María Martín Serrano y Salazar

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Diego Torres's second wife was María Martín of Santa Cruz, daughter of Alejo Martín, of New México and María de la Rocha, of Sonora. They had at least eight children.

~The Origins of New México Families, p. 295

María married Diego de Torres, son of Cristóbal de Torres and Ángela de Leyva, after 25 Dec 1712 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.^,252 (Diego de Torres was born about 1692 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España,²⁶⁸ died before 1758 in Los Padillas, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁶⁸ and was buried in Isleta, Bernilillio, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁶⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
1712, Dec. 25, Santa Fé, Santa Cruz. Diego de Torres (27), native of New Mexico and Santa Fe Presidio, soldier, widowed of María Jaramillo who died in childbirth at Santa Cruz de la Cañada, and then of Rosa de Varela, and María Martín, native of the Sonora province, daughter of Alejo Martín, native of New Mexico, and María de la Rocha, native of Sonora, both now residing in New Mexico. Witnesses: Cristóbal Arellano (45) who knew the first wife who had died in Santa Crus; Juan de la Mora Pieda (40). Miguel de Quintana, notary in Santa Cruz ...

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales p. 1895