Juan José Silva (abt. 1735)

Born about 1735 in Tomé, Provincia de Nuevo México (New Mexico, United States)

Ancestors

Husband of Ana María Lucero — married after 20 Feb 1769 in Albuquerque, Nuevo México, Viceroyalty of New Spain [uncertain]

Descendants

Biography

Juan José Silva was baptized on January 6, 1736 at San Felipe Neri Church in Albuquerque. He was the son of Francisco Silva and Gertrudis Durán y Chávez.^[1]

He married Ana María Lucero sometime after February 20, 1769.^[1]. They had at least one son, José Antonio Silva.

Ana María Lucero must have passed away sometime in 1775, for on November 20, 1777, he stated during his prenuptial investigation with María de la Luz Baca that "he wished to marry María de la Luz in spite of their relationship because he had given her his promise to marry two years earlier." It is very unlikely that he would have promised María de la Luz that he would marry her if his wife had still been alive. He married Ana María Lucero sometime after January 1778.^[2]

• Prenuptial investigation, Tomé, February 20, 1769^[1]

1769, Feb. 20 (no. 2), Tome. JUAN JOSE SILVA (29), español, son of Francisco Silva and Da. Gertrudis Duran y Chaves, deceased, and Da. Ana Lucero (16), d. of Capt. Don Miguel Lucero and Da. Rosa Baca, both deceased. Witnesses: Pedro Jose Pino, notary·; Tadeo Andres Montoya (47), Manuel Aragon (38).

• Prenuptial investigation, Albuquerque, November 20, 1777 - January 1778

Juan José Silva, 40, español and native of New Mexico, was a resident of the puesto of Tomé in the jurisdiction of Albuquerque. Juan José was a widower from his marriage to Ana María Lucero and the legitimate son of Francisco Silva and Gertrudis Chaves. María de la Luz Baca, 16, española, native of New Mexico and resident of Tomé, was the legitimate daughter of Manuel Baca and the late Margarita Josefa Tafoya. Juan José declared that his late wife, Ana María Lucero, and María de la Luz Baca were relatives in the closed third degree of consanguinity, and that he and María de la Luz were related in the same degree of affinity..."

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Angelico Chávez, “New Mexico roots ltd: a demographic perspective from genealogical, historical and geographic data found in the diligencias matrimoniales or prenuptial investigations (1678-1869) of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe,” vol. 10, p. 1829 (1983). Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cswr_reference/5/
2. ↑ New Mexico prenuptial investigations from the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799. (Las Cruces: New Mexico State University Library, 1996, p. 31-32.

See also

• Dispensa Matrimonial con María de la Luz Baca

New Mexico prenuptial investigations from the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799. 1996. Las Cruces, NM 88003: New Mexico State University Library.