Alderete

Juan de Alderete (ONMF: 124) and Ana María Lucero de Godoy, had three  sons: 

1. Juan Tomás Alderete (deceased by June 1763) 

2. José Antonio Alderete, a citizen of El Paso who made his last will at El Paso on 7 June 1763. José Antonio Alderete was married twice and had a total of thirteen children. He was first married with Lutgarda Durán, a citizen of Isleta (presumably Isleta del Paso). A prenuptial investigation is dated April 9, 1722, El Paso del Río del Norte in which José Antonio was identified as a native of New Mexico in the jurisdiction of El Paso del Río del Nort eand a son of Lt. Juan de Alderete and Ana aría Lucero de Godoy (Cleofas Calleros Collection). His prospective bride was Lugarda Graciana (no surname recorded), a native of the Pueblo de Isleta. This couple had the following children: Juana Antonia Alderete, María Josefa Alderete, Ana Lucía Alderete, Blas Lorenzo Alderete, Joaquín Antonio Alderete, and José Julián Alderete.

Widowed of Lutgarda Durán, José Antonio Alderete married María Manuela Ruiz, the widow of Joaquín Domínguez. From this union were born the following seven children: José Antonio Alderete, Ana María Alderete, Lutgarda Alderete, Francisca Alderete, Juan Francisco Alderete, Manuel Alderete, and María Vicenta Alderete.

3. Miguel Alderete, native of El Paso del Río del Norte, resident of La Isleta (presumably Isleta del Paso). A prenuptial investigation dated January 3, 1721, El Paso del Río del Norte identified Miguel as a son of Captain Juan de Alderete and María Lucero de Godoy and his prospective bride was Juana Josefa Maese, daughter of Juan Maese and Estefana González, a native of the Real de San Lorenzo (Cleofas Calleros Collection).

Digital images of the two prenuptial investigation records are available online courtesy of the New Mexico State Library.

Summary by José Antonio Esquibel

 Researcher: Rick Hendricks, Ph.D.

 Sources: Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives, Roll 7, bk. 1, 1763, f. 179-182 (Will of José Antonio Alderete, El Paso, 7 June 1763), in the microfilm collection of the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP); also see brief extraction given in Rick Hendricks, Ph.D., "Wills from El Paso del Norte, 1754-1817," Nuestra Raíces (Quarterly Journal of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America), Vol. 6, No.4, Winter 1994, 167.