"History and Families of the Socorro Land Grant, Part I" Book Available November 3rd!

 If you follow me on Facebook, you may have learned that I'm publishing my book "History and Families of the Socorro Land Grant, Part I: The Baca Family and Their Descendants". It will be available on November 3rd on Amazon.com.

Below is an image of the proof copy of the book.

Last week I did a final edit of the book and submitted the final draft to Amazon. 

The book details the genealogies of 34 descendants of the Baca family who were among the founders of the Socorro Land Grant in 1815. These are not just people with the Baca surname, but also the Abeyta, Chaves, Gallegos, Garcia Jurado, Padilla, Sanchez, Tafoya, and Trujillo families, among others. The genealogies begin Cristobal Baca and Ana Ortiz, who arrived in New Mexico with their family in 1600, and continues another 8 generations. The descendant narratives extend into the 1800s, and in a few cases into the early 1900s. Additionally, I've included one other Baca family, the descendants of early Socorro settler Juan Dionisio Baca. He was not actually descended from the Baca family, but rather from Petronila Garcia Jurado and an unknown father. Juan Dionisio Baca was the ancestor of famed lawman Elfego Baca, New Mexico Archbishop Robert Fortune Sanchez, and many other Socorro residents.

Other sections of the book explore a brief history of the Socorro Land Grant, five-generation pedigree charts for each of my four grandparents, and a series of vignettes. These stories highlight the connections between the Torres and Baca families, the role of the Cabeza de Baca lineage in the Socorro Land Grant, the Montoya family as defenders of the grant, and the legacy of María Guadalupe Torres, a matriarch whose descendants include many prominent members of the García and Baca families of Socorro.

Lastly, within the descendant narrative, you will find transcriptions of census records, obituaries, and even short family histories. It's not just names and dates - I flesh out many of these families' stories.

The book is over 550 pages, with extensive citations, and a name index of over 3,000 people. I have been researching my family for over 25 years, which includes many founders of the land grant. You will find this book to be the most extensive Socorro Hispanic family history, and I'm just beginning! There are another 31 founders who I will profile in subsequent volumes. 

When it is released, it'll look a little different from my proof copy: it'll have a green cover! The cost is $50, which is a bargain for a genealogy like this. If you are interested in New Mexico genealogy and history, you'll find this book to be just what you are looking for!

Juan Baca y Luna and Carolina Bourguignon in Magdalena, NM

 

Juan Baca y Luna and Carolina (Bourguignon) Baca with their grandson Michael Baca, c. 1938. Photo credit: Edward Baca (Michael's brother.)

Sometimes by posting on social media, a genealogist can correct mistakes in his or her research. Friends online can help by offering information unknown to the researcher. This certainly occurred after I posted on Facebook information I found about my great-grandparents’ property in Magdalena, New Mexico.

On March 6, 1916, my great grandfather Juan Baca y Luna purchased property in Magdalena, New Mexico from Telesfor Chavez y Castillo and his wife Maria Manuela Chavez. He paid $140 for the property. [Socorro County (New Mexico). County Recorder. Image Group N.] Magdalena is a community about 20 miles from the county seat of Socorro, New Mexico. It is located east of the Socorro Mountains. I’ve traveled to that village many times. It’s a pathway to get to Southern Arizona to visit my mother-in-law, as well as a way to get to the Alamo Navajo Reservation where my sister once worked and lived. The reservation is about 20 miles north of the village. 

My great-grandfather Juan was the son of Martin Baca and Maria Rita Luna. [Baptism: Juan Vaca] Through his father, he was a descendant of Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca; Martin being one of around 100 grandchildren of my fourth great-grandfather. Martin had moved from Peña Blanca [Windham, p. 157] to Lemitar, New Mexico with his brothers [1860 U.S. Census] between 1850 and 1860, and married into the Luna family [Matrimonios, p. 53] who had also set up roots in the little hamlet of Lemitar. 

Juan Baca y Luna married Carolina Bourguignon on April 23, 1900 in Socorro [AASF # 16997]. She was the daughter of a German immigrant, Philip Bourguignon, who fought in the American Civil War. [1890 U.S. Special Census] Her mother was Maria Tomasa Gonzales, a daughter of a family with deep New Mexican roots. [Microfilm #16994, Baptism: Maria Tomasa Gonzales] Philip and Maria Tomasa married on October 27, 1857 in Socorro. [Matrimonios, p. 20]

On April 8, 1919, my great-grandparents Juan and Carolina sold the Magdalena property they owned to Martiniano Chavez y Castillo for $500. The document indicated that Juan and Carolina were living in Magdalena at the time. [Socorro County (New Mexico). County Recorder, images 360 & 361] Until finding the warranty deed that conveyed this property, I didn’t know that my great grandparents owned property in Magdalena. The 1910 and 1920 census records both indicated that Juan lived with his family in Lemitar [1910 & 1920 Lemitar Censuses], not Magdalena. Lemitar is 7 miles North of Socorro, and so, following present-day freeways, it is nearly 30 miles distant from Magdalena. It would be interesting to find out whether they would have taken the same paths or would have found a more direct pathway to that area.

My dad’s cousin Edward Baca had a possible explanation of what was going on regarding my great-grandparents’ property in Magdalena. On a Facebook post, Edward stated that 

“My dad (Lorenzo Baca) told me that when he was a boy on the farm in Lemitar, he would accompany Papa Juan (Baca y Luna) on a wagon drawn by a team of horses to Magdalena to sell produce. Magdalena was a good market at that point in time because the Kelly mines were in full operation and the economy was booming there. The journey would take two days, with them camping on the first night out. On the second day they would arrive in Magdalena and sell their produce, then return to the farm by the same route. On one trip, they took a pig with them, which they sold to a rancher. When they got back to the farm in Lemitar, they were surprised to learn that the pig had gotten back before them. Evidently, he escaped from his new owner and made a beeline back to familiar surroundings. There was no school in Lemitar at that time, so when my dad was 11 or 12 years old and your grandfather Robert was around 9, Juan took them to Magdalena, found them a place to live and enrolled them in school there. When not in school, my dad recounted that he and Robert earned money by cleaning businesses after hours and doing other odd jobs. I don’t know how long they stayed in Magdalena, but my dad told a couple of interesting stories: One Saturday night they heard a series of gun shots coming from a nearby saloon. They ran over to see what the commotion was and learned that several drunken miners were killed in a gunfight! The other story that my dad told me was that a son of the famous sheriff Elfego Baca stole all their firewood one night. So, this is all to say that maybe the property that Juan sold in 1919 was the place where my dad and his brother, Robert, were staying when they lived in Magdalena.” (Edward R. Baca, 2025)

My great-uncle Lorenzo was born on August 17, 1904 (AASF # 16994.), while my grandfather Robert was born on May 11, 1907. (AASF # 16994.) Lorenzo would have been 11 years old when the property was bought, while Robert would have been 8. When the property was sold, they would have been 14 and 11 years old, respectively. Regardless if they actually lived on Juan and Carolina’s property in Magdalena, that property was in their possession during the early school years of their two oldest boys.

