Ignacio Durán y Chávez (abt. 1724)

Born about 1724 in Atrisco, Nuevo México, Nueva España [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Ana Gregoria Maese — married 13 Nov 1747 in Santa Fe, Nuevo México, Nueva España

Descendants

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Judy Byrum [send private message], Marcie Ruiz [send private message], and Michelle Park [send private message]

Biography

Ignacio was born about 1724 to Francisco Durán y Chávez and Juana Baca, la moza,^[1] most likely in Atrisco where his family lived during this period. In 1747 he married Ana Gregoria Maese^[2] and they had five known children:

1. Juana María de la Concepción, born before the 1750 Census
2. María Antonia de Jesus, born in 1752
3. Francisco Antonio, born in 1755
4. Josefa Ángela de Jesus, born about 1759
5. Francisco Xavier, born about 1760

After their marriage, they lived in Albuquerque^[3] but by 1752 they had moved to Atrisco where their 2nd daughter was born.^[4] Ana Gregoria died before 1768 when Ignacio began the diligencia matrimonial process to marry Ursula Bernardina Sanchez.^[5] They needed two dispensations in order to marry: 2nd with 3rd degree consanguinity (1st cousins), and 3rd degree affinity (Ignacio was a first cousin of Ursula's first husband, Cristóbal Baca). They finally married after they received the dispensations in 1770.^[1] During this process, Ignacio's youngest son with Ana Gregoria was kidnapped by Comanches.^[6]

Ignacio and Ursula Bernardina had four known children:

1. Manuel Jacinto de la Trinidad, born in 1773
2. Francisco Xavier, born in 1775
3. José Vicente, born in 1780
4. María Barbara de los Dolores, born in 1782

They were still living in Atrisco in 1790.^[7]

Research Notes

1. Ignacio's birth year is an unsourced estimate from the Great New Mexico Pedigree Database.
2. On FamilySearch, two different men were merged, Ignacio Durán y Chávez and Antonio Durán y Chávez, and their names were combined. They are obviously different men due to conflict between their marriages and children's births. It's been corrected on FamilySearch but occasionally you still see the name Ignacio Antonio Durán y Chávez.
3. The baptism record showing a birth date of 11 Jan 1788 in Albuquerque belongs to María Barbara Duran y Chaves, daughter of Ignacio Duran y Chaves and Ursula Chaves [Sanchez], possibly Ignacio's daughter with his second wife.^[8] The burial date for María Barbara was 20 Apr 1831, and she died in Atrisco, probably on the 19th.^[9] I am deleting both dates.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Chávez, 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. 2, p. 312; 12 May 1770, (no. 4). Ignacio Chaves, widowed of Gregoria Maese, and Ursula Bernardina Sanchez.
2. ↑ "New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FD53-2MQ : 20 January 2020), Ygnacio Duran y Chabes and Ana Gregoria Maese, married 13 Nov 1747, Santa Fe, New Mexico; FHL microfilm #16,905, image 35.
3. ↑ Olmsted, Virginia Langham. Spanish and Mexican Censuses of New Mexico, 1750-1830. (Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 1981), p. 82; 1750 Albuquerque census, household 123; Ygnacio Chabes, age 25; wife Gregoria Maesse, age 17; one daughter Juana María, no age given.
4. ↑ "New Mexico Births and Christenings, 1726-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HWXP-X76Z : 20 January 2020), Maria Antonia de Jesus Chaves, baptized 23 Jan 1752, Albuquerque, born in Atrisco; FHL microfilm #16,635, image 101.
5. ↑ Chávez, New Mexico Roots Ltd, Vol. 2, p. 311; 17 Jun 1770 (no. 1), Albuquerque, Ignacio Chaves and Ursula Sanchez.
6. ↑ Chavez, Angelico. Chávez: A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico. (Santa Fe, N.M: Sunstone Press, 2009), p. 122.
7. ↑ Olmsted, Virginia Langham. New Mexico Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790 * 1823 * 1845. (Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 1975, Rev. 2015), p. 15; 1790 Census, Atrisco - Plaza 3, household #269; Ignacio Chaves, age 66, farmer; m. Ursula Sanches, age 40: 3 sons: 16, 15, 5; 2 daughters: 7, 3.
8. ↑ Catholic Church, Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, San Francisco de Asis Cathedral, (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Baptisms, 1776-1802, Book B-4 Albuquerque, p. 712, María Barbara Duran y Chaves, baptized 13 Jan 1788; manuscript on film, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89DX-8DBC : accessed 13 Aug 2023), FHL microfilm #16,635, image 353.
9. ↑ Catholic Church, Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, San Francisco de Asis, (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Burials, 1819-1838, Book Bur-4 Albuquerque, p. 80, Barbara Chaves, wife of Juan Asencio Garcia, buried 20 Apr 1831; manuscript on film, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3L-53CD-Q : accessed 13 Aug 2023), FHL microfilm #16,645, [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3L-53CD-Q image 264.

See also:

• Hendricks, Rick, and John B. Colligan. "New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations from the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799" (Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University Library, 1996), pp. 109, 126, and 132-133.