María Gertrudis Gutiérrez

  Noted events in her life were:

• Baptism. ⁴³⁸
A certificate of baptismal record prepared in Latin on 1 Aug 1802 stated that in Santa Ana, on 12 Sep 1784, fray José Vilchez batized María Gertrudis, the legitimate daughter of Juan Gutíerrez and Victoria Salazar, españoles from Santa Ana. Her godparents were Eusebio Rael and María Josefa de los Dolores Rael from the Alburquerque jurisdiction. A second baptismal certificte prepared by Father Bernal, in Spanish, noted that the godparents were citizens of Alameda and that the child was born on 8 September.

~New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, p. 29

María married Bernardino de Jesús Chávez, son of Santiago Durán y Chávez and Margarita Varela Jaramillo.⁴³⁸ (Bernardino de Jesús Chávez was born on 11 May 1777 in Los Chaves, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴³⁸ and was baptized on 1 Jun 1777 in San Augustín de la Isleta, Isleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España ⁴³⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ⁴³⁸
Bernardino de Jesús Chaves, 25, español, is the legitimate son of Santiago Chaves and the late Margarita Varel, citizens of the first plaze of los Chaves. María Gertrudis Gutiérrez, 18, española, the legitimate daughter of Juan Isidro Gutiérrez and Victorial Salazar, citiaen of San Antonio del Sabinal. The couple was related in the fourth degree of consanguinity on a traverse line.

In Belen, the coule told Father Bernal they had the approval of their arents and knew they were related.

Witnesses: Torbio García Jurado, 72, of the plaza of los Garcías.
Pedro Padilla, 71 from el Sausal.

Nicolás Chaves	brothers	Pedro Chaves
Antonio Chaves	1st cousins	Nicolasa Chaves
Santiago Chaves	2nd cousins	Juan Isidro Gutiérrez
Bernardino de Jesús Chaves	3rd cousins	María Gertrudis Gutiérrez

In Durango on 16 Sep 1802, Canon Fernández Valentín stated that a dispensation on the basis of angusti loci was not justified by the witnesses, but given the great distance from New Mexico to Durango he approved the marriage proceed on the condition that the parish riest reexamine the witnesses concerning angusti loci and that such a procedure should be followed in all future cases.

On 30 Jun 1803, Father Bernal redid the proceedings . Gernardino reeated his prvious statements. María Gertrudis added that she had been born in Bernalillo, but had lived in the Belen jurisdiction for more than twelve years.

Witness: José García Jurado, 79, citizen of the plaza of Belen.
Father Bernal forwarded the documents to Durango. On 20 February 1804, Visitor General Pedro Millán Rodríguez.

~New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, pp. 27-28