Miguel Lucero

  General Notes:

San Felipe de Neri Alburquerque Baptisms, (2017 Edition, Vol. I) p. 5 ¹⁵⁷⁷

Hijo: Manuel Miguel Lusero
Padres: Miguel Lusero (deceased) y Angela Ballejos
Padrinos: Bentura Candelaria y Bernadina Urtado

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Household #147. Miguel Lucero, Spanish, 40; wife, Rosa Baca, 31; children: Miguel Antonio, 12; Manuela, 10; Loreto, 7, Lugarda, 5; Graciana, 3; Antonia, Indian, servant, 25, with children: Juan Ygnacio, 4; María, 5; Ritad de la Candelaria, Mu, 15, single. ~Spanish Census of 1750, p. 84

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Miguel Lucero II made his last will at his home in Fuenclara, on January 20, 1766, being then Alcalde Mayor of Albuquerque. After naming his parents, Miguel Lucero and Angela Vallejo, he stated that he had been married to Rosa Baca for twenty-six years, and then to Antonia Chaves, widow of Baltasar de Beytia. Rosa Baca had died on June 29, 1755, at Tomé. Miguel had been Alcalde Mayor of Albuquerque already in 1763.

The children named in the will are as follows: By Rosa Baca: Josefita, Miguel, Manuel, Loreta (these four already married), Lugarda, Graciana, Mariano, and Ana. By Antonia Chaves: María de la Luz, María Bárbara, José, Antonio José, María Antonia, Tomás, and María Gertrudis. Miguel also mentioned his brother, Manuel Lucero. He died on January 25, 1766.

Of the above-named children, Manuel, born June 18, 1740, married Teresa Chaves of Los Padillas, and then a second cousin, Bárbara Montoya, of Atrisco. Lugarda married Francisco Silva, and then Pedro Bautista Pino in 1781, María Bárbara married Julián Rael in 1776, María de la Luz became the wife of Manuel Pacheco in 1771, Ana married Juan José Silva in 1769, and Mariano married Anamaría Silva in 1776.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 9289-9311

Miguel married Rosa Baca, daughter of Unknown and Josefa Baca, on 26 Jun 1729 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².^,1066 (Rosa Baca died on 29 Jun 1755 in Tomé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ¹⁴⁸²
1 Jun 1729, Miguel Lucero, twenty more of less, resident of Bernalillo and native of New Mexico, residen of Villa de Alburquerque, son of Miguel Lucero, deceased, and Angela Ballejo, native of Mexico City, residents of Villa de Alburquerque, with doña Rosa Baca, seventeen, parents unknown, resident of Bernalillo. ~ Witnesses: Geronimo Jaramillo, 36, resident of the said villa, Nicolás Durán, resident of said via; Nicolás de Aragon, 30 more or less.

~ New Mexico Roots, Ld, Addendum, Part III, NMG Vol 49 #3, p. 147

Miguel next married Antonia Durán y Chávez, daughter of Francisco Durán y Chávez and Juana Baca la Moza, about 1756.²⁵²