Trujillo
Status—2021
In 17th-century New Mexico, there were two Trujillo families and it is not clear if they were related since there is not yet any documentation uncovered to confirm a relationship.
Diego de Trujillo, an español and a native of Mexico City born circa 1612-1613, was living in New Mexico by 1631. There is still no documentation that confirms the names of Diego’s parents, although the use of the surnames of Moreno de Lara and Salas y Orozco by his two daughters offers a clue to his parentage.
We know from documentation that Diego de Trujillo was the father of at least three daughters and one son. Although there is no specific mention that the mother of these children was Diego’s first wife, Catalina Vásquez, there is supporting evidence to support this relationship.
Diego’s one son, Francisco de Trujillo did not leave any known male descendants. Instead, Diego is a common ancestor for people with deep Hispano roots in New Mexico through two of his known daughter, doña Ana Moreno de Trujillo and doña Bernardina de Salas y Orozco.
The Trujillo family surname was passed on in New Mexico through the sons of Cristóbal Trujillo, a mestizo and native of New Mexico, and his wife, María de Sandoval y Manzanares, a coyota, native of New Mexico and a daughter of Mateo de Sandoval y Manzanares.
There is yet no evidence of a familial relationship between Diego de Trujillo and Cristóbal Trujillo. There are several records that link the known children of Diego de Trujillo, but none of these children was described as mestizo/mestiza and none of them appear in any records related to Cristóbal Trujillo, or related to his children, as witnesses, padrinos, or neighbors.
The parentage of Cristóbal Trujillo remains on open question for additional research.
In addition to the summary information presented below, more details are found in these two articles:
José Antonio Esquibel, “Revised Trujillo Genealogy, 1626-1720,” Herencia, Vol. 19, Issue 2, April 2011.
José Antonio Esquibel, “Trujillo Family Genealogy Revised” (Revised Version), El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2011, 5-11.
Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Sandoval y Manzanares
Cristóbal1 Trujillo, mestizo, native of New Mexico, parents unknown.A He married María de Sandoval y Manzanares, coyota, native of New Mexico, daughter of Mateo de Sandoval y Manzanares.B
There is yet no record that names the parents of Cristóbal Trujillo, the elder. It is tempting to gravitate toward Diego de Trujillo as being the father of Cristóbal Trujillo because they have common surname.
Diego de Trujillo, an español by caste, was a native of Mexico City born circa 1612-1613 and first appears in records of New Mexico in 1632. There is yet no evidence of a familial relationship between Diego and Cristóbal. There are several records that link the known children of Diego de Trujillo, but none of these children was described as mestizo/mestiza and none of them appear in any records related to Cristóbal Trujillo, or related to his children, as witnesses, padrinos, or neighbors.
Could Cristóbal Trujillo have been a natural son of Diego de Trujillo. If so, Cristóbal would have had to have been born around 1633 in order to begin having his own children from as early as 1646-1650. However, there no records that even hint at this.
It is also possible that Cristobal Trujillo was a natural son of a Franciscan friar by an Indian woman and took the surname from that friars family or perhaps Cristóbal simply adopted the Trujillo surname.
For now, the parentage of Cristóbal Trujillo, el Viejo, remains an open question.
Known children of Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Sandoval y Manzanares:
+ 2 i. Juan2 Trujillo, mestizo, born circa 1640-1656, Río Abajo, New Mexico, deceased by September 1722.C
+ 3 ii. Mateo2 Trujillo, born circa 1656, Santa Fe, New Mexico.D
+ 4 iii. Ángela 2 Trujillo, born circa 1665.E
+ 5 iv. José2 Trujillo, b.ca. 1666-1668, New Mexico.F
+ 6 v. Diego2 Trujillo, born circa 1669-1672, New Mexico.G
+ 7 vi. Bartolomé2 Trujillo, born circa 1661-1670, New Mexico.H
+ 8 vii. Pascual2 Trujillo, born circa 1672, Río Abajo, New Mexico.I
+ 9 viii. Antonia2 Trujillo, born circa 1662.J
10 ix. Melchor2 Trujillo, born circa 1679-1780.K
11 x. Micaela2 Trujillo born circa 1680-1681.L
Sources:
A. Cristóbal Trujillo was described as mestizo by his son Juan Trujillo. See AGN, Inquisición, t. 735, ff. 467r – 468r, Testimony of Juan Trujillo, mestizo, March 15, 1706, Villa de Santa Fe, Denuncia contra Diego Arias de Quirós por delito de doc veces casado, 1706. Cristóbal Trujillo was identified as a native of New Mexico by his son, Diego Trujillo. See DM 1692, January 18, Isleta del Sur, for Diego Trujillo and Catalina Griego, in Fray Angélico Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd: An Addendum,” in New Mexico Genealogist, December 2010, 49:3, 190.
