Alejandro Ortega

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Background: ²⁵²
Antonio de Ortega, most likely the eldest son of Gerónimo de Ortega, first married Rosa Baca, daughter of Antonio Baca. They had four children during twenty-nine years of married life, mentioned in his last will in 1785: Domingo, Alejandro, Petrona, and Catalina. Alejandro was the only one living.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 246.

Alejandro married María Rosalía Sandoval Martínez, daughter of Juan Manuel Sandoval Martínez and Josefa Rael de Aguilar, on 20 Dec 1767 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³⁹² (María Rosalía Sandoval Martínez was born in Dec 1747 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁰⁰ and was christened 13 De 1747 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁰⁰.)

  Marriage Notes:

Santa Fé St. Francis Parish and Military Chapel of Our Lady of Light Marriages, 1728-1857 p. 37 ³⁹²