Lineage

Playing House
Felipe (1yr) and Cecelia Vigil (2 months)
with Mother Magdalena (seated) and Tia Caroline.
The Vigil family lineage dates back to the 1300s with a connection to the Lope de Arguello family in Siero, Asturias, Spain. The record of passage of Juan Montes Vigil II, who sailed from Spain and arrived in Nueva España (New Spain) in June 20, 1611, is proof of an adventurer in search of a new life. His grandson, Captain Francisco Montes Vigil, son of Juan Montes Vigil III, was a member of a colonial expedition from Zacatecas, Nueva Galicia. They traveled along the Camino Real from Zacatecas to Nuevo México, arriving at Sante Fe in 1695. The family soon settled in La Villa Nueva de Santa Cruz de la Cañada de los Españoles.

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Vigil families homesteaded near the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. The Vigil appellation proliferated as soldiers, farmers, Indian fighters, miners, educators, statesmen, as well as other trades. The Vigils migration connected the dots from Abiquiu and Taos, Rio Arriba to Conejos in the Colorado San Luis Valley, and to Weston, a settlement along the Rio de Las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio (Purgatoire River) in Las Animas County, Colorado.

Quoted from "Hispanic Pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico" 
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