María Guadalupe Váldez

María married José Andrés Trujillo, son of Pedro Antonio Trujillo and Josefa Gómez, in 1806-1807 in Pojoaque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁴³⁸

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴³⁸
Andres Trujillo and Maria Guadalupe Valdez, Santa Cruz de la Canada and Pojoaque, 22 Oct - 22 Dec 1806, AHAD 362, f. 393-98.

Andres Trujillo, 37, widowed of Juliana Peña, is the legitimate son of the late Pedro Trujillo and Josefa Gómez del Castillo and a citizen of the Pojoaque jurisdiction. Maria Guadalupe Váldez, 26, the widow of Juan Sánchez and the legitimate daughter of Bernardo Váldez and Maria Manuela Suazo, citizen of the jurisdiction of Santa Cruz. They were related in the fourth degree of affinity on the basis copula licito. María Guadalupe was a poor widow with four small was children and living on the meager means after her late husband left her. Andrés would be able to provide for her. The couple asked that the proceedings be forwarded to Father Castro, María Guadalupe's priest. Andrés stated that he had had carnal relations with her before they knew they were related. Having learned about the relationship six months earlier, they had abstained from further sexual relations. They had not had sex to facilitate a dispensation.

Witnesses: for Andres were Paulín Espinosa, 62, explained that one of María Guadalupe's children was an eight-year-old boy, and the other three were younger girls.
Cristobal Archuleta, 57.

Juana Luján	Sisters	María Luján
Francisco Gómez	1st Cousins	Figuenia Sánchez
Josefa Gómez	2nd Cousins	Pedro Ygnacio Sánchez
Andrés Trujillo	3rd Cousins	Juan Sánchez

Father Martínez de Arellano forwarded the proceedings to Father Castro in Santa Cruz. On 26 Oct 1806, Father Castro questioned Maria Guadalupe Valdez. She stated that she had lived in that area for twelve years and for fifteen years before that in the Abiquiu area.

Witnesses: Joaquin García, 66, citizen of the Santa Cruz jurisdiction.
Antonio Ascencio Lucero, 63, citizen of the Santa Cruz jurisdiction.

Father Castro forwarded the proceedings to Durango on 28 Oct
1806. On 22 Dec, Vicar General Millán Rodríguez granted a dispensation.

Burial Certificates
1. In Santa Cruz on 4 May 1798, Father Ortega buried Juan Sánchez, 29, husband of María Guadalupe Váldez.

2. On 2 September 1801, Father Hozio. interim priest of the Santa Fé presidio, buried Juliana Peña, wife of José Andrés Trujillo, citizen of Pojoaque.


New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, pp.54-55