José Mares

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
José Mares, who did not know who his parents were, married Ana Rodríguez, fifteen-year-old daughter of Lorenzo Rodríguez and Teresa López Olguín, in 1716. They had at least two sons, Nicolás and José, who was evidently the "José Julian," twenty-five years old, who enlisted as a soldier in 1746.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p 220

José married Ana Rodríguez, daughter of Lorenzo Rodríguez and Teresa López Olguín, in 1716 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Ana Rodríguez was born in 1701 in Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
1 Dec 1716, Santa Fé - José Mares (15), native of New Mexico, of unknown parents, and Ana Rodríguez, native of New Mexico, daughter of Lorenzo Rodríguez and Teresa López Olguín.

Witnesses: Sebastian Apodaca (26), native of Santa Fé, married; Diego Velasquez (29),native of Sombrarete, soldier and married; Diego Lucero (23), married.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1073