Juan Domingo Valdés

From New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations from the Archivos Historicos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, ed. Rick Hendricks, comp. John B. Colligan (Rio Grande Historical Collections, New Mexico State University Library, 2000), Pg. 172:

http://lib.nmsu.edu/archives/documents/ahadnmpi2.pdf

Juan Domingo Valdez and Maria de la Ascension Garcia de Noriega, Nambe and San Juan de los Cabelleros, 13 May - 15 June 1825, AHAD-381, f. 14-21.

Juan Domingo Valdez, about 29, espanol, single, was the legitimate son of the late Juan Domingo Valdez and Maria Andrea Lucero, citizens of Santa Maria de Guadalupe de Pojoaque. Maria de la Ascension Garcia de Noriega, 23, espanola, single, daughter of Pedro Garcia de Noriega and Maria Gertrudis Ortiz, citizens of the jurisdiction of San Juan de los Caballeros. The couple was related in the fourth degree of consanguinity.

In Nambe, Father Alcina questioned Juan Domingo Valdez. He stated that he was related to Maria de la Ascension by affinity on the basis of copula licita (a permitted sexual relationship).

Witnesses:

• Jose Maria Roybal, 60, parishioner of Nambe
• Jose Maria Lujan, about 48, parishioner of Nambe

In San Juan, fray Manuel Antonio Garcia del Valle took testimony from Maria de la Ascension Garcia de Noriega.

Witensses:

• Juan Antonio Lucero, about 52, citizen of the San Juan area.
• Jose Pablo Cisneros, 34, citizen of the San Juan ara.

Father Garcia del Valle forwarded the proceedings to Durango. On 15 June 1825, the governor of the sacred ministry, Jose Alvarez Tostado, granted a dispensation, imposing as penance that the couple would take communion once more than required annually by Church precepts and recite a decade of the rosary of five mysteries every day for three days. He ordered the parish priests to publish the banns three times at San Juan de los Caballeros and Nambe. Assuming no new impediment arose, either priest was to marry the couple, granting the nuptial blessing.

Baptismal Certificantes:

1. On. 6 March 1796, Father Cadelo baptized four-day-old Juan Domingo, the legitimate son of Juan Domingo Valdez and Maria Andrea Lucero, citizens of the Nambe area. His godparents were Juan Jose Trujillo and Maria Gertrudis Gurule.

2. On 5 May 1802, Father Ramon Antonio Gonzalez baptized six-day-old Maria de la Ascension, the legitimate daughter of Pedro Garcia and Maria Gertrudis Ortiz, citizens of the department of Santa Maria de Guadalupe de la Joya (present Velarde). Her godparents were Jose Miguel Ortiz and Maria Tomasa Anaya.

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Information collected by Claire Ortiz Hill (last update to her website, January 15, 2016)

http://rancho.pancho.pagesperso-orange.fr/Valdes.htm

Generation No. 6

• 6. JUAN DOMINGO (6) VALDES
  • (JUAN DOMINGO VALDEZ Y (5) BUSTOS, FRANCISCO DE VALDES Y (4), JOSE RUIZ (3) DE VALDES, JOSE RUIZ (2), FRANCISCO RUIZ1)
  • (Source: San Juan Catholic Church.) was born March 6, 1796 in Nambé, New Mexico, and died October 18, 1872 in La Joya, New Mexico.
  • He married MARIA DE LA ASCENCION GARCIA DE NORIEGA Before 1827,
    • daughter of PEDRO GARCIA DE NORIEGA and MARIA GERTRUDIS ORTIZ.
    • She was born May 10, 1801 in La Joya, New Mexico, and
    • died before 1875 in La Joya, New Mexico.
  • (Notes for JUAN DOMINGO VALDES: Information taken from The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico, An Account of the Families Recruited at Mexico City in 1693 by Jose Antonio Esquibel and John B. Colligan)

The New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Historicos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, edited by Rick Hendricks and compiled by John B. Colligan) has an investigation for Juan Domingo Valdez and Maria de la Ascension Garcia de Noriega, Nambe and San Juan de los Caballeros, 13 May-June 1825, AHAD-381, f. 14-21. It reads:

Juan Domingo Valdez, about 29, español, single, was the legitmate son of the late Juan Domingo Valdez and Maria Andrea Lucero, citizens of Santa Maria de Guadalupe de Poqoaque.

Maria de la Ascension Garcia de Noriega, 23, española, single, daughter of Pedro Garcia de Noriega and Maria Gertrudis Ortiz, citizens of the jurisdiction of of San Juan de los Caballeros. The couple was related in the fourth degree of consanguinity.

In Nambe, Father Alcina questioned Juan Domingo Valdez. he stated that he was related to Maria de la Ascension by Affinity on the basis of copula licita.... (witnesses named). Father Garcia del Valle forwarded the proceedings to Durango. On June 15, 1825, the governor of the sacred ministry, José Alvarez Tostado, granted a dispensation, imposing as penance that the couple would take communion once more than required annually by Church precepts and recite a decade of the rosary of five mysteries every day for three days. He ordered the parish priests to publish the banns three times at San Juan de los Caballeros and Nambe. Assuming no new impediment arose, either priest was to marry the couple, granting the nuptial blessing. Baptismal Certificates. 1. On March 6, 1796, Father Cadelo baptized four-day-old Juan Domingo, the legitimate son of Juan Domingo Valdez and Maria Andrea Lucero, citizens of the Nambe area. His godparents were Juan José Trujillo and Maria Gertrudis Gurulé. 2. On May 5, 1802, Father Ramon Antonio Gonzalez baptized six-day-old Maria de la Ascension, the legitimate daughter of Pedro Garcia and Maria Gertrudis Ortiz, citizens of the department of Santa Maria de Guadalupe de la Joya. Her godparents were José Miguel Ortiz and Maria Tomasa Anaya."

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Children of JUAN VALDES and MARIA DE NORIEGA are:

• i. MARIA DEL CARMEN7 VALDES,
  • b. Abt. July 25, 1826.
• ii. MARIA TEODORA VALDES,
  • b. Abt. April 6, 1828, who
  • married Pedro Garcia, father of José Benito Garcia, the husband of Cointa Larragoite.
• iii. MARIA FELICIANA VALDES,
  • b. Abt. July 19, 1829, San Juan de los Caballeros, New Mexico (Source: 1850,1860,Census Santa Fe (City)1870, Ria);
  • m. BENITO ANSELMO LARRAGOITE;
    • b. 1810 or 1811, Bilbao, Spain;
    • died Before 1880.
• iv. MARIA JUANA DE JESUS VALDES,
  • b. Abt. December 25, 1831.
• v. LORENZO DOMINGO VALDES,
  • b. Abt. August 10, 1835.
• vi. JOSE FRANCISCO VALDES,
  • b. Abt. October 13, 1836.
• vii. JOSE GABRIEL VALDES,
  • b. Abt. January 10, 1838.
• viii. JUAN IGNACIO VALDES,
  • b. Abt. January 24, 1840.
• ix. MARIA RAFAELA VALDES,
  • b. Abt. June 2, 1841.
• x. MARIA RUFINA VALDES,
  • b. Abt. July 14, 1844.