Melchor Jaimes de Herrera

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Melchor Jaimes de Herrera was born in Guanajuato, the son of Nicolás Jaimes de Herrera and Juana Barón. At the age of thirty he married Angela González, widow of Francisco de Ayala, in Santa Fe, March 15, 1696. They had a daughter, Juana, who married Francisco Sáiz in 1718.

A Melchor de Herrera, husband in 1714 of Catalina Griego, widow of Diego Trujillo, might be the same man. He could even be the "Manuel de Herrera" who came in 1693 with Tomás de Herrera Sandoval.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 8651-8658

Melchor married Angela González on 15 Mar 1696 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
18 Jan 1696, Santa Fé. Melchor Jaimes de Herrera, soldier of this Presidio, son of Nicholas Jimes de Herrera and doña Juana Baron, natives of el Real de Guanajuato, and Ángela Gonzales (25), widow of Francisco de Ayala who was shot and killed at Villa de Jerez, daughter of Antonio Gonzles, deceased, and Ygnacia Montiel, natives of Llerena in Real de Sombrerete.

Witnesses: Antonio Gutiérrez (28), native of Zacatecas and soldier in Santa Fé; José de Contreras (41), native of San Luis; Bartolome Lobato (30), native of Zacatecas and soldier of Santa Fé, who had seen Ayala shot and then buried at Villa de Jerez; José de quiros (37), native of Sombrerete, same testimony.

Pair married 15 Mar 1696 with witnesses Francisco Montes Vigil and María Jiménez.

Melchor next married Catharina Griego, daughter of Nicolas Griego and Antonia Martín, in 1707 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Catharina Griego was born in 1674 in Nueva Méjico, Nueva España and died before Dec 1717 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁸⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
5 Oct 1707, Santa Fé. Melchor de Herrera, Presidio soldier widowed of Ángela Gonzales, son of Nicholas Jaimes de Herrera and doña Juana Barrón, natives of Guanjuato, and Catarina Griego (28), native of New Mexico living in Santa Cruz, widow of Diego Trujillo, daugher of Nicolás Griego and Antonia Martín. Occult dispensation, affinity from illicit copula.

Witnesses: juan de Paz Bustillos (50), español, Diego de Velasco (37), español and married, Antonio Durán de Armijo (40), native of Zacatecas, barbero and married, Felipe de Arratia (37), native of Valle de San Bartolomé, married and knew bride since her birth.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 824