Davis Uriah I | Born 1707

DURÃN Y. CHAVEZ, Bernardo

Male 1720 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name DURÃN Y. CHAVEZ, Bernardo  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Born 1720  [2
    Gender Male 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I10436  Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2018 

    Father DURÃN Y. CHAVEZ, NicolÃs Don,   b. 1686, El Paso del Norte, Province of New Mexico Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother MONTAÃO, Juana DoÃa,   b. Bef 1693, Guadalupe del Paso, Kingdom of New Mexico Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 20 Jul 1714  Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7
    Family ID F3517  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 


    • [Chavez.FTW]

      Bernardo Chavez was the real oddball among his brothers. He was already forty-two and still unmarried in 1762 when, as Don Bernardo Durán y Chavez, español of San Clemente, the son of capitán Don Nicolás Durán y Chavez and Doña Juana Montaño, also of San Clemente (Los Lunas), asked to marry none other than a woman named simply María de la Luz. She was an "india criada" of the Aá Nation, and old Don Fernando would have spun in his grave, were this possible for mere dust and ashes.

      Now, ethnologists whom I (Fray Angelico Chávez] have consulted have been unable to identify this Aá tribe, often mentioned in the records. But this is most likely the solution. Far back in 1542, Coronado's men had found a lains Indian settlement called "Haxa" (pronounced "Asha"), and the early Franciscan chroniclers of New Spain then wrote that Fray Juan de Padilla, the first North American martyr, had been killed in that year by wild Indians called "Haciaëles" or aciales. Decades ago, the eminent Dr. F. W. Hodge identified all such old terms with a Wichita tribe called the Aiish, hence oldish Bernardo's bride could well have been a Wichita.

      There is no record of any child Bernardo and his squaw might have had during their brief marriage, for she was dead by 1771 when the aging widower tried to marry again. In this very year, at Isleta, Don Bernardo Durán y Chavez, español and forty-four, and of El Puesto de Guadalupe (Los Chavez), the son of Don Nicolás Durán y Chavez, deceased, and Doña Juana Montaño, and widowed of María Luz Benavides (surname of her original master), asked to marry María Josefa Núñez, española and forty, the widow of Cristóbal Chavez and a native of Mexico City residing at El Puesto de San Andres. Here is where the oldish squawman Bernardo claimed that there was no need for a dispensation for him to marry his first cousin's widow, saying that Cristóbal Chavez was not the son of Antonio Chavez but an adulterous son of his wife Antonia Baca by an Eusebio Rael de Aguilar (that young swain of 1718 who had tried to marry Don Fernando's eldest daughter, Isabel!). Anyway, the marriage did not take place because of the outlandish charges he had brought up.

  • Sources 
    1. [S366] Origins of New Mexico Families (A Genealogy of the Spanish ColonialPeriod), 163.
      He made his last will on May 19, 1768, in which he gave the names of hisparents and of his wife, followed by his eight sons and five daughters:Jose, Gertrudis, Bernardo, Luis, Fernando, Isabel, Antonio, MariaFrancisca, Maria Antonia, Juan, Vicente, Maria and Francisco. Of thegirls, Gertrudis married Francisco Silva and Maria Antonia married TadeoRomero and later a Domingo Baca.

      The sons are as follows: Jose married Luisa de Aragon, February 3, 1732;Bernardo married an apacha, Maria Benavides, and then his first cousin'swidow, Maria Josefa Nunez; Luis married Eduarda Yturrieta, April 20,1747; Fernando married Antonia Sanchez and francisco married MariaGertrudis Alvarez de Castillo, April 6, 1756.

    2. [S370] New Mexico Roots Ltd., 308.
      1762, April 20 (no. 16), Isleta. Don Bernardo Duran y Chavez (42),español of S. Clemente, son of Capt. Don Nicolas Duran y Chavez and Da.Juana Montaño of S. Clemente, and Maria de la Luz (28), india de NacionAa. Witnesses: Mateo Jose Pino, notary; Sr. Juan Franc;isco Moya (45),Sr. Antonio Varela (43) of Tome, Sr. Joaquin Bustos (30) of Santa Cruz.

    3. [S370] New Mexico Roots Ltd., 313.
      1771, Aug. 5 (no. 4) Isleta. Don Bernardo Duran y Chavez (55), españolof Puesto de N. Sra. de Guadalupe, widowed of Maria Luz Benavides, son ofCapt. Don Nicolas Duran y Chavez, deceased and Da. Juana Montaño, andMaria Josefa Nuñez (40), española, n. of Mexico City and widow ofCristobal Chavez, resideing at Puesto de S. Andres.
      Witnesses: Juan Francisco Baca, notary; Domingo Chavez (32), español andnephew of groom, Diego Antonio Baca (23) español of Tome.

    4. [S397] Chávez, A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico, 131.
      In 1719 Nicolas acted as a pre-nuptial witness giving his age astwenty-six, hence born at El Paso del Norte around the year 1686. He wasthe sixth son of Don Fernando, and also residing with the family inAtrisco when he took the third on of the Montaño sisters to wife. Hername was Juana Montaño. This took place on July 20, 1714, when theyalready had at least one boy who was four years old. It had taken herthat much more time to get her Chavez man. It could also have been aturbulent union for a time, since once, after he gave her a beating, shetried walking all the way to her own folks in Santa Fe before nicolascaught up with her at Bernalillo. Yet they managed to produce a verylarge family of which we have a complete list, thanks to the extant willwhich he drew up on May 19, 1768. In it he stated the names of hisparents, his wife, and the following eight sons and four daughtersaccording to their ages: Jose, Gertrudis, Bernardo, Luis, Fernanado,Isabel, Antonio, María Antonia, Juan, Vicente, María and Francisco.

    5. [S399] "The Genealogy of the Late Honorable Dennis Chavez of New Mexico", 17.
      Manuel Chavez was the son of Bernardo Chavez, who Fray Angelico Chavezhas confused with his brother , and Maria Francesca Quintana . BernardoChavez was the son of don Nicholas Duran y Chavez and Juana Montano.

    6. [S371] The Chavez Family, 4.
      Fernando Duran y Chavez II, married Lucia Hurtado de Salas. Theseindividuals had ten children together and Fernando had a natural daughterby another woman. The children were:
      Isabela Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1679, married Jacinto Pelaez in1700 and then Baltazar de Mata in 1705 and lastly to Eusebio Real deAguliar in 1718.
      Maria Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1688, married Antonio Ulibarri in1710.
      Catalina Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1691, married Matias Miranda in1711.
      Clara Duran y Chavez married Juan de la Mora Pineda.
      Bernardino Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1676, married franciscaMiziquia in 1699.
      Pedro Duran y Chavez, the elder, was born in 1677, and married JuanaMontoya in 1703, and then Gertrudis Sanchez in 1728.
      Antonio Rosalido Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1678, married MagdalenaMontano in 1706.
      Francisco Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1681, married Juana Baca, theyounger, in 1713.
      Luis Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1683, married Lenor Montano in 1707.
      Nicholas Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1686, married juana Montano in1714.
      Pedro Gomez Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1706, married Petronia Martinin 1737.

    7. [S397] Chávez, A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico, 131.
      In 1719 Nicolas acted as a pre-nuptial witness giving his age astwenty-six, hence born at El Paso del Norte around the year 1686. He wasthe sixth son of Don Fernando, and also residing with the family inAtrisco when he took the third on of the Montaño sisters to wife. Hername was Juana Montaño. This took place on July 20, 1714, when theyalready had at least one boy who was four years old.