Leonor Montaño

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁵⁰⁹
After the death of Leonor's first husband, Luis Durán y Chaves, Leonor married for a second time to Francisco de la Cruz de la Cadena, 1 Nov 1716 in Alburquerque. Her second husband, Francisco, was age fifty years old, "widowed of Ana de la Cruz, a Tesuque Indian buried two months" earlier in Santa Fé. At the time of her second marriage, Leonor was twenty-six, a native of El Paso del Norte, and widow of Luis Durán y Chaves who was buried in Alburquerque. Leonor was buried on 17 Nov 1762 after she died at the age of seventy. Francisco had preceded her.

~Aqui Se Comienza, p. 69

Leonor married Luís Durán y Chávez, son of Captain Fernando Durán y Chávez and Lucía Hurtado de Salas, on 13 Jun 1708 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.^,509 (Luís Durán y Chávez was born about 1688 in Nueva España ²⁴⁸ and died before Oct 1716 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
Jun 1707, Alburquerque. Luís Durán y Chaves (19) of Atrisco, son of Captán Don Fernando Durán y Chaves and Doña Lucía Hurtado, españoles of Atrisco and Doña Leonor Montaño (13), daughter of Antonio Montoño, deceased, and Doña Ysabel Jorge, also españoles of Atrisco. Pair related 3rd and 4th degree consanguinity, and bride already violated by groom; dispensation granted because of groom's humility. ~ Witnesses José de Quintana, notary and bondsman for dispensation fee; Diego Padilla (21), Joaquín Sedillo (29), Sebastian Canseco (30), Feliciano Candelaria. Pair married 13 Jun 1708.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, pp. 304-305