So, who is this Chavez y Castillo family that my great-grandparents bought and sold their property to? The first property document I found was the quit claim deed for my great-grandparents’ sale of the property in 1919. It listed the grantee as Martiniano Chavez y Castillo. Originally, I thought that this man was Martiniano Chavez, married to Magdalena Castillo [Belen Marriages, 1873.] However, the standard Spanish naming practice is that a man includes both his father’s and mother’s surnames. Martiniano's parents were Chavez and Baca; he would have had the surname Chavez  y Baca. A relative of this family, Kathy Sanchez Avila, commented on my Facebook post that the Martiniano mentioned in the deed was actually a son of Jose Mauricio Chavez y Baca. [Sanchez Avila, 2025]  His mother’s surname is Castillo, so his full name would be Martiano Chavez y Castillo. [1885 U.S. Census, Jarales] He was the nephew of the previous Martiniano. Juan  Baca y Luna bought the property in 1916 from his brother Telesfor [proof of relationship: 1885 U.S. Census, Jarales and the Marriage Record of Telesfor Chavez and Maria Manuela Montoya.]

Kathy Sanchez Avila also posted on Facebook that her 2nd great-grandfather Jose Mauricio Chavez y Baca owned property that eventually became the Alamo Navajo Reservation. [Sanchez Avila, 2025.] Jose (Mauricio) Chavez y Baca’s family can be found in a community called Santa Rita in the 1900 census. [1900 Santa Rita Census] According to place name historian, Robert Julyan, Santa Rita is a community later known as Riley, which was 20 miles north of Magdalena, near the Rio Salado. [Julyan, pp. 290-291] A Google Map search indicates that Riley is indeed near the Alamo Navajo Reservation and the Rio  Salado. [Google Maps, 2025]

There is quite a lot more that can be written about Jose Mauricio Chavez y Baca and his family. For example, they are descended from founders of the Socorro Land Grant. However, I will leave that family history for a later post.

As I was writing this post, I found one more property transfer. Apparently, Martiniano Chavez y Castillo and his wife sold property to Juan Baca y Luna 10 days after they bought property from Juan, for the price of "one dollar & other valuable considerations...."   [Socorro County (New Mexico). County Recorder, images 377 & 378] I have not yet found the deed that later transferred this property to someone else.

Follow this link to view images of the three deeds mentioned in this article. I've also included 9 generation ancestral narrative reports for both my grandfather Robert Bourguignon Baca and Martiniano Chavez y Castillo.

Works Cited

Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Roll # 16994.

Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Roll # 16997.

Baca, Edward R. Facebook, Comment on Robert James Baca's September 1, 2025 Facebook post, "Baca Family sells property in Magdalena, New Mexico", 2 September 2025, www.facebook.com. Accessed 7 September 2025.

1885 U.S. Census, Valencia County, Territory of New Mexico, population schedule, Jarales, enumeration district (ED) 37, p. 2, dwelling # 14, family # 14, Jose Baca y Chavez; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 July 2021).

1890 Special U.S. Census: Surviving Soldier, Sailors and Marines, and Widows, Etc., Socorro County, Territory of New MExico, special schedule, Precinct No. 4, enumeration district (ED) 83, p. 1, house # 291, family #291, Philip Bourguignon; digital images,.

1860 U.S. Census, Socorro County, New Mexico, population schedule, Town of Lemitar, p. 63, dwelling # 648, family #580, Louis Baca; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 March 2010).

Family Search (www.familysearch.org : accessed 2 September 2025), image, "Marriage Record: Telesfor Chavez and Maria Manuela Montoya, 30 July 1902," image # 121.

Google Map search: Riley, New Mexico.” Google Maps, 7 September 2025, https://maps.app.goo.gl/X6zknd5pVRV4rDWt7. Accessed 7 September 2025.

Julyan, Robert. The place names of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Margaret Leonard Windham editor, New Mexico 1850 Territorial Census, Vol. II: Rio Arriba and Santa Ana Counties (Albuquerque: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 1976.).

Matrimonios: San Miguel del Socorro, 1 January 1854 - 31 December 1900; San Ignacio y San Cristobal, 1 March 1869 - 31 December 1900; San Marcial, 26 March 1883 - 31 December 1902; Our Lady of Sorrows of La Jolla, 1 January 1872 - 31 December 1900 (Alburqu.

Microfilm # 16734, Belen Marriages 1856-1911, 1917-1956," Family Search, FamilySearch.org (www.familysearch.org : accessed 7 July 2021), digial image, "marriage record: Martriano Chavez and Magdalena Casatillo, 10 February 1873," image # 90

“Microfilm # 16994, Church Records 1821-1956, Catholic Church. San Miguel (Socorro, New Mexico)," Family Search, FamilySearch.org (www.familysearch.org : accessed 21 May 2018), digital image, "baptism: Juan Vaca, 11 February 1871," image # 82.

Microfilm # 16994, Church Records 1821-1956, Catholic Church. San Miguel (Socorro, New Mexico)," Family Search, FamilySearch.org (www.familysearch.org : accessed 5 June 2021), baptism, "Carolina Bourguignon, 13 July 1882, image # 233.

1900 U.S. Census, Socorro County, New Mexico, population schedule, Precinct No. 31, Santa Rita, enumeration district (ED) 151, sheet 5A, dwelling # 49, family # 52, Jose Chavez y Baca; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 July 2021).

1910 U.S. Census, Socorro County, Territory of New Mexico, population schedule, Precinct No. 2, Lemitar, enumeration district (ED) 243, sheet 5B, dwelling # 77, family # 79, Juan Baca; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 November 2.

1920 U.S. Census, Socorro County, New Mexico, population schedule, Precinct No. 2, Lemitar, enumeration district (ED) 150, sheet 4 B, dwelling # 83, family #84, Juan Baca; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 November 2019).

