Manuel de Arteaga

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1790, in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Plaza 1 de Alburquerque

The honorable Alcalde Mayor, don Manuel de Arteaga, Spanish, age fifty-three years old, native of Mexico City, resident of the Pueblo of San Agustía de Isleta, widower with one son age twetny-three.

New Mexican Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790 * 1823 * 1845, p. 1

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Manuel de Arteaga, a native of Mexico City, married Ysabel López of Santa Cruz on 29 Mar 1761. His parents were Luis de Arteaga and María Manuela Pérez, both deceased. He was Mayordomo of the Conquistadora Confraternity in 1774. In the census of 1790 he stated that he was fifty-three years old, a native of Mexico City, and a resident of Isleta, and had a son twenty-three years old. This son, Gregorio, enlisted as a soldier in 1792.

On 5 Oct 1797, as a resident of Belén and native of México City, and widower of Ysabel "Gabaldón," he married Ursula Durán y Chávez of Los Padillas. He was Alcalde Mayor of the district when he and Ursula acted as sponsors in 1802, having held such posts in the Río Abajo since 1785.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 138

Manuel married Ursala Chávez, daughter of Tomás Durán y Chávez and María Josefa Padilla, on 5 Oct 1797 in San Agustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Ursala Chávez was born in Apr 1775 in Los Padillas, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and was baptized on 20 Apr 1775 in San Augustín de la Isleta, Isleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España ³⁴.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record: San Agustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España. ³⁴
5 Oct 1797 - don Manuel de Artiaga, widow of María Ysabel Gabaldon, married doña Ursula Chaves, daughter of don Tomás Chaves and doña Josefa Padilla of los Padillas. Padrinos: don Francisco Xabier Chavesand doña María Manuela Carrillo.

San Agustín de la Isleta Marriages and Baptisms, p. 56

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
20 Sep 1797, Isleta. don Manuel Arteaga, español, native of Mexico City, twenty years and more in Belén, widowed in first marriage of María Ysabel Gabaldón, and María Ursula Chaves, española of los Padillas, daughter of don Tomás Durán y Chaves and doña María Josefa Padilla.

Witnesses: Toribion García Jurado (65), José García Jurado (63) of Belén.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 139

Manuel next married María Ysabel López Gabaldón on 29 Mar 1761 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁵⁶¹ (María Ysabel López Gabaldón died before 1790 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record: Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ¹⁵⁶¹
29 Mar 1761 - Manuel de Arteaga, son of donLuiz de Arteaga and doña María Manuel Pérez, both deceased, all natives of Mexico City, with Ysabel López (Gabaldón), vecina from Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Padrinos: Capitán Nicolás Otris and doña Josepha de Bustamante. Testigos: Fry Andrés García and Fry Francisco Guzman.

Santa Cruz de la Cañada, One-Hundred Years of Marraige, p. 24