Luis Durán y Chávez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Will. ²⁵²
Luís made his last will on May 19, 1768, in which he gave the names of his parents and of his wife, followed by his eight sons and five daughters: José, Gertrudis, Bernardo, Luis, Fernando, Isabel, Antonio, Maria Francisca, Maria Antonia, Juan, Vicente, Maria and Francisco. Of the girls, Gertrudis married Francisco Silva and Maria Antonia married Tadeo Romero and later a Domingo Baca.

• Death, 1751. ¹⁵⁵⁹
Luís Durán y Chaves died after a prolonged infirmity, the result of an infectious wound suffered after he'd been shot by an arrow during a Spanish campaign against raiding Indians.

• Census: Spanish, in 1750, in Sitio de Gutierres, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Sitio de Gutierres - Related families

Household #1
don Nicolás de Chabes; wife, Juana Montaño; five children: Juan, María Antonia, Vicente, María, Francisco; servants: Rosa, widow, Andrés, Miguel, Xptóbal; orpahns: Juan, Josepha, Juana.

Household #2
Hernado Chabes (son of Nicolás & Juana in Household #1); wife, Antonia Sanches; children: Juana, Marta Victoria, José Antonio, infant; servants: Juana, María Rosa

Household #3
Luiz Chabes (son of Nicolás & Juana in Household #1); wife, Eduarda Yturrieta; daughter: María-infant; servants: Magdalena, Antonio

Household #4
Antonio Chabes (son of Nicolás & Juana in Household #1); wife, Bárbara Padilla

Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 93-94

Luis married Eduarda Yturrieta, daughter of José Mariano de los Dolores Yturrieta and Juana Teresa Romero, on 20 Apr 1747 in Ysleta, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³⁴. (Eduarda Yturrieta was born in 1734 in Río Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España, baptized on 17 Oct 1734 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ¹⁵⁵⁹ and died after 1807 in Los Padillas, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ¹⁵⁵⁹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage. ^34,312
Luís Chaves married a Bárbara Yturrieta on April 20, 1747. We know that he was a son of Nicolás from a 1838 pre-nuptial investigation in which he was designated as a brother of Vicente Chaves (son of Nicolás), and the father of an Isabel Chaves who was a first cousin of Vicente's son Francisco Chaves.

Page 6 of Isleta Marriages:
20 Apr 1747 - Luis Chaves m. Eduarda Turrietta. Test: Fernando de Chaves and Antonia Sanches