Sanchez Avila, Kathy. “Comment on Robert James Baca's September 1, 2025 Facebook post "Baca family sells property in Magdalena, New Mexico."” Facebook, 1 September 2025, www.facebook.com. Accessed 7 September 2025.

Socorro, New Mexico, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https:// www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-245G?view=fullText : Aug 27, 2025), image 360 and 361 of 1594; Socorro County (New Mexico). County Recorder. Image Group Number: 00814.

"Socorro, New Mexico, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https://

www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-2WD1?view=fullText : 

Sep 9, 2025), image 377 & 378 of 1594; Socorro County (New Mexico). County Recorder. Image Group Number: 008148668

Socorro, New Mexico, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https:// www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-DS4D-Z?view=fullText : Sep 7, 2025), image 1277 & 1278 of 1598; Socorro County (New Mexico). County Recorder. Image Group N.

The Baca Land Grant in Colorado: The Baca National Wildlife Refuge

As I have mentioned before, Cabeza de Baca descendants (including my 2nd great-grandfather Martin Baca) brought a lawsuit to the United States government to reclaim land granted to their ancestor Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca. Although they were unable to get the original property, (in present-day Las Vegas, New Mexico) they were given 5 plots of land of about 99,000 acres each. 

One of the plots eventually became the Baca National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado. Check out the link below:

The Baca National Wildlife Refuge 

A Summary of a Report to Congress Regarding the Cabeza de Baca Family

 I decided to summarize a report to the House of the Representatives, 1st Session of the 36th Congress, regarding the petition by the Heirs of Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca. I read the entire report, but it found it a little daunting, so I used A.I. to help me summarize it. 

Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca was my fourth great-grandfather. His son Jose Mateo Mauricio (or simply Mateo) was my third great-grandfather. Mateo's son Martin was my 2nd great-grandfather. All three are mentioned in the summary.

Luis Maria was granted a large tract of land in 1821 in the area around present-day Las Vegas, New Mexico. Due to complications including revolutions, wars, regime change, and raids by Native American tribes, Luis Maria lost the land. Other families took possession of the land by 1835 and were issued title for the land. When the heirs of the deceased Luis Maria petitioned the government, they ended up getting up receiving 5 tracts, or "floats", of land in New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. Click on the following link by to an article about the Baca Floats in the American Surveyor website.

My summary is in the link below:

The Heirs of Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca

Heirs of Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca

A wealth of information, including the names of descendants of Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca and the residents of Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1860, can be found in in U.S. House of Representatives Documents in Google Book.

It's fascinating. It includes testimony given by a number of New Mexicans.

My second great-grandfather Martin Baca is mentioned in the lawsuit as one of the sons of Mateo Baca, son of Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca

From the document:

"To the Hon William Pelham surveyor general of the Territory of New Mexico under the act of Congress approved July 22 AD 1854 Your petitioners the surviving heirs at law of one Luis Cabeza de Baca deceased would respectfully state that on the 16th day of January 1821 the provincial deputation of the State of Durango granted to the ancestor of your petitioners Luis Cabeza de Baca a tract of land called the Las Vegas Grandes and which said grant was afterwards ratified by the provincial deputation of New Mexico and which said grant has for its boundaries the following landmarks to wit On the north the Chapellote river on the south the boundary of San Miguel del Bado on the east the Aguage de la Llegua and the boundary of Antonio Ortiz and on the west the summit of the Pecos mountains all of which will more fully appear by reference to the said grant now on file in the office of the surveyor general No 137 and the grant to Antonio Ortiz No 727 and the grant to San Miguel del Bado No 125 to all of which reference is hereby made Your petitioners further state that said lands marks and boundaries are well known and easily discovered but inasmuch as no survey of said lands has as yet ever been made the quantity of land included within said boundaries is unknown to your petitioners Your petitioners further state that it will appear by reference to said grant that it was made to the said Luis Cabeza de Baca and his male children and invested him and his male children with an absolute title to said lands."

Check out the link below:

Town of Las Vegas vs. Tomas Baca, et.al. 

Robert B. Baca Inducted into the 4th Degree in the K of C, 1940.

My grandfather Robert B. Baca received his 4th degree in the Knights of Columbus on June 9, 1940, in Albuquerque. My grandfather was one of the founders of the Socorro chapter of the K of C and was also a Grand Knight of the local chapter. The Socorro chapter of the K of C is named after him. 

Below is my transcription of the Albuquerque Journal story about his induction. 

K. of C. to Confer Fourth Degree

20 Candidates Here For Rites Today

A class of 20 candidates from Albuquerque and Santa Fe will be initiated into the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus at rites here Sunday.

The day's program will begin at 7 o'clock Sunday morning, when the class will meet in front of the Immaculate Conception Church rectory and will march to the church for Holy Communion. Initiation rites will be held at 1 o'clock at the K. or C. Hall. A banquet at 6:30 o'clock at El Fidel Hotel will complete the day's program.

Bishop Sidney M. Metzgar, auxiliary bishop of the Santa Fe archdiocese, will be among those to receive the degree, according to reports from Santa Fe, and the class has been named in his honor. He is scheduled to be the main speaker at the banquet in the evening. He is a member of the San Antonio, Tex., council. He is expected to return from San Antonio in time for the rites. 

Capt. E. G. Freeman, master will be charge of the ritualistic team and will be assisted by officers of Albuquerque and Santa Fe. 

Other candidates for the degree are William A. Arias, Leo Robert Burwinkle, Robert B. Baca, Dr. Michael V. Berardinelli, John Francis Duffy, T. Fidel, the Rev. Francis Gleason, Louis A. Grandjean, Francis J. Gormley, Dr. V. A. Knott, Filberto E. Lucero, Rafael Lopez, John Henry Phelan, Leo F. Sanchez, Delfin Salazar, Sergio A. Viscoli, and Mony Persenti. 

Source: "Albuquerque Journal," database, Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com), K. of C. to Confer Fourth Degree, 9 June 1940, p. 6.

My Maternal Grandparents and Their Businesses

With the release of the 1950 Census today, I've already found a few interesting facts about my ancestors. I knew that my maternal grandparents, Santiago and Paulita (Zimmerly) Baca, owned a number of businesses. I didn't realize that they would have indicated in the census that they operated the businesses separately.

