The New Mexico Genealogical Society

The Mail Box December 1999

Information received from NMGS member Maximo Martinez:
I would like to see a mistake corrected. An entry in the Spanish and Mexican Colonial Census of 1845 was incorrectly written by a census taker 154 years ago, then extracted and published as it was found in the record. See New Mexico Spanish and Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790, 1823, 1845 extracted by Mrs. Virginia Olmsted, published as New Mexico Genealogical Society Publication #B2, rev. 1979.

Listed under the El Rito heading (Mora County) on page 226, 1st entry of frame #446 is the following:
M^a Pascuala Trugijo (widow)
Manuel Martin
Mariano Martin

That "Mariano" is in fact Maximo Martin, son of Pedro Martin and Pascuala Trujillo. I know that the correct name is Maximo as he is my great-great grandfather. The person who wrote the original census made the mistake of not crossing the "X" in Maximo. {Signature}

Maximo Martin's marriage record [AASF 94, Mora Marriages frame 328, April 21, 1857] confirms his parents' names as Pedro Martin and Pascuala Trujillo. His brother, Manuel Jorge Martin, married Candalaria Trujillo.

Maximo Martinez, Littleton, CO. e-mail: mmarti5140@aol.com