B. María de Sandoval y Manzanares was described as coyota by her son, Juan Trujillo. See AGN, Inquisición, t. 735, ff. 467r – 468r, Testimony of Juan Trujillo, mestizo, March 15, 1706. Her son, Diego Trujillo, identified her as a native of New Mexico. See DM 1692, January 18, Isleta del Sur, for Diego Trujillo and Catalina Griego in Fray Angélico Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd: An Addendum,” in New Mexico Genealogist, 49:3, December 2010, 190. The identification of María de Sandoval y Manzanares as a daughter of Mateo de Manzanares is based on information from Pascual Trujillo (son of Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Sandoval y Manzanares) who identified Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares as his aunt. See John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks and Meredith D. Dodge, To The Royal Crown Restored, 60-61. Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares identified her father as Mateo de Sandoval y Manzanares. See Spanish Archives of New Mexico (SANM), Series I, No. 462, and Ralph E. Twitchell, The Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Volume One (Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1914), 141.
C. Juan Trujillo was first married with Elvira Jimánez and then with Ana María de Herrera and had children by both wives. Juan gave his age as 60 in 1700 (b.ca. 1640), see DM 1700, July 16, El Paso del Río del Norte, in Fray Angélico Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd: An Addendum,” in New Mexico Genealogist, 49:3, December 2010, 192. He gave his age as 60 in 1706 (b.ca. 1646) and identified himself as mestizo, see AGN, Inquisición, t. 735, ff. 467r – 468r, Testimony of Juan Trujillo, mestizo, March 15, 1706. He gave his age as 40 in 1692 (b.ca. 1652), see Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (AASF), Roll 59, DM 1692, September 11, no. 9, Corpus Christi de Ysleta, and Fray Angélico Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd.,” 41-42. He gave his age as 38 in 1694 (b.ca. 1656), see AASF, Roll 59, DM 1694, November 14, no. 29, Santa Fe, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd,” 439. Juan gave his age as 40 and declared he was a native of Río Abajo in 1695 (b.ca. 1655), see AASF, Roll 59, DM 1695, January 16, no. 19, Santa Fe, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd,” 504. He gave his age as 66 in 1714 (b.ca. 1648), see AASF, Roll 61, DM 1714, July 18, no. 2, San Ildefonso, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd,” 119. Juan Trujillo was identified as being deceased by September 23, 1722, when his son, Juan Trujillo, sought to marry Gregoria Chirinos, see AASF, Roll 61, DM 1722, September 23, no. 9, Santa Fe, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd.,” 1929.
D. Mateo Trujillo was identified as an uncle of Lorenzo Trujillo; Spanish Archives of New Mexico, I: 1034, Matheo Truxillo through power of attorney from Lorenzo Truxillo, conveyance of a rancho in Santa Cruz to Pedro Vigil, executed in Santa Fe, 1724. Lorenzo Trujillo was a son of Bartolomé Trujillo and a grandson of Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Sandoval y Manzanares. In September 1706, Mateo Trujillo gave his age as 50, indicating he was born circa 1656. Fray Angélico Chávez, Fray Angélico Chávez, New Mexico Roots, Ltd, An Addendum, Part II,” in New Mexico Genealogist, 49:2 (June 2010),75–76, DM 1706, September 30, Santa Fe, Juan García de la Riva and Feliciana Rael de Aguilar.
E. Ángela Trujillo was identified as a daughter of Cristóbal Trujillo and María Sandoval when she sought to marry Francisco Torres in 1687. See AASF, Roll 59, DM 1687, June 1, no. 1, Corpus Christi de Isleta, New Mexico, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd,” 1891. On May 18, 1745, at Guadalupe del Paso del Río del Norte, Ángela Trujillo gave her age as 80 (b.ca. 1665), declared she was a vecina of El Paso and the widow of Francisco de Torres,a soldier and squadron leader of the presidio in El Paso. She was a witness in a case against Micaela de Contreras, wife of Gabriel de Contreras, for superstitious beliefs. See AGN, Inquisición, t. 892, f. 254r and 261r.
