María Juana Zamora

  Noted events in her life were:

• Family Background. ²⁵²
Cristóbal Baca (Vaca) was one of the captains who came to reinforce the Onate colony in 1600. He was the son of Juan de Vaca, born in México City, of good stature, dark complexion, well-featured, and thirty-three years of age. He brought his wife, three grown daughers, and a small son. His wife was Doña Ana Ortíz, daughter of Francisco Pacheco, also born in México City.

The children were Juana de Zamora, Antonio Ortiz, Isabel [de Bohorquez], María de Villanueva, and the boy Alonso, all of them born in México City. With them came a female servant, Ana Verdugo.

Of the three daughers, Juana became the wife of Simon Pérez de Bustillo, Isabel married Don Pedro Duràn y Cháves, and María was the wife of Simon de Abendaño. The family name was passed on down by Antonio and a younger brother, Alonso, born in New Mexico.

~Origins of New Mexico Families, pp. 9-10

María married Simón Pérez de Bustillo, son of Juan Pérez de Bustillo and María de la Cruz.²⁵² (Simón Pérez de Bustillo was born in 1576 in Nueva España ²⁵².)