María Josefa was born about 1788[1] to Anselmo Durán and María Andrea Márquez.[2] In 1802 she married Juan Antonio Atentio in Tomé, New Mexico,[2] and they had four children:
Margarita de [not legible on her baptism record] Marcelina, born in 1806
Felipe Santiago, born in 1808
Juan Nepomuceno, born in 1814
María Manuela
Juan Antonio died in 1815. María Josefa married José Ramón Sedillo in 1818,[3] and they had seven children:
José Ramon died in 1837 and María Josefa may have died in 1856.[4]
Research Notes
María Josefa used four different surnames on her marriage records and her children's baptisms: Duran (her father's surname), Marquez (her mother's surname), Serna (her maternal grandmother's surname), and Silva (possibly in honor of her mother-in-law from her first marriage or another relative.)
Sources
↑ 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. 10, p. 1792; 1818, Belen, Juan Ramos Sedillo and María Josefa Marquez (23).
↑ 2.02.1 "New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FD59-MXK : 20 January 2020), Juan Antonio Atencio and Maria Josefa Desideria Duran, married 23 Jun 1802, Tomé, New Mexico; FHL microfilm #17,026, image 213.
↑ "New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDPK-PYY : 20 January 2020), Jose Ramon Sedillo and Maria Josefa Marquez, married 26 Feb 1818, Belen, New Mexico; FHL #17,026, image 241.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with María Josefa by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with María Josefa: