Toribio Benito Sánchez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Toribio Benito Sánchez was a Spaniard from the Mountains of Burgos, age 33 in 1697 when he married María Magdalena Jurado, age 13-14, at El Paso on April 28. His parents were Toribio Benito Sánchez, native of El Lugar de San Miguel, Villa de la Vega, in Castilla la Vieja, and his wife María de Polanco (DM, 1697, no. 9). Toribio still resided at Socorro del Paso in 1710, when he gave his age as 50 (DM, 1701, no. 8; 1705, no. 18; 1710, no. 22). He and Magdalena had a son, Felix, born at El Paso, who was residing in Santa Fe in 1723, when he married Francisca Rael de Aguilar on Feb. 6 (DM, 1723, no. 15).

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Toribio married María Magdalena Jurado de García, daughter of Francisco Jurado de García and Lucía Varela de Losada, on 28 Apr 1697 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.^,252 (María Magdalena Jurado de García was born about 1679 in La Toma, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial, 4 Jan 1697, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁴⁸
Toribio Benito Sánchez (33), native of Las Montañas de Burgos, son of Toribio Benito Sánchez and María de Polanco, natives of San Miguel in the Villa de la Vega in Castilla la Vieja, and Doña María Magdalena Jurado (13-14), native of La Toma south of El Paso del Norte, daughter of Francisco Jurado and Lucía Varela de Losada, native of New Mexico. Impediment raised on rumor that the goom had relations with a woman related to the bride in the fourth degree - the geat-grandmother of said woman being a first cousin of the bride's grandmother, also named María Magdalena Jurado. Witnesses: Salvador Matias de Ribera (21), native of Puerto de Santa María, who knew groom in the Royal Navy, both having come from Spain on the ship Santo Tomás de Villanueve; Francisco García Tamaris (24), native of El Real de San José del Parral; Pedro Montes de Oca (25), native of Escapuzalco; Capítan Diego Arias de Quiros (40), native of Asturias and Alcalde Ordinario of Santa Fé; Lorenzo de Madrid (58), Maese de Campo of the Kingdom of New Mexico. Impediment judged to be the 5th degree, even if the rumor were true. The pair married, 28 Apr 1697 with witnesses Don Jacinto Pelaez and Doña Margarita Gómez.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, pp. 1696-1697