María Magdalena Baca

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Jose Vásquez de Lara came to New Mexico sometime around 1692 as a soldier of the Reconquest of New Mexico. He married María Magdalena Baca on 1694. In 1700, he acted as a notary for the Franciscan Friars.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 306

• Family Background. ^250,252
José Vásquez de Lara's maternal ancestry is the only lineage from New México that now can be traced back as far as the early 1400's in Spain. He was a native of the Villa de Laros (Santa María de los Lagos) in Nueva Galicia, Nueva España, and the son of Miguel Vásquez de Lara and Juana de Alcalá. He married María Magdelena Baca. Their daughter María Vásquez Baca became the wife of Diego Padilla. This couple had eight known children, all ancestors for Hispanic New Méxicans.

~The Origins of New México Families, p. 306
~Beyond Origins, Vol. 1, Part 2

For the Vásquez de Lara line, José Antonio Esquibel cited the following:
Researchers:
Ophelia Márquez, Tony Campos, Jiame Holcombe, Mariano González Leal, and José Ignacio Dávila Garibi.

Sources:
Ophelia Márquez, "La Familia Vasquez de Lara de Nuevo Mexico con Origen en Nueva Galicia y Michoacan," in Somos Primos (Newsletter of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research/SHHAR), March and April 1992; Marianao González Leal, Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia, Universidad de Guanajuato, 1983, Vol II: 66-67; Tony Campos and Ophelia Márquez, "Zamora, Michoacán, México, Marriages 1605-1622, 1638-1646," in Genealogical Journal: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Vol. II, 1995:124; Tony Campos and Ophelia Márquez, "Zamora, Michoacán, México, Baptisma (1605-1637) and Extensive Family Genealogies of Zamora and Surrounding Areas," in Genealogical Journal: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Vol. III, 1996:71-150.

María married José Vásquez de Lara, son of Miguel Vásquez de Lara and Juana de Alcalá y Mendoza, on 3 Feb 1694 in Santa Ana Pueblo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (José Vásquez de Lara was born in Santa María de los Lagos, Nueva Galicia, Nueva España ²⁵² and died in Nueva España.)