Bernardo Bustamante y Tagle

  General Notes:

"Eight Generations of the Pérez de Bustamante Family," by H.M. Christmas, New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 51:1 March 2012, pp. 6-9 ¹⁵⁸²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Don Bernardo de Bustamante y Tagle was Lietenant Governor under Don Domingo de Bustamante. He was a native of Spain. He was either the younger brother or nephew of the Governor, if not a son. Bernardo was thirty-seven years old in 1745, and living in Santa Fé.

Bernardo's wife was Doña Feliciana de la Vega y Coca. They had two daughters who married in Santa Fé. Josega because the second wife of Nicolás Ortiz the 3rd in 1751, when she was specifically referred to as an "adopted daughter." Rosa married a son of Nicolás Ortiz the 3rd, Antonio José in 1754.

Bernardo was transferred to the Presidio of Goajoquilla in New Spain, where he and his wife were living in 1776.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 50

• He appeared on the Spanish census in 1750 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Don Bernardo de Bustamante; Doña Felician Lazo de la Vega; Josepha de Bustamante; Rosa de Bustamante; Joseph de Vaca; Calletano; Maria Josepha; Antonia.

Spanish and Mexico Censuses of NM 1750-1830, p. 3

• Statue.

Bernardo married Feliciana Vega y Coco about 1730 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁵⁸² (Feliciana Vega y Coco was born about 1710 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died on 4 Dec 1762 in Jiménez, Nuevo España ¹⁵⁸².)