Her father was Antonio Montalvo, and her mother was Maria Petra Salinas. Her father owned Porción 54, Mier. In 1782, she lived in Las Jaras in household number 108. The church census recorded that she was an unmarried girl, española. Her household included 14 people.
She married Jose Marcelo Ramirez, son of Jose Antonio Ramirez Hinojosa and Maria Josefa Leal on 28 Feb 1797.