Diego Antonio Durán y Cháves

  General Notes:

ONMF p161

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Paxarito, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Diego Antonio Chábes; wife, Juana Salas; 4 children: Bernardo; Pedro; Antonio; Tomás, infant; sevant: Agustina.
~Spanish Census of 1750, pg. 93

• Census: Spanish, 1790, Atrisco, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Plaza no. 2 of Atrisco
Diego Antonio Cháves, Spanish, 68, rancher; married to Bárbara Varela, Spanish, 33; two sons: 11, 8; 2 grandsons; 15, 13; 1 female servant, mulatto, 20; 1 male servant, Apache, 20.
~Spanish Census of 1790, pg. 15

Diego married Juana Silva, daughter of Antonio de Silva and Gregoria Ruiz, 14 Dec 1740 or 16 Jan 1841 in San Felipe, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁴¹² (Juana Silva was born in 1724 and died on 7 Dec 1786 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial/Marriage Record. ⁴¹²
From page 7 of San Felipe de Neri Marriages:

14 Dec 1740 en el Rancho de Santa Barbara jurisdicion de Alburquerque, casé dispensed of 4th degree consanguinity - Diego Antonio Durán y Chábes, español, soltero, married Juana de Silba, espanola, docella. Witnesses: Salvador García and Catharina Sánches.
(This may possibly be the Digencia Matrimonial or Marriage investigation.)

16 Jan 1741 vele- Diego Antonio Durán y Chábes and Juana Silba, españoles.