Cristobal de Baca the Younger (abt. 1635 - 1697) Ana Moreno de Lara (abt. 1639 - abt. 1694) Cristóbal de Baca, the younger, and his wife, Ana Moreno de Lara, were the parents of our ancestor, Juana Francisca de Baca, who married Francisco Xavier San Juan.  We know this from the well-documented work, Origins of New Mexico Families, by Fray Angélico Chávez, and from New Mexico Surname Index. The name Cristóbal means Christopher, [One Who Loves Christ]. Cristóbal was the son of Alonso de Baca [abt. 1590-aft. 1662] and an unknown mother.  His father and Baca grandparents had come to New Mexico in 1600 from Mexico City.  Cristóbal was born at his family’s rancho near Bernalillo, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, about 1635.  This is the county in which the city of Albuquerque lies. Ana Moreno de Lara was born in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, about 1639.  She was the daughter of Diego Trujillo [1613-1682] and Catalina Vásquez [1621-?].  Ana was probably named for a grandmother.  She and Cristóbal were probably married about 1655. The Bacas were living in New Mexico at the time of the bloody Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which hundreds of Spanish settlers were killed.  The survivors fled south, mostly to the El Paso area.  There Cristóbal and Ana and their several children lived for the next thirteen years. In 1693, under Diego de Vargas, the Spanish refugees at El Paso re-entered New Mexico. At first, for safety in numbers, the Bacas remained in Santa Fe.  In time they returned to their pre-revolt home at Bernalillo.  Unlike most of our New Mexico ancestors, who lived in the “Río Arriba District,” [the northern Río Grande area], the Bacas lived in the “Río Abajo,” or southern settlements area. Ana died in the first years after the family returned to New Mexico.  Cristóbal then married Gregoria de Luna, by whom he had one child, a son, Antonio de Luna. Cristóbal died in 1697 at Bernalillo.   CHILDREN OF CRISTÓBAL DE BACA AND ANA MORENO DE LARA   [1]        Juana Francisca de Baca, our ancestor, was born about 1674 in New Mexico before the Revolt.  She married our ancestor, Francisco Xavier San Juan [abt. 1655-?].  She died before 1718. Their biographies are elsewhere in this work. [2]        Manuel de Baca was born about 1656 in New Mexico.  About 1678 he married María de Salazar Hurtado. He died about 1727 in Bernalillo.  He was described in 1681 as twenty-five years old, married, with a good, thick-set build, a ruddy face, thick beard, and wavy hair.  He was a soldier with his brother Ignacio at Guadalupe del Paso in 1684 under Captain Roque Madrid. The only Baca brother to live to re-enter New Mexico, he established himself on his parents’ former property at Bernalillo.  In 1716 he led forty Queres Indians on a raid of the Moqui Indians [Hopi]. The Indians of the three Queres pueblos: Cochití, Santo Domingo, and San Felipe complained more than once about mistreatment by him and his sons.  For this, he was deprived of the Alcaldía of Cochití [mayoralty] and sent on the next two forays against infidel Indians.  Both he and his wife were dead by 1727. [3]        Ignacio de Baca was born about 1657 in New Mexico.  About 1677 he married Juana de Anaya Almazán. Ignacio was 24 years old when he signed up in 1681 as a captain in the military, married, four small children, and twenty servants.  He was tall and slim and had an aquiline face, fair complexion, wavy red [probably reddish] hair and no beard.  By 1684 he was a sargento mayor at the presidio of Guadalupe del Paso [El Paso].  As the assistant alcalde of the Real de San Lorenzo, he arrested Silvestre Pacheco for killing his brother, José de Baca, who was Pacheco’s brother-in-law. Ignacio’s family was ill-fated.  He died about March 1692 in El Paso, not living to return to New Mexico. He was thirty-four years old. His wife and seven children were in the re-entry.  After a stay in Santa Fe, they settled at San Ildefonso. When the Pueblos revolted again in 1696, his wife Juana was killed along with two priests of the San Ildefonso Mission.  Ignacio’s son, Alonso, was killed with his mother, and his other son, Andrés, was killed at Nambé in the same revolt, thus ending the male line.  Two daughters were also killed: Leonor de Baca, married to Pedro Sánchez, was killed along with a daughter and son of her own; and Rosa de Baca, not yet married, was also killed.  Ignacio’s daughters Gerónima, María Magdalena, and Margarita de Baca survived the rebellion. Margarita later married Diego Lucero de Godoy at San Ildefonso in 1716. María Magdalena married Felipe Tamaris. [4]        Catalina de Baca was born about 1658 in New Mexico.  She married Antonio [Laces] Gallegos.  They fled New Mexico during the 1680 Pueblo Revolt and later escaped further to the interior of Mexico.  In 1683 Antonio and his brother Jose Gallegos were declared deserters.  In 1693 two children of Catalina and Antonio returned to New Mexico.  Angelico Chávez thought that meant that the parents were already dead.  Perhaps they did not want to face the desertion charges. [5]        Francisco de Baca, born about 1660, no information [6]        Felipe Pedro de Baca was born about 1661, no information [7]        José de Baca was born about 1666 in New Mexico.  He survived the 1680 Pueblo Revolt with his family. He married Josefa Pérez Pacheco 19 November 1684, at San Lorenzo [a satellite of Guadalupe del Paso] during the Spanish exile from New Mexico. He was about twenty when he got into a fight with his brother-in-law, Silvestre Pacheco, and was killed on 3 July 1687.  He did not live to re-enter New Mexico. He had one daughter, Juana de Baca, who later married Nicolás Ortiz II  in New Mexico. [8]        Luisa de Baca was born about 1678 in New Mexico.  She was two when the family escaped New Mexico during the Pueblo Revolt.  In 1693 she returned to New Mexico with her family. She married Ignacio de Aragón on 25 April 1708 at Bernalillo. Three children are known: Salvador Manuel de Aragón, Andrés de Aragon, and María Luisa de Aragón. The numerous Aragons of southern New Mexico descend from Ignacio, from the children of his two marriages. [9]        Antonio de Luna was Cristóbal’s only child from his marriage to Gregoria de Luna. There are a couple of Antonio de Luna’s in the records.  One was married to Jacinta Peláez when he died 9 August 1729.  She married afterwards Capt. Antonio Montoya, our uncle, and she died at Tomé, 27 January 1766. Another Antonio de Luna married a María Magdalena Unknown on 22 December 1735.   Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor