Francisca Ochoa Garibay

   Other names for Francisca were Ochoa Garibay Samaniego and Ochoa Garibay Solis. ²⁵⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Family Background:
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.

• Family Background: ⁹⁹²
Francisca's brother, Diego Ochoa Garibay, wrote his will on 15 Jul 1655, in Zamora. He identifies all of his siblings, and declared that his parents were Captain Diego de Ochoa Garibay and Juana Núñez de Soto. [Arturo Rodríguez Zetino, Zamora: ensayo histórico y repertorio documental (Mexico City: Editorial Jus, 1952) p. 62]

New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 62, No. 3, September 2023.

• 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.

Francisca married Juan de la Mora y Mendoza, son of Manuel de la Mora y Pérez and Juana de Aviña y Mendoza, on 11 Mar 1613 in Zamora, Michoacán, Nueva España. (Juan de la Mora y Mendoza died in 1635 in Michoacán, Nueva España and was buried on 16 Sep 1635 in Tlazazalca, Michoacán, Nueva España.)