Josefa Antonia de Paz Ontiveros

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
José Valdes is heard of only once afterwards, as being the natural father of Francisco Valdes, whose mother was Josefa de Ontiveros. They were all residents of Santa Cruz.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 301

• Background Information: ⁴⁶⁴
Josefa Antonia de Paz Bustilos y Ontiveros, of Spanish descent, was born in Calle de Alameda, Ciudad de México, Nueva España in 1684. Her father was Antonio Xavier de Paz Bustillos, the son of residents of Mexico City, don Francisco de Pas Bustillos and doña Antonia de Cervantes. Her uncle and padrino was Juan de Bustillos. She had a brother named Antonio. The family descends from their earliest andcestors don de Pas Bustillos and doña Luisa de Ontiveros, who were married at the Cathedral of Mexico City Sep 1644, but their connection isn't clear.

Josefa's parents were likely dead by 1693 when she, at the age of nine, and her brother were living in the household of her uncle and padrino, Juan de Pas Bustillos. Her uncle, Juan, married in Sep 1692 to a twenty-seven year old woman by the name Manuela Antonia de Alanis. Juan, his wife, his niece and nephew son after joined with the new and returning settlers of New Mexico. The description given for Josefa was as a nine year-old girl with a round face, slightly crossed-eyed and with s hort and turned up nose.

Josefa and her adopted family lived in Santa Fé until Apr 1695, when they and other new settlers moved to the new Villa de Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Although her uncle moved back to Santa Fé Josefa remained a resident of Santa Cruz de la Cañada for the rest of her life. In 1708, Josefa gave birth to her first known child whom she named after ther grandfather, Francisco. In later records, it is revealed that Francisco's father was José Ruíz Valdes whose family had left Mexico City to settle in New Mexico. Josefa's son went by the name of Francisco Valdes y Bustos.

Josefa gave birth to at least five other "natural" children. She also adopted many of the thirteen children she was the madrina for. Here children were:

Francisco Valdéz y Bustos, b. about 1708 - married in Santa Cruz to Lugarda Martín 11 Oct 1723.
Juan Felix de Pas Bustillos, a.k.a. Juan Felix Bustos - married 19 Sep 1735, Santa Cruz, to María Manuela Martín, died in Santa Cruz in 1757
Antonia Bustos, a.k.a. Antonia Ontiveros, married, 1st to Juan Andrés González and second to Hilario Archuleta
Manuel dela Rosa, a.k.a. Manuel Bustos & Manuel González, husband of Bárbara Casillas Montoya, residents of la Soledad de Río Arriba prior to moving to theLos Luna-Sabinal area of the Río Abajo
Salvador Bustos, a.k.a. Salvador Bustillosm who had a natural son by Pascuala Martín, and who married at Nambe, 10 Nov 1754, Antonia Trujillo
Juan José Bustos, a.k.a. Juan Ontiveros, husband of Teresa Sánchez.

Other adopted children, addition natural children or grandchilden of Josefa de Ontiveros were:

Joaquina González de la Rosa, a.k.a. Joaquina Bustos, marrited to Bernardo Molina by 1754
Antonio González de la Rosa, a.k.a. Antonio Bustos and Antonio Lucero de la Rosa, married, 15 Oct 1753, at San Juan de los Caballeros to María Gertrudis Fresquis
José Manuel González Bustos, a.k.a. José Manuel dela Rosa, married at San Juan de los Caballeros, 21 Jul 1755, to Teresa del Loretos Casillas
José Migues Bustos, a.k.a. José Miguel Gonzales dela Rosa, married to María Clemnta Montoya and settled in Quemado
Antonio Josefa Bustos who married José Antonio Zamora, residents of Vallecito and then Cochití
Diego de la Rosa, a.k.a. Diego González, married to Ana María Hurtado, residents of San Juan de los Caballeros
Josefa de la Rosa who had one natural daughter born in Nov. 1763, Santa Cruz
María de Jesús Bustos, a.k.a. María de Ontiveros, who followed her independent mother and had six natural children.

Josefa died shortly before 28 Dec 1772 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada at the age of 88 years.

"Josefa Antonia de Pas Bustillos y Ontiveros - Matriarch of the Bustos Family of Colonial New Mexico," by José Antonio Esquibel, New Mexico Genealogist, 37:1, pp. 19-24 & 37:2, pp. 71-74

Josefa married José Valdéz son of José Luis Valdéz and María Medina de Cabrera. (José Valdéz was born in 1691.)