I would like to thank a fellow nuestrorancho member who found this defunto record of my 5th Generation GGF Blas Madera who passed away in 1776 in Huejuquilla El Alto married to a second wife:

I would like to thank a fellow nuestrorancho member who found this defunto record of my 5th Generation GGF Blas Madera who passed away in 1776 in Huejuquilla El Alto married to a second wife:

Blas Madera was originally from Mezquitic, Jalisco, Mexico who got married in 1728 with Maria Theresa Avila, is the son of Joseph Madera/Josepha Josepha Basquez. In that matrimonio he was classified as a “Mestizo”

He had two sons: Francisco Madera (1723 – 1790) and Lazaro Madera (? – 1783) who show up at Rancho De Los Maderas of Huejuquilla. I am descended from Francisco Madera.

Maria Theresa Avila passes away and Blas Madera remarries with Maria Lorensa Magallanes in 1768 in Huejuquilla El Alto, Jalisco Mexico:

Then he passes away in 1776 and labeles as a “mulatto libre?” That is odd! His parents in his 1728 marriage record in Mezquitic are labeled as “espanoles”

But I don’t have the baptism record of Blas Madera. In his defunto record it says he left a “testamento” also says he had 3 missas resadas and that something about “no la escucho por la distancia de su rancho donde murio.”

He passed away at Rancho De Los Maderas (today San Jose De Maderas) of Huejuquilla El Alto, Jalisco, Mexico.