Diego Durán

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Diego Durán came to Santa Fe and there, at the age of twenty-five, married Pascuala Montaño, or Martín, in 1694. He appeared as a witness a number of times.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 170.

Diego married Pascuala Martín Serrano, daughter of Hernando Martín Serrano and María Montaño, on 29 Dec 1694 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Pascuala Martín Serrano was born in 1678.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
14 Nov 1694, Santa Fe. Diego Durán (25), español, native of New Mexico and Presidio soldier, widowed of Juana de la Vega, buried in Santa Fe, son of Slavador Durán and Ana Márguez, both deceased, and Pascuala, native of Santa Fe, daughter of Hernando Martínn and María Montaño. ~ Witnesses: Juan Trujillo (38), Diego Durán (22), Miguel Moran (30), all natives of Santa Fe; Antonio Montaño (40), native of Mexico City. Pair married, 29 Dec 1694, with witnesses Francisco de la Vega and Antonia Isla Gn.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 439.

Diego next married Michaela de Aragón on 24 Oct 1723 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁵⁸⁶ (Michaela de Aragón was born about 1706 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ¹⁵⁸⁶
18 Sep 1723, Santa Fe, Diego Durán, 50 more or less, native of this realm (New Mexico) and resident of la Canada, son of Salvador Durán and Ana Márquez, natives of this realm, widow in his first nuptials of Juana de la Vega and 2nd nuptials of Pascuala Martin, with Michaela de Aragón, 17, daughter of Juan de Aragón and Margarita Varela, deceased, natives of this realm and residents of Santa Fe.

Witnesses: Diego Gonzales, 26, married, native of this realm and resident of the villa of Nuestra Santisima Cruz, Roque Xaramillo, 38, married, native of Mexico City and resident of said villa, Francisco Garduno, 25, married, resident of this villa, Pedro Lopez Gallardo, 57, resident of this villa.

There being no impediment I married and veiled them on October 24, 1723, by Fr. Joseph Antonio Guerrero.

Padrinos: Antonio Pacheco and Felipa Ramires

New Mexico Genealogists, Vol. 49 #1, March 2010, "New Mexico Roots, Ld, Addendum, Part I," p.9.