Gertrudis Páez Hurtado

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Nicolás Ortiz married Gertrudis Páez Hurtado, daughter of the Lieutenant General, Juan Páez Hurtado, on May 28, 1730. She died after twenty years of married life on April 12, 1750, when Nicolás was the Teniente of the Santa Fe Presidio. They had five children:
• Antonio José, born September 6, 1734, who married Rosa Bustamante, December 31, 1754
• Juan Antonio, who married María Loreto Ribera
• Teodora, wife of Nicolás Rael deAguilar
• Gaspar, who married Josefa Martín, October 23, 1765, and then Dolores Alarid, November 27, 1810
• Tomás, who married María Rosa de los Reyes Martin at the same ceremony in Santa Clara in 1765 (two brothers marrying two sisters).

The last two are mentioned as their sons when they enlisted as soldiers in 1771 and 1779.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 11060-11098

Gertrudis married Nicolas Ortiz, son of Nicolas Nino Ladron de Guevara Ortiz and Juana Baca, on 28 May 1730 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁴²⁴ (Nicolas Ortiz was born about 1710 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³⁶⁷ and died on 4 Sep 1769 in Abiquiú, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³⁶⁷.)