María Juana Anaya Almazán

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Juana, daughter of Francisco de Anaya Almazan the second & his second wife, Felipa Cedillo Rico de Rojas, was married consecutively to three men, Lucas Montaño, Juan Lorenzo de Medina, and Lucas Miguel Moya.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 285.

María married Lucas Montaño, son of Antonio Montaño de Sotomayor and Ysabel Jorge de Vera. (Lucas Montaño was born about 1686 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

María next married Juan Lorenzo de Medina, son of José de Medina and Catarina Ruíz, on 2 Feb 1724 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁴⁸² (Juan Lorenzo de Medina was born in 1673 in Ciudád de México, Nueva España ²⁵² and died on 4 Jul 1731 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ¹⁴⁸²
12 Jan 1724, Santa Fé. Juan Lorenzo de Medina, 46, resident and settler of the villa of Santa Fé, son of José Medina and Catarina Ruíz, natives of México City, widowed by the death of Antonia Sedana who is buried in this church and villa of Santa Fé, with Juana Anaya Almasan, 25, daughter of Sergeant Major, Francisco de Anaia Almasan, deceased and Felipa de Rojas, natives of New Mexico, widowed by the death of Luca Montaño.

Witnesses: Antonio Veytia, 25, more of less, resident of Santa Fé; José de Armijo, 36, resident of Santa Fé; Juan Manuel Chirinos, 50, resident of Santa Fé; Manuel Carrillo, 28, resident of Santa Fé.

The couple were married on 2 Feb 1724, by Fry Juan de la Cruz, with witnesses, Ermenejildo Sisneros and María de Medina.

New Mexico Genealogists, Vol. 49 #3, Sep 2010, New Mexico Roots, Ld, Addendum, Part III, p. 147.

María next married Lucas Miguel Moya, son of Antonio de Moya and Francisca Antonia Morales de Guijosa, on 21 Sep 1731 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. (Lucas Miguel Moya was born about 1710 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)