Both are listed as self-employed. My grandfather Santiago is listed as working in his retail grocery store, while my grandmother Paulita (or Pablita) is listed as working in her retail appearal store. Santiago worked 54 hours in the previous week; my hard-working grandmother worked 57 hours.

My mother, uncle and aunt are also listed in the household. My mother was listed as 14 years old, although she was actually 15 years old going on 16 (August.) 

Interestingly enough, my father Robert "Bobby" Baca worked in my maternal grandparents' grocery store. I believe he was working there at the time of the census, since he is listed as a employed as a grocery clerk. His father Robert, was working as a postal clerk for the U.S. Postal Service. Elder Robert worked 40 hours in the previous week, while his son worked only 17 - assumedly because he was still going to school.

One last thing: my parents both had the surname "Baca" but were not closely related through the Baca line.

Sources:

1950 U.S. Census, Socorro County, New Mexico, population schedule, Socorro, enumeration district (ED) 28-2, sheets 2 & 3, dwelling # 24, Santiago Baca; digital images, National Archives (1950census.archives.gov : accessed 1 April 2022).

1950 U.S. Census, Socorro County, New Mexico, population schedule, Socorro, enumeration district (ED) 28-1, pp. 32-33, dwelling # 227, Robert Baca; digital images, National Archives (1950census.archives.gov : accessed 1 April 2022).

Death by "summer complaint" - Lilly Florence Baca, 1933

My paternal grandparents lost three of their children. One child was Lilly Florence Baca, who was born on April 30, 1933 and died four months and one day later on August 30, 1933.

Her death certificate indicates that she died of bronchial pneumonia, brought on by "Summer complaint" and infectious diarrhea. I had not heard of "Summer complaint", so I decided to look it up.

According to Dictionary.com, "Summer complaint" is

noun

1. an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.

 

It looks like she died of food poisoning. She was the daughter of Robert Bourguignon Baca and Maria Teresa Torres.

 

sources: 

 

"Socorro County Death Certificates, 1932 - 1935," database, Family Search (www.familysearch.org: accessed 29 March 2016), death certificate: Lilly Florence Baca, DOD August 30, 1930.

 

Definition: summer complaint, Dictionary.com, , accessed 29 March 2016. 

Antonio de Salazar - my 7th great grandfather - TWICE!

Henrietta Martinez Christmas posted the article below about my 7th great-grandfather Antonio de Salazar's estate. 


1598 New Mexico: Salazar Estate settlement ~ 1765: We, Francisco Pablo de Salazar and Cristobal de Salazar, resident of this jurisdiction of Albuquerque, as executors and heirs of Antonio ...
 
Antonio de Salazar was one of the founders of Belen, New Mexico in 1740. He and his brother-in-law Captain Diego de Torres petitioned the Spanish crown (through New Mexico's governor) for the Belen land grant. The Henrietta's article details the settlement of Antonio de Salazar's estate.


Antonio de Salazar's sons Pedro de Salazar and Cristobal de Salazar, petitioned the government to settle their father's estate. According to them, the estate was to be divided into equal shares and given to Antonio's heirs. However, their brother-in-law Joaquin de Luna argued that Antonio de Salazar gave Luna the house and property as inheritance for his wife (Juana Angela Salazar.) A Spanish official decided to honor Antonio de Salazar's will and divided the property equally.


I am related to Antonio de Salazar twice - both times he turns out to be my 7th great grandfather. First, through his son Francisco Pablo de Salazar (sometimes known as Francisco Antonio Salazar) and Pedro Francisco's wife Maria Manuela Tafoya. Second, through Antonio's daughter Juana Angela Salazar and her husband Joaquin de Luna! Therefore, I am related to the plaintiff and defendant of this suit!


Sources:

Henrietta Martinez Christmas, translator, "Salazar Estate Settlement - 1765", in the 1598 New Mexico Blog, http://1598nm.blogspot.com/2014/08/salazar-estate-settlement-1765.html, retrieved August 12, 2014.


Donald A. Chavez y Gilbert, "The History of Belen: A Nativity of Ranching" in the New Mexican Hispanic Culture Preservation League website, http://www.nmhcpl.org/uploads/THE_HISTORY_OF_BELEN.pdf, retrieved August 12, 2014.


Below is a list of Antonio Salazar's descendants. It includes two of my great-grandfathers Ignacio Torres and Juan B. Cabeza de Baca y Luna. Their names are in red and bold below. If you wish to see this descendant list with source citations, please send me an email at abqbobcat@nmia.com - Robert J. C. Baca.

1-Antonio SALAZAR (circa 1688-)

+Maria TORRES (-)

. . . . 2-Juan Joseph SALAZAR (-)

. . . . +Josefa ESPINOSA (-before 1744)

. . . . +Maria GARCIA DE NORIEGA (-14 August 1774)

. . . . 2-Miguel SALAZAR (circa 1714-)

. . . . +Francisca de San Juan LUNA (circa 1720-)

. . . . 2-Juan Antonio SALAZAR (September 1714-22 October 1780)

. . . . +Barbara LUNA (-17 April 1785)

. . . . 2-Jose SALAZAR (-1818)

. . . . +Rosalia HERRERA (circa April 1733-)

. . . . 2-Pablo Francisco SALAZAR (1720-3 April 1793)

. . . . +Maria Manuela TAFOYA (-before 1790)

. . . . . . . . 3-Guadalupe SALAZAR (-)

