Generation Two: Francisca Xaviera Xilaíte and Joseph Ramos
Francisca Xaviera Xilaíte’s second marriage was to Joseph Ramos on 31 October 1783 at Mission Dolores (SFD-M:00065). Theirs was the first recorded marriage at Mission Dolores between the gent de razón and a neophyte. Joseph Ramos was baptized 10 July 1731 at San Antonio, Singuilucan, Hidalgo, Nueva España, although his family was from nearby Valle de Tulancingo. He was a bachelor blacksmith at Mission Dolores who, beginning in 1776, traveled from Vera Cruz to San Blas and eventually arrived in San Francisco in 1779 (Scheutz-Miller). Francisca Xaviera Xilaíte and Joseph Ramos had only one child, Pablo Antonio Ramos, who was born on 25 January 1785 and was baptized at Mission Dolores five days later (SFD-B:00410). Joseph Ramos died a few months later in June 1785 and was buried in foundation of the third church, adjacent to the current Old Mission Dolores (Geiger 197).
Marriage record of Joseph Ramos and Francisca Xaviera. Used with the permission of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library.
After his father's death Pablo Antonio lived with his mother and step-father, Urbano Uléqes (SFD-B:00347), from the Ssalson tribe. Urbano Uléqes was the cousin of Francisca Xaviera Xilaíte’s brother-in-law, Baltasar Reyes. Though half Spanish, Pablo Antonio Ramos was classified by the padres as a neophyte from that point forward.
References
Schuetz-Miller, Mardith. “Biofile of Building Artisans who Worked on the Northern Spanish Borderlands of New Spain and Early Mexico,” http://home.nps.gov/applications/tuma/Building_Artisans_of_Northern_New_Spain.doc.
Geiger, Maynard. "New Data on the Buildings of Mission San Francisco." California Historical Society Quarterly 46(3):195-205.
Schuetz-Miller, Mardith. “Biofile of Building Artisans who Worked on the Northern Spanish Borderlands of New Spain and Early Mexico,” http://home.nps.gov/applications/tuma/Building_Artisans_of_Northern_New_Spain.doc.
Geiger, Maynard. "New Data on the Buildings of Mission San Francisco." California Historical Society Quarterly 46(3):195-205.