F. José Trujillo, a soldier, gave his age as 26 in 1694, his birthplace as New Mexico, and named his parents as Cristóbal Trujillo and María Manzanares, when he sought to marry Antonia Luján in 1694. See AASF, Roll, 59, DM 1694, January 26, no. 17, Santa Fe, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd,” 1924. Captain José Trujillo gave his age as 44 in 1710 when he sought to marry Antonia López, see AASF, Roll 60, DM 1710, no. 12, San Ildefonso, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd.,” 1926.
G. In 1692, Diego Trujillo gave his age as 23 (b.ca. 1669), declared he was a native of New Mexico, and named his parents as Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Sandoval. See DM 1692, January 18, Isleta del Sur, in Fray Angélico Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd: An Addendum,” in New Mexico Genealogist, December 2010, 49:3, 190.
H. Bartolomé Trujillo was identified as a native of New Mexico and a son of Cristóbal Trujillo and María Sandoval when he sought to marry María Archuleta in 1682; see AASF, Roll 59, DM 1682, April 2, no. 9, Corpus Christi de Isleta, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd.,” 1924. He gave his age as 29 in 1694 (b.ca. 1665), see AASF, Roll 59, DM 1694, June 2, no. 11, El Paso del Norte, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd.,” 1813. He gave his age as 35 (b.ca. 1661) and was identified as a soldier in 1696; see AASF, Roll59 DM 1696, June 16, no. 35, El Paso del Norte, and Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd.,” 845.
I. Pascual Trujillo, age 20, identified himself as a native of the Río Abajo region of New Mexico and a son of Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Sandoval when he sought to marry Antonia Durán in 1692. See DM July 17, 1692, San Lorenzo, in Fray Angélico Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd: An Addendum,” in New Mexico Genealogist, December 2010, 49:3, 191.
J. In December 1692, Antonia Trujillo was a member of the household of Juan Trujillo and identified as his sister. Kessell, Hendricks and Dodge, To The Royal Crown Restored, 61.
K. Melchor Trujillo, age 13, was listed in the household of his parents, Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Manzanares in December 1692-January 1693. Kessell, Hendricks and Dodge, To The Royal Crown Restored, 63.
L. Micaela Trujillo, age 12, was listed in the household of her parents, Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Manzanares in December 1692-January 1693. Kessell, Hendricks and Dodge, To The Royal Crown Restored, 63.
On March 15, 1706, Juan Trujillo presented himself before the same two friars in the Villa de Santa Fe and he testified to what he learned about the alleged bigamy of Diego Arias de Quirós. Juan Trujillo declared he was “Mestizo, casado con Ana de Herrera, española, hijo de Cristóbal Trujillo, Mestizo, y de su legitima mujer, María de Sandoval, coyota” (“Mestizo, married with Ana de Herrera, Spanish, son of Cristóbal Trujillo and his legitimate wife, María de Sandoval, coyota”). He further stated he was sixty years of age (b.ca. 1646) and a native of New Mexico. Juan also made mentioned his son, Baltasar Trujillo.
Two days earlier, on March 13, 1706, Baltasar Trujillo came to the Villa de Santa Fe and in the presence of fray Juan Álvarez and fray Manuel Moreno he presented the allegation of bigamy against Diego Arias de Quirós. Baltasar declared he was forty years of age (b.ca. 1666), a mestizo, married with Nicolasa de Espinosa, and the legitimate son of Juan Trujillo, mestizo, and Elvira Jiménez, mestiza (AGN, Inquisición, t. 735, ff. 467r – 467r, Declaration of Baltasar Trujillo, March 13, 1706, Villa de Santa Fe)
This information expands our understanding of the genealogy of Juan Trujillo, and when combined with the testimony of Baltasar Trujillo the information also confirms that Juan Trujillo was married at least twice, once to Elvira Jiménez and then to Ana María de Herrera.
In records of a land dispute between San Ildefonso Pueblo and Spanish settlers (SANM I: 1351, p. 42), Baltazar de Trujillo (ONMF: 297, 396), husband of Ynez González Bas (ONMF: 189, 297, 396) was identified as the son-in-law of Capitán Juan González (ONMF: 189).
