Ygnacio Coronel (1795–1862) was a settler in the Pueblo de Los Ángeles of Mexican Alta California.
Jose Ygnacio Franco Coronel was born in Mexico City, during the colonial New Spain period.
He married Maria Josefa Francisca Romero (1802 –1871), a native of Toluca.
[1] In 1834, as a part of the Híjar-Padrés Colony, Ygnacio brought his family (two sons, Antonio F. Coronel and Manuel F. Coronel, four daughters, and his nephew Agustín Olvera) to Alta California,[2] where he started a new life as a civilian.
In 1836, Coronel was appointed commissioner of the secularized Mission San Miguel Arcángel.