Juan Bautista de Anza

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Mission 2000 - A Searchable Database of Spanish Mission Record.
Juan Bautisata de Anaza was the son of Juan Bautista de Anaza and María Rosa Becerra Nieto of Fronteras, Nueva Navarra, Nueva España. His paternal grandparents were Antonio de Anaza, a pharmacist, and Lucía de Sassoeta of Hernani, Guipuzcoa, España. His maternal grandparents were Antonio Becerra Nieto and Gregoria Gómez de Silva of Janos, Nueva España. His father, of the same name, was killed by Apaches 9 May 1740, when Juan Bautista was only three years of age.

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Juan married Ana María Regina Pérez Serrano, daughter of Francisco Pérez Serrano and Ana María Ortiz Cortez, on 25 Jun 1761 in Arizpe, Nueva Navarra, Nueva España. (Ana María Regina Pérez Serrano died on 14 Oct 1800 in Arizpe, Nueva Navarra, Nueva España and was buried on 15 Oct 1800 in Arizpe, Nueva Navarra, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Reference: Mission 2000 - A Searchable Database of Spanish Mission Record.
On the twenty-fourth of June of (the year) one thousand, seven hundred and sixty-one, Captain Don Juan Bautista de Anza and Doña Ana Maria Perez Serrano, resident of this town, were married infacie ecclesiastie, and were veiled in nuptial benediction the following day.

Witnesses were Father Salvador Ignacio de la Peña, Lord Bachilor Don José Manuel Diaz del Carpio, and the Lord High Mayor Don Buenaventura de Llenes.

Performed by permission of the Lord Priest Don Joaquin Feliz Dias, in my presence.
the Jesuit, Carlos de Roxas
Minister of Doctrine for His Majesty.