. . . . . . . . +Antonio MONTOYA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Maria Manuela MONTOYA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Jose Antonio TRUJILLO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Victoria TRUJILLO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Santiago GONZALES (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Joanna Maria GONZALES (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Jose Carlos PADILLA (4 November 1838-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Albino GONZALES (28 February
1840-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Paula BACA (about February 1864-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Petra GONZALES (circa 13
December 1881-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Eduardo GONZALES (5 June
1894-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Maria Librida GONZALES (25
April 1899-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Mary Albina GONZALES (4 April
1905-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Rufina GONZALES (11 April
1907-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Juan Bautista GONZALES (28 August
1845-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Fabian GONZALES (17 January
1834-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Tomas de Aguino GONZALES (7
March 1836-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Nicanar GONZALES (8 June 1838-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Teodoro GONZALES (7 November
1848-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Manuel GONZALES (about 17 June 1830-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Juana GONZALES (18 July 1843-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Victoria GONZALES (about 1
April 1832-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria de la Lus TRUJILLO (25 December 1814-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria de Jesus TRUJILLO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Luis Maria GARCIA JURADO (about 1799-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Francisco Antonio MONTOYA (1792-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Clara Lorenza SILVA (12 August 1794-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Jose Tomas MONTOYA (13 December 1812-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Juan Tomas MONTOYA (21 December 1814-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Ana Maria Estefana PEREA (2 January 1823-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Peregrina MONTOYA (18 August
1840-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Viviana MONTOYA (30 November 1842-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Pablo PADILLA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Geronimo PADILLA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Epifanio MONTOYA (2 April 1845-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Casmiro MONTOYA (5 March 1848-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Manuela ABEYTA (May 1856-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Amadeo MONTOYA (about 1877-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Jose Liberado MONTOYA (circa
27 October 1879-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Juana Andrea MONTOYA (30
November 1883-9 July 1974)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Sofia MONTOYA (May 1886-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Maria Eleanor MONTOYA (circa
4 October 1888-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Juan A. MONTOYA (23 February
1891-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Ana Maria MONTOYA (8 December
1892-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Julio MONTOYA (about 1815-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Quiteria ROMERO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Guadalupe MONTOYA (8 December 1816-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Francisco LOPEZ (about 1815-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Benita LOPEZ (about 1833-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Jose de Jesus SANCHEZ (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Maria Narcisa SANCHEZ (28
October 1851-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Jose Dolores GALLEGOS (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Juliana GALLEGOS (8 January
1842-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Jose Anastacio LUNA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Francisca GALLEGOS (10 October
1844-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Alperto GALLEGOS (16 September
1846-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Ursula GALLEGOS (14 October
1849-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Jose Hermenegildo MONTOYA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Juana Maria BACA (27 January 1797-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Ana Maria MONTOYA (5 November 1821-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Micaela MONTOYA (28 September 1823-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Gregoria MONTOYA (17 December 1825-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Isabel Sirila MONTOYA (8 July 1827-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Juan Jose Austacio MONTOYA (14 April 1830-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Petra de Jesus MONTOYA (1832-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Jose Leocadio MONTOYA (8 December 1833-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Jose Tomas MONTOYA (28 December 1835-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Juan Bautista MONTOYA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Antonia GARCIA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Eugenia MONTOYA (20 March 1827-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Encarnacion de Los DOLORESTELLES (25 March
1829-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Victoria MONTOYA (4 September 1820-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria de Jesus MONTOYA (3 March 1823-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Casimira MONTOYA (21 March 1829-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Micaela MONTOYA (6 May 1831-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Francisca MONTOYA (31 March 1825-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Ruberta MONTOYA (6 June 1833-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Juan MONTOYA (about 1794-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Manuela GARCIA JURADO (about 1798-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Josefa MONTOYA (6 December 1819-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Jose Anastacio TORRES (20 January 1810-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Juan Telesforo TORRES (3 January
1837-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Canuto TORRES (about 20 January
1839-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Ysabel PADILLA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Polonio de Jesus TORRES (8
February 1841-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Epifano TORRES (6 April 1843-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Ambrosio Malquiades TORRES (7
December 1845-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Crespin TORRES (26 October
1847-21 October 1937)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Andrea TRUJILLO (about 1853-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Domatila TORRES (2 January
1870-1952)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Monica TORRES (about 1872-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Apolonio TORRES (about 1874-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Ignacio TORRES (25 October
1875-18 March 1950)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Jose T. TORRES (October
1881-about 1959)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Maria del Dolores TORRES
(about 1884-about 1952)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Rogerio TORRES (about
1887-about 1934)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Guadalupe TORRES (about
1890-1981)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Encarnacion TORRES (12 April
1894-7 July 1895)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Dolores TORRES (19 March 1850-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Juan Avato TORRES (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria de Jesus BACA Y PADILLA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Candelaria GONZALES (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Antonio CHAVES (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Juan Nepomunceno MONTOYA (14 March 1822-23
April 1822)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Felipe de Jesus MONTOYA (5 January 1823-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Jose Pedro MONTOYA (21 May 1826-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Nasaria LUNA (13 November 1828-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Margarita MONTOYA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Richard STACKPOLE (10 July 1846-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Nasaria LUNA (13 November 1828-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Petra MONTOYA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Crespin ARAGON (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Juan de Jesus MONTOYA (about October 1829-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Ysabel Francisca BACA (8 May 1836-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Domaciana MONTOYA (September 1854-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Rufino SEDILLO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Antonio A. SEDILLO (April
1876-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Maria R. SEDILLO (February
1883-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Candelario B. SEDILLO (March
1885-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Nestor P. SEDILLO (March
1894-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Telesfora MONTOYA (about 1857-)

. . . . . . . . 3-Maria Manuela SALAZAR (-)

. . . . . . . . +Pedro Fernando SILVA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Jose Pablo SILVA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Manuela PACHECO (-)

. . . . . . . . 3-Maria Leonarda SALAZAR (about 1760-)

. . . . . . . . +Jose Manuel SILVA (about 1722-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Francisco SILVA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Encarnacion TORRES (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Juana ROMERO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Madalena SILVA (5 June 1823-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Jose de la Resurrecion SILVA (7 April 1825-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Polonia SILVA (12 February 1827-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Josefa SILVA (13 May 1829-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Juana Cicilia SILVA (28 January 1831-)

. . . . 2-Nicolas SALAZAR (17 September 1721-before 1790)

. . . . 2-Gertrudis SALAZAR (-11 December 1772)

. . . . 2-Cristobal SALAZAR (-26 June 1780)

. . . . 2-Juana Angela SALAZAR (circa 1730-)

. . . . +Joaquin DE LUNA (-before 1790)

. . . . . . . . 3-Miguel de San Juan DE LUNA (10 September 1745-)

. . . . . . . . +Juana RAEL DE AGUILAR (-)

. . . . . . . . +Maria Catalina VALDEZ (-)

. . . . . . . . 3-Tomas DE LUNA (1746-9 February 1780)

. . . . . . . . +Margarita Antonia SENA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Maria Dolores LUNA (about 1777-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Lorenzo GARCIA (about 1777-)

. . . . . . . . 3-Bernardo Paulo DE LUNA (9 July 1747-)

