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Beyond ONMF Volume 8

 

Contents:  Anaya Almazán, Apodaca (González de Apodaca), Baca— Promising Leads, Brito, Cháves, Durán, Durán de Armijo, Fagoaga, García Holgado, Gutiérrez de Figueroa, Leyba-Nevares Heredia, Luján, Martín Serrano, Mestas, Montes Vijil, Montoya, Pacheco, Peña, Perea, Romero, Tenorio de Alba, Varela Jaramillo

List of 8 Soldiers Escorting Gov. Pacheco to NM in 1642: González de Apodaca, Librán, Mohedano, Pérez, Ramírez de Salazar, Villanuño, Zamora, Zubía Pacheco

ANAYA ALMAZÁN  




 
 
 
 
 
 
Pedro de Almazán and Ynés de Anaya, parents of New Mexico settler Francisco de Anaya 
Almazán (ONMF: 3-4), were also the parents of at least three other children, two of whom
were identified by Fray Angélico Chávez as Agustín and María de Anaya.
 
This couple resided in Mexico City from as early as 1597, when María was baptized in the
chapel of the Catedral de México in Mexico City:
 
 
bt. 21 Sep 1597
Maria, hija de Pedro de Almaçan y de Ynes de Anaya
Padrinos: Antonio de la Cadena y Juana del Castillo
 
Another son, Pedro, was baptized in the same church in 1599:
 
bt. 4 Nov 1599
Pedro, hijo de Pedro de Almaçan y de Ynes de Anaya
Pad: Juan de Anaya y Juana del Castillo
 
 
It appears that Juan de Anaya was a relative of Ynés de Anaya.
 
 
Researchers: Sephardic Legacy Project of New Mexico— Stanley M. Hordes, Richard Salazar, and Robert D. Martínez. Summary by 
Robert D. Martínez
 
Source:  LDS microfilm #0035167, Archivo de la Parroquia del Sagrario Metropolitano de Mexico, Mexico City, Bautismos de Espanoles, 
1536 - 1589.




 
 
 
 
 
 

 

APODACA

 

Diego González de Apodaca (ONMF: 5) was a native of the Mexico City in New Spain. He was one of eight soldiers hired to escort incoming Governor don Alonso Pacheco from Mexico City to Santa Fe, and served in this duty from December 1641-August 1642. González de Apodaca may have continued in the served of Governor Pacheco. He remained as a citizen of New Mexico where he married Sebastiana López de Gracia and established the Apodaca family.

 

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Sources: Archivo General de Indias, Contaduria, leg. 926, pliego no. 2, 51: 1-3.

 
 
BACA— Promising Lead
 
One of the daughters of Captain Cristóbal Baca and Ana Ortiz was Juana de Zamora, the 
wife Simón Pérez de Bustillo (ONMF: 6-7, 88). Juana was baptized in the chapel of the 
Catedral de México on June 7, 1592. Her padrinos were Pedro Páes and María de la Ribas. 
The fact that Juana used the surname of Zamora suggests that one of her grandmothers was 
a Zamora and that Juana was very probably a namesake of one of these grandmothers. It is 
also known that her father, Cristóbal, was a son of Juan Vaca.
 
The following three intriguing records were extracted from baptismal records of the 
Catedral de México (Asunción Church), Mexico City:
 
bt. 19 Nov 1562
Ana, hija de Juan Baca y de Juana de Camora [Zamora]
Padrinos: Fernando de Aguilar, Juana Ynes Maldonado y Rodrigo Bezerro




 
 
 
 
 
bt. 17 Feb 1573
Alonso, hijo de Juan Vaca y de Juana de Samora
Padrinos: Antonio de Pineda y Maria de Vergara




 
 
 
 
 
bt. 1 Nov 1576
Lucas, hijo de Juan Baca y de Juana de Zamora
Padrinos: Francisco Ydalgo y Mariana Rangel




 
 
 
 
 
It may turn out that Juan Vaca (Baca) and Juana de Zamora were the parents of Captain 
Cristóbal Baca. Curiously, Cristóbal Baca’s grandson was named Alonso Baca. Could he 
have been a namesake of a great-uncle? Additional research may help to confirm this 
genealogical connection.
 
