Joaquín López y Velásquez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴²⁸
28 Aug. 1829, Socorro. José López (25), son of Joaquín López, deceased, and María Guadalupe Chávez, and María Trinidad Chávez (20), daughter of Rafael Chávez and Bárbara Padilla, deceased. Witnesses: Augustín Trujillo (65), Anselmo Tafoya (44), Marcos Baca (52).

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 939.

• Family Connection:

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1790, in Los Chaves, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³

Joaquín Velásquez, mestizo, age 43, carpenter; married to María Guadalupe Chaves, español, age 33; with four sons, ages thirteen, eleven, six and four; and two daughters, ages eight and five.

Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 39.

Joaquín married María Guadalupe Durán y Chávez, daughter of Miguel Durán y Chávez and María Antonia Gertrudis Santisteban, in 1776 in Belén, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España. (María Guadalupe Durán y Chávez was baptized on 22 Dec 1752 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁰.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ³²
30 May 1776, Belén. Joaquín Velásquez (28), español, son of Ygnacio Velásquez and Joaquina López (both deceased), and María Guadalupe Chaves (22), daughter of Miguel Chaves and Gertrudis Montoya.

Witnesses: Cristóbal María Larrañaga, notary; Juan Antonio Trujillo (40 Plus), Gregorio Varela (40 plus).

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 11, p. 2090.