Diego Antonio Durán y Chávez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Spanish, in 1750, in Paxarito, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Diego Antonio Chabes; wife, Juana Silva; 4 children: Bernardo; Pedro; Antonio; Tomás, infant; sevant: Agustina.

~Spanish & Mexican Censuses of 1750-1830, p. 93

• Second Marriage: ⁵⁰⁹
As his second wife, Diego married Bárbara Varela, the widow of Juan Trujillo, in 1787 at Isleta. They had one child named Ana María de los Reyes Durán y Chaves who was baptized on 8 Jan 1789 in Albuqurque. Ana María's padrinos were Santos Chaves and his wife, Luz García, all of Isleta.

~Aquí Se Comienza, p. 193

• Census: Spanish, in 1790, in Atrisco, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Plaza no. 2 of Atrisco
Diego Antonio Chaves, español, 68, rancher; married to Bárbara Varela, española, 33; two sons: ages eleven and eight; two grandsons; fifteen and thirteen; one female servant, mulatto, 20; One male servant, Apache, 20.

~Colonial New Mexico Spanish Census of 1790, p. 15

Diego married Juana Paula Silva, daughter of Antonio de Silva and Gregoria Ruíz, 14 Dec 1740 or 16 Jan 1841 in San Felipe, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².^,412 (Juana Paula Silva was born in 1724 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died on 7 Dec 1786 in Atrisco, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁵⁰⁹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial/Marriage Record: ⁴¹²
From page 7 of San Felipe de Neri Marriages:

14 Dec 1740 en el Rancho de Santa Barbara jurisdicion de Alburquerque, casé dispensed of 4th degree consanguinity - Diego Antonio Durán y Chabes, español, soltero, married Juana de Silba, espanola, docella. Witnesses: Salvador García and Catharina Sánches.
(This may possibly be the Digencia Matrimonial or Marriage investigation.)

16 Jan 1741 vele- Diego Antonio Durán y Chábes and Juana Silba, españoles.

Diego next married Bárbara Varela, daughter of Jacinto Varela Jaramillo and María Rosa Trujillo. ^{33 ,509} (Bárbara Varela was born about 1759 in Belén, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España and died after 1802 in Río Abajo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)