Juan García de la Mora

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Juan García del la Mora was born in La Villa de Pozuelo de Almagro, in the Archbishopric of Toledo, the son of Juan García de la Mora and Manuela González. On 10 Jan 1725, he married María de Hornero at Pozuelo de Calatrava. A few months later, suspecting his wife of infidelity, he murdered her, fled to Sevilla, and from there shipped to the Indies. From Habana he found his way to New México, where he married Josefa Martín on 3 Aug 1735. Her parents were Marcial Martin and Leogarda de Medina of La Soledad, near San Juan Pueblo. A previous wedding ceremony had taken place on 11 Nov 1733.

His New Mexican family was as follows:
Antonio, born October 16, 1734
Josefa, 9 Feb 1736
Juan, 13 Jun 1737
Antonia Manuela, 14 Mar 1740
María Concepción, 16 Dec 1742
Manuel Manchego, 1 Jan 1745
José, 21 Mar 1747
Juan Simón, 23 Feb 1749.

María Concepción married Joaquín Garcia de Noriega in 1761. A María del Rosario García de la Mora married Santiago Ortiz, 23 Apr 1759. A Manuel Garcia de la Mora was Alcalde of Abiquiu in 1809. All, no doubt, were children of old Juan. An Antonio García de la Mora and Josefa Griego had an eighteen-year-old son, Francisco, who enlisted as a soldier in 1790.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 183

• Family Connection: ¹⁵⁶¹
13 Oct 1761 - Joachín García de Noriega married María de la Concepción García de la Mora, daughter of Juan García de la Mora and Josefa Martín. Padrinos: José Esquibel and Manuela Lopes.-

Santa Cruz de la Cañada, One-Hundred Years of Marraige, p. 25

Juan married Josefa Martín Serrano, daughter of Marcial Manuel Martín Serrano and María Lugarda Medina, between 11 Nov 1733 and 3 Aug 1735 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (Josefa Martín Serrano was born in 1717 in San Juan de los Caballeros, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)