Antonio Martin

  General Notes:

"Antonio Martin Serranco, son of Captain Luis Martin, was twenty-six in 1681 and thirty-tree in 1690. Hew was married to Ynez de Ledesma before 1680. In 1696, after his first wife's death, he had asked to marry Josefa Lujan, daughter of Domingo Lujan, but she changed her mind. He then married Maria de Carvajal in 1698, when he gave both his parents' names and said that he was a charter settler of the new town of Santa Cruz. He was referred to as "El Tecolote"" (Origins, p.222)

Diligencia Matrimoniales: 1696 (no.16), Santa Fe. Antonio Martin Serrano, mestizo, n. of New Mexico, widowed of Ines de Ledesma, mestiza, son of Capt. Luis Martin Serrano, mestizo, and Antonia de Miranda, castiza and deceased, and Josefa Dominguez (16), mestiza, n. of New Mexico, d. of Domingo Lujan and Juana Dominguez, mestizos, natives of New Mexico, and both deceased. (She changed her mind.)(NM Roots, V.6, p.1094)

Antonio married Maria Carvajal, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 5 Oct 1698 in Santa Cruz, New Mexico.¹⁵⁰ (Maria Carvajal was born about 1671 in Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico ¹⁵³.)

  Marriage Notes:

Diligencia Matrimoniales: 1698, Sept. 26 (no.11), Santa Cruz. Antonio Martin (33), vecino of La Canada and widowed of Ines de Ledesma, n. of New Mexico buried in El Paso del Norte, and Maria de Carvajal (25), widow of Jose Cortes buried in Sta. Cruz, both of whom had come from Mexico City and settled in Sta. Cruz. -- Witnesses: Don Jose Manuel Giltomey, notary, Diego Gonzales (25), n. of New Mexico, Agustin Salazr (33), n. of New Mexico, Jose de Atienza (49), tertiary of St. Dominic. Pair married, Oct. 5, 1698, with witnesses Tomas Jiron and Antonia Dominguez, Don Tomas de Herrera, Capt. Nicolas Ortiz, Juan Archuleta. (NM Roots, V.6, p.1096)

Antonio next married Ines Ledesma.¹⁵⁰ (Ines Ledesma was born in New Mexico ¹⁵⁰ and was buried in El Paso Del Norte ¹⁵⁰.)

Antonio next married Gertrudis Fresqui on 25 Aug 1725 in Santa Cruz, New Mexico.¹⁵¹ (Gertrudis Fresqui was born in New Mexico ¹⁵¹.)