Antonia was among the earliest to live in the Monterey Presidio, arriving with the second Rivera expedition with her husband, a soldero de cuera, and their two young sons. They were one of the twelve families to come from San Blas to Loreto and overland to San Diego and Monterey in September, 1774. Her daughter Veronica was baptized February 28, 1775 by Fr. Junípero Serra, for her family "pocos meses a esta parte domiciliados en el Real Presidio de San Carlos". He had been baptizing "gentiles" at the mission since late 1770, but this was the first week for those designated from families "razón". Her daughters were second and sixth; Gertrudis was baptized June 30, 1776, showing the sparsity of births among the families of soldiers. The parents were identified as "Joseph Manuel Higuera and Maria Antonia Limón" on Gertrudis' baptismal record, but thereafter she was "Maria Antonia Redondo" on documents, clearly a preference for her mother's name.

1775 census Presidio de Monterey: Manuel Higuera, married [to María Antonia Redondo; children: Juan José and José Faustin]

1777 First census of Pueblo San José: Joseph Manuel Higuera, Spaniard, man, 33; Antonia Redondo, Spaniard, woman, 25; Juan Joseph, boy, 7; Juan Faustino, boy, 4; Maria Bictoria, girl, 2; Maria Gertrudis, girl, 1; Joseph, Indian servant, boy, 16; 1 horse, 2 mules, 2 mares, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 1 calf, 2 ewes, 2 goats.

February, 1784 note about husband at their son's baptism: "Soldado del Pueblo de Señior San Joseph"

1790 census, Monterey: Manuel Higuera, español, from Villa Sinaloa, 49; wife Antonia Redondo, española, [from Villa Sinaloa] 41; six children: [Juan José] 18; [Joaquín Valentín] 6; [José Antonio Secundino] 3; [María Gertrudis] 12; [Ana María Antonia] 9; [Gabriela María] 8.

Manuel and Antonia had nine children, founding the Higuera clan in Alta California.

Born in Sinaloa:
José Manuel 1771-buried 3/17/1807 Mission San Carlos; soldado, married Maria Josepha Florentina Camacho
Juan José Faustino 1772-died November 26, 1834, burial at Mission Santa Clara; married Mariana Josefa Navarro and had four children, then married Francisca Maria Ruiz and had two children

Born at the Monterey Presidio and baptized at Mission San Carlos:
Maria Veronica Victoria Leandra 2/27/1775-died February 22, 1817 buried at Mission Santa Clara: married Francisco Maria Valencia and had two children
Maria Gertrudis 6/28/1776-died 12/1/1851, buried at Mission Santa Barbara; married José Manuel Boronda and had thirteen children
Born in "el Pueblo de San Joseph" and baptized at Mission Santa Clara:
Maria Ygnacia Rita 2/10/1778-died 7/10/1844 in Rancho La Natividad, near San Juan Bautista; married Manuel Josef Butron and had 13 children
Anna Maria Antonia 7/25/1780-12/14/1825 burial at Mission Dolores; married Francisco José de los Dolores Soto and had a daughter
Gabriela Maria 2/28/1782-burial 5/20/1842 at Mission San Juan Bautista; married José "Miguel" Espinosa and had eleven children
Joseph Joaquín Valentín 2/10/1784-burial 10/6/1838 at Mission Santa Clara; married Maria Bernarda Soto
Josef Antonio Secundino 7/1/1787-?; married María Ambrosia Pacheco and had a daughter

Doña Antonia lived her last six years as a widow, moving in with daughter Gertrudis, also two years widowed. A granddaughter remembered her as a strict disciplinarian, "with a concave face, a pointed chin and a nose like an eagle's beak". [Note the photo of her son Manuel fitting this description.] Both Antonia and her husband lived past age 80, outliving many of their children, having founded an expansive Higuera clan in California. She was buried at the cemetery of Mission San José Bautista, SBJ #02980, as Maria Antonia Redondo, vecina de la Natividad, an adult, age 80.

Her parents were Eusebio Limón, born around 1723 in Mexico and Maria Dolores Arredondo, born around 1725 in Mexico:
Maria Dolores Arredonda
Marriage
3 MAY 1736 • Santa Maria De Los Lagos, Lagos De Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico
Eusebio Limon (1723–)

Ygnacia Antonia Limon in Mexico, Select Baptisms, 1560-1950:
Baptism 5 may. 1743 (5 May 1743), Santa Maria De Los Lagos, Lagos De Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico
Father Eusebio Limon
Mother Maria Dolores

Eusebio Lucio Limon
in Mexico, Select Marriages Index, 1556-1989
Marriage 3 may. 1736 (3 May 1736) Santa Maria De Los Lagos, Lagos De Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico
Father Miguel Limon
Mother Mariana De Ornelas
Spouse Maria Dionicia Gonsales

Eusebio Lucio Limón de Ornelas
Married 3 May 1736, Santa María de los Lagos, Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, México, to María Leonicia González Gómez
(Parents : Nicolás González & Pascuala Gómez)

Reviewing these records from Mexico, it appears that her father married
María Leonicia/Dionesia González Gómez in 1736, but she was not Antonia's mother, an indigenous woman. Perhaps her preference for her mother's name, Redondo, embraced their shared heritage in small Sinaloan villages with indigenous roots. Arredondo, as her mother was sometimes named, appears to be a geographic reference, probably the now defunct village of Mount Redondo, plus the preposition "a" for her association there, "of Redondo", and the phonetic rolling double r's as this would be pronounced. Her designation as an "española", and at other times "mestiza" implies a father with strong European, at least half lineage. His parents were Miguel Limon and Mariana de Ornelas.