The Lucero De Godoy Family of New Mexico

Commentary on 'The Lucero de Godoy Family of New United mexican states' Book

My latest published piece is the historical introduction to the new book, 'The Lucero de Godoy Family of New Mexico: From the Founder Maese de Camp Pedro Lucero de Godoy Through the Seventh Generation' (New Mexico Genealogical Society, April 2018; available for order via Amazon.com), compiled and edited by Gerald H. Peterson and Mary Chacon Peterson and based on the original research by Margaret Buxton.

In improver to including my previous genealogical findings on the Lucero de Godoy family unit of United mexican states City as part of the introduction, I provide an overview of the social and political conditions experienced by the early members of the Lucero de Godoy family in the seventeenth century. Interested readers will likewise learn some new details about the Lucero de Godoy family, such as:

• the occupation of Juan López de Godoy, the father of Pedro Lucero de Godoy
• the political affiliation of the Lucero de Godoy family in New United mexican states, and
• the reason for the marriage of Pedro and his two children at the Palace of the Governors.

The bulk of the book is a very well organized presentation of 7 generations of descendants of Pedro Lucero de Godoy by his two wives, Petronila de Zamora and doña Francisca Gómez Robledo.

The Petersons conducted a remarkable corporeality of work in reorganizing and updating the material that was originally researched and compiled past Margaret Buxton in 1981.

Margaret Buxton spent many years researching the genealogy of the descendants of Diego Lucero de Godoy (b.ca 1691) and Ana María Martín (b.ca. 1712) from the early eighteenth century into the early nineteenth century. The culmination of her piece of work was a self-formatted book of 524 typewritten pages titled 'The Family of Lucero de Godoi Early Records' published in 1982 by the New Mexico Genealogical Society with an additional 209 page index of names and xiv pages of additions and corrections to her 1981 compilation.

Buxton consulted numerous records, including baptismal, matrimony and burial records of twelve New Mexico parish churches, census records, archival documents of the Spanish Athenaeum of New Mexico, and land grant records. In addition to providing source citations in her compilation, she included many notes in her work and information extracted from archival records in social club to aid interested researcher in locating copies of original records.

With the increased interest in New Mexico Hispano genealogy in the late 1980s and during the 1990s, Buxton'due south Lucero de Godoy volume became a popular reference for individuals researching their Lucero de Godoy lineage.

The emergence of new research findings on descendants of the Lucero de Godoy family unit extracted from archival and church records by various researchers over the ensuing decades somewhen necessitated an update to Buxton'south book. When Gerald H. Peterson and Mary Chacon Peterson approached Henrietta Martinez Christmas, President of the New Mexico Genealogical Lodge, well-nigh their involvement and willingness to assist on a project, the update and revision of Buxton's book was at the top of Henrietta's list.

In considering the revisions to the book, it was decided to format the genealogical information according to the current national genealogical standard. This decision changed the entire presentation of the genealogical findings from Buxton'southward original format to 1 that is much easier to follow, better aiding the tracing of lineages from the earliest progenitor of the Lucero de Godoy family to descendants of the 7th generation.

Equally part of the new format, the Petersons take inserted Buxton's numerous notes and source citations as footnotes and there is an appendix of additional source information. In addition to providing some newer genealogical findings, the Petersons, guided by work washed by Henrietta, have as well include English translations of final wills and testaments of some of the descendants of the Lucero de Godoy family.

Anyone with deep Hispano family roots in New Mexico may at some point come across an ancestor who belonged to the Lucero de Godoy family. In this regard, the revised 'The Lucero de Godoy Family unit of New Mexico' is a valuable reference book for finding source documentation and tracing one or more lineages to the family progenitor, Pedro Lucero de Godoy, born in 1599 in United mexican states City and who resided in New Mexico for his full adult life from around 1617 until his death quondam after 1665 and earlier August 1680.

The Lucero surname is still found in New Mexico today and many individuals with deep family unit roots in New United mexican states tin trace i or more than lineages to members of the Lucero de Godoy family.

When I was invited by Henrietta Martinez Christmas to write an introduction to the revised version of Margaret Buxton's Lucero de Godoy book, I considered the opportunity to include information I had extracted from copies of diverse chief sources near the history and genealogy of the Lucero de Godoy family of seventeenth-century New Mexico.

I was pleased that Henrietta and the Petersons agreed.

In the late 1990s I uncovered 3 personal letters of Pedro Lucero de Godoy written to two family members in Mexico City and a business concern associate in San José del Parral. The letters were confiscated by Inquisition officials in 1662 equally part of an investigation against Governor don Bernardo López de Mendizábal. Pedro and his extended family were political supporters of the governor and thus came nether scrutiny as function of the investigation. The letters contained references to several of Pedro's nephews and to two of his brothers.

With information from the letters I was successful in uncovering the names of the parents of Pedro Lucero de Godoy and located Pedro'southward baptismal record, also equally the baptismal records of his siblings, and the union record of his parents, besides as information about the family of his female parent's sister.

I compiled my findings every bit an commodity that was originally published in the Fall 2003 issue of 'El Farolito,' the quarterly journal of the Olibama López Tushar Hispanic Genealogical Research Centre. I updated the article and it was re-published in the Autumn 2013 issue of 'El Farolito.'

For the historical introduction to 'The Lucero de Godoy Family of New Mexico,' I incorporated my genealogical findings and I wrote a history of the Lucero de Godoy family of seventeenth-century New United mexican states that includes information not previously published.

Anyone researching their Lucero family roots volition find 'The Lucero de Godoy Family of New Mexico' to be a valuable inquiry reference.

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