Miguel García de la Riva

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Dates & Events: ^287,424,404
Miguel was a weaver by trade, and then came to New México with the Reconquista colonists in 1693. His children are Juan who marriced Felicíana Real de Aguilar, Teodora who married Don Juan Paez Hurtado and Manuela who married Salvador Montoya.

The marriage of Miguel and Micaela was entered in the Parish Registers of the Parroquia de Santa Catalina, Virgen y Martir de Mexico, Mexico City, MX

Miguel's brother Juan Garcia de la Riva married an orphan girl, Sebastiana de Arrioja on 7 March 1666 in the Parish Church of Santa Catalina.
New Mexico Genealogist Jun 1986, pg. 39

Miguel García de la Riva and Micaela Velasco came to New México in 1694 with Velasco-Farfán colonists, when Migues was described as a weaver. Their family included their children: María, twenty; Antonia, fifteen, Miguel, fourteen; Francisca, ten; and Teodora, seven.
Royal Crown Restored, pg. 245 from Fray Francisco Farfán's list of New Mexico colonists from México City.

Miguel married Micaela de Velasco, daughter of Francisco de Velasco and Polonia Díaz, on 25 Jan 1671 in Parroquia de Santa Catalina, Ciudád de México, Nueva España.⁴⁰⁴ (Micaela de Velasco was born about 1655.)