Juan Manuel Chirinos

  Noted events in his life were:

• Information: ²⁴⁸
Juan Manuel Chirinos was a notary of Santa Fé or a witness in Santa Cruz de la Cañada for Diligencia Matrimonials. In 1705, when his age is given as 40 and in 1724 when is age is givem his age as 60. His age was given as 29 on 8 Jul 1696 for and 44 on 9 Jan 1710 for his own Diligencia Matrimonials.

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Juan Manuel Martínez de Cervantes was a twenty-seven years old, native of Mexico City, who came with the colonists of 1693. He is listed as having a dark, round face, large eyes and a broad nose. He came with his wife, Catalina de los Ángeles, twenty-four year old daughter of Francisco Callacos. She too was a native of Mexico City, with a dark aquiline face, large eyes and forehead. Along with them came a twenty-six year old servant named Cecili de la Cruz

Catalina died on the journey during childbirth at the post of Ojo Caliente, Hacienda of Tabalopa and Paso del Norte, Apr 1694. Juan Manuel reached Santa Fé with the other colonists, and like many, he settled in Santa Cruz de la Cañada. There he married María de Guadalupe Navarro, the sixteen year old daughter of Antonio Navarro and Antonia González, both deceased. Juan Manuel named his parents a Juan Martínez de Cervantes and María Antonia Chirinos. He gave his own name as "Chirinos."

Juan Manuel had two daughters with María Navarro, Lucía and María de Guadalupe. Lucía married Juan Cayetano Lobato of Santa Fé, and María de Guadalupe married José Trujillo of Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Chirinos is the name his two daughters used when they were married.

Juan Manuel married a third time to Juana Montoya, the widow of Francisco Palomino Rendón.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, pp. 226-227

Juan married María Guadalupe Navarro, daughter of Antonio Navarro and Antonia González de Vargas, in 1696 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.^,252 (María Guadalupe Navarro was born about 1677 in Ciudad de Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸ and died before 1710 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
8 Jul 1696, Santa Cruz. Juan Manuel Chirinos (29), español, native of Mexico City, widowed of Catarina de los Ángeles who died in El Puesto del Ojo between Hacienda de Tabalopa and El Paso del Norte in April of 1694, son of Juan Martínez de Cervantes and María Antonia Chirinos, both deceased, and María Guadalupe Navarro (16), native of Mexico City, daughter of Antonio Navarro and Antonia Gonzales de Vargas, españoles of Mexico city, both deceased.

Witnesses: don José sw Giltomey, notary; Francisco de Porras (50 plus), español, native of la Villa de Madrid, presently Teniente de Alcalde Mayor de Santa Cruz and Capitan de Gerra, whose late wife was the bride's aunt; Manuel de Cervantes (22), español, native of Mexico City, but not related to parties; José Rodríguez (46), español, native of Villa de Santa María la Nieva in the Archbishopric of Segovia, now Alferez de Milicia, Miguel José de la Vega y Coca (20), español, native of Mexico City.

Pair married Mar. (or May), 1696, with witnesses Capitan Roque de Madrid and María Luisa Godines, tomad de Herrera, Francisco de Porras and Juan de Dios.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 3, p. 384

Juan next married Juana Montoya, daughter of Antonio de Montoya and María Hurtado de Salas, in 1710 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Juana Montoya was born in 1679 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
9 Nov 1710, Alburquerque. Juan Manuel Chirinos (44), español, native of Mexico City, widowed of María de Guadalupe, son of Captitan Juan Martínez and María Antonia Chirinos, españoles, and Juana Montoya (30), española, native of New Mexico and widow of Francisco Rendón Palomino, daughter of Capitan Antonio Montoya and doña María Hurtado, españoles.

Witnesses: Ramón García Jurado, notary; Andres Gonzales (60), español, Salvador Santisteban (36), Juan de Dios Martínez (26), these three of Santa Fé, and Bernardino Fernández (40)

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 3, pp. 354-385