By 1traviesa |

Anyone happen to come across this last name in Zacatecas? I'm searching for a Leonarda that married Nicolas Velarde Abeyta. It says her parents were Miguel Tenorio de Alba and Barbara Tafoya Altimirana. I found this exerpt online about a Miguel but I cant seem to find if this is the same one that fathered Leonarda

A brother of Miguel Tenorio, Nicolas Tenorio, is recorded as passing
on a house in Zacatecas in 1690. The document quoted below gives great
detail as to the location of this house, which can be visited near the
amazing ruins of the San Francisco Convent in that Mexican city.
Nicolas passes the house on to Ignacio Francisco de Rivera and his
wife Juana de Arellano. He lists as his reasons his lack of time spent
at the house, an inability to pay taxes on the house, and his lack of
complying with the care and maintenance of the building.
Traspaso de casa
29 July 1690, Zacatecas
Sepan quantos esta carta vieren como yo Nicolas Thenorio de Alva,
vezino de esta ciudad … Zacatecas, digo que por quanto tengo y poseo
a zenso de por vidas una casa en frente del combento de Senor San
Francisco de esta dicha ciudad, la qual linda por un lado con casas
que eran de Maria de Carrasco, difunta y por otro lado con casas de
doña Margarita de Messa, por dos vidas … la cual dicha casa la
traspaso (por que me hallo con mucha cortedad y que por ella no puedo
pagar el senso i tampoco poder cumplir con la obligacion de edificarla
y tenerla asi concertada) a Ygnacio Francisco de Rivera, maestro de
albanil, por las dichas dos vidas, al suso dicho y a su mujer, Juana
de Arellano …
SOURCE: A.H.E.Z., Fondo: Notarias, Notario: Ignacio Gonzales Vergara,
Caja: 5, Libro: 6, Fechas: 1-2-1690 – 12-29-1690, no. 11

gracias!!

Amalia Hernandez-Arias

Hi Amalia,

It appears your Tenorio de Alba family moved around a bit, I can relate to this. This is what I have on the following people you are looking for. Leonarda Tenorio de Alba married Nicolas Velarde Abeyta on 19 Apr 1751 in the Catedral de San Francisco, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was the daughter of Miguel Tenorio de Alba and Barbara Tafoya Altamirano. Miguel Tenorio de Alba was son of Miguel Tenorio de Alba and Agustina Romero. Somehow Lopez is tied in here somewhere. Like many of these families, they had ties to Northern Mexico. Primarily Zacatecas, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango. They could have very well been merchants and soldiers.

Many trade routes were established as early as the XVI century. I've had experiences with ancestors being merchants and commercialsts and moving around a bit. My mother is from Aguascalientes and her fourth great grandmother was Juliana Ramos de Oviedo, a commercialist family who came in the mid XVIII century from Granada, Andalucia, Spain. These married into families such as Martinez Conde, Mazon, Emazabel, Gutierrez Solana, Ruiz Zorilla, Obregon, Gomez de Leanos. I have no doubt Tenorio de Alba were involved in the trade network of Zacatecas and Aguascalientes.

There were several other family members of Tenorio de Alba in Santa Fe who married around the same time. They could very well be siblings.There was another line of Tenorio de Alba in Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi and Jalostotitlan. From the late 1600s to the late 1700s. If I remember clearly doing my grandmother's research Tafoya Altamirano was strictly New Mexico research. They did however manage to mingle in Chihuahua in the late 1700s.

Hope this helps,

Daniel

oh thank you Daniel this helps a great deal...Nicolas Velarde was my grandfather 6 generations back. I am trying to find where they came from, this gives me a good place to start. My Velarde line were soldiers per the Spanish Enlistment papers.

Amalia Hernandez Arias

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