Juan Antonio de Tafoya Altamirano

3rd generation Juan Tafoya Altamirano relative (Cristobal);

May have been born in San Ildefonso,NM (near Santa Cruz,NM)?;

Married Prudencia Gonzalez Bas on 08/10/1722;

From Origins of New Mexico Families by Fray Angelico Chavez, section on Tafoya, republished from the University of Albuquerque and Calvin Horn Publishers, Inc., in the New Mexican of Santa Fe on June 8, 1973:

Cristobal de Tafoya Altamirano, 34 years old, left Guadalupe del Paso for New Mexico with his brother Antonio early in 1695. Both were soldiers. He, too, was born at El Real de Talpujagua, but gave his age as 25 when he married Isabel de Herrera in 1698. The year before, he had become involved with some Herrera sisters in Santa Fe, who appeared to be a different family from the one in which he married. He also was in escapades with his brother Juan in 1707 and 1711.

In 1718, he made his last will at Santa Cruz, in which he named his parents and his birth place. He declared two legitimate children by Isabel de Herrera: Juan and Antonio; and also two natural daughters: Antonio Tafoya Jaramillo, wife of Sebastian Varela, and Gertrudis Tafoya Ruiz. He also had reared a nephew, Cristobal, as son of his brother Antonio. He was still living in the following year when he brought suit against Diego Archuleta for beating his wife Isabel.

His two sons married into the Juan Gonzales Bas family of Alameda. Juan, age 22, married Antonia Gonzalez in 1716, and Antonio, born on May 16, 1700, married her sister Prudencia in 1722.