Lugarda Tafoya

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
"Three daughters of Antonio were mentioned in 1732: Lugarda, widow of Juan "Gallego" (Sayago) of Santa Fe, more than thirty years old; María Rosa, twenty-five and still single; and Juana, twenty-two, married to Agustín Lobato, soldier of Santa Fe. María Rosa is most likely the woman who married Diego Vásquez Borrego."

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 13095-13100

• Family Connection: ⁴³⁸
From a Diligencias Matrimoniales dated 16 Jul-19 Oct 1801 for descenants of Lugarda and Bárbara Tayfoya, we know that they were sisters.

Bárbara Tafoya	1st degree	Lutgarda Tafoya
Francisca Tenorio	2nd degree	Juan Tafoya
Ana María Esquibel	3rd degree	Apolonia Tafoya
Teodora Baca	4th degree	Juan Sandoval

New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, p. 21

Lugarda next married Juan Gallegos, son of José Gallegos and Catalina Hurtado, on 27 Mar 1718 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁴⁸² (Juan Gallegos was born about 1691 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ¹⁴⁸²
10 Mar 1718, Santa Fé, Juan Gallegos, 26, soldier of the presidio of this villa de Santa Fé, son of José Gallegos (deceased) and Catalina Hurtado, natives of this realm, with María Lugarda de Tafoya, 15, daughter of Antonio Tafoya and María Luysa Godines, residents of this said Villa de Santa Fé.

Witnesses: Jun de Díos Martím (37); Lorenzo Rodríguez (39), a soldier of this Presidio; Ramón de Medina (26), a solder of the Royal Presidio; Salvador Anaya Almazan (30).

There being no impediment, they were married on 26 Mar 1718 by Fr. Francisco Yrazabal.

New Mexico Roots, Ld, Addendum, Part III, NM Genealogist, Vol. 49 #3, March 2010, p. 75