Antonio Tafoya Altamirano

  General Notes:

San Ildefonso Baptisms, 1700-1796, p. 1
Padres: Cristóbal Tafoya y Isabel de Herrera
Padrinos: don Jacinto Pelaez y dioña Ysabel Durán y Chaves ¹⁵⁸¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Cristóbal de Tafoya Altamirano's two sons married into the Juan Gonzáles Bas family of Alamenda. Juan, age twenty-two, married Antonia Gonzáles in 1716, and Antonio, born 16 May 1700 married her sister Prudencia in 1722.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 291

Antonio married Prudencia González Bas, daughter of Juan González Bas Capitán and María Micaela López del Castillo, on 10 Sep 1722 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Prudencia González Bas was born in May 1703 in Bernalillo Nuestro Padre San Francisco, Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²³⁴ and was baptized on 8 May 1703 in Nuestro Padre San Francisco, Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²³⁴.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
10 Aug 1722, Alburquerque. Antonio Tafoya (20), native of New Mexico living in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, son of Cristóbal Tafoya and Ysabel de Herrera, and Prudencia Gonzales (18) of Alameda, daughter of Capitán Juan Gonzles and María López.

Witnesses: José Atienza, Santa Cruz notary; Juan de Sandoval Martínez (63), native of Mexico City married, and Gerónimo Martín (25), native of New Mexico. Antonio de Silva, Alburquerque notary; José Sánchez (30) and Antonio Gurulé (25).

Pair Married 10 Sep 1722.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1859