Paulino Baca

  General Notes:

Marriages and Baptisms at San Agustín de la Isleta, p. 149

Padres: Juan Baca y Francisca Martínez
Padrinos: Domingo de Luna y Josefa Lucero ³⁴

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1790, in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
#744 Lucas Antonio Baca, Spanish, rancher, 31 years, married to María Paula Cháves, Spanish, 29 years of age, 3 daughters, 9 years, 7 years, 3 months, 1 female servant, Coyote, 13 years, 1 male servant, 27 years, married to Juana Barreras, Genizario, 20 years, 1 son, 2 years.

#745 Dionisio Antonio Baca, Spanish, farmer, age 29, married to Ana María Sanches, Spanish age 21, with their son, age two and their daughter, age three.

Paulino Baca, age 35, farmer and Spanish, married to Lugarda Tafolla, Spanish age 31; with their four sons, ages 9, 7 abd 3; and their daughter five months old.

Río Abajo, p. 221
New Mexican Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790 * 1823 * 1845, p. 41

• Background Information: ²⁵⁰
Paulín Baca, son of Juan Francisco Baca and María de Jesús Martín, married María Lugarda Tafoya at Belén on 26 May 1779. By 1790 they were living in the second Plaza of Belén, when he gave his age as thirty-five, and hers as thirty-one. They had four boys (9-7-5-3) and a girl five months old. Paulín died at Belén on 12 Oct 1832. Their known children were the following: Pablo, who married María Manuela Lucero; Juan, who married Dolores Luna; Manuel, who at twenty enrolled in the militia in 1808, and was then described as having "pelo güero, ojos garzos, color blanco, sejas güeras, naris rroma y varios lunares en el rostro"; José Tomás, born 18 Nov 1796, who married Rosalia Lucero in 1819; and Rafael 5 May 1795, who first married Gertrudis García, and then Victoria Alderete on 6 Apr 1856.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 320

Paulino married Lugarda Tafoya, daughter of Pedro Tafoya and Augustina Silva, on 26 May 1779 in San Agustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Lugarda Tafoya was born in 1759-1763 in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
18 May 1779 - Belén. Paulin Baca (20), español, son of Juan Francisco Baca and Francisca de Jesús Martín, deceased, and María Lugards Tafoya (16), daughter of Pedro Tafoya and Agustina Silva.

Witnesses: Manuel de Arteaga, notary; Miguel Baca (35), José Baca (36), Juan Domingo Padilla (38).

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 164

  Marriage Notes:

San Agustín de la Isleta Marriages and Baptisms, p. 24

Spanish of Belén - Testigos: Antonio de Luna, don Miguel Morales y Juan Felipe Baca ³⁴