Bernardo Bustamante y Tagle

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Residences: ³⁶⁷
Residences, 1750, Santa Fé & Presidio of Guajaoguilla 1758, San Bartolome, Nueva Vizcaya
The Ortiz Family of New México-The first Six Generations pg. 3

• Titles: ³⁶⁷
He was elected as Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico between 1722 and 1731. at the time New Mexico was part of Mexico.

• Dates & Events. ²⁵² Don Bernardo de Bustamante y Tagle was Lietenant Governor under Don Domingo de Bustamante. He was a native of Spain. He was either the younger brother or nephew of the Governor, if not a son. Bernardo was thirty-seven years old in 1745, and living in Santa Fé.

Bernardo's wife was Doña Feliciana de la Vega y Coca. They had two daughters who married in Santa Fé. Josega because the second wife of Nicolás Ortiz the 3rd in 1751, when she was specifically referred to as an "adopted daughter." Rosa married a son of Nicolás Ortiz the 3rd, Antonio José in 1754.

Bernardo was transferred to the Presidio of Goajoquilla in New Spain, where he and his wife were living in 1776.
~The Origins of New México, pg. 50

Bernardo married Feliciana Vega Vique y Coco, daughter of Miguel José Laso de la Vega Vique y Coco and María Montoya. (Feliciana Vega Vique y Coco was born about 1710 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)