María de Paredes

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• Background Information:
José Antonio Esquibel commented on FaceBook, 10 Sep 2023:

"There is not yet a document that specifically identifies the names of the parents of María de Paredes. We know from the prenuptial investigation record for her daughter, María Montoya, and Cristóbal Martín, that María de Paredes and Felipe Montoya were both identified as natives of New Mexico (DM 1699, January, no 8, Bernalillo).

"We don't know the date or estimated year of birth for María de Paredes, but she and Felipe were married by 1681, the estimated year of birth of Clemente Montoya, who gave his age as 30 in 1701 at which time both of his parents were deceased (DM 1701, no. 3, Santa Cruz).

"We also know that another son of Felipe Motoya and María de Paredes was Antonio Montoya, who was born circa 1692, giving his age as 26 in 1718 when he sought to marry (DM 1718, November 14, no. 20, Santa Fe).
Curiously Felipe Montoya and his wife, María Domínguez, were padrinos for a child baptized at Guadalupe del Paso on January 8, 1685. Since we know that Felipe Montoya was married with María de Paredes between the years 1681 and 1692, it appears that María de Paredes was also known as María Domínguez.
Thus, it was reasonable to consider that María de Paredes was a daughter of Álvaro de Paredes and doña Damiana Domínguez de Mendoza. However, mtDNA for direct female descendants of María de Paredes indicates maternal Native American ancestry and the documented ancestry of doña Damiana traces to Spain.

"However, there were two other men with the Paredes surname living in New Mexico in the latter half of the 1600s, fray José de Paredes and Captain Gonzalo de Paredes, brothers of Álvaro. Could María de Paredes have been a daughter of one of those men? We know that Franciscan friars fathered children and in 1680 Gonzalo de Paredes escaped the 1680 Pueblo Indian uprising with his wife, not names, and his children."

Discussion of possible parents for María de Paredes.

María married Felipe de Montoya, son of Diego de Montoya and María Ortiz de Vera. (Felipe de Montoya was born in 1652 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died before 1701 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)