Pablo Manuel Trujillo (ONMF: 297), son of Baltazar de Trujillo and his first wffe, Nicolasa de la Cruz Espinosa), and his wife María Francisca Márquez (buried 23 May 1761, Pueblo of Santa Clara, resident of Chama; see Márquez section in BONMF) resided at Pojoaque in the 1730s and had the following children baptized at Nambé:
Antonio Casimiro Trujillo, baptized 8 March 1729, Nambé. Padrinos: Baltazar Trujillo y su esposa Ynez Gonzales.
Gregorio Trujillo, baptized 15 May 1734, Nambé. Parents residing at Pojoaque. Padrinos: Lázaro Trujillo y Ynez Olguín, su mujer.
Gertrudis Antonia Trujillo, baptized 1 March 1736, Nambé. Madrina: Juana Martín.
Diego de Trujillo
The familial origins of Diego de Trujillo, New Mexico colonist of the early 1600s, have been a mystery for decades, save for clues such as his place of birth being Mexico City and his date of birth around the year 1612-1613. Still, humans leave clues, either knowingly or not, giving insight into their past, where they come from and where they have been.
Two significant clues about Diego de Trujillo’s origins can be found in the names of his daughters: Ana Moreno de Lara and Bernardina de Salas y Orozco. The surname of Ana Moreno de Lara is apparently derived from a probable sister of Diego de Trujillo who married Bartolomé Rodríguez in 1629.
The Salas y Orozco double surname appears to harken back to doña Mariana de Salas y Orozco, who is the probable mother of Diego de Trujillo. Finally, Diego’s naming of his only known son Francisco de Trujillo could have been a tribute to his father, also named Francisco de Trujillo.
This information provides context for conducting additional research to uncover historical as well as other genealogical information on the origins of Diego de Trujillo. Documentation is still needed to confirm the names of his parents.
Diego de Trujillo arrived in New Mexico by March 1631 when he was a witness in the Villa de Santa Fe in a case against Gaspar Pérez in which Diego declared he was eighteen or nineteen years old, indicating he was born circa 1612-1613 (AGN, Inquisición, t. 372, exp. 16, f. 7r, Información contra Gaspar Pérez).
In September 1661, he identified himself as a native of Mexico City age forty-eight, indicating he was born circa 1613 (AGN, Inquisición, t. 596, exp. 1, f. 12r, El señor fiscal dell santo oficio contra doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche, 1663).
A year later, in October 1662, he declared he was fifty years old (b.ca. 1612), a native of Mexico City and married with doña Catalina Vásquez (AGN, Inquisición, t. 598, exp. 8, f. 125r, Testificación contra fray Juan de la Asencion, 1663).
Also in 1662, Capitán Diego de Trujillo was identified as an encomendero in a suit that he brought against Governor don Bernardo López de Mendizábal, demanding to be paid 868 pesos by the governor for livestock and Apache servants. In his claim there was mention of his son, Capitán Francisco de Trujillo, and two son-in-laws: Capitán Cristóbal Baca (husband of Ana Moreno de Lara, also known as Moreno de Trujillo) and Antonio de Carbajal. This information indicates that Trujillo had a second daughter whose name is not known at this time, but who was the wife of Antonio de Carbajal.
The particular passage from Diego de Trujillo's claim that contains the information cited above reads:
“...a su mujer y a su hixo el Capn Franco de truxillo y a dos yernos suyos que son el Capn Xptobal Vaca y anto de carbajal digo el Capn Andrés Hurtado y demando le cantd de ochocientos y sesenta y ocho pesos de reses y ugues mulas y cavallos y mil ocho piezas de Yndios Apaches…”
(Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, Real Audiencia, Concursos de Peñalosa, Vol. I, f. 235/382. Microfilm copy of rolls #1-3 (Vols. I-III) of the "Concursos de Peñalosa" located at the New Mexico Records Center and Archives).
No record has come to light that names the parents of Diego de Trujillo. Based on details presented in the sections above, it seems certain that the family surnames of Trujillo, Moreno de Lara and Salas y Orozco used by Diego de Trujillo and his known children represent more than just a coincidence of common surnames. These specific surnames identify a particular familial association by which the memory of a connection was preserved between descendants and their immediate ancestors from one generation to the next.
