Miguel Tenorio de Alba

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Miguel Tenorio de Alba was a native of Zacatecas, twenty-one or twenty-two years old during the resettlement of New Mexico. He first settled in the newly-founded town of Santa Cruz in 1696. He was already married in 1708 to Agustina Romero, and was a member of the Confraternity of La Conquistadora.

Their children were: Manuel, married to Francisca de la Vega y Coca; Juan, presumably a son, who married Margarita Coca, 23 Oct 1728; Miguel II, husband of Barbara Tafoya; Francisca, who married Cristóbal de Armenta in April, 1735; and Luisa, wife of Bartolomé Fernandez de la Pedrera, 8 May 1740.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 13152-13162

Miguel Tenorio de Alba, a native of the city of Zacatecas, was a captain in 1705, 30 years old, when he married Agustina Romero, 20, the widow of Mateo Márquez. His parents were Juan Tenorio de Alba and Josefa López Sandoval, deceased (DM, 1705, no. 20). In 1697 Miguel had stated that he was a blacksmith by trade (DM, 1697, no. 14). Besides those mentioned above, two other sons were Cayetano, born at Santa Cruz, 8 Feb 1711, and Estanislao, 17 May 1713 (Gen., 1710, no. 7).

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 16878-16883

• Background Information: ⁵¹⁰
In 1697, Miguel Tenorio de Alba was said to be a blacksmith & in 1698, he was servicing as secretary of the Santa Fe cabildo. He searved as civil and military secretary during campaigns against the Hopis in 1716. In 1781, he was the alcalde mayor and war captain for the jurisdiction of Santa Cruz de la Cañada and war captain at Taos Pueblo. The same year he participated in Antonio de Valverde's campaign against the Utes and Commanches in the Cuartelejo area. He was secribed as a soldier of the Santa Fe presidio and alcaldes mayor of Taos Valley and Picuris, when he and his sons, Manuel, served in the Villasur expedition of of 1720, during which time the elder Miguel was killed.

Blood on the Boulders: The Journal of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-7, pp. 556-557

Miguel married María Agustina Romero, daughter of Salvador Romero and María López de Ocanto, on 28 Nov 1705 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (María Agustina Romero was born in 1685 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
5 Nov 1705, Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Capitán Miguel Tenorio de Alba (30), native of the City of Zacatecas, son of Juan Tenorio de Alba and Josefa López Sandoval, deceased, and Agustina Romero (20), daughter of Salvador Romero and María López de Ocanto living in El Puesto de Chimayo.

Witnesses: Miguel de Quintana, notary; José López (20), native of la Villa de los Lagos living in Santa Fé; Antonio Durán de Armijo (32), native of Zacatecas, barbero and married, living in Santa Fé; Juan de Aragón (43) and Ambrosio Fresqui (36), both of Santa Cruz.

Pair married 28 1705.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1886