Bárbara Juana Chávez

  Noted events in her life were:

• Baptismal Record: ⁴³⁸
On 27 Jan1805 in Belen, Father Bernal baptized Bárbara Juana Josefa, born at the plaza of Belen on
26 Jan, the legitimate daughter of Francisco Javier Chaves and Ana Maria Alvarez del Castillo, citizens of the plaza of San Andres de Los PadiUas. Her godparents were Juan Jose Alvarez del Castillo and his sister, Maria Genrudis Alvarez del Castillo, citizens of the plaza of Belen.

New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893, p. 137

Bárbara married Juan José Gutiérrez, son of Lorenzo Antonio Gutiérrez and María Candelaria García, on 16 Jul 1821 in San Agustín de la Isleta, Isleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Juan José Gutiérrez was born on 26 Mar 1795 in Río Abajo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁸⁰¹ and was baptized on 22 Apr 1795 in San Agustín de la Isleta, Isleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España ⁴³⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴³⁸
Juan Jose Gutierrez and Maria Barbara Chaves, Isleta, 16 April-15 May 1821, AHAD-374, f. 676-83.

Juan Jose Gutierrez, 26, español, was the legitimate son of Lorenzo Gutierrez and the late Maria Candelaria Garcia de Noriega, citizens of the Isleta jurisdiction. Maria Barbara Chaves, 17, española, was the legitimate daughter of Francisco Javier Chaves and Ana Maria Alvarez del Castillo, citizens of the Isleta jurisdiction. The couple was related in the closed fourth degree of consanguinity.

Witnesses: Luis Padilla, 57, had known the couple since birth and th at they were related in the fourth degree of consanguinity on the part of the Chaves and the Bacas.
Jose Sedillo, 49, citizen of Los Ranchos de Atrlsco.
Juan Montoya, 3D, citizen of Isleta.

	Pedro Chaves
Francisco Javier Chaves	1st degree	Mónica Chaves
Tomás Chaves	2nd degree	Apolonia Baca
Francisco Javier Chaves	3rd degree	Lorenzo Gutiérrez
Bábara Chaves	4th degree	Juan José Gutiérrez

	Josefa Baca
Antonio Baca	1st degree	Ysabel Baca
Apolonia Baca	2nd degree	Maria Josefa Padilla
Lorenzo Gutiérrez	3rd degree	Francisco Javier Chaves
Juan José Gutiérrez	4th degree	Bárbara Juana Chaves

Father Sánchez forwarded the proceedings to Durango on 17 Apr 1821. In Durango on 15
May, Bishop Castañiza granted a dispensation on the basis of angusti loci and assigned as penance that the couple would go to confession and communion one more time during the year more than required by the Church's precepts, kneel to recite the rosary every day for a week, and pay 25 pesos in alms to be used for pious works at the bishop's discretion. He ordered the priest in Isleta to publish the banns three times. Assuming no new impediment arose, he was to marry the couple and give them the nuptial blessing.

  Marriage Notes:

San Agustín de la Isleta Marriages & Baptisms, p. 75
don Juan José Gutierres, son of don Lorenzo Gutierres and doña María Candelaria García. deceased, married doña María Bárbara Chaves, daughter of don Francisco Xabier Chavesand doña Ana María Castillo,allof los Padillas.
Padrinos: don Antonio Sandobal and doñaUrsula Cahves. Dispensed: impediment of fourth degree of consanguinity in straight line. ³⁴