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Following is the
marriage information on Ezra Redding:From LDS
Microfilm Reel # 0017017
Taos Marriages 1856-1895...
July 1,1872 I Priest
Gabr.Ussel having examined the Prenuptial
Investigations in favor of Ezra Reading,Legitimate son of James
and Elizabeth Reading,With Miguela Belasquez,Legitimate daughter
of the deceased Juan Ignacio Velasquez and Isabel LaForet.Dispensed the three
Banns and no other impediment was presented.I
married them
according to the rules of the Catholic Church in
front of the following witnesses:J.Miguel Ortiz and Manuela
Tafoya-Rio Colorado..So That It Be So,I Signed.Gabr.Ussel (Rubric)
Note..Ezra Redding may
have served as a Justice of The Peace.He is listed
as performing a
marriage ceremony.
From the Book "Taos
Marriages 1770-1860."By:David Salazar and Bill
Trujillo Sept 1994.Published
by The Genealogical Society Of Hispanic
America-Southern Calif Branch.Extracted from Book of Marriages
M-41 Taos (Box 38)1845-1856,Frame 245... 12-25-1849 Jose Ygnacio
Velasquez,single son of Antonio Velasquez and
Eulogia Roibal,resident
of Rio Colorado (Present day Questa,NM),with Maria
Ysabel Lafore,single daughter of Francisco Lafore and Maria
Dolores Armenta,resident of the same place.Sponsors:Eugenio Sanches
and-not legible-.Wits:Julian Urban and Pablo Sandoval.
Francisco Lafore French Canadian Trapper,son of Francisco Lafore and Maria Feliciana Camvel,married Maria Dolores Armenta 25 July 1828.From"Origin Of New Mexico Families."By:Fray Angelico Chavez.Page 412.Also listed in the book"The Taos Trappers,The Fur Trade In the Far Southwest,1540-1846."By:David J.Weber. |