Hola prim@s,
I thought I might share what I know (or what I think I know…) about the Martín Chávez of Sierra de Pinos.
At the top of this line we have miner Juan Martín Chávez and his wife, Isabel Pérez, residents on La Pendencia. The earliest record I have found of them baptizing a child is from 15 Jan 1629, but both of their names appear on a marriage record from 9 Nov 1627 (she was madrina and he a witness), so they might have been married by that date.
I have them with 12 children (please let me know if I miss anything):
• Juan Martín Chávez “el Mozo,” born around 1635 (might be the unnamed child baptized in Oct 1635, whose padrinos were Rafael Suarez de Figueroa and his wife); d. 19 May 1683, San Luis Potosi; m. Juana de Rivera. His wife and 4 children died tragically between Apr 1 and Apr 28, 1683, before he finally succumbed on May 19.
• Nicolás Martín Chávez, born before 1639, m. Isabel de Longoria, im 28 Apr 1669, San Matías, Pinos, Zac (to be married in Mazapil).
• Joseph Martín Chávez, b. 29 Aug 1639, San Matías, Pinos, Zac, d. 10 Dec 1705, Mazapil, Zac; m1. Luisa de Huerta, m2. María de la Oliva, 28 Oct 1681, San Francisco, Charcas, SLP.
• Teresa Martín Chávez, b. 25 Sep 1643, San Matías, Pinos, Zac; d. 17 Aug 1678, San Matías, Pinos, Zac; m. Joseph de Espino.
• Antonio Martín Chávez, born around 1645, m. Ana de Castañeda y Salas.
• Josefa Martín Chávez, b. 17 Apr 1645, San Matías, Pinos, Zac.
• Ygnés Martín Chávez, born around 1646; d. 24 Dec 1736, San Matías, Pinos, Zac. Age 90, Doncella.
• Pedro Martín Chávez, born around 1648; married to Rita Calderón.
• Petra Martín Chávez, m. Francisco Delgado.
• Matiana Martín Chávez, b. 25 Dec 1651, San Matías, Pinos, Zac; m. Pascual Rodríguez.
• Isabel Martín Chávez, m1. Juan Díaz de Argandoña, 23 Feb 1669 San Matías, Pinos, Zac; m2. Bernabé Montañés, 28 Feb 1707, Real de Asientos. Had one son out of wedlock
• Diego Martín Chávez, b. 15 Mar 1654, San Matías, Pinos, Zac. Padrinos: Diego Delgado (el Moso) y Doña Isabel [de Islas Martínez Lozano] su muger.
Another probable son is Francisco Martín Chávez, born around 1631 on La Pendencia, and later a resident of San Miguel Mexquitic, SLP.
ORIGINS
According to his burial record, dated 22 Aug 1662, Juan Martín Chávez was from la ciudad de Lagos en los Algarbas en los Reinos de Castilla (Lagos, Faro, Portugal), and he was the son of Juan de Chávez and Beatriz González (courtesy of the abstracts of Mary Lou Montagna).
Isabel Pérez’s origin was revealed in the marriage dispensation of their daughter, Isabel Martín Chávez, who married Juan Díaz de Argandoña in 1699. They were dispensed at 3rd degree: he was the son of Andrés Díaz de Argandoña and Beatriz de Olavi, and according to witnesses, his maternal grandmother, María de Contreras, was the legitimate sister of Antonio Flores, who, being unmarried, had a child with a Coyota woman, and this child was sent to be raised on the Hacienda of Espiritu Santo in Sierra de Pinos, in the home of Capitán Gabriel Ortiz and Isabel Pérez, owners of said hacienda, who christened the child Isabel Pérez, after her adoptive mother; the owners of said hacienda later married the young Isabel to Juan Martín Chávez, and during their marriage, they begat Isabel Martín Chávez, the bride-to-be. The parentesco would look like this:
Antonio Flores-1-María de Contreras
Isabel Pérez-2-Beatriz de Olavi
Isabel Martín Chávez-3-Juan Díaz
So, though we’ll sadly never know the name of the birth mother of Isabel Pérez, we know that her father was Antonio Flores, who had a sister named María de Contreras, who was married to someone surnamed “Olavi.”
MARÍA DE CONTRERAS cc JUAN DE OLAVIDES
While going through the baptism book of Santa Fe, Guanajuato, I came upon a María de Contreras who was married to a miner named Joannes de Olavide. They baptized six children between 1605 and 1617. According to the baptism record of one of their sons, they had also lived in las Minas de los Ramos, bishopric of Guadalajara. Could this be the same María de Contreras mentioned in the cited dispensa, “Olavi” being a variation of “Olavide”?