Miguel Tenorio

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Miguel Tenorio II and Barbara Tafoya had the following children:
• Joaquina, b. 24 Apr 1748
• Juana Nepomucena, b. 27 Apr 1751
• Salvador de Orta, b. 2 Mar 1757, enlisting as a soldier in 1779
• José Miguel, enlisting as a soldier in 1781

Miguel seems to be the same Miguel Tenorio de Alba y Corona who married Teodora Fernández de la Pedrera in 1758. She was the widow of Nicolás Baca of La Cienega, where the Tenorios were after Vega y Coca, Baca, and Romero property. He was already dead in 1794 when Teodora, his widow of a second marriage, died on January 26.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 293

• He appeared on the Spanish Colonial census in 1750 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Miguel Thenorio, Bárbara Tafoia, Leonarda Tafoia, María Luisa, María Theresa, Agustina, and three children.

Spanish and Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1750-1830, p. 3

Miguel married Bárbara Tafoya, daughter of Antonio Tafoya Altamirano and María Lucía de Villavicencio y Godines, on 11 May 1732 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².^,392 (Bárbara Tafoya was born about 1714-1716 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died before 1758 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Marriage Notes:

La Castrense, Santa Fé Marriagesl, p. 4
Witnesses: Phelipe Tafolla and Margarita Gallegos ³⁹²