Maria Juliana Alarí

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ³¹²
Pedro Durán y Chávez Otero married María Juliana Alarí of Santa Fe on 2 Sep 1759 using the name Pedro Chávez. María was the daughter of Jean d'Alarí, a native of France who married a daughter of Juan Fernández de la Pedera, a Spaniard born soldier who had been recruited by Don Diego de Vargas in 1692. A baptismal record for José Lorenzo, 8 Jul 1773, the parents are named as Pedro Chaves and Juliana Alarí. Another baptismal record from 3 Dec 1775 has Antonio Rafeal, as the child of Pedro Otero and Juliana Alarí. José Estanislao, 1 Mar 1824, at a baptism, was named as the son of Pedro Otero and Juliana Alarí. Pedro himself was referred to as Pedro Otero when he took part in a suit involving, Efigenia Chavez and her husband Jacinto Sánchez.

~Chávez, A Distinictive American Clan of New Mexico, p. 105

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1790, in San Antonio de Sabinal, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Pedro Chaves (Otero), español, 51; farmer; married to María Juliana Alari, española, 41; four sons, ages sixteen, fifteen, seven & five; three daughters ages twenty, eighteen & thriteen.

New Mexican Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790 * 1823 * 1845, p. 49

Maria married Pedro Otero, son of Cayetano de Otero and Quiteria Durán y Chávez, on 2 Sep 1759 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³¹² (Pedro Otero was born about 1734 in Atrisco, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³)