María Gertrudis Martín Serrano

  Noted events:

• Family Connection - Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
15 Mar 1774, Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Manuel Valdes, español of Santa Clara, son of Francisco Valdes, deceased and Gertrudis Martín, and María Josefa García de Noriega (15), española, daughter of Capitán Salvador García de Noriega and María Matín, deceased.

Witnesses: Joaquín García de Noriega, notary; Simón Martín (40), Cristóbal Durán (53).

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 2006

María married Francisco Váldez. (Francisco Váldez died before 15 Mar 1774.)

María next married Salvador Montes Vigil, son of Francisco Montes Vigil and Antonia Rivera del Castillo Jirón de Tejeda, in 1777 in Abiquiú, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁴³⁸ (Salvador Montes Vigil was born in 1727 in Río Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴³⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴³⁸
Salvador (Montes) Vigil and Gertrudis Martin (Serrano), Abiquiú, 11 Nov 1777-9 Jan 1781, AHAD-27, f. 468-80

Salvador Vigil, 50, citizen of the puesto of Chama, widower from his marriage to Francisca Martín, was the legitimate son of Francisco Vigil and Antonia Jirón, both deceased. Gertrudis Martín, 38, a citizen of Santo Tomás de Abiquiú, was the legitimate daughter of the late Pedro Martín and Margarita de Luna.

Witnesses: Juan Miguel Váldez, 29.
Salvador Vigil, 50
Ysidro de Luna, 28
Vicente Garcia, 30

All testified in Abuquiu on 11 November 1777 before the notary, Jose Gómez, that they knew of no impediments to the planned union.

Cristobal Vigil, alcalde mayor of the jurisdiction of La Cañada, stated that there was a relationship of affinity in the second degree resulting from copula illicita. Fray Sebastian Fernández, minister at Abiquiú, sent the proceedings to El Paso for Father Rivera's review.

At San Antonio de Senecú on 1 Aug 1778, Father Domínguez took exception to the fact that the purported bride had declared in sworn testimony that she knew of no impediment to her proposed marriage, for she knew this to be untrue, which was reprehensible. He returned the proceedings to Rivera in El Paso on 17 Aug. Father Rivera ruled that Gertudis Martín had given false testimony in her sworn statement and was not to be granted a dispensation. Father Fernández was to order her placed in a safe and secure home for an indeterminate time until matters could be resolved.

Salvador Montes Vigil prepared another petition in late 1799, which referred to a Gertrudis Serrano, the legitimate daughter of Pedro Martín Serrano and Margarita de Luna, citizens of Santa Clara Pueblo. He stated that his intended was related to him in the second degree resulting from copula illicita. He had been gone from his home for more than nine months and cast himself at the priest's feet, begging for a dispensation.

The bishops's decision was conveyed on 8 Oct 1779. Salvador Vigil had made false statements, first, when he failed to mention that Gertrudis Martín was a widow and second, in that none of his statements or the four statements of the witnesses that Father Fernández took mentioned that both Salvador and Gertrudis had been widowed, much less anything about a relationship. Therefore Gertrudis Martín had perjured herself.

Salvador Vigil, 53, filed another petition for permission to marry Gertrudis, which Father Fernández received on 26 Oct 1780. He stated that he was a widower from his marriage to Francisca Martín and related by consanguinity to Gertrudis because she had had copula illicita with one of his first cousins.

Witnesses:
Feliciano Martín, 30
Joaquín Naranjo, 33, stated that the parties were not related. Domingo Madrid, 32
Antonio Aguilar, 38

In Abuquiu on 28 Oct 1780. Gertrudis Martín, then described as the widow of Francisco Váldes, testified again. She stated that she had wanted to marry Salvador Vigil for two years. Gertrudis Martín admitted that she had had some moments of weakness with a first cousin of her intended groom, but had never planned to marry him.

In Durango, on 9 Jan 1781, Canon Felipe Marcos de Soto, acting for Bishop Macarulla, who was ill, granted a dispensation.

Matrimonios de Immaculate Concepción de Tomé y Nuestra Señora de Belén, pp. 30-31