Martín Fernández Valerio

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Connection: ²⁴⁸
10 Sep 1728, Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Antonio de Santisteban (20) of Santa Fé, son of Ayudante Salvador de Santisteban and Apolonia Montaño, and Francisca Fernández Valerio (16), daughter of Martín Fernández Valerio and María Montoya.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 10, p. 1784.

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Martín Fernández Valerio was around the age of 12 when he came from Sombrerete in 1694. Shortly after the Reconquest, he attended a small school for boys conducted by Father Azebedo.

He was forty-eight years old in 1730, married and residing in Santa Fé. He was referred to as "Martín Fernández Valerios" at Pojoaque on 12 May 1748.

~Origins of New Mexico Families, pp. 302 & 398.

Martín married María Montoya, daughter of Antonio de Montoya and María Hurtado de Salas, in 1701.²⁴⁸