. . . . . . . . +Catalina GARCIA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Maria de la Encarnacion DE LUNA (28 March 1773-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Eusebio Ignacio DE LUNA (5 June 1774-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria de la Luz LUCERO (3 April 1777-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Antonio Jose DE LUNA (about 1810-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Micaela GUTIERREZ (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Eusebio Santos DE LUNA (4 November 1775-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Jose Joaquin DE LUNA (14 January 1778-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Ana Maria de los Dolores ROMERO (15 June 1784-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Francisco DE LUNA (about 1811-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Concepcion SENA (about 1815-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Simona LUNA (29 October 1830-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Soledad LUNA (about 1831-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Victoriano SANCHES (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Ines LUNA (about 1833-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Juan de Jesus LUNA (21 November
1833-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Juan Bautista DE LUNA (March 1835-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Antonio Jose DE LUNA (15 June 1837-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Petra CHAVEZ (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Amadeo LUNA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Trinidad LUNA (about 1841-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Rita LUNA (about 1844-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Martin BACA (about 1842-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Ramona BACA (August 1864-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Miguel BACA (about 1864-21
January 1938)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Adelaida BACA (about 1869-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Juan B. CABEZA DE BACA Y LUNA
(10 February 1871-17 December 1953)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Pedro FERNANDEZ (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Dolores FERNANDEZ (about
1877-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Manuela LUNA (about 1848-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Francisco LUNA (1855-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Facunda LUNA (1840-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria de Jesus DE LUNA (about 1812-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Sabino GONZALES (about 1803-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Antonio GONZALES (7 October
1830-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Josefa GONZALES (about 1833-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Ynes GONZALES (about 1834-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Guillermo Amado GONZALES (13
September 1835-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maximiana JARAMILLO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Paula GONZALES (about 1838-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria Tomasa GONZALES (5 March 1841-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Philip BOURGUIGNON (between 1827 and
1828-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Andrea BOURGUIGNON (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Margarita BOURGUIGNON (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Felipe BOURGUIGNON  II (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Eduardo BOURGUIGNON (about
1865-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Maria de Jesus BOURGUIGNON
(about 1868-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Luis BOURGUIGNON (about
1870-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Pabla BOURGUIGNON (about
1872-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Elisio BOURGUIGNON (about
1877-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Charles BOURGUIGNON (about
1878-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Frederico BOURGUIGNON (about
1879-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Carolina BOURGUIGNON (3 July
1882-17 May 1963)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Francisco BOURGUIGNON (28
December 1884-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Juana Maria GONZALES (about 1844-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Rumulda DE LUNA (between 12 March 1824
and 19 March 1824-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Dolores DE LUNA (22 April 1827-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Jose Felipe GONZALES (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Maria Gaudalupe DE LUNA (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Juan Nepomuceno LOPEZ (circa 1821-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Maria LOPEZ (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Jose Julian TRUJILLO (10 January
1847-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Juan LUCERO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Juan DE LUNA (about 1819-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Perfecta SERNA (about 1827-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Jose Antonio DE LUNA (about 1842-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Dolores SEDILLO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Diego DE LUNA (about 1793-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . +Maria Paula PEREA (about 1799-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Antonia Rita DE LUNA (27 March 1800-)

. . . . . . . . 3-Maria DE LUNA (before 1750-)

. . . . . . . . 3-Antonio Xavier DE LUNA (11 May 1751-)

. . . . +Antonio Jose NARANJO (circa 1748-10 June 1771)

. . . . . . . . 3-Juan de Jesus NARANJO (before 1771-)

. . . . . . . . +Maria Juana DURAN (circa 1787-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Maria Ygnacia NARANJO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Juan Rumaldo NARANJO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Jose Antonio NARANJO (circa 1813-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Mariano NARANJO (circa 1815-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Maria Dolores NARANJO (circa 1817-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Maria Francisca NARANJO (1818–1819-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Juan Antonio NARANJO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Jose Guadalupe NARANJO (-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Maria Ramona NARANJO (-)

. . . . . . . . 3-Maria Josefa NARANJO (circa 1770-)

Two Bourguignon siblings are caught ill - February 1905

According to the "Notas de Lemitar" in the February 4, 1905 issue of the Socorro Chieftain, siblings Charles Bourguignon and Carolina (Bourguignon) Baca were hit hard by the flu or a cold. Did they catch it from each other?

Carolina Bourguignon was the wife of Juan C. de Baca y Luna. Juan and Carolina Baca were my great-grandparents.

El joven Charles Bourguignon ha estado en cama por algunos dias de un fuerte ataque del trancaso (grip.)

The young Charles Bourguignon has been in bed for a few days of a strong attack "del trancaso" ("of the grip" - or, in other words, the flu.)

La señora de Don Juan Baca, Doña Carolina, hace días que está en cama á resultas de un fuerte resfrío que la fatiga mucho.

Roughly translated: "Doña Carolina, the wife of Don Juan Baca, has been in bed for days due to fatigue from the cold."

Below is the complete column "Notas de Lemitar" that includes paragraphs about other Lemitar residents:

 

I used the website BabelFish for this translation. www.babelfish.com. 

Source:

The Socorro chieftain. (Socorro, N.M.), 04 Feb. 1905. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

Who are Juan Antonio Baca's parents?

Who are the parents of Juan Antonio Baca? In a previous post I indicated that the parents of Juan Antonio Baca, husband of Maria Romero and father of Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca, may not be the son of Antonio Baca and Monica de Chavez. Fray Angelico Chavez, in his book "Origins of New Mexico Families", asserted this connection based on a document in the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, CA in which Juan Antonio Baca is shown related to Barbara Baca, the daughter of Antonio Baca and Monica Chavez. However, not everyone one agrees with Chavez's assessment.

In her article "Juan Antonio Baca m. Maria Romero: A Genealogical Proof Standard of", Henrietta Martinez Christmas demonstrates that it is more likely that Juan Antonio Baca was the son of a family from the Rio Arriba (northern New Mexico) rather than the Rio Abajo (southern New Mexico.) She believes that Juan Antonio Baca lived all of his life in La Cienega/ Santa Fe. She shows that all the records for him are in Santa Fe in the Rio Arriba, and that he seems to have a connection to Cristobal Baca and Apolonia Vega y Coca, who Henrietta Christmas theorizes are his parents. The only weakness to her argument is that she does not have access to the Bankcroft document, and therefore cannot definitively discount the document as inaccurate or that Fray Chavez misinterpreted the document.

The importance of figuring out who are Juan Antonio's parents is to figure out once and for all if Juan Antonio's lineage goes directly through the paternal line to the original Cristobal Baca (the other Cristobal Baca's 2nd great grandfather), the progenitor of the Baca family in New Mexico. If Cristobal Baca and Apolonia Vega y Coca are Juan Antonio's parents, than Juan Antonio's line does go directly up the paternal line. If his parents are Antonio Baca and Monica Chavez, it does not. This is because Antonio Baca is the son of Josefa Baca and an unknown father. Antonio took his mother's surname, not his father's.

