Pedro Chávez Otero
- Born: Abt 1734, Atrisco, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva Espańa
- Marriage: Maria Juliana Alarí on 2 Sep 1759 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva Espańa 392
 Other names for Pedro were Pedro Duran y Chávez and Pedro Durán y Chávez Otero.
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information: 312
Pedro Durán y Chávez Otero married María Juliana Alarí of Santa Fe on 2 Sep 1759 using the name Pedro Chávez. María was the daughter of Jean d'Alarí, a native of France who married a daughter of Juan Fernández de la Pedera, a Spaniard born soldier who had been recruited by Don Diego de Vargas in 1692. A baptismal record for José Lorenzo, 8 Jul 1773, the parents are named as Pedro Chaves and Juliana Alarí. Another baptismal record from 3 Dec 1775 has Antonio Rafeal, as the child of Pedro Otero and Juliana Alarí. José Estanislao, 1 Mar 1824, at a baptism, was named as the son of Pedro Otero and Juliana Alarí. Pedro himself was referred to as Pedro Otero when he took part in a suit involving, Efigenia Chavez and her husband Jacinto Sánchez.
~Chávez, A Distinictive American Clan of New Mexico, p. 105
• Background Information: 252
Pedro Otero married María Juliana Alarí as "Pedro Durán y Chaves" on 2 Sep 1759. Some of their children were:
• José Lorenzo, born 8 Jul 1773, the son of Pedro Chaves and Juliana Alarí
• Antonio Rafael, 3 Dec 1775, the son of Pedro Otero and Juliana Alarí
• Vicente Antonio, 25 Dec 1781, the son of Pedro Chaves and Juliana Alarí
• José Estanislao, son of Pedro Otero and Juliana Alarí, and husband of Margarita Garcia.
Pedro Otero was mentioned as an eye-witness in 1769 in a case involving Efigenia Chaves, wife of Jacinto Sánchez. Now, Efigenia was a daughter of Pedro Durán y Chaves and his first wife, Juana Montoya. Old Pedro had a minor son by the name of "Pedro" who is not mentioned by name in his father's will; therefore, he was one of the four minor children, none mentioned by name, of his second wife, Gertrudis Sánchez. Since there had been no Otero family in all of New Mexico, it seems as though Pedro Otero is this young Pedro Durán y Chaves. B ut where did he get his name? As the youngest orphan by a second wife of so a vast a family, broken up by litigations besides, he might have been reared in the household of the pastor of Alburquerque in those times, Fray Cayetano Otero, the only Otero individual in New Mexico up to that time.
Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 11143-11163
• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1790, in San Antonio de Sabinal, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva Espańa. 33
Pedro Chaves (Otero), espańol, 51; farmer; married to María Juliana Alari, espańola, 41; four sons, ages sixteen, fifteen, seven & five; three daughters ages twenty, eighteen & thriteen.
New Mexican Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790 * 1823 * 1845, p. 49
Pedro married Maria Juliana Alarí, daughter of Jean Bautista d´Alarí and María Francisca Fernández de la Pedrera, on 2 Sep 1759 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva Espańa.312 (Maria Juliana Alarí was born on 24 Mar 1740 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva Espańa and died after 1790 in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva Espańa.)
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