Rosa Baca de Luna

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ^252,247
José de Silva is given as the fifth child of Antonio de Silva and Gregoria Ruiz. He is also listed in The Origins of New México Families, p. 288, in The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico, p. 372, as a child of Antonio de Silva and Gregoria Ruiz and as marrying Rosa Baca.

• Name. ²³⁹
She was called Rosa de Luna on the DM and Rosa Baca on the marriage record. She was noted to be the widow of José de Silva. deligencia Witnessess: Juan Manuel Chirinos, notary in Santa Fe; Andres de la Paz (36) and Antonio Durán de Armijo. Marriage witnesses: Balthasar Romero, Juan Barela

• Death. ²³⁹
Origins of New México Families on page 289 states she died on June 9, 1729, but this must be in error because she married Miguel Montoya on April 9, 1729. deligencias recorded March 22, 1729. On Page 328 Origins states she died giving birth to her daugter Gerturdis on April 15, 1730.

Rosa married José de Silva, son of Antonio de Silva and Gregoria Ruíz, before 9 Apr 1729 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Republica de Méjico. (José de Silva was born about 1704 in Tomé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España,⁵⁰⁹ died before 19 Jun 1727 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁵⁰⁹ and was buried on 19 Jun 1727 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage. Libro de partidas de casamientos compuesto de Ciento sinquenta foxas vtiles, hecho por el prebitero Dn. José Franco Leyva cura internio de esta Sta. Yglesia de Alburquerque y agregado a su archivo en el año de 1818
Note: contemporary official church records handwritten by church priest, legibility varies

Title: Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Albuquerque Marriage Records
Publication: microfilmed by the New Mexico Records Center
Note: AASF Marriage, Reel #26 , Albuquerque Marriages 1726-1855
Call Number:
Media: Church Record
Page: M-2, Reel #26, Frame 0129

Rosa next married Miguel Montoya, son of Salvador Montoya and Manuela María Josefa García de la Riva, on 9 Apr 1729 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, New México Territory.⁴¹² (Miguel Montoya was born in 1703 and died on 11 Mar 1763 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record. ⁴¹²
9 Apr 1729, Miguel Montoya, soldado del real presidio dela villa de Santa Fé, hijo de Capitán Salbador Montoya, difunto (deceased), and Doña Manuela Gárcia de la Riba, casé y vele Rosa Baca, vecina (widow) de José de Silba. Testigos: Balthasar Romero, Juan Varela, y otros muchos.

~San Felipe de Neri Marriages, p. 2

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
22 Mar 1729, Santa Fé or Bernalillo. Miguel Montoya (26) presidio soldier, son of Regidor Salvador Montoya, native of New Mexico, deceased and Doña Manuela García de la Riva, native of Mexico City, and Doña Rosa de Luna of El Río Abajo, parents unknown, widow of José de Silva ~ Witnesses: Juan Manuel Chirinos, notary in Santa Fé; Andrés de la Paz (36); and Atonio Durán de Armijo.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1278