As I mentioned in the previous post, I hope that one day we can answer this question by using DNA. I am hoping that descendants of Antonio Baca and the younger Cristobal Baca take a Y-DNA test to help us clear up this problem.

Sources:

Fray Angelico Chavez, Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Revised Ed. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1992) pp. 144 and 152.

Henrietta M. Christmas, "Juan Antonio Baca m. Maria Romero: A Genealogical Proof Standard of", Herencia, Vol. 13 (January 2005), pp. 26-31.

Notes on Baca family Y-DNA

Last week, FamilyTreeDNA President Bennett Greenspan gave the New Mexico Genealogical Society a two part presentation on genetic genealogy.

In the audience was a woman who is a distant relative of mine. I won't write her name on this post, but I will say that her maiden name is Baca. During a break, we began speaking about our families. We had spoken before, and may have even talked about our Y-DNA certificates. Since only men have the Y chromosome, this Baca cousin had to have her brother take the test.

Her brother's certificate shows that we are separated by only on step in the 37 marker test (although he has taken the 67 marker test, I have only taken the 37.) DYS # 448 shows "17" for me and "18" for him. According to her research, on her direct paternal line she is the 5th great-granddaughter of Luis Maria Baca through his 1st wife. On my direct paternal line, I am the 4th great-grandson of this man through his 2nd wife. Therefore, she is seven generations separated from Luis Maria Baca while I am six generations separated. According to our Y-DNA TiP report, there is an 77.81% chance that we are related within six generations and 84.11% chance that we are related within seven generations.

Comparing our Y-DNA results are important for me because it may prove that I am descended from Luis Maria Baca (aka Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca.) According to my uncles, my great-grandfather Juan C. de Baca y Luna was adopted, which might mean that he himself is not the great-grandson of Luis Maria Baca. I have found in my research, though, a baptismal record that shows that he is the legitimate son of Martin Baca and Maria Rita Luna, which makes him Luis Maria Baca's descendant. I believe the misunderstanding that he was "adopted" is the fact that his mother remarried after his father died.

I am still trying to find more information through DNA. For instance, I would like to find out if it is true that Luis Maria Baca was the descendant of Josefa Baca, through her son Antonio Baca (see Fray Angelico Chavez's "Origin of New Mexico Families", pages 144 and 152) or through a more direct Baca paternal line that extends to the 1st Baca male in New Mexico, Cristobal Baca.

Right now, there are 21 men who have submitted their results to the Baca Y-DNA project for comparison. Within that project, there is a group of 6 men who match significantly enough to be considered to be in the same lineage. There is only one other pair of two who match, and everyone else are distant enough not to be considered part of the same lineages. I am one of that group of 6. I have not been able to compare my lineage against any of the other five men except for the one I mentioned before. I have sent out emails to the others to see if they will respond.

If you have the Baca surname, I suggest that you take a FamilyTreeDNA Y-DNA test so that we could have more data. I suggest taking at least the 37 marker test in order to make a good comparison. Share your family tree information with other people in project so that we can compare our trees. For more information on the cost of the test, visit www.familytreedna.com.

Remember, only men can take the Y-DNA test (a man's Y-DNA is what makes him male, as opposed to female.) If you are female, you will have to have your brother, father, grandfather, cousin or uncle on the same paternal line take the test. Also, the Y-DNA test only looks at the direct paternal line - usually the surname line - father's, father's, father's, father's, father, etc. There are other tests that will show a maternal line (MtDNA) and other lines of your DNA (Family Finder.) Visit the FamilyTreeDNA website for more information.

First Hand Account of the New Mexico Territorial Period

Recently, I have been researching early Socorro County history, when I came across a book online titled "El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her People". It was written by William Watts Hart Davis, a circuit judge the United States Attorney for New Mexico. He traveled throughout New Mexico for two and a half years in the 1850s. I find the book interesting because he talks a lot about the people he came across in his travels.

What I specifically found useful in my research was his mention of the residence of the last and late Mexican Governor of New Mexico Manuel Armijo:

The mayor domo of the establishment received us in the court-yard and conducted us into the house, where we were welcomed by the owner of the establishment, a son-in-law of the deceased general [Governor Armijo.] As is customary of a Mexican gentleman, he placed everything at our disposal, but we felt well understood that nothing farther was donated to us than accommodations for ourselves and our horses. We were ushered into the main sala, where servants soon made their appearance with water and necessary ablutions and accompanying toilet fixtures...." [page 363]

The son-in-law is undoubtedly Luis Maria Baca, husband of Manuel Armijo's adopted daughter Ramona Armijo. Ramona inherited her father's house after he died. ^1. Additionally, Luis Maria Baca was also a grandson and namesake of land grant proprietor Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca, and the brother of my 2nd great-grandfather Martin Baca.^2. Through this vignette, I was able to get a better understanding of this family.

To read "El Gringo", click on this link.

Sources:
1. Fray Angelico Chavez, Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Revised Edition (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1992), p. 318. See also J. J. Bowden, "Socorro Land Grant", in the New Mexico Office of the State Historian website http://www.newmexicohistory.org/>, retrieved 24 October 2010. (Link)

2. Chavez, "Origins of New Mexico Families", p. 152-153. See also J.J. Bowden, "Luis Maria de Baca Grant", in the New Mexico Office of State Historian website, http://www.newmexicohistory.org>, retrieved 24 October 2010. (Link)

Baca, Baca, Baca....

Did I ever mention to you that "Baca" is a confusing surname in this state, and in my family. This is for a variety of reasons:

1.) Baca is one of the most common last names in New Mexico. If you are a Hispanic New Mexican whose family has been here for a few hundred years, regardless of whether you, your parents, or grandparents have the surname, somewhere in your genealogy you are likely to have the Baca name. Guaranteed.

2.) Yes, both of my parents are Bacas. No they are not cousins (at least not close cousins) through their surnames. My dad's family was from Pena Blanca, my mom's family was from Belen. And that's going back 150 -200 years. Do you know how many times my mother was asked to clarify her surname? - "Mrs. Baca, what is you maiden name?", "Baca", "No, the name you had BEFORE you were married", "Baca", "No, you don't understand, before you walked down the aisle, you had a last name that was the same name as your father's. What was that name?", "Baca", "Okay, let me try to explain this even better...."

