Juan Antonio Candelaria

  General Notes:

~ Alburquerque Baptisms, p. 97
Padrinos: Bentura de la Candelaria & Angela Theresa Gallegos. ⁴⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Household #77
Juan Antonio de la Candelaria, mulato, 40, wife Mauela Barela, mulata, 37 years old; and eight childrn: Juan Egidio, 24; Fulgencia, 22; Conrrado, 21; Salvador, 20; Marcelo, 12; Josephia, 10; María de la Cruz, 2.

~ Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico 1750-1830, p. 79

Juan married Antonia Manuela Varela de Losada, daughter of Cristobal Varela de Losada and Clementa de Ortega, on 30 May 1728 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁴¹² (Antonia Manuela Varela de Losada was born in Jun 1711 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁶⁵ and was baptized on 11 Jun 1711 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁶⁵.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
14 May 1728, Alburquerque, Juan Antonio Candelaria (22), native of New Mexico, son of Francisco Candelaria and Francisca Montoya, native of New Mexico , and Manuela Varela (14), native of New Mexico, daughter of Cristóbal Varela and Clemcia Ortega ~ Witnesses: José de Silva (notary); José Montaño (35), Bernardo Vallejo (24).

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 265