José Vásquez de Lara

  General Notes:

~Herencia April 1999 p. 20
~Herencia July 1996 p. 3

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Dates & Events: ²⁵²
Jose Vasquez de Lara came to New Mexico sometime around 1692 as a soldier of the Reconquest of New Mexico. In 1700, he acted as a notary for the Franciscan Friars.
~Origins of NM Families, pg. 306

• Family History. ^250,252
José Vásquez de Lara's maternal ancestry is the only lineage from New México that now can be traced back as far as the early 1400's in Spain. He was a native of the Villa de Laros (Santa María de los Lagos) in Nueva Galicia, Nueva España, and the son of Miguel Vásquez de Lara and Juana de Alcalá. He married María Magdelena Baca. This couple had eight known children, all ancestors for Hispanic New Méxicans.
~The Origins of New México Families, pg. 306
~Beyond Origins, Vol. 1, Part 2

For the Vásquez de Lara line, José Antonio Esquibel cited the following:
Researchers:
Ophelia Márquez, Tony Campos, Jiame Holcombe, Mariano González Leal, and José Ignacio Dávila Garibi.

Sources:
Ophelia Márquez, "La Familia Vasquez de Lara de Nuevo Mexico con Origen en Nueva Galicia y Michoacan," in Somos Primos (Newsletter of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research/SHHAR), March and April 1992; Marianao González Leal, Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia, Universidad de Guanajuato, 1983, Vol II: 66-67; Tony Campos and Ophelia Márquez, "Zamora, Michoacán, México, Marriages 1605-1622, 1638-1646," in Genealogical Journal: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Vol. II, 1995:124; Tony Campos and Ophelia Márquez, "Zamora, Michoacán, México, Baptisma (1605-1637) and Extensive Family Genealogies of Zamora and Surrounding Areas," in Genealogical Journal: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Vol. III, 1996:71-150.

José married María Magdelena Baca, daughter of Manuel Baca Captain and María Hurtado de Salazar, on 3 Feb 1694 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (María Magdelena Baca was born in 1702 in Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³²⁴, christened on 8 Feb 1702 in La Iglesia de Nuestro Santo Padre San Francisco, Bernallilo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died on 23 Feb 1741 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)