His ancestry can be traced at least four more generations. In 1802 he married a noblewoman of  Cantabrian extraction and a sister of a colleague, María Bárbara Barquín Velasco y Lavín Tagle Bracho (b.
His ancestry can be traced back to at least four more generations. In 1802, he married into the nobility through his union with María Bárbara Barquín Velasco y Lavín Tagle Bracho, a woman from Cantabria and sister of a colleague.