Miguel Montoya

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Miguel Montoya was the son of Salvador Montoya and Manuela García de la Riva. On 9 Apr 1729, he married Rosa Baca, widow of José de Silva, April 9, 1729. She died the following year on 15 Ap 1730, during birth to her daughter, Gertrudis, who was baptized on 15 May 1730. Gertrudis eventually would marry Juan Miguel Alvarez del Castillo.

Miguel married, as he second wife, Lucía Durán y Chávez on 21 Mar 1734. They had the following children:

• Miguel, who married Joaquina Montes Vigil in 1771
• Francisco, who married Juliana Montes Vigil in 1772 at El Puesto del Cerro Cabezón
• Pedro, who married Juana Mirabal in 1779
• Juan Cristóbal, who married Luisa Padilla in 1785
• María de la Luz, born 19 Sep 1749
• Juan Manuel, 22 Dec 1747
• Antonio Anselmo de la Trinidad, 24 Oct 1752
• José Alejandro, 26 Apr 1755
• Barbara, 5 Jan 1757, who married her first and second cousin, Juan Antonio Baca of Atrisco, in 1770, and in 1781 became the wife of another second cousin, Manuel Lucero of Los Padillas. One of their daughters, Manuela Lucero, became the wife of Pablo Baca.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p 328

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1750, in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Miguel Montoya, Spanish age 40 with his wife, Lucía, age 35 and their five children: Gertrudis age 14; Miguel age 12; Pedro age 10; Paula age 4 and María de la Luz age 10 months. Living with them are Native American servants: Gertudis age 17; Ylario age 15; Micaela age 12; Josepha age nine; and Juan age 5.

New Mexico Spanish & Mexican Census 1750 - 1830, p. 83

Miguel married Rosa Baca de Luna on 9 Apr 1729 in San Felipe de Neri, Albuquerque, New México Territory.⁴¹² (Rosa Baca de Luna was born about 1705 in Río Abajo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²³⁹ and died on 15 Apr 1730 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ^248,252.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record: ⁴¹²
9 Apr 1729, Miguel Montoya, soldado del real presidio dela villa de Santa Fé, hijo de Capitán Salbador Montoya, difunto (deceased), and Doña Manuela Gárcia de la Riba, casé y vele Rosa Baca, vecina (widow) de José de Silba. Testigos: Balthasar Romero, Juan Varela, y otros muchos.

San Felipe de Neri Marriages, p. 2

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
22 Mar 1729, Santa Fé or Bernalillo. Miguel Montoya (26) presidio soldier, son of Regidor Salvador Montoya, native of New Mexico, deceased and Doña Manuela García de la Riva, native of Mexico City, and Doña Rosa de Luna of El Río Abajo, parents unknown, widow of José de Silva ~ Witnesses: Juan Manuel Chirinos, notary in Santa Fé; Andrés de la Paz (36); and Atonio Durán de Armijo.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1278

Miguel married María Luica Durán y Chávez, daughter of Pedro Durán y Chávez and Juana Montoya y Hinojos, on 21 Mar 1734 in San Felipe de Neri, Albuquerque, New México Territory.⁴¹² (María Luica Durán y Chávez was born about 1720 in Atrisco, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died in Feb 1761 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Marriage Notes:

San Felipe de Neri Marriages, p. 4 ⁴¹²