Francisca Baca

  General Notes:

Chávez in his Origins of New Mexico Famalies must have accidentally made Francisca and Juana Baca one person. Likely there was no Juana Francisca Baca, but rather a Francisca Baca married To Francisco Xavier and a younger Juana Baca who was not married, yet had chidren who used the surname of Luna. Both Francisca and Juana were the daughters of Cristóbal Baca and Ana Moreno de Lara.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁹¹
Juana Francisca "le vieja" Baca was not the same Juana Francisca Baca who was married to Francisco Xavier. According to Margaret L. Buxton in The Other Luna Family, the Francisca Baca, mother of Josefa Xavier, mentioned in a married investigation of 1704, could not be the same Juana Baca who was 6 years old at the time.

Josefa Xavier was raised in Mexico and returned to New Mexico with the reconquest of 1693. At this time Francisco Xavier was widower, and Juana Baca was living with her father is Pasaxe. She could not possibly the living or dead Francisca Baca who was the mother of Josefa Xavier.

The third piece of evident Buxton use to disprove the Xavier, Juana Baca connection is that Captain Francisco Xavier and hiw wife Doña Francisca Baca were witnesses on 16 Aug 1684 at Real de San Lorenzo to the marriage of José Baca and Josefa Perez Pacheco. (Roots Ltd, Vol. I, pg. 155). Juana Baca was 10 years old at this time.

~The Other Luna Family, pp. 13-14

Francisca married Francisco Xavier de Sotomayor, son of Francisco Xavier and Graciana Griego. (Francisco Xavier de Sotomayor was born about 1655 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵² and died after 8 Aug 1704 in Nueva Viscaya, Nueva España.)