Catalina (Martin Serrano de Salazar) de Salazar (abt. 1683)

Born about 1683 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo México, Nueva España [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Alonso Fernandez — married 26 Jan 1695 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spain

Descendants

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Biography

Catalina was born about 1683. She is the daughter of Luís Martín Serrano and Melchora de los Reyes.

Birth

• Catalina (Martin Serrano) de Salazar was born about 1683, most likely in Guadalupe del Paso where her family was living in 1684.^[1][2]

Residence

• In December 1692, Catalina (Martin Serrano) de Salazar, age 9, lived in El Paso del Norte, New Mexico, Spain.^[1]
• In 1707, Cathalina (de Salazar), age 30, lived in Santa Cruz, New Mexico, Spain.^[3]

Marriage

• Catalina de Salazar married Alonso Fernandez on 26 Jan 1695 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spain. An exact namesake of her paternal grandmother, she identified herself as a native of New Mexico and a daughter of Capitan Luis Martin and Melchora de los Reyes.^[4]

Research Notes

1. Catalina's birth name was Catalina Martín Serrano but as an adult she chose to use her paternal grandmother's surname and became Catalina de Salazar,^[4] perhaps to distinguish herself from her older half-sister also named Catalina.
2. Luis had two different daughters named Catalina, one with each wife. The older Catalina Martín Serrano was born about 1677 and nothing more is known about her. The younger Catalina was born about 1683 and was called Catalina de Salazar.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Kessell, John L., Rick Hendricks, and Meredith Dodge, editors, To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-1694, (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press,1995), p. 41.
2. ↑ "1684 El Paso Census." Herencia, Vol. 6 (January 1998): 23-35, specifically 30.
3. ↑ Dreesen, Donald S. and Robert W. Delaney, transcribers. "Census of the Pueblo of San Juan de los Caballeros of the Tegua Nation--and of the Pueblo of San Lorenzo de los Picuris--and of the Parish of Santa Cruz de los Españoles--of this year of 1707," New Mexico Genealogist, vol. 28 (Mar 1989) 22; citing Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico at the University of New Mexico General Library, Coronado Room, Vol. 6 pt. l Doc. 3 p. 566.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Chávez, Angélico. New Mexico Roots Ltd: a demographic perspective from genealogical, historical and geographic data found in the diligencias matrimoniales or pre-nuptial investigations (1678-1869) of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. PDF image copy, UNM Digital Repository, http://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cswr_reference/5 : 1983, vol. 3, p. 504; Alonso Fernandez (24) and Catarina de Salazar.