3.) There are approximately 5,236,286,201,215 Bacas in the Socorro area alone. Or at least it seems that way. Although many of them are distantly related to either my dad or my mom - THEY ARE NOT THE SAME BACA FAMILIES! Many of the Bacas I write about on this blog are not my parents' families.

Because of this reason, I've decided to make it clearer as to which Baca family I am talking about in my blog. I've created two new labels for this blog: Robert's maternal Baca line, and Robert's paternal Baca line. To find these label, look at the right hand margin of this blog under Categories in this Blog. Click on the label that you wish to explore.

Now we have clarified the Baca quandry. Let's not even get into talking about my Torres, Trujillo, and Padilla families....

7 Generations of the Baca Family

Since The New Mexico Genealogical Society is hosting a Baca Surname Workshop on March 20, 2010 - which I will be facilitating - I've decided to share some information about the Baca family. Click on this link to view a PDF file of the first seven generations of descendants of Cristobal and Ana (Ortiz) Baca, the first Baca family to arrive in New Mexico in the Winter of 1600. You are free to use this information, but please use the proper citation when publishing or putting it into your genealogical database. I have worked on this family for over 10 years now, and I would like credit where credit is due.

Feel free to contact me if you have any comments, questions, suggestions, or corrections. Please realize that this document was not meant to include every single descendant for seven generations of this family. I only included those people that I was researching at the time.

I will bring my nine generation ancestor chart to the workshop that I will use in conjunction with the Cristobal Baca's seven generation descendant chart. For more information about March 20th's workshop, click on this link.

Census Records of Martin Baca and his son Juan Baca

A photo of Juan and Carolina (Bourguignon) Baca, and their children, taken on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary (April, 1950). Kneeling left to right: Martin B. Baca, Philip B. Baca. Standing left to right: Robert B. Baca, Priscilla B. Baca, Lorenzo B. Baca, Juan Baca y Luna, Carolina Bourguignon Baca.

Photo courtesy of Ed Baca.

Martin Baca is my second great-grandfather on my dad's direct paternal line. His son Juan, was my great-grandfather. Martin Baca was the son of Jose Mateo Mauricio Cabeza de Baca, who, himself, was the son of my 4th great-grandfather Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca and his second wife Ana Maria Sanchez.

In 1860, Martin shows up in Lemitar, New Mexico with his brothers. (Click on the image to get a closer look.)

Source: Louis Baca household, 1860 U. S. census, population schedule, Territory of New Mexico, Socorro County, Town of Lemitar, page 63, dwelling # 648, family # 580; digital image retrieved 6 March 2010, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/).

A close up of the family record shows Louis Baca, a 30 year old male; Ramona, a 25 year female (most likely his wife); three young girls Beatriz, 11 years old; Jesusa (?), 5 years old; and Trinidad, 2 years old. Most likely these girls are the children of Louis and Ramona Baca. Listed in the household are Louis' brothers Juan de Dios, 26; and Martin, 22. Three female servants and another girl are listed: Rita (?), 27 ; Clara Baca, Indian, 27; Librada (Baca), also listed as an Indian (Clara's child?), 11 years old; and Jesusa (?), a 15 year old. (Click on the image to get a closer look.)

The 1870 census of Lemitar, New Mexico shows Martin Baca with his wife Rita Luna and three of their children. My great-grandfather Juan was not in this record because he would not be born until 10 February 1871.



Source: Martin Baca household, 1870 U. S. census, population schedule, Territory of New Mexico, Socorro County, Town of Lemitar, page 13, dwelling # 117, family # 111; digital image retrieved 6 March 2010, Ancestry.com.



A close up of the record shows Martin Baca, 28 years old; his wife Rita; and their children Ramona 7, Miguel 6 and Adelida, 1.




I did not find the family in the 1880 census. Due to a fire, there is no 1890 census for New Mexico.

The next time I find the Baca family, Juan Baca and his wife Carolina Bourguignon are listed with his mother Rita (Luna)Baca.

Source: Juan Baca household, 1900 U. S. census, population schedule, Territory of New Mexico, Socorro County, Town of Lemitar, supervisor district # 170, enumeration district # 136, page 22A, dwelling # 127, family # 128; digital image retrieved 6 March 2010, Ancestry.com.

A close-up of the record shows that the couple are newlyweds. It says that Juan Baca, born March 1872 (sic); and his wife Carolina, born June 1882 (sic); were married for 1 year and had no children. In reality, they had been married only a few months prior, on 9 April 1900. Included in the household is Juan's mother, Rita Baca, who, according to this record, was born in May 1844. Interestingly enough, it shows that Rita gave birth to only one child, and only one child was living. This does not seem to be correct.


The 1910 US census shows a larger household. Rita is no longer living with her son. It is possible that she passed away by this time.

Source: Juan Baca household, 1910 U.S. Census, Territory of New Mexico, Socorro County, Precinct # 2 Lemitar, supervisor's district # 181, enumeration district # 203, sheet # 5B, dwelling # 77, family # 79, digital image retrieve 6 March 2010, Ancestry.com.

A close up shows Juan Baca, 38; and his wife Carolina, 26. They had been married 10 years; Carolina gave birth to 4 children, with only three surviving. Their three child are also listed: two boys Lorenzo, 6 years old and Roberto (my grandfather), 4 years old; and one 7 month old girl, whose name is hard to read. I don't know of this daughter. The only daughter I know is of Prescilla, who would not have been born yet.

The deceased child may have been a Juan Felipe Baca. I show that Carolina gave birth to a Juan Felipe Baca on 15 January 1903. This is not the same Felipe Baca who was be born after this census was taken. It appears that the other Felipe died early, possibly at birth.

The 1920 census shows all of the family that lived on until at least the 1950s, minus for one son: Martin. I'm assuming he was born after this census was taken.

Source: Juan Baca household, 1920 U.S. Census, State of New Mexico, Socorro County, Precinct # 2: Lemitar, supervisor's district #211, enumeration district # 150, sheet 4B, dwelling #83, family # 84; digital image retrieved 6 March 2010, ancestry.com.

A close up of this record shows 48 year old Juan Baca, with his 36 wife Carolina B. Their children are listed as sons Lorenzo, 15; Roberto, 12; Felipe 7; and the one daughter Precila, 4 years old.

I could not find a 1930 census record for this family.