Juan Felipe de Ribera

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ²⁵²
Juan Felipe de Ribera was twenty-two years old and married in 1716, when he stated that he had been born in Zacatecas, so that he was four years old when his parents came to Santa Fé. He was a soldier all his life, and a charter officer in Our Lady of Light. He died on 1 Oct 1767, leaving a widow, María Estela Palomino Rendón, and several sons and daughters. By 1770, when their mother was seventy years old, there were seven children living, out of the fifteen. Ten children, as found in records, are: Vicente, 14 years old when killed by Apaches "en el monte," May 1743, Francisca, who died while a girl, 22 Dec 1737, and was buried in the Conquistadora chapel; Lorenza who maried Pablo Antonio Baca, 24 May 1743; Maria de Loreto, wife of Juan Antonio Ortiz; Juliana, married to José Rodriguez; Juan Miguel, Salvador, Antonio, Lúis and José. Lúis Felipe enlisted as a soldier in 1557.

~The Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 267

Juan married María Estela Palomino Rendon, daughter of Francisco Palomino Rendon and Juana Montoya, on 24 Mar 1715 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (María Estela Palomino Rendon was born in 1700 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
5 Mar 1715, Santa Fé. Juan Felipe de Ribera (21), native of the city of Zacatecas, son of Ayudante Slavador Matias de Ribera, deceased, and Juana Sosa Canela, and Doña María Rendon Palomino (15), native of Santa Fe, daughter of Francisco Rendon Palomino and Doña Juana Montoya ~ Witnesses" Teniente de Capitan Francisco Montes Vigil (55), Alferez Salvador de Santisteban (30), Felipe Pacheco (33), Ventura Esquibel (29). Pair married 24 Mar 1715.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1546-1547