Ignacio Luis Valdes (1702 - 1780) Juana Martin [Martin Serrano] (1729 - 1768) Ignacio Luis Valdés and Juana Martín were the parents of María Concepción Valdés.  We know this from the Index of Surnames of the New Mexico Genealogical Society.  Additional documentation is necessary to bolster the information from the Index. The Index also states that they were married in 1742. Juana was the daughter of Juan Martín and Margarita San Juan Luna. Ignacio Luis was the son of José Luis Valdés and María Medina de Cabrera.  This is stated in the well-documented work “Origin of New Mexico Families,” by Fray Angélico Chávez, on page 301-302. Ignacio’s father was killedthe year of Ignacio’s birth by the Zuñi Indians in the Mission church of Zuñi while he and two other Spanish soldiers were singing an alabado after Mass on Sunday, March 4, 1703.   Ignacio’s aunt, Catalina Valdés, nicknamed “La Prieta”  [the dark one]  was the one murdered by her husband, Miguel Lujan, in 1713. Ignacio was married in 1742 to Juana Martín, whose family had earlier dropped the double surname “Martin Serrano.  Juana was twenty-seven years her husband’s junior.  Ignacio Luis had married previously to Gertrudis Dominguez [1706-before 1742] on 11 February 1721 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ignacio and his second wife, Juana, were living in Abiquiú, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico in 1759 when their daughter María Concepción was born.  Presumably he died there. CHILDREN OF IGNACIO LUIS VALDÉS AND MARÍA MEDINA DE CABRERA [1] Isabel Valdés, born October 1731, daughter of Ignacio and Gertrudis Dominguez, died 11 November 1731, at Santa Cruz, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, at age of one month. [2]   Domingo Valdés, born January 1737, son of Ignacio and Gertrudis Dominguez, died 14 October 1737, age 10 months. Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor