Manuel Vallejo González (ONMF: 303), progenitor of the Vallejos family of New Mexico, was first married with María Nicolasa López in Mexico City. This couple presented themselves to the authorities of the Catedral de México to record their banns of matrimony on 4 September1682. The banns record provides the names of the parents of Manuel Vallejo:
Manuel Vallejos nl del Pueblo de Alasingo [sic Acasingo] del obispado de la Ciudad de los Ángls y vezo desta de sies años aesta parte hijo lexmo. de Juan Vallejo y de Ana Gonzales i con María Nicolasa mestisa nl y veza desta ciud.
This couple was wed at the Sagrario de la Catedral de México, Mexico City, on 10 September 1682. Witnesses to this union were: Capitán Pedro Delgado, Antonio Delgado, and Francisco de Herrera. The officiating priest was Bachiller Manuel Delgado Monzón. Manuel Vallejo and María Nicolasa were the parents of two known children:
Ángela Vallejo, baptized 16 October 1685, Catedral de México, and
Miguel Vallejo, baptized 1 March 1689, Catedral de México.
Widowed of his first wife, Manuel Vallejo entered into his second marriage with María Gertrudis López de Arteaga. According to the banns of matrimony of this couple, which were recorded at the Catedral de México, Mexico City, on 6 May 1691, María Gertrudis was a daughter of Bernabé López and María Benites. Manuel and María Gertrudis were married at the Sagrario de la Catedral de México on 20 May 1691. Witnesses to this union were Joseph Vasarena and Francisco de Herrera. The officiating priest was once again Bachiller Manuel Delgado Monzón.
Manuel Vallejo and his wife enlisted as colonists for New Mexico in 1693. María Gertrudis was in the last months of a pregnancy when this expedition to New Mexico left Mexico City in early September 1693. Sometime around mid-late September 1693, María Gertrudis went into labor, and died in childbirth. It appears that her child survived the birth since subsequent muster rolls show an additional child in the household of Manuel Vallejo. This additional child was a son.
Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel
Sources: LDS microfilm #0035255 (Información Matrimonial, Asunción Church, Mexico City, 1653-1693); LDS microfilm # 0035269 (Matrimonios de Españoles, Asunción Church, Mexico City, 1672-1688), LDS microfilm # 0035270 (Matrimonios de Españoles, Asunción Church, Mexico City, 1688-1701); LDS microfilm # 0035175 (Bautismos de Españoles, Asunción Church, Mexico City, 1685-1695); José Antonio Esquibel and John B. Colligan, The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico: An Account of the Families recruited at Mexico City in 1693, Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1999: 48 & 422.