Juana "la vieja" Baca

  General Notes:

The Information in Origins of New Mexico Families by Chávez, about Juana Baca is incorrect with regard to the names of her parents. Fray Chavez was mistaken when he identified Juana Baca, as the daughter of Manuel Baca and Maria de Salazar Hurtado. (1992, Chavez, ONMF, p. 144). Margaret L. Buxton re-examined the Baca records. She discovered that Juana Baca was the sister, and not the daughter of Manuel Baca, and thus was the daughter of Cristobal Baca and Ana Moreno de Lara Trujillo. (1991, Buxton, The Other Luna Family, p. 5 citing the El Ranchito Land Grant records.) Refer to the marriage investigation (DM) between Joseph Antonio Baca and Juana Chaves which may have led to the mistake.

~Diligencias Matrimoniales no Sept. 11, 1766 p. 159 ²⁴⁸
~The Other Luna Family, p. 7 ¹⁹¹

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the census. ²⁸⁷
To the Royal Crown Restored: p. 62, 94 #105.
Census of the El Paso District from 22 Dec 1692 - 2 Jan 1693. Household # 15

Her age was given as 18 when she was listed in her mother's householdm, along with her sister Luisa, in the December 1692-January 1693 census of families at El Paso willing to return to northern New Mexico.

• Name: ¹⁹¹
This Juana Baca was also the progenitor of one of the Luna families of New Mexico. Why some of the children of Miguel de San Juan used the Luna name is somewhat a mystery.

• Information: ¹⁹¹
Juana Francisca "le vieja" Baca was not the same Juan Francisca Baca who was married to Francisco Xavier. According to Margaret L. Buxton in The Other Luna Family, the Francisca Baca, mother of Josefa Xavier, mentioned in a married investigation of 1704, could not be the same Juana Baca who was 6 years old at the time.

Josefa Xavier was raised in Mexico and returned to New Mexico with the reconquest of 1693. At this time Francisco Xavier was widower, and Juana Francisca Baca was living with her father is Pasaxe. She could not possibly the living or dead Francisca Baca who was the mother of Josefa Xavier.

The third piece of evident Buxton use to disprove the Xavier, Juana Baca connection is that Captain Francisco Xavier and hiw wife Doña Francisca Baca were witnesses on 16 Aug 1684 at Real de San Lorenzo to the marriage of José Baca and Josefa Perez Pacheco. (Roots Ltd, Vol. I, pg. 155). Juana Baca was 10 years old at this time.

~The Other Luna Family, pp. 13-14