Bartolomé de Montoya

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Bartolomé de Montoya came with his entire family in 1600. He was a native of Cantillana (near Sevilla, Spain), the son of Francisco de Montoya and was described as being short, wearing a black beard and twenty-eight years of age. His wife was Maria de Zamora, born in Mexico City at San Sebastian, the daughter of Pedro de Zamora who was a resident of that city and former Alcalde Mayor of Oaxaca, Mexico. Her mother's name was Agustina Abarca. ["Archivos General de la Nacion, Mexico: 1. Inquisicion - Photo copies in the Coronado Library at the University of New Mexico. Some "Inquisicion" references by page, instead of foja, are transcript copies owned by Dean Scholes, to be also found in the Library of Congress and Ayer Collection}, t. 462, f. 351]. Maria had married Montoya at Texcoco, [ibid.] and by the time they joined Onate's colony they had three boys and two girls, who were all under sixteen in 1600; Francisco, Diego, Jose, Lucia and Pertronila. [Don Juan de Onate and the Founding of New Mexico by George P. Hammond, Santa Fe, 1927]. Bartolomé was an Alferez in 1609 when he escorted a band of friars from Zacatecas to Santa Fe. ["Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla: 5. Contaduria; {transcript copies loaned to Fray Angelico Chavez by Dean France V. Scholes}, leg. 711, Data]. This is the last we hear of him. Of his daughters, Lucía married Diego Robledo, and Petronila became the wife of Pedro Lucero de Godoy.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 77

Bartolomé married María de Zamora, daughter of Pedro de Zamora and Agustina Abarca, in Tezcoco, Nueva España. (María de Zamora was born about 1575 in Tezcoco, Cuidád de Méjico, Nuevo Espána and died after 1609 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)