Josefa Luján

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Antonio Cisneros returned in 1693 with his wife Josefa Luján and their family. He was Alcalde Mayor of Zuñi in 1706, when he was mortally wounded by Apaches, given the last Sacraments by the Padre, and buried there on August 9. His wife appears to have been at least a half-sister to María Luján (Ruiz Cáceres), wife of her brother-in-law Sebastián Martín. Their three children were named in 1727 as follows: Hermenegildo, Felipe Neri (sometimes written "Nereo"), and Juana. Felipe was married to María del Castillo in 1728. Juana had married Juan de Santisteban in 1716.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, pp. 289-290

Josefa married Antonio Sisneros, son of Bartolomé de Cisneros and Ana Gutiérrez, on 1 Jan 1695 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.^,252 (Antonio Sisneros was born about 1652 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España, died in 1706 in Zuni Pueblo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³² and was buried on 9 Aug 1706 in Zuni Pueblo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
Dec 1694, Santa Fé

Antonio Sisneros (42), castizo, son of Capitan Bartolomé Siseros, deceased, and Ana Gutiérrez living in El Paso del Norte, and Josefa Luján (19), castiza, native of Santa Fé, daughter of Miguel Luján and Elena Ruíz Caceres, both deceased.

Witnesses: Antonio Saéz (23), Domingo de Herrera (48), both of whom knew brides since she was small; Cirstóbal Varela (30).

Pair married 1 Jan 1695, with witnesses Juan de Perea and Alcalde Ordinario Francisco Romero.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1843