Tomás Candelaria

  General Notes:

San Felipe de Neri Alburquerque Baptisms, (2017 Edition, Vol. I) p. 49

Padres: Pedro Candelaria y Teresa Cedillo

Padrinos: José Jaramillo y María Gallegos ¹⁴⁷⁷

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Connection: ²⁴⁸
21 Jul 1804, Alburquerque. Antonio José García (25), español of Valencia, son of Francisco García and Ana María Molina, and María Josefa Candelaria (18), española, daughter of Tomás Candelaria and María Ursula Fernández.

Witnesses: José Antonio Jaramillo (58), Anselmo Pacheco (54), Miguel García (48).

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 4, p. 612

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1790, in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Plaza 3 of Alburquerque 1790

#140 Tereza Sedillo, español, 60 widow (of Pedro Candelaria, brother of Gabriel Candelaria); one grandson, español, age twelve; and one granddaughter, española, age fifteen.

#141 Tomás Candelaria (son of Pedro and Tereza Sedillo), español, 39, weaver; married to Ursula Fernández, española, 30; with three sons, ages seven, three and one; and one daughter age five.

New Mexican Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790 * 1823 * 1845, p. 9

Tomás married María Ursula de los Santos Fernández, daughter of Antonio Fernández and Antonia Quiteria Perea, Shortly after 12 Dec 1778 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (María Ursula de los Santos Fernández was born about 1757 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
12 Dec 1778, Alburquerque. Tomás Candelaria (21), son of Pedro Candelaria and Teresa Sedillo, and María Santos Fernández (21), daughter of Antonio Fernández and Quiteria Perea.

Witnesses: Manuel de Arteaga, notary; Juan García (50), Felipe Hurtado (29). Lazaro Baca (25).

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 2, p. 260