María de la Luz Ortiz

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Miguel de Olona was a Spaniard from Aragón who was registered in 1790 with his New Mexico family, which included his wife, María Luz Ortiz, age thiry-four, a twelve-year-old daughter and a son, age six years old.

María Luz Ortiz was an illegitimate daughter of Rosa Bustamante, by a certain José Baca, who had been born on 16 Feb 1755, less than two months after her mother's marriage to José Antonio Ortiz. Jose Antonio Ortiz latter knew all about it and generously gave her his name. María de la Luz married Miguel de Olona, April 21 Apr 1773, and her origin was forgotten until 1814, when Pedro Bautista Pino used the hidden fact to break the Bustamante will.

The Olona children were:
Miguel II, twenty-eight years old in 1814 and residing in Tomé
José de los Reyes, also at Tomé
María Rosa, wife of Manuel Tafoya of Santa Fe.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 246

María married Miguel de Oloña on 21 Apr 1773 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³⁹² (Miguel de Oloña was born in Aragón, España, Iberia.)

  Marriage Notes:

Santa Fé St. Francis Parish and Military Chapel of Our Lady of Light, p. 43

Testigos: Carlos Fernández y Juana Padilla ³⁹²