[xzins]

I think I've documented why I said they were married in New Orleans in 1969. That said, on closer reading that is never really proved by anyplace that I can find, and it's very possible they were not married when Cruz was conceived or born. The birth certificate does say that Eleanor Darragh Wilson was the mother and Rafael Cruz Senior was the father.

That was not her maiden name but her name by a previous marriage, so probably the current legal name as of the birth?

So who exactly is Ted Cruz’s mother, and how did she end up living in Canada? The Texas senator’s mother, Eleanor Darragh, was born to a Irish-Italian family in Delaware and was the first in her family to attend college, the National Journal reported in June. She worked as a computer programmer in New Orleans and Texas, and married Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, a mathematics graduate, in 1969, according to a big story published Wednesday in Maclean’s, one of Canada’s top magazines. Cruz’s parents moved to Canada to process seismic exploration data for oil companies in Calgary, and he was born there in 1970. http://www.ibtimes.com/why-did-ted-cruzs-mother-move-canada-texas-senator-says-eleanor-darragh-makes-him-2266436

[Karl Spooner]

Just to be clear on what posters have already said, Cruz was in Canada in 1967. Not sure if you have accepted that yet. From the link within your link.

"Rafael Bienvenido Cruz and Eleanor Darragh had lived in the “Houston of Canada” for three years by the time they had Rafael Edward Cruz, the only child they would have together (both had children from previous marriages"

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/ted-cruz-made-in-canada/