María Petra Chávez

  Noted events in her life were:

• Baptismal Record: ⁴³⁸
Alburquerque - 31 Jan 1804, Father Guerra baptized one-day-old María Petra, the legitimate daughter of Miguel Antonio Chaves and Juana Lorenza Baca. Her godparents were José Sánchez and his wife, Gregoria Rael.

New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, p. 99

María married José Antonio Fautino Chávez, son of José Antonio Chávez and María Teodora de los Dolores Durán, on 4 Aug 1817 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁴¹² (José Antonio Fautino Chávez was baptized on 18 Feb 1785 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁸⁰².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴³⁸
José Antonio Faustino Chaves and María Petra Chaves, Isleta Pueblo and Alburquerque, 11 Apr - 14 May 1817, AHAD-368, f. 465-73.

José Antonio Faustino Chaves, 22 (32), español, was the legitimate son of José Antonio Chaves and María Teodora de los Dolores Durán, citizens of the plaza of Los Padillas and parishioners of Isleta Pueblo. Maria Petra Chaves, 13, española, was the legitimate daughter of the alferez of militia, Miguel Antonio Chaves, and Juana Lorenza de Jesús Baca, citizens of the puesto of Atrisco and parishioners of the parish of San Felipe Neri de Alburquerque. The couple was related in the closed fourth degree of consanguinity.

Witnesses: Juan Candelaria, 47.
Rafael Sanchez, 34.

On 11 Apr 1817, Father Josá Ygnacio Sánchez forwarded the proceedings from Ysleta to Father Guerra in Alburquerque. María Petra Chaves stated that she had her parents' permission to wed.

Witnesses:
Jose Ventura López, 45.
Juan Pablo Candelaria, 31.

Father Guerra forwarded the proceedings to Durango on 12 Apr 1817. On 14 May. Bishop Castañiza granted a dispensation. The couple was to kneel and pray the one decade of the rosary on three separate days. He ordered Father Guerra to publish the banns three times. Assuming no new impediment arose, he was to marry the couple and give them the nuptial blessing.

New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, p. 98-99