Juan Simón Santillanes

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Juan Simón de Santillán and his wife, Bárbara Manuela Garicoechea, were living in the Isleta district as early as 1744 when a son, Juan José, was born on April 10. This boy married Juliana González, May 1765. Another son, Juan Francisco Loreto, married María Catalina Aragón, 2 Jan 1755, and they had a son, Miguel, 10 Sep 1759. These children used the form "Santillanes."

Fray Angelico. Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p.

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1750, in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Simón Santillán, español, 70, master weaver; with his wife, Bárbara Ariachua (Aricochea) 60; four children: Juan Francisco Loreto, sixteen; Mariana, elevan; Juan José, six; adopted daughter, five; and María, india, servant, twelve.

Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 74

Juan married Bárbara Aricochea before 1744. (Bárbara Aricochea was born about 1690.)