It can be assumed that Juan Vaca and Juana de Zamora were married circa 1560 in Mexico 
City.
 
Researchers: Sephardic Legacy Project of New Mexico— Stanley M. Hordes, Richard Salazar, and Robert D. Martínez. 
Summary by Robert D. Martínez
 
Sources:  LDS microfilm 0035167, Archivo de la Parroquia del Sagrario Metropolitano de Mexico, Mexico City, Bautismos de 
Espanoles, 1536 - 1589.




 
 
 
 
 
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BACA— Promising Lead

 

Could the following couple, Cristobal Vaca and Mayor Díaz, be the parents of Juan Vaca, married to Juana de Zamora circa 1560 (possible parents of NM's Cristobal Baca, and this named for his grandfather)?

 

7 Jan 1540 Baltazar, hijo de Xp<to>bal Vaca y de Mayor Diaz, padrinos Andres Perez y Leonor Hernandez, su muger, y Juan Nunez y Ayala y su muger Miguela de Torquemada

 

Researcher: Robert D. Martínez

 

Source: LDS microfilm #0035167, Archivo de la Parroquia del Sagrario Metropolitano de Mexico, Mexico City, Bautismos de Españoles, 1536 - 1589.

 
 
 

BRITO

 

The following data were found in the Archivo Historico de Zacatecas (hereafter referred to as A.H.E.Z.) and present valuable genealogical data about families from Zacatecas that settled in New Mexico in the late seventeenth century. These extractions were retrieved for the Sephardic Legacy Project of New Mexico by Dr. Stan Hordes, Richard Salazar, and Robert D. Martínez. The following summary was written by Robert D. Martínez and was presented at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico on July 4, 2003 in Albuquerque.

 

Juan de León Brito (ONMF: 149) was identified as a son of Juan Brito and Antonia Ursula Durán. He married at El Paso del Norte, with Sebastiana Madrid in 1692, and then married María Granillo in Santa Fe on January 10, 1694.  Information extracted from the municipal archives appears to offer information about Juan de León’s parents and his sister.

 

There is an inventory dated May 3, 1679, Zacatecas, concerning José de León whose wife, Ursula Durán, was deceased at this time. León was a vecino of Zacatecas and a retail merchant who he desired to leave the amount of 1,200 pesos to his grandchildren, the amount of the dowry he received when he married Ursula Durán. He also intended to marry a second time.

 

Inventario

3 May 1679, Zacatecas

Jose de Leon, vecino y mercader de menudencias otorga que habiendo otorgado la cantidad de 1,200 pesos en reales a sus nietos y a Ursula Duran su mujer difunta por los que el dicho recibio de su esposa como dote, y quieriendo contraer matrimonio por segunda ves hace relacion de sus bieness en 200 pesos en diversos generos de menudencias, una mulata esclava llamada Elena, 30 pesos en una cruz de oro, 12 pesos en un plato de plata, 1,000 en dos casas bajas que tiene en la plaza de Cruz Moya y otra en la plazuela del maestro del campo. 

SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario: Felipe de Espinosa, Caja: 3, Libro: 9, Año: 1679, no. 87

 

On May 31, 1679, José de León declared he was married with Ursula Durán, the legitimate daughter of Juan Juárez, deceased, and Polonia Durán. León mentioned the 1,200 pesos he received as the dowry and which he wanted to give to his four children by Ursula Durán.

 

Carta de dote

31 May 1679, Zacatecas

(incomplete) ... Jose de Leon, vecino y mercader de menudencias, declara que fue casado con Ursula Duran, hija legitima de Juan Juarez, difunto, y Polonia Duran, y al tiempo que contrajo matrimonio se le otorgo dote de 1,200 pesos, tratando de casarse nuevamente, su suegra Polonia Duran le ha pedido que otorgue recaudo de la herencia que su hija le dejo a los 4 hijos procreados durante el matrimonio.

SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario: Felipe de Espinosa, Caja: 3, Libro: 9, Año: 1679, no. 89

 

In 1684, a daughter of José de León and Ursula Durán, had her last will and testament drawn up.

 

Testamento de Sebastiana de Leon vecina de esta ciudad de Zacatecas hija lexitima de Joseph de Leon y de Ursula Duran difunta mis padres vecinos de esta ciudad como soi.

SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario:  Laguna, Jose de la - libro 8 – 1684, pg. 433v

 

 

Researchers: Dr. Stanley M. Hordes, Richard Salazar, and Robert D. Martínez

 

 

 
 
CHÁVEZ
 
Miguel Cháves (ONMF: 162), son of Antonio Durán y Cháves and Antonia Baca, was 
married in the Catrense Military Chapel of Nuestra Señora de la Luz with Antonia Getrudis 
Santistevan on October 10, 1745, rather than the year 1754 noted in ONMF (p. 162). The 
couple were veiled and their sponsors were Andrés Montoya and Ana Baca.
 
 
The 1750 census of the Villa de Albuquerque gives approximate years of birth for Miguel and 
his wife, and names three of their eldest children:
 
Miguel Chábes, S, 28; wife, Gertrudis Santistevan Coronel, S, 18; 3 children: María Rosa, 4; Jph 
Franco, 2; Miguel Anto, 9 mo.
 
Forty years later, in 1790, this couple was enumerated as residents of the plaza of Los 
Cháves:
 
Miguel Chaves, S, 68, farmer; m. Gerturdis Santistevan, S, 57; 6 sons: 25, 23, 20, 16, 14, 8; 3 daughters: 
26, 21, 19; 1 grandson: 8
 
Researcher: Gloria Estrada McCrary
 
Sources: AASF, Roll #31 (or New Mexico Marriages Santa Fe - St. Francis Parish and Military Chapel of our Lady of Light (La Castrense) 
1728 – 1857, extracted by Roybal and Pfeufer, p. 13); Virginia L. Olmsted, Spanish and Mexican Censuses of NM 1750-1830, New Mexico 
Genealogical Society, 82 (family # 125); Olmsted, Spanish and Mexican Censuses 1790, 1823, 1845, New Mexico Genealogical Society, 37 
(family # 683).
 
 

DURÁN

 

There was a man named Luis Durán who was residing in Santa Fe before 1662. This man is not accounted for in ONMF. It was recounted in April 1662 that Luis Durán fathered two children (hijos) by María de Tejeda (see Montoya below). The name of these children were not mentioned. As such, it is unclear if the children were two sons or a son and a daughter. It is quite likely that these children used the surname of Durán, since Tejeda is not a surname that was continued in New Mexico.

 

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

 

Sources: AGN, Inquisición, t. 593, f. 317.

 

 

 

DURÁN de ARMIJO

 

The following fragments of documents were found in the notarial records in the Archivo Historico de Zacatecas (hereafter referred to as A.H.E.Z.) and present valuable genealogical data about the Durán de Armijo family that settled in New Mexico in the late seventeenth century (ONMF: 136). These extractions were retrieved for the Sephardic Legacy Project of New Mexico by Dr. Stan Hordes, Richard Salazar, and Robert D. Martínez.

 

The first document presented dates from the year 1686 and speaks of Joseph de Armijo and Catalina Durán, the parents of Armijo individuals who settled in New Mexico in April 1695. In this document of sale of land, we learn the name of Catalina’s father, Antonio Durán. We also learn that Catalina was one of five children.

 

Vente

30 September 1686, Zacatecas

Joseph de Armijo y Catalina Duran, su legitima mujer, vecinos de esta ciudad, ... otorga que bende en benta Real desde ahora para siempre jamas a Agustin de la Cruz ... un aposento con su corral y un pedaso de sitio que le toco y pertenece dt tras de la yglesia mayor,, seno arriba como seria alos remedios que linda por la parte de arriba con casas que fueron de Juana de Morales, difunta, y por el otro con cassa de Clara de Bilches, ... que dicho aposento, corral y sitio le toco con los demas bienes que sela aplicaron en su hijuela como una de cinco herederos de Antonio Duran mi padre [Catalina] ...

SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario: Ignacio Gonzales de Vergara, Libro : 2, Caja:2, Año: 1686, no. 15

 

Next, another sale document reveals the name of two more of Antonio Durán’s five children, Juana Durán and Juan Durán.

 

Venta

11 November 1686, Zacatecas

Sepan cuantos esta carta vieron como yo Juana Duran como hija y heredera que fui de Antonio Duran, mi padre difunto, vecino que fue de esta ciudad ... en el valor de la mitad de una casa que esta en la calle de Tacuba y ase esquin que sale de Santo Domingo ... en que al presente vive don Cristobal de Ocampo Vargas Machuca, vecina de esta ciudad quien compro la mitad a Juan Duran mi hermano como uno de los herederos ... en coya virtud otorgo que vendo en venta Real desde ahora para siempre jamas al dicho Cristobal de Ocampo Vargas Machuca ... la mitad de la dicha casa ariba mencionada que me cupo por herencia ...

SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario: Ignacio Gonzales de Vergara, Libro : 2, Caja:2, Año: 1686, no. 18

 

By the year 1695, Catalina Durán was widowed (vuida), as we learn from the following document:

 

escriptura de benta; Catalina Duran, viuda vecina de Zacatecas; otorgo a Josepha de Campos, vecina de esta ciudad

SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario: Fernandez de         Pardo, Lucas; libro 6 – 1695, pg. 7

 

Finally, from the following two documents, we learn the name of Catalina Durán’s mother, Catalina Ruiz. Therefore, the parents of Catalina Durán, wife of Joseph de Armijo, were Antonio Durán and Catalina Ruiz, who Catalina Durán was no doubt named after.

 

Juan Duran, vecino de Zacatecas, hijo lexitimo de Antonio Duran y Catalina Ruiz, difuntos, vecinos que fueron de Zacatecas.

SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario: Nunez Hurtado, Blas - Libro 1 - 1682-1683, pg. 17v

 

Testamento de Juana Duran soltera mayor de diez y ocho anos natural de Zacatecas hija legitima de Antonio Duran y de Catalina Ruiz difuntos vecinos que fueron de ella e yo lo soi.

SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario: Laguna, Jose de     la - libro 8 – 1684, pg. 255v

 

More research into the background of the Durán-Ruiz family must be conducted to reveal the origin’s of these families. There is also the question of the parentage of Joseph de Armijo.

 

Researchers: Sephardic Legacy Project of New Mexico— Stanley M. Hordes, Richard Salazar, and Robert D. Martínez. 
Summary by Robert D. Martínez
 
Sources:  A.H.E.Z., Fondo, Notarias, Notario: Ignacio Gonzales de Vergara, Libro 2, Caja 2, Año 1686, no. 15; A.H.E.Z., Fondo, Notarias, 
Notario: Ignacio Gonzales de Vergara, Libro 2, Caja 2, Año 1686, no. 18; A.H.E.Z., Fondo, Notarias, Notario: Fernandez de Pardo, 
Lucas; libro 6 – 1695, pg. 7; A.H.E.Z., Fondo, Notarias, Notario: Nunez Hurtado, Blas – Libro 1 - 1682-1683, pg. 17v; A.H.E.Z., Fondo: 
Notarias, Notario: Laguna, Jose de la - Libro 8 – 1684, pg. 255v.

FAGOAGA

 

There are many individuals that resided in New Mexico in the seventeenth century that have not be identified in printed works of New Mexico history and genealogy. One of these individuals was Juan Esteban de Fagoaga, born circa 1607, was a native of the Valle de Ollarzu in the Basque province of Vizcaya. He owned and lived on his Estancia de Santiago, located twelve leagues (approximately 26 miles) from Santa Fe in the Sandia jurisdiction. Fagoaga was part of a group of citizens that dislike Governor don Juan Manso, and Fagoaga was one of the “enemigos capitals” (main enemies) of Manso.

 

 

Juan Estevan de Fagoaga was single in April 1662, and there is no indication that he left any children in New Mexico. He died on May 18, 1662 and was buried May 19th in the Church of Sandia. 

