Margarita Durán y Chávez

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ⁵⁰⁹
Margarita Durán y Chaves married, as her first husband, Juan de Anaya and then, as her second husband, Salvador García. Juan de Anaya had been killed by Apache while he was en route to El Paso del Norte. Salvador García was the widower of Catarina Sánchez, and the son of Tomás García and Juana Hurtado de Mendoza.

~Aqui Se Comienza, p. 68

Margarita married Salvador Matias García de Noriega, son of Tomás García de Noriega and Juana Hurtado de Mendoza, on 4 Feb 1761 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁴¹² (Salvador Matias García de Noriega was born in 1711 in Río Abajo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁷⁰ and was baptized on 8 Mar 1711 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
8 Jun 1761, Alburquerque. Salvador García (49), española, widowed of Catarina Sánchez, buried in this church, son of Capitán Tomás García and Juana Hurtado, both deceased, and doña Margarita Durán y Chaves (28), widow of Juan de Anya, killed by Apaches on Chihuahua road enroute to El Paso del Norte, daughter of Capitán don Francisco Durán y Chaves, deceased, and doña Juana Baca. Pair dispensed, closed 3rd degree consanguinity and 4th affinity, reasons, the groom has several little orphans while his bride had four of them.

Witnesses:
Felipe Jacobo Romero, notary

don Pedro Lucero (62), native of New Mexico, who says that parties are blood-related in 3rd degree on the maternal side, and that groom's grandfather was a brother of the mother of bride's grandmother; on the affinity side, the grandfather of the Sánchez first wife was asecond sousin of the bride's grandfather.

don Juan Candelaria (61), says that first Sánchez wife was the grand daughter of a second cousin of the bride's granfather, and that the bride's grandmother and Catarina Sánchez's grandfather were second cousins.

don Gerónimo Jaramillo (72), same testimony.

Dispensation grantedat El Pas del Norte 8 Jul 1761, Manuel Zaldivar Calderon acting notary.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 596

  Marriage Notes:

San Felipe de Neri Alburquerque Marriages, p. 17
Padrinos: don Diego Antonio Chabes y doña Juana Silba ⁴¹²