Ysabel de Herrera

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Cristóbal married Ysabel de Herrera in 1698. In 1718, he made his last will at Santa Cruz, in which he named his parents and birthplace. He declared two legitimate children by Isabel de Herrera: Juan and Antonio.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 291

• Census: Spanish, 1707, Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ^1510,1513
Cristóbal Tafoya married with María (Isbel de Herrera) has twelve persons.

Early Settlers of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, p. 68
New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 28:1 , p. 22

Ysabel married Cristóbal de Tafoya Altamirano, son of Juan de Tafoya Altamirano and Felipa Jaguado de Ulloa, on 17 Feb 1698 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (Cristóbal de Tafoya Altamirano was born in 1661 in El Real de Talpujagua, Nueva España ²⁵² and died after 1720 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
17 Feb 1698, Santa Fé. Cristóbal Tafoya (25), native of El Real y Minas de Talpujagua, son of Juan de Tafoya Altamirano and Felipa Taguada de Ulloa, and Ysabel de Herrera (20), native of New Mexico, daughter of Juan de Herrera and Ana López del Castillo, natives of New Mexico.

Witnesses: Pedro de Sandoval (26), native of La villa de Toluca, Presidio soldier; Sebastian Rodríguez (40), de Nacio Moreno, native of S. Pablo de Luanda and Tambor of the Santa Fé Company; Antonio Gutiérrez (32), español and Cabo de Escuadra; Diego Durán (30), español; Pedro de Espinosa (30), español, native of El Real de Guanajuato, Cabo de Escuadra.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1857