 

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

 

Sources: AGN, Inquisición, t. 593, f. 313-318, 320; AGN, Galería, t. 3, leg. 1, no.1, f.105v.

 
 

GARCÍA HOLGADO

 

In the Inquisition investigation into charges against Diego Romero, Juan García Holgado (ONMF: 32-33) was interviewed at the Pueblo of Socorro on April 24, 1667. He was identified as “justicia mayor destas fronteras” and said he was a native of New Mexico, 42-43 years of age (b.ca. 1624-1625). His wife was named as Ana Pacheco.

 

The father of Juan García Holgado, Captain Alvaro García (ONMF: 32) was married in Santa Fe where he was residing in January 1626.

 

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

 

Sources: AGN, Inquisición, t. 608, exp. 6, f. 427; AGN, Inquisicón., t. 356, f. 260.

 
 
GUTIÉRREZ de FIGUEROA
 

 
The following document was located at Zacatecas in the Archivo Historico de Zacatecas (A.H.E.Z.) by the Sephardic Legacy Project of New Mexico research team of Robert Martinez, Richard Salazar, and Dr. Stan Hordes. It is the last will and testament of Bernardina de Solís, the mother of Antonio Gutiérrez de Figueroa (ONMF: 196-197), who was a settler of New Mexico by 1681.



Testamento
31 May 1687, Zacatecas

... como yo Bernardina de Solis, natural de San Juan del Mesquital en el Reyno de la Vizcaya y vecina de esta    ciudad, hija legitima de Francisco Rosario de Solis y de dona Elbira de Renteria, mis padres ya difuntos, vecinos   que fueron de esta dicha ciudad, estando enferma en cama de enfermedad corporal ... declaro fui cassada y velada en horden ... con Diego Gutierrez de Figueroa que oy es difunto y durante nuestro matrimonio hubimos y procreamos por nuestros hijos legitimos a Maria y Juan Gutierrez de Figueroa, que oy son difuntos, y a Francisco y Antonio Gutierrez de Figueroa que ambos son casados, que el dicho Francisco esta en Santiago y el otro, Antonio Gutierrez no save a donde asiste, mas de que caso en el Nuebo Mexico ...

 

From this document we learn that Antonio Gutierrez de Figueroa, New Mexico colonist, was the son of Diego Gutiérrez de Figueroa and of Bernardina de Solis. Bernardina, in turn, was the daughter of Francisco Rosario de Solís and of Elvira de Rentería, residents of San Juan del Mesquital.

 

Researchers: Sephardic Legacy Project of New Mexico— Stanley M. Hordes, Richard Salazar, and Robert D. Martínez. 
Summary by Robert D. Martínez
 

Source:  A.H.E.Z., Fondo, Notoria, Notario: Ignacio Gonzales Vergara, Libro 3, Caja 3, Año 1687, no. 3.

 

LEYVA-NEVARES HEREDIA

 

 Recently, Margaret Nevarez followed up on research presented in “The Leyva-Nevares Heredia Extended Family of Nueva Vizcaya, 1659-1710 by José Antonio Esquibel (El Farolito, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2000; Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 2000, and Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2001), as part of her research into her Nevarez family genealogy. She was successful in locating two very important records of marriage investigations for the dispensation of Alférez Nicolás de Nevares and his first cousin Josefa de Leyva. She also uncovered another important marriage investigation for Nicolasa de Nevares (daughter of Captain Cristóbal de Nevares and Ignacia de Ontiveros), and Nicolás del Valle, who were related in the 4th degree of consanguinity through the Nevares Heredia family.

 

Her research lead her to examine other records from Parral, and she offers a strong argument that Pedro de Leyva, the progenitor of the Leyva family of New Mexico was very likely a brother of Sargento Mayor Cristóbal de Nevares Heredia (the husband of Ana Martínez) and not the son of this man as was presented in the Esquibel article on the Leyva-Nevares Heredia family. Her research provides evidence that this Sargento Mayor Cristóbal de Nevares Heredia was a brother of María de Leyva.