María Antonia Martín Serrano

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁴⁶⁵
Antonia Martín was born in New Mexico around 1670. She married Juan Roque Gutiérrez about 1674. Juan Roque was the son of Roque Gutiérrez and María de Tapia, also natives of New Mexico.

~ Descendants of Hernán Martín Serrano in New Mexico, p. 8

María married Juan Roque Gutiérrez, son of Roque Gutiérrez and María de Tapia, on 18 Feb 1692 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España ^248,252.^,1465 (Juan Roque Gutiérrez was born about 1671 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁸⁷ and died By 1709 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
16 Jan 1690, El Paso del Norte. Juan Roque Gutiérrez (19), soldier of the Presidio, son of Roque Gutiérrez, deceased, and María de Tapia, natives of New Mexico, and María Garcia, daughter of Juan Garcia, native of the city of Zacatcas, soldier at the Presidio de Conches, and Margarita Márquez, deceased, native of New Mexico.

Impediment brought up:
Testimonies:
Juan de Suazo (30) of El Paso, married, said he knew the groom almost since his birth in New Mexico
Alferez José Domímguez (26) of El Paso, Presidio soldier
Andrés Gonzales (41) Presidio soldier who knew groom for seven years in El Paso, said that Pedro Luján, a cousin of his, had remarked that the groom could not marry María García because she had accepted a rosary from him (Luján) and had been his.
José de Apodaca (35), Presidio soldier and Pedro Luján's brother-in-law
Francisco de Apodaca (30), Josés brother, both of whom had heard Luján say the above, but only as a joke.
Pedro Luján (20), Presidio soldier and married, who denied everthing, except the rosary gift.

Another impediment brought up by Antonia Martín (20), native of New Mexico living in El Paso, daughter of Capitán Luis Martín and Antonia de Miranda, deceased, both natives of New Mexico. She claimed that the groom had deflowered her with the promise of marriage. Gutiérrez replied that he did give his word to this Antonia Martín and had also deflowered her, adding that he had perjured himself because Alcalde José Telles Jiron had threatened to garrote him if he did not marry María García.

As a result, Juan Roque Gutiérrez married Antonia Martín instead of 18 Feb 1692, by order of Governor don Diego de Vargas.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 979