Don Antonio de Molina Delgado

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Antonio de Molina Delgado and Juana Xaviera de Chavarria Butrón of Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico were the parents of Manuel Francisco Delgado, the founder of the Delgado family of New Mexico.
Edith Boorstein Couturier's book The Silver King, The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003) describes Pachuca: "One of the earliest mining centers in New Spain was Pachuca and its satellite Real del Monte, 84 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of Mexico City; located in the presnet-day state of Hidalgo.... The road to Pachuca ran through a region filled with maguey plants and bounded on both sides by distant mountains.... Pachuca derives its name from a Nahuatl word that indicates one of the town's principal geographic features, a narrow openingor pass in the mountains.... A seventeenth century traveler described Real del Monte as 'a city of mud houses covered with wood... (where) twelve thousand people seek their bread in an abyss. In the space of six leagues there are around a thousand mines.'" In 1762, Pachuca was described as "nothing more than a small, somewhat decaying village, while in Real del Monte 12,000 people resided and more than 900 people were employed in mining" (pp. 45-46)
Antonio and Juana were married on August 31, 1722 and veiled on September 1, 1722. The record is on LDS no. 266579
A **Juana Xaviera de Chavarria Butrón was baptized on June 28, 1701 in the Church of the Asuncion in Mineral del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico, very near to Pachuca. LDS microfilm 0266690
LDS tape 0266905 Juana Xaviera, legitimate daughter of Pedro de Chavarria and Maria de Ureña baptized at the Church of the Assumption of Real de Minas del Monte on July 1, 1705.
Is this the future wife of Antonio Delgado and that the first **Juana Xaviera died?
Antonio and Juana Xaviera baptized:
Maria Xaviera on August 14, 1723;
Juana Josepha on March 6, 1725
Manuel Antonio on January 22, 1727;
Luysa Gonsaga on June 23, 1729;
Francisco Lorenso on August 14, 1732;
Maria Ysabel on July 18, 1733;
Antonia Eustaquía on February 25, 1736;
They baptized Manuel Francisco on December 30, 1738. Domingo de Lamas a merchant was his godfather.
All these baptisms took place in the Parish of the Asuncion in Pachuca, Hidalgo (this information is from LDS 0266509 microfilm)
Juana's father, Pedro de Chavarria Butrón was a resident of Pachuca during those years. He is listed as such one time when he was a godfather and one time a baby was born in his house.
Manuel Francisco's military papers indicate that he was the sixth child of his parents. Since the baptismal records clearly indicate that he was the 8th child, and third son, it seems that two must have died at a young age. I do not presently know what became of any of Manuel Francisco's siblings. Manuel Francisco joined the military in 1761 and was eventually sent to the El Paso area where he married and was eventually sent to New Mexico.
Antonio's origins are beginning to be less obscure. His 20th century descendent Margaret Delgado de Ortiz always said that he came to Mexico from Almeria, Spain in 1714. I have never been able to find any other source for this information. However, it seems to be perfectly true. There is also a family tradition that the family was aristocratic and even from "the family of the kings".
no records have been found for the Delgado family in Pachuca after 1738, when Manuel Francisco was born. In Antonio Delgado's papers in the NM State Archives, there is a paper dated 1740 describing him as a merchant and resident of San Miguel, where he died in 1766.
The New Mexico State Archives has a number of papers from Antonio's estate. These papers indicate that at the time of his death in around March 1766, he was a resident and merchant in Real San Miguel, presumably San Miguel Regla. It appears that he was a mine owner (Pachuca was an important mining center at the time). Letters written to Juana Xaviera show that Antonio preceded her in death. The marriage Diligencia for Manuel Francisco indicates that both of his parents were dead by 1778.
These papers establish Antonio's profession, date and place of death and corroborate his marriage to Juana Xaviera. They do not, however, say anything at all about his origins or his children. For instance there is no will there. He is always named as Antonio Delgado, not de Molina Delgado, as appears on one of his children's baptismal records. He uses no aristocratic title, and there is mention of his being an aristocrat. Several of Manuel Francisco's military papers in the New Mexico State Archives, however, indicate that he was of noble birth.

for consideration:
Written and compiled by
LaDeane Miller April 2 2002
Lmiller1@cox.net
Descendants of
Antonio de Molina Delgado and Xaviera Rivera Chavarria
1. Antonio de Molina Delgado, born in Real de Minas, Mexico. [?] He married Xaviera Rivera Chavarria, born in Real de Minas, Mexico.

Children of Antonio de Molina Delgado and Xaviera Rivera Chavarria were as follows:
2 i Juana Josepha Delgado, born 1725 in Pachuca, Mexico.
3 ii Manuel Antonio Delgado, born Jan 1727 in Pachuca, Mexico; christened 22 Jan 1727 in Pachuca, Mexico.
4 iii Francisco Lorenzo Delgado, born 1732 in Pachuca, Mexico.
+ 5 iv Manuel Francisco Delgado, born Dec 1738 in Pachuca, Mexico; christened 30 Dec 1738 in Pachuca, Mexico; died 13 Aug 1815. He married (1) Maria Josefa Garcia de Noriega; (2) Ana Maria Baca.








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Antonio married Juana Xaviera de Chavarria Butron, daughter of Living and Living, on 31 Aug 1722 in Mexico. (Juana Xaviera de Chavarria Butron was born in 1705 in Pachuca, Hildago, Mexico, christened on 1 Jul 1705 in Church of the Assumption of Real de Minas del Monte and died in Dec 1778.)

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