Mateo Ortega

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Mateo de Ortega, twenty, a native of Guadalupe del Paso, of unknown parentage, married Antonia Luján, eighteen, in Santa Fe, 14 Jun 1697. She once accused a San Juan Indian woman of making her worse through her healing art. They had a daughter, Margarita, who married Joaquín de Anaya in 1716.

A Mateo Ortega, his son if not himself, was the husband of María Rosa Mestas, living in the north country, who had the following children:

Juan Manuel, born 28 Dec 1731
José Alejandro, 21 Mar 1734
Juan, 11 Feb 1739.

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

Mateo married María Antonia Luján, daughter of José Antonio Luján and María Martín Serrano, on 14 Jun 1679 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.^,252 (María Antonia Luján was born about 1679 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
23 May 1679, Santa Fé. Mateo de Ortega (20), native of El Paso del Norte, parents unknown, soldier in Santa Fé, and Antonia Luján (18), native of New Mexico, daughter of Antonio Luján (deceased) and María Martín. Groom says he gave his word to a woman in El Paso, but discovered she had relations with a brother of his, so they released each other from the promis of marriage.

Witnesses: Jacinto Sánchez (35), native of New Mexico, soldier, who knew pair since infancy; Juan Perea (30), native of New Mexico, soldier.

Pair married 14 Jun 1697.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 8, p. 1394