Juana Núñez de Sota

   Another name for Juana was Juana Núñez de Sotomayor.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Family Connection:
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, Baptismal (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: ¹⁶⁰⁰
Juan Núnez's name first appears in records on 15 Aug 1613. She and her son, Martín de Garibay were pardrinos for the baptism of a girl named Ana Hernández. She also shows up in a 1632 census of Zamora as the head of her household. The census entry reads:

Diego Ochoa, son, clergymand of the first order
Diego Ochoa's children: Diego Ochoa, clergyman and maiden daughter María de Solís
Niece, Beatriz de Garibay
Three Black salves named María
Domingo (mulato)
Mariana (india)
Diego (mulato)

Juana died on or near 1 Dec 1654, in Zamora. A prenuptial investigation, in Zamora, dated 22 Jul 1696, for Mateo Márquez de la Mora and Juana Bejines Ochoa shows family relationships which shows that Juana was the daughter of Gonzlo Núñez de Soto and Bernardina de Mendoza.

New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 62, No. 3, September 2023, pp. 124-125.

Juana married Diego Ochoa Garibay, son of Martín Ochoa de Garibay and María de Solis y Suárez.¹⁶⁰⁰ (Diego Ochoa Garibay was born in Castilla, Iberia.)