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 Rita Duran, was married to Ignacio Antonio Pacheco.

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Event ID: 3024 Book: Tumacácori Page Number: 33
Event: Baptism Event Date: 12/31/1785 Event Place: Tumacácori
Notes:
220 - María Rita Dura(n).
In the year of the Lord 1785 on the 31st day of December, I, Fray Balthasar Carrillo, solemnly baptized a baby girl who was born on the said day about four o'clock in the morning. She is the legitimate daughter of Juan Antonio Dura(n) and María Guadalupe Ramirez, residents of this village. I gave her the name of María Rita. Her godmother was Doña María Antonia Gonzalez, widow of Don Felix Usarraga, and a resident of the Presidio of Tucson, whom I advised of her parentage and obligations. For this truth I signed on the said day, month, and year as above. Fray Balthasar Carrillo (rubric), Minister of Doctrine for His Majesty
 
Event Relationship [5 Records]

Personal ID: 2110 Given Name: María Guadalupe Surname: Ramirez Relationship: Mother
 
Personal ID: 2577 Given Name: Baltasar Surname: Carrillo Relationship: Priest
 
Personal ID: 2613 Given Name: Juan Antonio Surname: Durán Relationship: Father
 
Personal ID: 5418 Given Name: María Antonia Gertrudis Surname: Gonzáles Relationship: Godmother
 
Personal ID: 8131 Given Name: María Rita Surname: Durán Relationship: Baptized
 

Surname: Durán Given Name: Juan Antonio Sex: M
Place of Birth: Date of Birth: Order:
Place of Death: Date of Death: Cause of Death:
Race or Tribe: Español Residence: Tumacácori Title: Marido de María Guadalupe Ramirez
Place of Service: Burial Place: Translation: (Basque - hazel nut tree)
 

Event ID: 996 Relationship: Witness Event Date: 09/21/1773 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 999 Relationship: Witness Event Date: 04/18/1781 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 1000 Relationship: Witness Event Date: 04/18/1781 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 1810 Relationship: Father Event Date: 01/27/1776 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 1845 Relationship: Father Event Date: 01/30/1777 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 1863 Relationship: Father Event Date: 01/24/1774 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3024 Relationship: Father Event Date: 12/31/1785 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3031 Relationship: Father Event Date: 12/01/1787 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3032 Relationship: Father Event Date: 08/09/1779 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3081 Relationship: Witness Event Date: 02/18/1785 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3094 Relationship: Father Event Date: 02/10/1788 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3764 Relationship: Godfather Event Date: 05/06/1780 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3897 Relationship: Witness Event Date: 01/13/1774 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3977 Relationship: Godfather Event Date: 10/20/1786 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 4699 Relationship: Godfather Event Date: 07/07/1787 View Document A  
 
Surname: Ramirez Given Name: María Guadalupe Sex: F
Place of Birth: Date of Birth: Order:
Place of Death: Date of Death: Cause of Death:
Race or Tribe: Española Residence: Tumacácori Title: Hija párvula de Juan Crisóstomo Ramírez; Mujer de Juan Antonio Durán
Place of Service: Burial Place: Translation: (Spanish - son of Ramiro)
 
Event Relationship [11 Records]

Event ID: 834 Relationship: Baptized Event Date: 06/28/1755 View Document A B
 
Event ID: 1810 Relationship: Mother Event Date: 01/27/1776 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 1845 Relationship: Mother Event Date: 01/30/1777 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 1863 Relationship: Mother Event Date: 01/24/1774 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3024 Relationship: Mother Event Date: 12/31/1785 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3031 Relationship: Mother Event Date: 12/01/1787 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3032 Relationship: Mother Event Date: 08/09/1779 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3094 Relationship: Mother Event Date: 02/10/1788 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3764 Relationship: Godmother Event Date: 05/06/1780 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 3977 Relationship: Godmother Event Date: 10/20/1786 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 4699 Relationship: Godmother Event Date: 07/07/1787 View Document A  
 
 
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Anita Badertscher
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June 2003

          Guadalupe Ramírez and Antonio Durán must have been pretty tired when they brought their baby girl to Fray Balthasar Carrillo for baptism that last day of December in 1785. Their fifth child, Maria Rita, had been born at 4:00 that morning.
          Rita was the family’s only girl. Her brothers, Jesús, Francisco, Valerio and Ignacio, were between twelve and six years older than she was, and all of the children had been baptized at the Tumacácori mission, where the family lived.
          Rita’s little brother Andrés arrived when she was not quite two years old. The baby lived for only two months before Fray Balthasar laid him to rest beneath the floor of the church. Their grandfather, Don Juan Crisóstomo Ramírez, had been buried beneath that same floor when Valerio was a baby, before Rita and Ignacio were born.
          Rita’s grandparents had brought their family north to Tumacácori from their previous home near the Guevavi mission in the 1760’s. Rita’s mother, Guadalupe, and Rita’s tia Valeria and tio Manuel all had been baptized at Guevavi.
          When she was sixteen, Rita married twenty-six year old Ignacio Pacheco. His mother’s family, the Romeros, had also made the move to Tumacácori in the 1760’s, and Ignacio had been born in Tubac while his parents were living there at the Presidio. An aging bachelor, at the time of his marriage to Rita he was living with his mother in Tucson.
          The couple settled in Tubac, where their first three children were born. The last record that we find of Rita and Ignacio in Mission 2000 comes when she is 33. Their second known child, Austacia Carmen, apparently named for Ignacio’s mother, María del Carmen Romero, died when she was just two months old and was buried by Fray Narciso Gutierrez of Tumacácori in the cemetery at Tubac.
          We found Rita in the Mission 2000 records while searching for a Tumacácori resident to be part of a living history presentation set in the 1820’s. Later, we were thrilled to find her husband, listed as witness to a wedding in the Tubac records, which had not yet been translated into the database. It was historian Philip Halpenny, attending that first living history program, who introduced me to the rest of Rita’s story. Rita and her husband obtained the first registered brand in the Tubac area, the “diamond bell.” The family moved to Tucson in the early 1820’s, where Ignacio was elected to serve as the town’s second Alcalde. Her four surviving children – three boys, Guadalupe, Miguel, and Ramón, and one girl, Jesús – left a long line of descendants, some of whom still live in the Tucson area.
          I continue to portray Rita in living history presentations for visitors to her home, Tumacácori, and on tours to missions Calabazas and Guevavi.