María Josefa Bartola Baca

  General Notes:

Baptisms, Nuestra Señora de Immaculada Concepción de Tomé, Vol. I, p. 51

Padres: Juan José Baca y Margarita Chaves
Padinos: José Tomás Varela, de Sabinal y María Rita Pino, de los Bacas ²⁶⁶

María married Manuel Álvarez del Castillo, son of Joaquín Álvarez del Castillo and María Andrea Vallejos, 12 Auf 1819 in Belén, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.⁴³⁸ (Manuel Álvarez del Castillo was born on 28 May 1799 in Los Bacas, Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁹⁵¹ and was baptized on 31 May 1799 in Tomé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁶⁶.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴³⁸
Manuel del Corazón de Jesús Castillo, español, 20, single, legitimated son of Joaquín Castillo and the late Andrea Vallejos, citizens of the Belén juridscition. María Josefa Bartolomé Baca, 19, española, 19, single, legitimate daughter of Juan José Baca and Margarita Chaves, citizens of the Belén jurisdiction. The couple was related in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity on a transverse line.

Father Rubí de Celis questioned Manuel. He stated that of the three classes of people in the area, he belong to the first or upper class, and more than two thirds of them were his relatives in the fourth degree. He added that he was a life-long resident of the area. María Josefa state that most of the people of her station were relatives, that she had her parent's permission to wed, and that she had lived in the area since her birth.
Witnesses:
Francisco Chaves, 90, citizen of the Belén jurisdiction.
Salvador Jaramillo, 58, citizen of the Belén jurisdiction
José Márquez, 64, citizen of the Belén jurisdiction

Father Rubí de Celis forwarded the proceedings to Durango on 16 Mar 1819. On 15 Apr 1819, the bishop granted a dispensation, assigning as penances that the couple would go to communion onces and pay 25 pescos as alms for the bishop to distribute. He ordered the parish priest at Bel 130n to publish banns three times. Assuming no new impediment arose, he was to marry the couple and grant them nuptial blessing.

• 1. On 31 May 1799, Father Bernal baptized Manuel del Corazón de Jesús José, born on 28 May in the plaza los Bacas, the legitimate son of Joaquín Álvarez del Castillo and Andrea Vallejos, citizens of the plaza of los Bacas. His godparents were Lt. José Francisco Pino and his wife, Juana María Baca, citizens of the sixth plaza of los Chaves.
• 2. On 24 Aug 1800, Belén, Father Bernal baptized María Josefa Bartola, born in the plaza of los Bacas on 15 Aug, the legitimates daughter of Juan José Baca and Margarita Chaves, citizens of los Bacas. Her godparents were José Tomás Varela and María Rita Pino, citizens of the plaza of los Bacas
• 3. Joaquín Álvarez del Castillo granted his permission for his son, Manuel del Corazón de Jesús, to marry.
• 4. Juan José Baca granted permission for his daughter, María Josefa to marry.
• 5. Father Rubí de Celis states on 14 Aug 1819, that in compliance with the decree of the Council of Trent, he had publicly proclaimed banns on 1, 8 and 10 Aug and that no impediment had arisen. On 12 Aug 1819, in the door of the church, he married Manuel del Corazón de Jesús Castillo and María José Bartolomé Baca in the presence of Gregorio de Arteaga, André Callos, and Diego Armijo, among ohers. At nine o'clock in the morning, he gave them the nuptial blessing.

New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, pp. 102-104