Montoya

When Clemente Montoya (ONMF: 238), son of Felipe Montoya and María de Paredes, made his will on 3 September 1753 at Santa Cruz, he indicated he had been married twice and had seventeen children. By his first wife, Josefa Luján, he had: Francisca Montoya, Antonia Montoya, Manuel Montoya, Teodora Montoya, Luisa Montoya, Salvador Montoya, Manuela Montoya, Bárbara Montoya and María Montoya. The last five children named were identified as deceased.

By his second wife, María Baca, Clemente had these children: Lorenzo Montoya, Mariana Montoya, José Montoya, Santiago Montoya, Juan Domingo Montoya, María Luisa Montoya, Pedro Antonio Montoya, and Antonia Montoya. The last two children were identified as deceased.

Clemente Montoya died 10 September 1753 and was buried at the Church of Santa Cruz. His burial record gives his age as seventy, more or less.

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Sources: SANM I: 494; AASF Roll # 39: Santa Cruz, Burials 1726-1859.

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Lucía de Montoya had a daughter named María de Tejeda. They were both residents of Santa Fe in early 1662. María de Tejeda maintained an affair with Luis Durán, also a resident of Santa Fe, by whom she had two children, according to the testimony of Juan Esteban de Fagoaga given at Santa Fe in April 1662.

[Note: Juan Esteban de Fagoaga was a native of the Valle de Ollarzu in the Province of Vizcaya (Spain), age fifty-five in April 1662 (born circa 1607). He was a single man who was a vecino of the jurisdiction of Sandia and lived 12 leagues (approx. 36 miles) from Santa Fe at the "estancia de Santiago." At the time of his testimony at Santa Fe on 8 April 1662, Fagoaga was very ill. He died 18 May 1662 and was buried on 19 May in the church of Sandia by fray Salvador de Guerra.]

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Source: Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico, Inquisición, tomo 593, f. 320.

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Lucía de Montoya, presumably the same woman of this name identified by fray Angélico Chávez as a possible daughter of Diego de Montoya (ONMF: 77), was the mother of María de Tejeda. In April 1662, Juan Esteban de Fagoaga denounced María de Tejeda to the Inquisition. Fagoaga declared that she gave birth out of wedlock to two children fathered by Luis Durán. Montoya, Tejeda and Durán were identified as vecinos of Santa Fe.

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Sources: AGN, Inquisición, t. 593, f. 317.