Vicente Antonio López

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptismal Record. ⁴⁰
Vicente Antonio López, bt 8 1745, son of Diego López and Juana de la Candelaria. Padrinos: Vicente Antonio (no last name given) and Casilda Jorge.

~Alburquerque Baptisms, p. 362

• Census: Spanish, 1790, Albuquerque, New México Territory. ⁴³⁹
"From the Padrón General de ésta Jurisdición de la Alcaldia de San Phelipe de Alburquerque, Provincia del Nuevo Méjico, Fray Cayetano José Ignacio Bernal, Ministro de San Agustin de la Ysleta y Manuel de Arteaga, Alcalde, 22 Oct 1790, Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Microcopy, Roll 12, frames 319-353.

Lieutenant commandant of the first plaza of Alburquerque, Don Vicente López, Spaniard, farmer, 47 years old, married to Maria Antonia Cháves, female Spaniard, 30 years old, two manly sons, one age 6, another age 1, two daughters, one 14, another one 4 years old."

NM Genealogist, March 1997, p. 7

• Census: Spanish, 1802, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Alfarez (Lieutant) Vicente López; his wife, Doña María Antonia Chávez; sons Diego Antonio López, Ygnacio López, Ramón López

Spanish Census of NM, p. 125

• Padrinos: Sandía Pueblo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²³⁷
Vicente and María Antonia were padrinos on 29 Dec. 1781, for Francisco García, Spanish of Alburquerque, who married María Cristerna Ortega, Spanish of Corrales.

~Sandia Marriages, p. 5

• Padrinos: Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ^426,440
21 May 1786, Vicente and his wife María Antonia were padrinos for Juaquin Lópes, widower of Gregoria Candelaria, and Feliciana Jaramillo, widow of Tomás García.

3 Feb 1799, Vicente and his wife María Antonia were padrinos for Bernabe Villaricencio (?) and Luisa López

Vicente was a witness at many of the Alburquerque weddings, but both he and his wife were witnesses (possibly padrinos) for Juan Domingo Apodaca, Mestizo, with Gertrudis Tafoya, daughter of Marigno Tafoya and Micaela Marques, 15 Jun 1771.

Vicente married María Antonia Chávez, daughter of Ygnacio Antonio Durán y Chávez and Ana Gregoria Maése, about 1775. (María Antonia Chávez was born in 1752 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁰, baptized on 23 Jan 1752 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España,⁴⁰ died in Dec 1818 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and was buried on 14 Dec 1818 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)