Juan Tafoya Altamirano

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Cristóbal de Tafoya Altamirano's two sons married into the Juan Gonzáles Bas family of Alamenda. Juan, age twenty-two, married Antonia Gonzáles in 1716, and Antonio, born 16 May 1700 married her sister Prudencia in 1722.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 291

Juan married Antonia González Bas, daughter of Juan González Bas Capitán and María Micaela López del Castillo, on 14 Jun 1716 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Antonia González Bas was born in 1699 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
5 May 1716, Alburquerque. Juan de Tafoya Altamirano (22), native of New Mexico at Santa Cruz de la Cañada, son of Cristóbal Tafoya Altamirano, native of Las Minas de Tlalpaxa, and Ysabel de Herrera, both living in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, and Antonia Gonzales Bas (17), native of New Mexico, daughter of Capitán Juan Gonzales and María López, natives of New Mexico living in Alburquerque.

Witnesses: Miguel de Quintana, Santa Cruz de la Cañada notary; José de Atienza (37), native of Mexico city, married, and Juan de Atienza (45), native of the city of Zacatecas. Antonio de Silva, Alburquerque notary; Francisco Candelaria (40) and Gerónimo Jaramillo (35), both married.

Pair married 14 Jun 1716.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1858