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Fernando Durán y Chávez
(Abt 1609-Bef 1669)
Ana María de Carabajal
(1610/4-)
Juan Ruíz Cáceres
(Abt 1618-)
Captain Fernando Durán y Chávez
(1645-1712/6)
Elena Ruíz Cáceres
(1649-After 1682)
María Luján
(1674-After 1765)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Sebastian Martín Serrano

María Luján

  • Born: 1674, Taos, Rio Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España
  • Marriage: Sebastian Martín Serrano on 24 Sep 1691 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España 248
  • Died: After 1765, Taos, Rio Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España

bullet   Another name for María was María Chávez.

bullet  General Notes:

ONMF. p. 369

bullet  Noted events in her life were:

• Family Background Information. 252
She was adopted by her stepfather, Miguel Luján, who married her mother, Elena Ruiz Caceras.

• Dates & Events. 252
She, her husband and children returned to New Mexico with Diego de Vargas in 1693.

• She signed a will. 1580
"María Chabes, resident of the port of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad del Río Arriba, legitimate daughter of Francisco Chabes and Elena Ruiz Cazares and widow of Captain Sebastian Martín.

"We had ten children: Marcial, Margarita (deceased), Rosa, Manuel, Angela, José, Antonio, Josepha (deceased), Julio (deceased) and Francisco (deceased)."

The New Mexico Genealogist
, June 2013, vol. 52, p. 55.


María married Sebastian Martín Serrano, son of Pedro Martín Serrano y Salazar and Juana Apolonia de Argüello, on 24 Sep 1691 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España.248 (Sebastian Martín Serrano was born in 1671 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España 248,252 and died in 1763 in San Juan de los Caballeros, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

bullet  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. 248
1691, September, El Paso del Norte. Sebastian Martín (21), native of New Mexico, son of Captain Pedro Martín, deceased, and Juana de Arguello living in Socorro del Paso, and María Lujan (17), native of New Mexico, daughter of Miguel Lujan and Elena Ruiz. Witnesses: Don Fernando Durán Chaves (44), living in El Paso, who knew pair since their birth at La Cañada in New Mexico, Francisco Romero (57) of El Paso and Alcalde Ordinario, same testimony. Pair married Sept. 24, 1691, with witnesses Don Fernando de Chaves and Doña Lucia Hurtado.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1093


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