo died sometime between 1752 and 1762, before his mother. On page 410 of Volume I of the Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Úrsula Guillén alleged in May of 1766
to Governor Velez Cachupín in a petition that
she owned a rancho between San Ildefonso and Santa Clara, which had been
purchased by her deceased husband, Francisco
Gómez del Castillo from Don Joseph de Orcasitas; that she had lived on said
ranch in quiet and peaceful possession for twenty-six years; that she still held
possession in spite of the fact that Ute Indians had attacked the ranch, killed two of her sons,
and driven off her stock; that on the 20th
of that month the [Pueblo] Indians of
San Ildefonso had gone to her rancho while she was engaged in planting, and had
told her that Felipe Tafoya [the Indian advocate] had sent them an order that the lands of the ranch should be
partitioned among them by their [Pueblo] governor; that in view of the fact that they exhibited no order from
Governor Velez, and the notification was not brought by any Spanish official,
she had not permitted them to make a partition of the lands until she could lay
the matter before the Spanish governor.
She calls attention to the fact that during a very long period the
Indians had failed to make any claim to the rancho when it had been sold and
passed from the possession of one owner to another and that at the time that
her husband had been placed in possession of it, the Indians had been summoned
to appear and the boundaries had been designated by Domingo Vigil. In conclusion, she states that in order that
the governor may understand the matter, she transmits with her petition four
documents. These do not form a part of
this archive, and a subsequent statement by Governor Velez shows that he
ordered that they be returned to her. This petition was examined by
Governor Velez on This he did immediately, calling
the attention of the governor to the fact that the recitals in the instruments
referred to were not of a character to make clear the number of varas contained
in the ranch, some of them containing no mention even of the boundaries, or
referring to the original grant as giving that information, although the said
grant was not attached to the proceedings and consequently was not available
for the purposes of the case. [a vara is from 32-43 inches, a.k.a. “a
Spanish yard.”] In regard to one of the instruments,
which he says did mention the boundaries, as being on the north the lands of
the pueblo of Santa Clara and on the south the lands of his clients, the people
of San Ildefonso, he says that this simply leaves open the question as to the
exact location of those boundaries and that nothing has been presented in the
case which militates against the proof already adduced by the Indians in regard
to their boundary being at the point where the stones were buried in the ground
in the form of a cross. In conclusion he asks that the
governor’s previous decision be carried into effect, and that after the
landmark shall be established at the proper point, the number of varas from
there to the house of Úrsula Guillén be
measured, as well as the distance from the house to the boundary of the pueblo
of Santa Clara. On May 24, 1766, Governor Velez
reviewed the case and ordered that his previous decision be carried into effect,
commanding the deputy alcalde and the attorney for the Indians to proceed at
once to place the Indians in possession of their ancient boundary, and to
measure from there to the ranch house and from the latter to the boundary
claimed by the Santa Clara Indians, and to set forth the whole matter in a
proper document in order that the claimants of the ranch might not thereafter
trespass upon the lands of the Indians. On At the point where the stones had been buried in the ground in the form of a cross, a landmark of stones and mud was erected and from said landmark a distance of 200 varas was measured in a northerly direction to the corner of the house, and from said corner the measurement was continued toward the north a further distance of 126 varas to the boundary of the pueblo of Santa Clara, making the total distance between the boundaries of the two pueblos 326 varas [about 980 feet] On June 23, 1766, Governor Velez
ordered that the preceding instrument be attached to the other papers in the
case and that a certified copy of his decisions of April 12, 1765, and May 5,
1766, and also of his last decree of May 24, 1766, be given to the Indians as
well as the proceeding immediately following that decree and the one in which
the order is given. He further ordered
that the original proceeding should be deposited in the government archives. Úrsula died sometime after 1766.
Area where Francisco and Úrsula
lived CHILDREN OF FRANCISCO GOMÉZ AND ÚRSULA
GUILLÉN [1] María
Polonia Bárbara Gómez del Castillo, our ancestor, was baptized [2] Lugarda
Josefa Gómez was baptized [3] Juana María Gómez del Castillo was baptized
6 January 1730 at San Ildefonso; no information. [4] María Antonia Gómez del Castillo was
born about 1731. She married Marcos Lucero de Godoy [5] Francisco
Simón Gómez del Castillo was baptized [6] María
Prudencia Antonia Gómez del Castillo was baptized [7] María
Josefa Gómez del Castillo was baptized [8] Tomás
Luján Gómez del Castillo was baptized [9] Josef
Antonio Gómez del Castillo was baptized [10] Sebastián
Gómez del Castillo was baptized [11] Juana
Gómez del Castillo was born about 1753.
She married Juan Domingo Trujillo on Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor |
