Maldonado Journey to the Kingdom of New Mexico: Volume Ix - Descendants of Hernán Martín Baena

By Gilbert Maldonado

Volume IX is a continuation of the journey of the Maldonado family to the Kingdom of New Mexico. It documents the Maldonado descendants of Hernn Martn Baena and his wife Catalina Garca. This couple is connected to New Mexico through the marriage of their grandson Diego de Vera to Mara de Abendao, granddaughter of Juan Lpez Holgun and Catalina de Villanueva, founders of the Kingdom of New Mexico. From this marriage and the marriages of their great-granddaughters Mara Ortiz de Vera and Petronila de Vera (Salas), Don Hernn and Doa Catalina became the ancestors of leading New Mexicans in later generations. This volume contains not only their direct line of descent but also cousins, uncles, aunts, and in-laws. The Maldonado database has more than 5,800 names, with many of them represented here. The time period is generally from 1598 through the nineteenth century for most names, though the direct line continues to the present. Hernn Martn Baena is the ancestor of many people living in New Mexico today. In this volume his other descendants can trace their connections to cousins from this extended Maldonado family. Hernn Martn Baena and Catalina Garca are my twelfth great-grandparents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Nov 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490739557

Gilbert Maldonado

Gilbert T. Maldonado is the thirteenth generation of his family born in New Mexico. He is first vice president of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico where he has written numerous articles on the genealogies of the first families of New Mexico. He retired after forty-two years of service with the US government. His last assignment was as Title X program manager for the Department of Energy in charge of remediating all radioactive mill-tailing sites in the continental United States. During the Vietnam War, he served as a Vietnam Era captain with the US Air Force. Maldonado holds master’s degrees from two universities. He resides in Albuquerque with his wife, Susie, daughters Lisa Maldonado and Cathy Jones, son-in-law Mark Jones, and grandson Coleton.

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Contents

About the Cover

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Ahnentafel of Gilbert Maldonado

Relationship Chart - Gilbert Maldonado

Pedigree Chart - Gilbert Maldonado

Descendants of Hernán Martín Baena

Endnotes

Bibliography

Dedication

For

Our Daughter Lisa

About the Cover

The Maldonado Coat of Arms illustrated on the cover is the facade of the Maldonado Castle, also known as the Casa de las Conchas (House of Shells) a historical building in Salamanca, Spain. This photo shows the Maldonado coat of arms displayed over the front door to the castle, which currently houses a public library. Salamanca became the seat of the Maldonado family following the creation of the family name, from around the third generation (circa 1324), if not from the beginning.

The Maldonado castle was built from 1493 to 1517 by Rodrigo Arias de Maldonado, knight of the Order of Santiago de Compostela, and a professor at the University of Salamanca. Its most interesting feature is the facade, mixing late Gothic and Plateresque style, decorated with more than three hundred shells, symbol of the Order of Santiago. Each shell signifies one pilgrimage along the Way of St. James by the Maldonado family. Pilgrims brought sea shells to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (where the apostle James is said to be buried) for absolution of their sins, and to indicate they had traveled a great distance, such as from the sea.

The entrance portal has the coat of arms of the Maldonado family over the door, while in the architrave are dolphins, a Renaissance symbol of love, and vegetables. In the facade are also the coat of arms of the Catholic monarchs and four windows in Gothic style, each one having a different shape. The inner court is characterized, in the lower floor, by arches supported by square pilasters, while in the upper ones they are supported by shorter columns in Carrara marble.

The Maldonado coat of arms also appears on the walls, around the windows, and on the other architectural features inside the castle. It features five fleurs-de-lis supported by angels, lions, and other creatures, and is sometimes circled with laurel. The Spanish description is: De gules, con cinco flores-de-lis de oro, puestas en sotuer (On a field of red, five gold lilies, placed like an X).

Red was chosen to show the charity, daring nature, magnanimity, and fervor of the Maldonados, who were pledged to help the oppressed. Gold symbolizes their sense of justice, mercy, purity, seriousness in duty, constancy in danger, and commitment to help the poor and defend the kingdom. The lilies, which give off a sweet aroma when crushed, were signs of generosity in the face of injury and insult.

Acknowledgements

A work such as this is rarely the product of one person. While the end result is mine, it owes its existence to the building blocks of many people, among whom are numerous historians and genealogists from New Mexico.

Although absolute perfection is admirable, I thought it best to publish this pioneer genealogy at this time, hoping to disseminate available information and stimulate inquiry about our ancestry, that we may be bound closer together as one great family, whether by the name of Maldonado or otherwise.

The search for this ancestry has largely increased my respect and admiration for this family, and I believe that it compares favorably to the genealogies of other Spanish colonial families of New Mexico whose genealogical records have been carefully preserved in the Spanish Archives of Santa Fe. From the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), the Lord beseeches us to do all we can to perfect and preserve our own. In the language of Job 8:8, For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers.

First and foremost, thanks go to our ancestors, some of whom risked their lives to come to the ends of the earth to escape the Spanish Inquisition in search of freedom and prosperity for their descendants. Their careful preservation of the record made it possible for me to participate in the discovery of such a grand ancestry. Bringing together the records of this family has been a labor of love, and I hope this volume meets with a kind reception among those for whom it has been especially prepared.

Our heartfelt gratitude goes to Fray Angélico Chávez, a cousin many times over, for researching and writing Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Revised Edition, which includes Juan Antonio Montaño de Sotomayor and his family among many of our other ancestors. Juan Antonio’s son, Juan Antonio Montaño Maldonado, was the first in the family to go by the name Maldonado exclusively in the Kingdom of New Mexico. His descendants are found throughout New Mexico, as well as in most of the remaining United States and distant lands.

Special thanks go to Robert Beto Baldonado Isaac, another cousin many times over, who initiated the search for our family and provided critical and voluminous research. His research helped to connect the dots between the Montaño and Maldonado names, proving they were the same family, and thus, opening the door to finding our other ancestors. Beto was the first to untangle the tangled web of our name by discovering that José Montaño was actually José Maldonado, my fourth great-grandfather. José Maldonado and his wife, María Dolores Benavides, connected us to the 1598 founders of the Kingdom of New Mexico, who came under the leadership of don Juan de Oñate. The ancestry of these conquistadors took us to places beyond the sea.

Special thanks go to my niece Laura Annette Galván Lucero for taking charge of the photography and helping her aunt Susie Maldonado take the photographs.

Thanks go to José Antonio Esquibel for making available his website Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families, from which I gained valuable information.

Thanks go to the board of directors of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, past and present, for their contributions to New Mexico genealogy.

I am particularly indebted to my wife, María de Jesús Galván (Susie), who not only provided photographs, valuable suggestions, and review, but whose greatest contribution may have been her willingness to spend many an evening alone while I labored over this project.

Gilbert T. Maldonado

Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 30, 2012

Preface

Volume nine is a continuation of the 1598 journey of the Maldonado family to the Kingdom of New Mexico. It documents this family’s Maldonado descendants of Hernán Martín Baena and his wife Catalina García, my twelfth great-grandparents.

Hernán Martín Baena and Catalina García, are connected to New Mexico through the marriage of their grandson Diego de Vera with María de Abendaño, granddaughter of Juan López Holguín and Catalina de Villanueva, founders of the Kingdom of New Mexico. From the marriage of Diego and María, and the subsequent marriages of their great-granddaughters María Ortiz de Vera and Petronila de Vera (Salas), don Hernán and doña Catalina became the ancestors of leading New Mexicans in later generations. María married Manuel Jorge and later Diego de Montoya, son of first-colonists Bartolomé de Montoya and María de Zamora. Petronila became the wife of Pedro Romero, grandson of the pioneering New Mexico couple, Bartolomé Romero and Lucia López Robledo. The record indicates that the de Vera, Romero, and Robledo families were Jewish. Some historians consider them the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.

The marriages of their descendants linked Hernán Martín Baena and Catalina García, to a number of the first families of New Mexico, including those of Pedro Robledo, Bartolomé de Montoya, and Bartolomé Romero mentioned above. This combined family formed one of the most prominent and powerful alliances in Spanish colonial New Mexico receiving many of the land grants and encomiendas, as well as occupying the highest offices in the government. Numerous people from New Mexico descend from Hernán Martín Baena and Catalina García,.

This volume incorporates the extended Maldonado family that descends from this couple including cousins, uncles, aunts, and in-laws. On the Maldonado family tree they number more than fifty-eight hundred, many of which are included in this genealogy. Names in this volume extend only through the nineteenth century, more or less, to keep the genealogy from becoming too large, though the main line continues to the present. Through this volume, other descendants of don Hernán and doña Catalina can trace their connections to cousins from this extended Maldonado family.

The above-named families are featured prominently in this genealogy. Other significant old New Mexico families include Baca, Chavez, Ortiz and García, though the family tree covers much of the alphabet of Spanish colonial names.

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Don Juan de Oñate

Leader of the 1598 Expedition to Colonize New Mexico.

Photo by Susie Maldonado.

Introduction

This volume, as well as volumes eight, ten, and eleven, contains the latest information on the Maldonado family tree. Errors found in currently published volumes one through seven were corrected in these four new books. Names of family members not previously known to the author were entered into the genealogies and numerous new source citations were added to the family tree.

Two important corrections were made to volume one. On the bottom of page 38, Antonio de Carvajal and María de Olid are my twelfth great-grandparents, not my cousins-in-law. On the bottom of page 319, Antonio Pérez and Catalina Aponte should only be in the fifteenth generation, not in both the fifteenth and sixteenth generations.

The new and updated information significantly enhanced the family tree by making it more correct and complete in addition to extending the branches where the newly-found names were added. Anyone following the Maldonado family tree should refer to volumes eight through eleven as the most current genealogical information.

While this genealogy is based on Gilbert Maldonado as the root person, all members of the family can trace their connections to these ancestors from the point where their names appear in the genealogy. The current generation of cousins can literally substitute their names for mine when tracing their lineage under the Maldonado name.

RootsMagic, the computer program chosen for compiling this genealogy, is a proactive, read-write program that reads an entry’s data fields and writes a narrative report from the information. It takes the date entered into the various blocks of information for each person, such as date of birth, date of marriage, place born, place married, etc., and strings them into sentences. While this is a useful feature, it often makes the computer-generated writing seem stilted and repetitive. As this is the way the computer program is written, I have no control over it. The sentences sometimes don’t make a great deal of sense, but there is little I can do about it. It also makes the writing difficult to change, so when I could not easily revise the computer-generated language, I generally left it alone.

Finding a person’s place of birth was the greatest challenge of all, because the computer program defaults to this field before allowing data to be entered into the family tree. Without filling in the place of birth, the program does not allow names, color codes, or connections to be assigned and identification numbers to be entered into the narrative reports. It leave these data fields blank. Consequently, whenever I could not find an ancestor’s place of birth, I entered a birthplace according to the following general rules: 1.) 1519 to 1598: New Spain, 2.) 1598 to 1680: New Mexico, 3.) 1680 to 1692: Guadalupe del Paso, and 4.) 1693 to present: New Mexico.

The above rules for designating birthplaces are intrinsically accurate, because the locations referenced were the only populated and protected places where a person could originate in those days. The periods that gave me the most difficulty were the years after the Pueblo massacre of 1680, and the years after the reconquest of New Mexico in 1692-1693. During these periods I often found it difficult to tell whether someone was born in El Paso or New Mexico, so I used my best judgment.

To make it easier for the reader, as well as for myself, I chose the current names of towns, counties, states, and countries instead of trying to figure out their ancient names by historical period. For example, I used Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, in spite of the fact that this name did not exist in the seventeenth century and earlier. The Spanish Archives of New Mexico (SANM), Volumes I and II, by Ralph Emerson Twitchell have a great deal of information about our family that I was unable to include in this genealogy. Most of the entries deal with real estate transactions that are fairly benign but quite interesting. To find them, look up the individual’s name in the SANM index and go to the page indicated.

The titles Don and Doña are always capitalized in the records, but I chose not to capitalize them so that they would not be confused with the American names of Don and Donna.

The names, places, and footnotes in the pedigree chart are not included in the indexes and endnotes of this volume. You will find this information in the other sections.

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Chimayó Chapel north of Santa Fe.

Photo by Laura Annette Galván Lucero.

Ahnentafel of Gilbert Maldonado

Generation 1

1.   Gilbert Maldonado: born November 2, 1942 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

Generation 2

2.   Santiago Pérez Jimmy Baldonado: born September 11, 1906 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; married May 15, 1932 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; died March 26, 1983 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

3.   Clara Ruiz Trejo: born August 12, 1912 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; died March 14, 1985 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

Generation 3

4.   José Gabriel Baldonado: born March 19, 1870 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; married March 19, 1897 in St. Genevieve’s Catholic Church, Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; died January 2, 1918 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

5.   María Rosalía Pérez: born September 6, 1881 in Doña Ana, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; died about 1950 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

6.   José Francisco Picico Trejo Calderón: born August 21, 1880 in El Paso, Texas or Satevó, Chihuahua; married February 2, 1901 in El Paso, Texas; died June 6, 1950 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

7.   Sofía Ruiz: born September, 1876 in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas; died September 3, 1922 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

Generation 4

8.   Jesús García Baldonado: born 1842 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico; married October 3, 1869 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; died March 13, 1920 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

9.   Demesia Suáres: born 1855 in New Mexico; died December 9, 1931 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

10.   Fernando Pérez: born about 1860 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; married December 6, 1880 in St. Genevieve’s Catholic Church, Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

11.   María Guadalupe Rubio: born about 1860 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

12.   Atanasio Trejo: born circa 1845 in Satevó Pueblo, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico; married circa 1863 in Mexico; died by 1900.

13.   María Manuela Calderón Domínguez: born June, 1851 in Satevó Pueblo, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.

14.   Adrian Ruiz Acosta: born 1850 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.

15.   María Josefa Olvera: born March 15, 1857 in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas; died before 1912.

Generation 5

16.   Francisco García: born circa 1816 in New Mexico; married circa 1836 in New Mexico; died March 22, 1847 in Valencia, N.M..

17.   Juana María Maldonado: born January 14, 1821 in San Fernando, New Mexico.

18.   Alifonso Suáres: born in Mesilla, New Mexico Territory, United States.

19.   Juana Lemos: born in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

21.   Modesta Pérez: born about 1838 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

22.   [José] Rubio: born about 1840 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

23.   Cesaria : born about 1840 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

24.   José Guillermo del Refugio Trejo García: born February 15, 1824 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.

25.   María Marez: born about 1824 in Satevó Pueblo, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.

26.   José Bernardino Calderón: born May 20, 1810 in San Pablo, Meoqui, Chihuahua, New Spain; married February 16, 1830 in San Francisco Javier, Satevó Pueblo, Chihuahua, Mexico.

27.   María Donaciana Regina Domínguez Porras: born September 5, 1808 in New Spain.

28.   José Antonio Lucas Ruiz Acosta: born October 20, 1826 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico; married about 1849 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

29.   María Gertrudis Prudencia Chávez: born November 15, 1828 in Carichic, Chihuahua, Mexico.

30.   Julio Olvera: born about 1834 in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas; married about 1855 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

31.   Mariana Rangel: born about 1833 in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.

Generation 6

32.   Rafael García: born December 24, 1794 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico.

33.   Juana Urtado: born circa 1798 in New Mexico.

34.   Mariano Montaño Maldonado: born circa 1788 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico; married May 2, 1815 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico.

35.   Ana María Antonia Rafaela Gutiérrez: born May 27, 1793 in San Fernando, New Mexico; died December 2, 1855 in Santo Tomás, Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

48.   Felis Trejo: born about 1803 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain.

49.   Juana García: born about 1803 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain.

52.   José Romano Calderón: born 1786 in Santa Cruz, Rosales, Chihuahua, New Spain; married April 23, 1807 in Santa Cruz, Rosales, Chihuahua, New Spain.

53.   María Rafaela Sabina Romero Xáques: born 1788 in New Spain.

54.   Ramón Domínguez: born about 1786; married April 22, 1806 in Witnesses: don Lucas Guereña & Julian Palomino, El Sagrario, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain; died April 19, 1814 in San Pablo, Meoqui, Chihuahua, New Spain.

55.   doña Nicanora Porras Doncella: born September 6, 1787 in San Pablo, Meoqui, Chihuahua, New Spain, San Pablo, Meoqui, Chihuahua, New Spain.

56.   Sisto Ruiz: born (date unknown) in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain.

57.   Altagracia Acosta: born (date unknown) in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain.

58.   Pedro Chávez: born (date unknown) in Carichic, Chihuahua, New Spain.

59.   María Ygnacia Guadalupe Manrríguez: born (date unknown) in Carichic, Chihuahua, New Spain.

60.   Jesús Olvera: born in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.

61.   Agustina Bautista: born in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.

62.   Manuel Rangel: born (date unknown) in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.

63.   Gregoria Méndez: born (date unknown) in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.

Generation 7

64.   Mateo García: born in New Mexico.

65.   María Candelaria: born in New Mexico.

68.   José Montaño Maldonado: born 1732 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico; married October 30, 1770 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico; died before April 29, 1810 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico.

69.   María Dolores Benavides: born 1747 in San Clemente, New Mexico; died August 3, 1815 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico.

70.   Juan Geronimo de Jesús Gutiérrez: born 1765 in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; married June 10, 1788 in New Mexico.

71.   María Josefa Toledo: born 1768 in Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico.

104.   Juan de Dios Pedro Calderón: born 1760 in New Spain; married 1785 in Santa Cruz, Rosales, Chihuahua, New Spain.

105.   María Casilda Solis: born 1764 in New Spain.

106.   Ramón Melecio Romero: born 1765 in New Spain.

107.   Rosalía Xáques: born 1760 in Santa Cruz, Rosales, Chihuahua, New Spain.

108.   José María Rafael Domínguez: born in New Spain.

109.   doña Juana Guerra: born in New Spain.

110.   Juan Jesús Ygnacio Porras: born in New Spain.

111.   doña Teresa Carreon: born in New Spain.

116.   José Francisco Chávez: born about 1791 in Carichic, Chihuahua, New Spain.

117.   María Monica de la Cruz Enrríquez: born (date unknown) in Cusihuiriachic, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain.

118.   Antonio Manrríguez: born (date unknown) in Carichic, Chihuahua, New Spain.

119.   Seferina Correa: born (date unknown) in Carichic, Chihuahua, New Spain.

Generation 8

136.   Juan Antonio Montaño: born April 16, 1682 in Guadalupe del Paso; married circa 1730 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

137.   María Francisca Ygnacia Lucero de Godoy: born 1702 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

138.   Gregorio de Benavides: born about 1720 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico; married April 19, 1744 in San Agustine, Isleta, Bernalillo, New Mexico, New Mexico.

139.   Quiteria Tenorio: born about 1729 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

140.   Mathias Gutiérrez: born before 1750 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico; married in New Mexico.

141.   Barbara Feliciana García: born before 1750 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico.

142.   Juan José Candelaria Toledo: born about 1747 in San Fernando, New Mexico; married 1764 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico; died 1794 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico.

143.   María Micaela García de Noriega: born 1740 in San Fernando, New Mexico; died in San Fernando, New Mexico.

208.   Ramón Calderón: born about 1739 in New Spain.

209.   Rafaela Romero Xáquez: born in New Spain.

212.   Ramón Romero: born 1740 in Hacienda Uranga, Rosales, Chihuahua, New Spain.

213.   María Rosa Robles: born about 1745 in Santa Cruz, Rosales, Chihuahua, New Spain.

232.   Alverto Chávez: born about 1773 in Carichic, Chihuahua, New Spain.

233.   Micaela Orneles: born (date unknown) in Carichic, Chihuahua, New Spain.

234.   Joséph Christóval Enrríquez: born about 1741 in Cusihuiriachic, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain; married July 27, 1762 in Cusihuiriachic, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain.

235.   Felipa Pérez: born about 1741 in Cusihuiriachic, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, New Spain.

Generation 9

272.   Juan Antonio Montaño de Sotomayor: born 1651 in Mexico City, New Spain; married 1674 in New Mexico; died by 1696 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

273.   doña Isabel Jorge de Vera: born 1663 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico; died November 25, 1736 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

274.   Juan Lucero de Godoy: born 1689 in El Paso del Norte; married 1703 in New Mexico; died 1741 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

275.   Isabel Luján: born 1688 in El Paso del Norte; died August 9, 1771 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

276.   Francisco Xavier de Benavides: born 1688 in Durango, New Spain; married 1708 in Santa Fe, New Mexico; died before January 16, 1772 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

277.   Jacinta Romero: born 1694 in Santa Fe or Albuquerque, New Mexico; died between September, 1734 and May 17, 1735 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

284.   Domingo Toledo de Candelaria: born 1727 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico; married in New Mexico.

285.   Antonia Sánchez: born 1730 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico.

286.   Juan García de Noriega: born 1687 in Pueblo del Paso; married in New Mexico.

287.   Ynés Lopes de Gracia: born 1690 in Tomé, Valencia County, New Mexico.

Generation 10

546.   Capitán Antonio Jorge de Vera: born 1635 in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, New Spain.

547.   Gertrudis Baca: born 1640 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

548.   Alférez Antonio Lucero de Godoy: born 1650–1655 in Santa Fe, New Mexico; died by 1712 in New Mexico.

549.   Antonia Varela de Perea Lozada: born in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

550.   Capitán Pedro Luján: born 1666–1669 in New Mexico; married 1689 in Guadalupe del Paso.

551.   Francisca Martín Serrano de Salazar: born 1675 in New Mexico.

552.   Juan Esteban de Benavides: born 1622 in Durango, New Spain.

553.   María de Diezma: born in Durango, New Spain.

554.   Baltasar Romero: born 1673 in Bernalillo, New Mexico; married about 1693 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

555.   Francisca María Montoya: born 1675 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

572.   Alférez Alonzo el Mozo García de Noriega II: born 1651 in Kingdom of New Mexico; married 1675; died 1696 in Sevilleta, Kingdom of New Mexico.

573.   doña Ana Jorge de Vera: born about 1660 in New Mexico; died after 1687 in Pueblo del Paso.

Generation 11

1092.   Manuel Jorge: born 1614 in Tangier, Kingdom of Portugal, Kingdom of Castille, Spain; married circa 1632 in New Mexico; died June 7, 1655 in Parral, New Spain.

1093.   Ana de Vera: born in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

1094.   Capitán Antonio Baca: born 1600 in San Gabriel, New Mexico; married; died July 21, 1643 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1095.   Yumar Pérez de Bustillo: born 1591 in New Spain.

1096.   Sargento Mayor Juan Lucero de Godoy: born 1622–1624 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1097.   Juana de Carvajal: born circa 1620 in New Mexico; died 1683 in El Real de San Lorenzo.

1098.   Juan de Perea: born 1667 in New Mexico; married; died by 1701 in New Mexico.

1099.   Alfonsa Varela de Lozada: born in New Mexico; died by 1701 in New Mexico.

1100.   Capitán Juan Luis Luján: born in New Mexico.

1101.   Isabel López: born in New Mexico.

1102.   Capitán Pedro Martín Serrano de Salazar: born in New Mexico; died by 1700 in La Cañada, New Mexico.

1103.   Juana de Argüello: born 1648 in New Mexico.

1108.   Felipe Romero: born 1639 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1109.   Jacinta Bernardo de Guadalajara y Quirós: born 1640 in New Mexico.

1110.   Diego de Montoya: born 1658 in New Mexico.

1111.   María Josefa de Hinojos: born 1661 in New Mexico.

1144.   Commanding General Alonzo García (de Noriega): born 1627 in Zacatecas, New Spain; married about 1648 in Kingdom of New Mexico.

1145.   Teresa Varela: born about 1627 in Kingdom of New Mexico.

1146.   Capitán Antonio Jorge de Vera: Same as person number 546.

1147.   Gertrudis Baca: Same as person number 547.

Generation 12

2184.   Antonio Jorge: born in Tangier, Kingdom of Portugal, Kingdom of Castille, Spain.

2185.   María Álvarez: born in Tangier, Kingdom of Portugal, Kingdom of Castille, Spain.

2186.   Capitán Gaspar de Vera: born in New Mexico.

2187.   María Delgado: born in New Mexico.

2188.   Capitán Cristóbal Baca (Vaca): born 1567 in Mexico City, New Spain.

2189.   doña Anna Ortiz Pacheco: born 1570 in Mexico City, New Spain.

2190.   Juan Pérez de Bustillo: born 1558 in Mexico City, New Spain; married in Mexico City, New Spain.

2191.   María de la Cruz: born about 1558 in Mexico City, New Spain.

2192.   Commanding General Pedro Lucero de Godoy: born July 26, 1599 in Mexico City, New Spain; married about 1621 in New Mexico; died well before 1680 in New Mexico.

2193.   doña Petronila de Zamora: born circa 1596 in New Spain; died before 1644 in New Mexico.

2194.   Capitán Juan de Vitoria Carvajal: born 1560 in Ayotepel, Marquisate of the Valley, New Spain; married.

2195.   Isabel Holguín: born in New Spain or New Mexico.

2198.   Alférez Pedro Varela de Lozada: born 1608 in New Mexico; married.

2199.   Anna Ortiz: born about 1610 in New Mexico.

2204.   Capitán Luis Martín Serrano: born in New Mexico; died 1661–1663 in La Cañada, New Mexico.

2205.   Catalina de Salazar: born in New Mexico.

2216.   Alférez Real Matías Romero: born about 1603 in New Spain or San Gabriel de Yunque, New Mexico; married; died by 1681 in New Mexico.

2217.   Isabel de Pedraza: born 1606; died by 1681 in New Mexico.

2218.   don Diego de Guadalajara: born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, New Spain; married in New Mexico.

2219.   María Quirós: born 1615 in New Mexico.

2220.   Alférez Diego de Montoya: born about 1591 in New Spain; married in New Mexico.

2221.   doña María Ortiz de Vera: born in New Mexico.

2222.   Aparicio Alonso Hinojos: born about 1631 in Zacatecas, New Spain.

2288.   Andrés García: born about 1600 in ?New Mexico; married.

2289.   Ana Francisca: born in ?New Mexico.

2290.   Alférez Pedro Varela de Lozada: Same as person number 2198.

2291.   Anna Ortiz: Same as person number 2199.

Generation 13

4368.   Juan Jorge: born 1565 in Los Lagos, Portugal.

4376.   Juan de Vaca: born 1537 in Mexico City, New Spain; married about 1560 in Mexico City, New Spain.

4377.   Juana de Zamora: born in New Spain.

4378.   Francisco Pacheco: born in Mexico City, New Spain; married in Mexico City, New Spain.

4379.   Catalina de la Concepcíon: born in New Spain.

4380.   Simón Pérez: born circa 1538 in Mexico City, New Spain.

4384.   Juan López de Godoy: born in Mexico City, New Spain; married March 1, 1586 in Catedral de México, Mexico City, New Spain.

4385.   Ynés Lucero y González Jaramillo: born in Mexico City, New Spain.

4386.   Bartolomé de Montoya: born 1572 in Cantillana, Spain; married in Tezcoco, New Spain.

4387.   María de Zamora: born about 1576 in Mexico City, San Sebastián, New Spain.

4388.   Juan de Carvajal: born in New Spain.

4390.   Juan López Holguín: born 1562 in Fuente Obejuna, Andalucía, Spain; married in Fuente Obejuna, Andalucía, Spain.

4391.   Catalina de Villanueva: born in Fuente Obejuna, Andalucía, Spain.

4396.   Pedro Varela de Lozada: born 1574 in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

4398.   Juan López Holguín: Same as person number 4390.

4399.   Catalina de Villanueva: Same as person number 4391.

4408.   Capitán Hernán Martín Serrano: born 1556 or 1558 in Zacatecas, New Spain.

4409.   Juana Rodríguez: born in New Spain.

4410.   Capitán Sebastián Rodríguez de Salazar: born 1582 in New Spain.

4411.   Luisa Días.

4432.   Capitán Bartolomé Romero: born April 6, 1563 in Corral de Almaguer, Spain.

4433.   Lucía López Robledo: born in Camarena, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; died 1618–January, 1626 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

4434.   Juan de Pedraza: born 1568 in Carataya, Spain.

4440.   Bartolomé de Montoya: Same as person number 4386.

4441.   María de Zamora: Same as person number 4387.

4442.   Diego de Vera: born 1590 in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; married January 16, 1622 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

4443.   María de Abendaño: born in New Mexico.

4444.   Capitán Hernando de Hinojos: born 1562 in Carataya, Condado de Niebla; died by 1632 in New Mexico.

4445.   Beatriz Pérez de Bustillo: born 1593 in New Spain.

Generation 14

8736.   Juan Jorge Griego: born in Los Lagos, Portugal.

8752.   Cristóbal Vaca: born circa 1520 in Spain or New Spain.

8753.   Mayor Díaz: born in Spain or New Spain.

8770.   (Unknown first name) López Lucero y Beltrán de Cueba: born in Mexico City, New Spain.

8771.   (Unknown first name) (Unknown last name): born in Mexico City, New Spain.

8772.   Francisco de Montoya: born about 1551 in Cantillana, Spain.

8774.   Pedro de Zamora: born in Spain or New Spain.

8775.   Augustina de Abarca: born in Spain or New Spain.

8776.   Gutierre Vásquez de la Cueva: born in Sayago, León, Spain.

8777.   Francisca de Carvajal: born in Sayago, León, Spain.

8780.   Juan López Villasana: born in Fuente Ovejena, Andalucía, Spain; married February 9, 1551 in Fuente Obejuna, Extremadura, Church of Nuestra Castillo, Spain.

8781.   Isabel Ruiz: born about 1530 in Spain.

8792.   Pedro Varela: born in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

8816.   Hernán Martín Serrano: born in Zacatecas, New Spain.

8864.   Bartolomé Romero: born in Corral de Almaguer, Spain.

8865.   María de Adeva: born in Corral de Almaguer, Spain.

8866.   Alférez Pedro Robledo: born 1538 in Camarena, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; married circa 1559 in Maqueda, Camarena, or Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; died about May 21, 1598.

8867.   Catalina López: born in Toledo, New Castile, Spain.

8868.   Alonso González: born in Carataya, Burgos, Spain.

8884.   Pedro de Vera Perdomo: born about 1569 in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; married in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

8885.   María de Betancur: born about 1569 in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

8886.   Simón de Abendaño: born in Ciudad Rodrígo, León, Spain; married; died by 1622 in New Mexico.

8887.   María López de Villanueva Ortiz: born April 2, 1594 in Mexico City, New Spain.

8888.   Juan Ruiz de Hinojos: born about 1541.

8890.   Juan Pérez de Bustillo: Same as person number 2190.

8891.   María de la Cruz: Same as person number 2191.

Generation 15

17504.   Luis Vaca: born circa 1500 in Toledo, Spain.

17554.   Antonio de Carvajal (Conquistador): born in Zamora, Castile, Spain; married in Zamora, Castile, Spain.

17555.   María de Olid: born in Zamora, Castile, Spain.

17732.   Alejo Robledo: born about 1518 in Maqueda or El Carmen, Spain.

17768.   Hernán Martín Baena: born in Jeréz de los Cabelleros, Extremadura, Spain; married in Spain.

17769.   Catalina García: born in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

17770.   Antonio Pérez: born about 1548 in La Graciosa, Canary Islands, Spain; married in La Graciosa, Canary Islands, Spain.

17771.   Catalina Aponte: born about 1548 in Garachico, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

17774.   Juan López Holguín: Same as person number -4398.

17775.   Catalina de Villanueva: Same as person number -4399.

Generation 16

35108.   Pedro Gonzáles de Carvajal: born in Zamora, Castile, Spain.

35109.   Isabel Delgadillo: born in Seville, Andalucía, Spain.

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Bishop Lamy of Santa Fe (1850-1888).

Photo by Laura Annette Galván Lucero.

Relationship Chart - Gilbert Maldonado

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San Felipe de Neri Perish in Old Town Albuquerque. Photo by Susie Maldonado.

Pedigree Chart - Gilbert Maldonado

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Walkway in Old Town Albuquerque.

Photo by Susie Maldonado.

Descendants of Hernán Martín Baena

First Generation

1.   Hernán Martín Baena¹ was born in Jeréz de los Cabelleros, Extremadura, Spain.

Hernán Martín Baena and Catalina García were married in Spain. Hernán Martín Baena, a native of Jerez de los Caballeros in Estremadura, and Catalina García, native of La Laguna on Tenerife, were the paternal grandparents of Diego de Vera, a colonist from the Kingdom of New Mexico. Catalina García¹ was born in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Hernán Martín Baena and Catalina García had the following child:

Second Generation

2.   Pedro de Vera Perdomo¹ (Hernán-1) was born about 1569 in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. He was also known as Pedro de Vera Mojica.

Pedro de Vera Perdomo and María de Betancur were married in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.¹ María de Betancur¹, daughter of Antonio Pérez and Catalina Aponte, was born about 1569 in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Pedro de Vera Perdomo and María de Betancur had the following child:

Third Generation

3.   Diego de Vera¹–² (Pedro-2, Hernán-1) was born in 1590 in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. He was baptized on April 29, 1590 at Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.³

Diego emigrated to New Spain in the late 1610s, and lived with a cousin, Juana de Vera Perdomo, who may have also gone by the name Mojica, because Diego’s father, Pedro de Vera Perdomo, was known as Pedro de Vera Mojica. The importance of the Mojica name will become apparent in the penultimate paragraph. After a year or so, Diego traveled north to New Mexico, where he married María de Abendaño on January 16, 1622.

Chávez says that within three years of de Vera’s marriage, Fray Alonso de Benavides arrived in Santa Fe as custodian of the Franciscans. Perhaps because Fray Alonso had inside information or because he wanted to salve his guilty conscience, de Vera confessed to the prelate that, despite his marriage to María, he already had a wife whom he had left behind in the Canary Islands. His trial for bigamy before the inquisitors in Mexico City in 1626 reveals considerable demographic information that, when linked with data from Inquisition, notarial, and sacramental records in the canaries, suggests a connection with a de Vera family of Crypto-Jews who had fled to the islands from various parts of Spain following the edict expulsion of the Jews in 1492.

During his trial, Diego mentioned a relative, Juana de Vera Perdomo. Hordes states that his review of the sacramental records for Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, suggests strongly that all the de Veras living on that island belonged to the same family, and that through Juana de Vera Perdomo, Diego de Vera was related to Francisco de Vera Moxica, a cousin of Juana de Vera Perdomo. Francisco descended from the original Jewish de Vera family that had gone to the Canary Islands following the edict of expulsion. (Refer to volume one, page 177 for Francisco de Vera Moxica’s line of descent.)

Francisco de Vera Moxica had applied for a license to emigrate to the Indies in 1609, but we don’t know if he ever made it because the Inquisition discovered that he had falsely testified in his application that he was not Jewish. He may or may not have known that the Inquisition files contained the long Jewish history of his family going back more than one hundred years. If he did make it to New Spain, he could have stayed with Juana de Vera Perdomo, his cousin, as did Diego de Vera, their other cousin. These cousin relationships prove that they were all from the same de Vera family of Crypto-Jews who had escaped to the Canary Islands. An additional connection can be found through the family of Ana de Vera and her husband Manuel Jorge discussed later on in this genealogy.

Diego de Vera and María de Abendaño were married on January 16, 1622 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. María de Abendaño¹,⁴–⁵, daughter of Simón de Abendaño and María López de Villanueva Ortiz, was also known as María Ortíz de Abendaño. She was born in New Mexico.

After her marriage to Diego de Vera was deemed invalid, María de Abendaño married Antonio de Salas where they lived in the encomienda that he held in Pojoaque Pueblo along with their son Simón Salas, and María’s two daughters by her previous invalid marriage to Diego de Vera.

Diego de Vera and María de Abendaño had the following children:

Fourth Generation

4.   doña María Ortiz de Vera¹,⁶ (Diego-3, Pedro-2, Hernán-1) was also known as María Baca. She was born in New Mexico.

Doña María Ortiz de Vera and Alférez Diego de Montoya were married in New Mexico.⁶ Alférez Diego de Montoya⁶–⁷, son of Bartolomé de Montoya and María de Zamora, was born about 1591 in New Spain.

Diego de Montoya was an alférez living in Santa Fe in 1628. He married Ana Martín daughter of Alonso Martín Barba, by whom he had a daughter, Ynéz de Zamora, who married Juan López. They had at least two sons, Pedro, twenty-six in 1634, who was still living in 1663, and Bartolomé, who inherited his father’s encomienda of San Pedro Pueblo in 1660.

After his wife’s death, Diego, who was deceased by 1661, married doña María Ortiz de Vera daughter of Diego de Vera and María de Abendaño. She had three daughters prior to her marriage to Montoya. These were Beatriz, Josefa, and Juana, who sometimes were referred to as Ortiz and also as Montoya. There was also a Lucía de Montoya mentioned in 1663, perhaps a daughter by Diego, who became the wife of Francisco de Trujillo. Juana married Andrés Gómez Robledo.

Diego and María are the couple through whom practically all of the New Mexico Montoyas descend.

Diego de Montoya and María Ortiz de Vera had the following children:

5.   Petronila de Vera (Salas)¹ (Diego-3, Pedro-2, Hernán-1) was born in New Mexico.

Petronila de Vera (Salas) and Pedro Romero were married. Pedro Romero¹,⁸, son of Matías Romero and Isabel de Pedraza, was born in New Mexico.

One of the daughters of of Simón de Abendaño and María Ortiz, Petronila, married Pedro Romero, grandson of Bartolomé Romero and Lucía Robledo.

Fifth Generation

8.   doña Juana Ortiz⁶,⁹ (María Ortiz de Vera-4, Diego-3, Pedro-2, Hernán-1) was born in New Mexico. She was also known as Juana Montoya.⁶

Doña Juana Ortiz and Commanding General Andrés Gómez Robledo were married in 1665–1680 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.¹⁰ Commanding General Andrés Gómez Robledo¹⁰, son of Francisco Gómez and Ana Romero Robledo, was born in 1643 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He died before 1692 at the age of 49.

Andrés Gómez Robledo, twenty years old and single in 1663, said he was twenty-four, a native of Santa Fe, and still single in 1665 when he and his brother Juan helped Governor Peñalosa cheat on sacks of piñon kept at the Gómez estancia of Las Barrancas in the Río Abajo. Andrés served with two of his elder brothers in the General Council of the Kingdom prior to 1680. When the Indians struck he was a Maese de Campo, most active in the defense of Santa Fe in which he lost his life, the only officer killed.

Andrés had married Juana Ortiz, a daughter of María Ortiz de Vera, by Diego de Montoya, or a previous husband. Juana escaped with the Santa Fe refugees along with her orphaned children,