Francisco Silva

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Francisco Silba, 50, Spanish; wife, Gertrudis Chaves, 30; six children; Juan Francisco, 16; Bárbara, 14; Juan José; 11 Juan Domingo, 9; María Augustina, 8; Victoria, 5; Maía Antonia, Indio, servant, 25.

~Spanish Census, 1750, p. 84

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Francisco Silva married Rosa (Gertrudis) Durán y Chaves on September 12, 1729. She died on April 17, 1763, at the age of forty-three. Their known children were: Juan Francisco, born September 10, 1731; María Barbara, January 14, 1734; Juan, January 6, 1736,12 who married Ana Lucero in 1769; María Agustina, September 9, 1739,14 who married Pedro Tafoya; María Victoria, January 2, 1749; and Ana María, who married Maríano Lucero in 1776.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 12968-12975

Francisco married Rosa Gertrudis Durán y Chávez, daughter of Nicolás Durán y Chávez and Juana Montaño de Sotomayor, on 12 Sep 1729 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Rosa Gertrudis Durán y Chávez was born in 1714 in Atrisco, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died on 17 Apr 1763 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
24 Apr 1729, Isleta. Francisco Silva (20), native of New Mexico, son of Antonio de Silva and Gregoria Ruiz, natives of Mexico City, and Doña Gertrudis Chaves (15), daughter of Don Nicolás de Chaves and Doña Juana Montaño, natives of New Mexico living in Atrisco. ~ Witnesses: Ysidro Sánchez, notary; Bernable Baca (36) and Sebastian Marcelino Ladron de Guevara. Francisco Antonio Gonzales, notary in Alburquerque; Nicolás Durán (27), and Antonio Modesto García Jurado.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1828

  Marriage Notes:

~NMG, Jun 1982, Vol. XXI No. 2, p. 45 ⁴²⁹