Juan de la Mora y Mendoza

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Background: ²⁵⁰
Mora y Mendoza and Ochoa Garibay:

Juan de la Mora y Mendoza, Alcalde Mayor of the town of Zamora, was married at Zamora on 11 March 1613 (veiled 26 August 1613) with Francisca Ochoa Garibay (aka Garibay Samaniego & Garibay Solis), daughter of Diego Ochoa Garibay (from Castilla) and Juana Núñez. Juan and Francisca had these known children baptized at Zamora: 1) Esteban de la Mora Mendoza y Garibay, bt. 2 February 1614; 2) Juana de la Mora y Garibay, bt. 19 February 1615 (possibly died as an infant); 3) Juana de la Mora Mendoza y Garibay, bt. 28 january 1616; 4) Juan de la Mora y Garibay; 5) Francisca de la Mora y Garibay, bt. 4 October 1618; 6) Lucía de la Mora y Mendoza y Garibai, bt. 12 January 1624; 7) Francisca de la Mora y Garibai, bt. 7 June 1625.

Researchers: Ophelia Márquez, Tony Campos, Jiame Holcombe, Mariano González Leal, and José Ignacio Dávila Garibi.

Sources: Ophelia Márquez, "La Familia Vasquez de Lara de Nuevo Mexico con Origen en Nueva Galicia y Michoacan," in Somos Primos (Newsletter of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research/SHHAR), March and April 1992; Marianao González Leal, Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia, Universidad de Guanajuato, 1983, Vol II: 66-67; Tony Campos and Ophelia Márquez, "Zamora, Michoacán, México, Marriages 1605-1622, 1638-1646," in Genealogical Journal: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Vol. II, 1995:124; Tony Campos and Ophelia Márquez, "Zamora, Michoacán, México, Baptisma (1605-1637) and Extensive Family Genealogies of Zamora and Surrounding Areas," in Genealogical Journal: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Vol. III, 1996:71-150.

• Background Information:
Doña Francisca de Ochoa-Garibay, married in Zamora and buried there with the Mayor of Zamora from 1613 to 1615 Don Juan de la Mora-Hurtado de Mendoza, buried in Tlazazalca on the 16th September 1635, son of Manuel de la Mora and Juana de Aviña y Mendoza, whose genealogy appears in the chapter of Mora-Hurtado de Mendoza."

Sources: Offshoots of Spain in New Galicia: v. 1. Genealogical dictionary of the Alteña families (Marentes-Nandín de Soto), Volume 6, Part 2 of Offshoots of Spain in Nueva Galicia, Jalisco (Mexico), by Mariano González-Leal, General Secretariat of Government, Directorate of Publications, 2011. University of California.

Juan married Francisca Ochoa Garibay, daughter of Diego Ochoa Garibay and Juana Núñez de Sota, on 11 Mar 1613 in Zamora, Michoacán, Nueva España. (Francisca Ochoa Garibay was born before 1598 and was baptized in Zamora, Michoacán, Nueva España.)