María Guadalupe Baca

María married Domingo Sánches, son of Juan Cristóbal Sánches and Juana Tomása Durán y Cháves, on 29 Mar 1797 in Tomé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Domingo Sánches was born in 1772 in Los Cháves, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁶.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record. ³⁴
DMs 11 Mar 1797, married 29 Mar 1797, Domingo Sánches (25), son of Juan Christóbal Sánches and Junaica Cháves, deceased, married María Guadelupe Baca (20), daughter of José Baca, deceased, and Juana Cháves, all of Los Cháves. Padrinos: Antonio Cháves and his wife, Bárbara Sánches of Los Cháves. Tests: Antonio Cháves and his wife, Bárbara Sánches of Los Cháves. Tests: Toribio García (65), José Anastacio Cháves (62) José García (62).
~Tomé Marriages, pg. 15

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ⁴³⁸
Domingo Sánches, 23 , español. the legitimate son of Juan Cristóbal Sánches and Juana Cháves, citizens of the puesto of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Cháves in the Belén jurisdiction. María Guadalupe Baca, 21, española, the legitimate daughter of the late José Baca and Juan María Cháves, citizens of San Antonio del Sausal in the Belén jurisdiction. The was related in the fourth degree of consanguinity. Father Bernal at Belén found no baptismal records for them, but stated that Torbio Cháves and María Gertrudis Cháves testified that fray Manuel Rojo had baptized Domingo Sánches at the chapel in Tomé in 1773, and that Miguel Antonio Cháves, 62, a citizen of Sausal, had attened the baptism of María Guadalupe Baca in 1772 with Bernardo Cháves and María Isabel Armijo as godparents.

Domingo Sánches stated that he knew he and María Guadalupe Baca were related, but was ignorant as to the degree. Since 1793, he had been in love with her and no other. There were few women in the area to whom he was not related. He added that he had deprived her of her virginity, she was poor and had no other man to marry, and almost everyon in the Río Abajo was related. María Guadalupe Baca stated that she had lost her father, and while they had begun the prenuptial investigations in 1793, they had not completed them.

Witnesses: Toribio García Jurado, 65, stated that the couple was related in the prohibited degree as follows:

Fernando Cháves married to Lucía Hurtado
Nicolás Cháves	1st degree, brothers	Francisco Cháves & Pedro Cháves
(illegible) Cháves	2nd degree, 1st cousin	Ignacio Cháves, the first cousin of Josefa Chaves
Juana Cháves	3rd degree, 2nd cousin	Juana María Cháves, the second cousin of Domingo Sánches
Domingo Sánches	4th degree, 3rd cousin	María Guadalupe Baca

Pedro Padilla, 64, citizen of Sausal, had lived in the area for fifteen years.
Joquín Tórres, more than 50, citizen of Belén

On 21 Nov 1796, Father Bernal sent the proceedings to Durango. On 3 Jan 1797, Bishop Olivares y Benito granted a dispensation.

~Durango Prenuptial Investigations, Vol. I, pg. 125-126