Catalina de Salazar

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Luís Martín Serran's wife was was Catalina de Salazar, who was a widow by 1663. At this time we learn that Luís had been the Alcalde Mayor and Captain of the Tewa jurisdiction. Catalina was very likely the daughter of Sebastián Rodrígues de Salazar. Luís's descendants can be distinguished from those of his brother Hernán because they sometimes appended her Salazar name to that of their father. Luis Martín Serran II was, in all likelihood, their son, as was Pedro Martín Serrano de Salazar.

~The Origins of New México Families, p. 72.

• Background Information: ¹⁴⁶⁵
Catalina de Salazar, Nov 1661, identified herself as "widow, who is the wife of Capitán Luis Martín," when she sought paymen t for grains purchased by Governor López de Mendizábal from her husband [AGN, Tierras, 3268, ff.143-144]. Although there are no primary documents that call Catalina de Salazar the daughter of Sebastían Rodríguez de Salazar [ONMF, 72], the fact that the children of Luis II Martín Serrano and Pedro Martín Serrano were named Sebastián and Sebastiana is an indication of a possible familial relationship between Cataina de Salazar and Sebastián Rodríguez Salazar.

~ Descendants of Hernán Martín Serrano in New Mexico, p. 17.

• Background Information:
From Beyond Origins by José Antonio Esquibel:

"In November 1661, Catalina de Salazar identified herself as the "viuda muger que fue del Capn Luis Mr difunto" ("widow, who is the wife of Capt. Luis Martín"), when she sought payment for grains purchased by Governor López de Mendizábal from her husband (Archivio General de la Naciín, México, Tierras, 3268, ff. 143-144).

"There is no primary source documentation that has been uncovered to document that Catalina de Salazar was a daughter of Sebastián Rodríguez de Salazar and Luisa Díaz de Betanzos. Fray Angélico Chávez remarked that she "was very likely a daughter of Sebastián Rodríguez de Salazar; see Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families (Chávez, Origins of New Mexico Families, 72). The fact that the children of Luis II Martín Serrano and Pedro Martín Serrano were named Sebastián and Sebastiana is an indication of a possible familial relationship between Catalina de Salazar and Sebastián Rodríguez de Salazar.

"In 1692, Diego Martín Serrano, born circa 1675, Villa de Santa Fe, son of Apolinario Martín Serrano and Antonia González Bas, sought to marry María Martín Barba (Chávez, "New Mexico Roots, Ltd.," 1093, DM 1692, July 7, no. 6, Real de San Lorenzo). One of the witnesses to the prenuptial investigation was Francisco Jurado de Gracia, about age thirty-five (born circa 1657), who declared he was the uncle of the groom in the third degree on consanguinity. This means that Francisco Jurado de Gracía and Catalina de Salazar were probably siblings.

"Although there is yet no known record that names the parents of Francisco Jurado de Gracia, we can construct a revealing hypothetical genealogy of this family, if Apolinario Martín Serrano was indeed a son of Luis Martín Serrano and Catalina de Salazar, as it so appears. See the chart below of an illustration a likely relationship.

"It is worthwhile to note that the hypothetical reconstruction provides a reasonable explanation for the use of the given names of Sebastián, Sebastiana, Pedro, Catalina, and Francisco for some of the children and grandchildren of Luis I Martín Serrano and Catalina de Salazar."

Catalina married Luis Martín Serrano Captain, son of Sargento Mayor Hernán Martín Serrano and Unknown ²⁵².^,1465 (Luis Martín Serrano Captain was born about 1610 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died in Nov 1661 in San Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España ¹⁴⁶⁵.)