Diego de Trujillo is a common ancestor of many people with deep Hispanic roots in New Mexico through the descendants of two of his daughters, Bernardina de Salas Orozco (wife of Andrés Hurtado) and Ana Moreno de Lara (wife of Cristóbal Baca), Diego’s son, Francisco de Trujillo, did not leave any known male descendants. Instead, the progenitor of the Trujillo family of New Mexico was a mestizo named Cristóbal Trujillo who had seven sons and three daughters with his wife, María de Sandoval y Manzanares, identified in records as coyota (see José Antonio Esquibel, “Revised Trujillo family genealogy, 1626-1720, Herencia, Vol. 19, Issue 2, April 2011, 1-10; and José Antonio Esquibel “Trujillo Family Genealogy Revised, 1626-1730,” El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2011, 18-26, and additional notes in El Farolito, Vol. 14, No. 4, Winter 2011, 25-34).
There is a need for documentation to identify the name of the parents of Crsitóbal Trujillo. Was he a son of Diego de Trujillo and an Indian woman? Perhaps, but we simply do not yet have a record to confirm this supposition.
Diego de Trujillo entered into a second marriage with a woman named Margarita whose surname is not provided in the marriage investigation of their daughter, María de Trujillo, native of New Mexico, who was married at Cusihuiriachic, Nueva Vizcaya, in July 1684, with Juan de Salazar Achero (Hachero), a native of New Mexico and a son of Bartolomé de Salazar and María de Hinojos, residents of El Valle de San Antonio de Casas Grandes (Samuel Sisneros, “Diligencias Matrimoniales Matrimoniales de Cusihuiriachic, Chihuahua,” Herencia, Vol. 4, Issue 1, January 1996, 28 and 35).
There is yet no documentation to confirm the names of the parents of Diego de Trujillo. The available evidence points to the possibility that he was a son of Francisco Muñoz de Trujillo Villavicencio and doña Mariana de Salas y Orozco, residents of Mexico City who are the immediate ancestors of the Moreno de Trujillo family that settled New Mexico in 1694.
Trujillo Villavicencio and Salas Orozco— Promising Lead
In the early 1600s, there was a couple named Francisco de Trujillo Villavicencio and doña Mariana de Salas Jorosco (Orozco) who had been residents of the Pueblo of Chalco (located 25 miles southeast of Mexico City) in Nueva España before coming to reside in the
town of Tacubaya near Mexico City. This couple had the following two know sons:
Alonso Moreno de Lara (also known as Moreno de Trujillo) and Nicolás de
Trujillo.
Alonso Moreno de Lara was married in the town of Tacubaya, then a part of the parish jurisdiction of Santa Vera Cruz Church in Mexico City. He was married on 4 October 1638 with doña Estefanía de Ayala y Manrique. In this marriage record, Alonso's parents were named as "Franco de truxillo Villavicencio" and "Da Mariana de Salas Jorosco." Alonso and doña Estefanía had several children who used these combinations of surnames: Moreno, Manrique de Trujillo, Manrique de Lara, and Moreno de Trujillo.
Nicolás de Trujillo, also a native of the Pueblo of Chalco and a resident of Tacubaya, was married 24 February 1646, Santa Vera Cruz Church, Mexico City, with Inés de Trejo.
Could it be that Diego de Trujillo, the progenitor of the Trujillo family in New Mexico, was another son of Francisco de Trujillo Villavicencio and doña Mariana de Salas Jorosco? The year of marriage of Alonso Moreno de Lara indicates that he and Diego de Trujillo were at least contemporaries, if not brothers. Also, as is apparent, the use of a variety of similar surnames in both families (de Trujillo, Moreno de Lara, Salas y Jorosco/Orozco) certainly offers a lead that is well worth following up on in this case.
For the interested researcher, a good place to begin is in attempting to locate and review records of the Trujillo Villavicencio-Salas y Jorosco family from the Pueblo of Chalco, as well as combing through records from Santa Vera Cruz Church for information pertaining to other possible members of this family.
Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel
Source: México, Distrito Federal, Ciudad de México, Santa Vera Cruz Church, Matrimonios, 1568-1666, LDS # 0035848.