359. Juan Antonio Montano¹⁰ De Soto-Mayor⁽¹⁷⁸²⁾ was born in Mexico City, Mexico 1651.⁽¹⁷⁸³⁾ Juan died before 1696.⁽¹⁷⁸⁴⁾

He married Isabel Jorge De Vera after 1677. (Additional notes for Isabel Jorge De Vera⁽¹⁷⁸⁵⁾) Isabel died November 25, 1736.⁽¹⁷⁸⁶⁾ Isabel became the mother of Jose Montano in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico, 1675.⁽¹⁷⁸⁷⁾ Isabel became the mother of Polonia Montaño before 1693. Isabel became the mother of Juana Montaño Doña in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico, before 1693.⁽¹⁷⁸⁸⁾ Isabel became the mother of María Magdalena Montaño in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico, before 1693.⁽¹⁷⁸⁹⁾ Isabel became the mother of Leonor Montaño in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico, before 1693.⁽¹⁷⁹⁰⁾ Isabel became the mother of Jose Lucas Montano before 1693.⁽¹⁷⁹¹⁾ Isabel became the mother of Leonor Montaño 1694.⁽¹⁷⁹²⁾

At 24 years of age Juan became the father of Jose Montano in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico, 1675.⁽¹⁷⁹³⁾ Juan became the father of Polonia Montaño before 1693. Juan became the father of Juana Montaño Doña in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico, before 1693.⁽¹⁷⁹⁴⁾ Juan became the father of María Magdalena Montaño in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico, before 1693.⁽¹⁷⁹⁵⁾ Juan became the father of Leonor Montaño in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico, before 1693.⁽¹⁷⁹⁶⁾ Juan became the father of Jose Lucas Montano before 1693.⁽¹⁷⁹⁷⁾ At 43 years of age Juan became the father of Leonor Montaño 1694.⁽¹⁷⁹⁸⁾ Juan Antonio de Soto-Mayor Montano, or names reversed, had come to New Mexico as a convict shortly before the Indian Rebellion, although he is not listed with the 1677 group under Lazaro de Mizquia. He married after his arrival. In 1680 he passed muster as a convict with a complete set of weapons, his wife, a female servant, but no children.

The next year he gave his age as thirty, when he was described as being of medium hight, lisping in speech, and with a fair and pimply skin. He was a native of Mexico City.

Juan Antonio Montano Soto-Mayor and his wife, Isabel Jorge de Vera, returned with Vargas in 1693 and settled in Santa Fe; after he husband's death, Isabel moved to the Rio Abajo.

Twice he is referred to as a native of Mexico City, he appeared as a witness in three nuptial investigationsof 1694. But he was dead by 1696 when reference was made to his widow, Isabel Jorge de Vera, as a grand-daughter of Captain Antonio Baca of pre-revolt times. She died on November 25, 1736.

Three known sons were Jose, Juan and Lucas. Three of their daughters, Leonor, Magdalena and Juana, married three Duran y Chaves brothers, Luis, Antonio and Nicolas, respectively. A fourth, Polonia, became the wife of Salvador de Santisteban. Several of the children were born at Guadalupe del Paso during the twelve-year exile. These were Jose, Luca, another Jose, Polonia, Lenor, Madgadelna and Juana. The last three became the wives of three sons of Don Fernando Duran y Chaves.

The next year he gave his age as thirty, when he was described as being of medium hight, lisping in speech, and with a fair and pimply skin. He was a native of Mexico City.

Juan Antonio Montano De Soto-Mayor and Isabel Jorge De Vera had the following children:

360 i. Juan⁹ Montano⁽¹⁷⁹⁹⁾ (living status unknown).

361 ii. Jose Montano⁽¹⁸⁰⁰⁾ was born in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico 1675.⁽¹⁸⁰¹⁾ Jose died June 29, 1756 in Tome, Valencia County, New Mexico, at 80 years of age.⁽¹⁸⁰²⁾ He married Maria De Cuellar. (Additional notes for Maria De Cuellar⁽¹⁸⁰³⁾) Maria died after 1772 in Rio Puerco, New Mexico.⁽¹⁸⁰⁴⁾ Maria became the mother of Joaquin Montano 1731.⁽¹⁸⁰⁵⁾

At 56 years of age Jose became the father of Joaquin Montano 1731.⁽¹⁸⁰⁶⁾ Jose Montano living in Santa Fe, was twenty years old in 1695. He married Maria de Cuellar and went to live in the Rio Abajo, where in 1715 he wounded a man, because of jealousy, at the home of his mother-in-law, then married to Tomas Garcia. He was still living in 1734 when he and Maria were sponsors for a child of his sister Juana and Nicolas de Chaves. In 1750 he trespassed on Alameda Pueblo lands and got a fine imposed by Governor Gachupin. He is in all probability the Jose Montano who died a "muerte violenta" at Tome, June 29, 1756.

His widow was still much alive in 1772 as one of the first settlers of the Rio Puerco country with three of her sons.

Their children were: Pedro, who married Paula Gallegos in 1748, Joaquin, who died at the age of eleven, April 28, 1742; Juan Bautista, husband of Rosalia Jaramillo; and Bernabe Manuel, who married Eduarda Yturrieta or Varela. The latter two were among the first Rio Puerco settlers with their mother.

362 iii. Polonia Montaño⁽¹⁸⁰⁷⁾ was born before 1693. She married Salvador De Santisteban. (Additional notes for Salvador De Santisteban⁽¹⁸⁰⁸⁾)

+ 312 iv. Juana Montaño Doña was born before 1693.

363 v. María Magdalena Montaño⁽¹⁸⁰⁹⁾ was born in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico before 1693.⁽¹⁸¹⁰⁾ María died before March 23, 1717/18 at approximately 26 years of age.⁽¹⁸¹¹⁾ She married Antonio Rosalido Duran Y Chaves. Antonio was born 1678.⁽¹⁸¹²⁾ (Additional notes for Antonio Rosalido Duran Y Chaves⁽¹⁸¹³⁾) Antonio died May 12, 1738 at 59 years of age.⁽¹⁸¹⁴⁾ At 29 years of age Antonio became the father of Maria Duran Y Chaves 1707.⁽¹⁸¹⁵⁾ At 30 years of age Antonio became the father of Fernando Duran Y Chaves 1708.⁽¹⁸¹⁶⁾

At 15 years of age María became the mother of Maria Duran Y Chaves 1707.⁽¹⁸¹⁷⁾ At 16 years of age María became the mother of Fernando Duran Y Chaves 1708.⁽¹⁸¹⁸⁾

364 vi. Leonor Montaño⁽¹⁸¹⁹⁾ was born in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico before 1693.⁽¹⁸²⁰⁾ She married Luis Duran Y Chaves June 13, 1708.⁽¹⁸²¹⁾ 1707, June (No. 4) Albuquerque, Luis de Chaves (19) of Atrisco, son of Capt. Don Fernando Duran y Chaves and Da. Luica Hurtado, españoles of Atrisco, and Da. Leonor Montaño (13), d. of Antonio Montaño, deceased, and Da. Isabel Jorge, also españoles of Atrisco. Pair related 3rd and 4th degree consanguinity, and bride already violated by groom; dispensation granted because of groom's humility; Witnesses: Jose de Quintana, notary and bondsman for dispensation fee; Diego Padilla (21), Joaquin Sedillo (29), Sebastian Canseco (30), Feliciano Candelaria. Pair married June 13, 1708 (sic).

Luis was born 1683.⁽¹⁸²²⁾ (Additional notes for Luis Duran Y Chaves⁽¹⁸²³⁾) Luis died before 1716.⁽¹⁸²⁴⁾

365 vii. Jose Lucas Montano⁽¹⁸²⁵⁾ was born before 1693.⁽¹⁸²⁶⁾ Jose died 1721 at 29 years of age.⁽¹⁸²⁷⁾ He married Juana De Anaya Almazan in Santa Fe, Kingdom Of New Mexico, before 1710.⁽¹⁸²⁸⁾ Lucas Montano, unlike hs brothers, stayed in Santa Fe, where he had married Juana de Anaya Almazan prior to 1710. He died after eleven years of marriage, and his widow married twice after that. In her last will, in 1736, she named her five children by Lucas Montano: Maria Geronima, Maria Josefa, wife of Manuel Martin, Antonio Urbano, Maria Gertrudis and Lucas Tadeo.

Of the girls, Maria Geronima had married Jose Rodriquges in 1729 and Maria Josefa de la Candelaria had married Manuel Martin of Santa Cruz in 1730.

One son, Antonio Urbano married Juana Maria Ortega, November 31, 1740.

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