Sabastian Gonzales
(abt. 1592 - after 1642)
Isabel Bernal
(1603 - abt. 1648)
Sebastián Gonzáles and Isabel Bernal were the parents of our
ancestor, Juan Gonzáles Bernal [1627-?]. We know this from page 42 of Origins of New Mexico Families, Revised Edition by Fray
Angélico Chávez:
SEBASTIÁN GONZÁLEZ is
first mentioned in 1626 as an Alférez of Portugese birth. He said he was forty years old in 1632, a
resident of Santa
Fe, and
father-in-law of Diego García,
brother of Juan García [Holgado] [both
our blood uncles]. He was one of the four Regents of
New Mexico in 1642, when he gave his age as
forty-five. His wife was Isabel Bernal, daughter of Juan Griego and Pascuala Bernal [an Indian]. She and her family did not get along very
well with her brother-in-law, Domingo
González [Sebastián’s brother]...
Sebastián
Gonzáles and his brother, Domingo Gonzáles, were awarded a coat
of arms for their military feats. A tile
bearing the coat of arms hangs in the Angélico
Chávez History Museum in the Palace of the Governors in
Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
Sebastián was born in
Coimbra,
Portugal. He came to
New
Mexico about 1620, probably after a stay in New
Spain [Mexico]. His father may have been Diego Blandín, one of Ońate’s soldiers. Blandín, forty in 1598, was
a native of Coimbra, Portugal
and the son of Diego González. Although
Sebastián was considered a “Peninsulare,”
the highest social class, due to his Iberian Peninsula
birth, his children, would have been of a slightly lower status due to their Ľ
Indian blood and their New World birth.
In
the Salinas District of New Mexico, Hernando
and Miguel de Hinojos, father
and son, both our ancestors, owned the Las Humanas Pueblo as encomenderos. This meant that they received an annual tax
from the Pueblo Indians living there. After them, the encomienda of Las Humanas was divided among Alonso Rodriguez
Cisneros, Sebastian Gonzales Bernal
and his son Juan Gonzales Bernal, both
our ancestors, as well. [In the Midst of
a Loneliness: The Architectural History of the Salinas
Missions, Chapter 2] The encomienda
system was a major cause of the Pueblo Revolt in 1680.
Bernalillo
County, New Mexico, is named
for the Gonzáles Bernal family. “-illo” in Spanish denotes a diminutive form of a word
[i.e. “Little Bernal”]. Source: The American Counties, by Joseph Nathan
Kane. The Gonzales Bernal family lived
inside a walled-in, isolated estancia,
which was called Bernalillo. The
city of Albuquerque lies in
Bernalillo
County, as does the town of
Bernalillo.
DNA
studies have shown two distinct New Mexico Bernal family origins:
Bernal - R1b1: Western European origin. This lineage is also the
haplogroup containing the Atlantic modal haplotype. Basque and Celtic people
belong to this Haplogroup and they were among the earliest settlers of Spain. 68% of modern day Spaniards share this
origin. The following markers are common to the people bordering Europe's Atlantic within a couple of steps; DYS19
(DYS394)=14, DYS388=12, DYS390=24, DYS391=11, DYS392=13 and DYS393=13.
Bernal - G2: Caucasus of Europe. This is a fairly rare haplogroup found
mostly in men from the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. The highest concentration of Haplogroup G men is found today
in the Caucasus
Mountains, in
several small states to the south of Russia, and in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The G2 branch of this lineage
(containing the P15 mutation) is found most often in Europe and the Middle East. The Alan Sarmatians were military
allies of the Vandals and the Suebi during the conquest of Iberia, it is likely this is the origin of
haplogroup G2 in Spain. The Alan Sarmatians' ancient homeland
was the Caucasus
Mountains.
About 8% of northern Spaniards share this origin.
[Source:
http://newmexicodna.bravehost.com/haplogroups.html]
CHILDREN OF SEBASTIÁN GONZÁLES AND ISABEL BERNAL
[1] Diego
Gonzáles Bernal was born about 1623 in Santa Fe. He was married to Felipa Jiménez de García. He was the Alcalde Mayor of the San Marcos Pueblo in 1661. He was also “Provinciál de la Humanidad,” as well as Procurator General of the
Kingdom
of New Mexico. In 1663 as Alcalde Mayor of the large Pueblo of
Galisteo, he wrote to New Mexican Governor Mendizábal against the Franciscan
friars [part of the on-going strife between the civil and spiritual leaders of
New
Mexico]. He apparently had to leave New
Mexico at this time due to his transgressions against
the friars.
[2] Juan
Gonzáles Bernal, our ancestor, was born about 1627 in Santa
Fe. He was
married to our ancestor, Apolonia Varela,
who was born about 1628. See their
biographies elsewhere in this work.
[3] Antonio
Gonzáles Bernal was born about 1631 in Santa Fe.
He was secretary of the Santa Fe Cabildo [City Council] in 1661.
[4] Sebastián
Gonzalés was born about 1638 in Santa Fe. He was married to Josefa Cedillo Rico de Rojas. Sebastián survived the Pueblo Revolt
in 1680 and passed muster in Guadalupe del Paso [El Paso]. Unlike another man of the same name, he
returned to New Mexico in
1693. The other remained in El
Paso. Sebastián later was called González Bas as his surname.
[5] Juanita
Gonzáles. She was married to Diego
García Holgado, our uncle.
Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009.
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