María de la Luz Baca

  General Notes:

New Mexico Baptisms of Santa Fe Parroqui de San Franisco de Asis, Volume I, 1747-1791, p. 63
Padres: Manuel Baca y Margarita Tafoya
Padrinos: Juan Estevan Baca y Theodora Terrus ⁴⁰⁰

María married Juan José Silva, son of Francisco Silva and Rosa Gertrudis Durán y Chávez, Shortly after 3 Jan 1778 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. (Juan José Silva was born in 1737 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴³⁸
Juan José Silva, 40, español and native of New Mexico, was resident of puesto of Tomé in the jurisdiction of Alburquerque. Juan José was a widower from his marriage to Ana María Lucero and legitimate son of Francisco Silva and Gertrudis Chaves. María de la Luz Baca, 16, española, native of New Mexico and resident of Tomé, was the legitimate daughter of Manuel Baca and the late Margarita Josefa Tafoya. Juan José declared that his late wife, Ana María Lucero, and María de la Luz were related in the same degree of affinity. he requested a dispensation from fray Andrés García, the minister at San Felipe de Neri in Alburquerque.

First Degree: Diego Manuel Baca was the father of Josefa Baca
Second Degree: Josefa Baca had Rosa Baca as her natural daughter.
Third degree: Rosa Baca was the mother of Ana María Lucero, late wife of Ana María, late wife of Juan José Silva

First Degree: Diego Manuel Baca was the father of Manuel Baca
Second Degree: Manuel Baca was the father of another Manuel Baca
Third Degree: Manuel Baca was the father María de la Luz Baca

Father Domínguez of El Paso approved the dispensation on 3 Jan 1778.

New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799, p. 33