Francisco García de Noriega

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Francisco García de Noriega, widowed of María de Ribera, married Juana Sedillo, Widow of Carlos López on 17 Mar 1732. María Ribera had died on 28 Jan 1732.
Children he had had with María de Ribera were:
Lazaro, who married Nicolasa López and then Francisca Varela
María Francisca, born 14 Dec 1705
Antonia, born 20 Feb 1711

~Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 182

Francisco García de Noriega married María Ribera when he was 20, on 27 Oct 1697. He was the natural son of Nicolasa Varela by Lázaro Garía (DM, p. 1697) Lázaro was most likely the son of Alonso who was killed in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. His daughter María Francisca married Salvador Márquez on 8 Nov 1705. He had another daughter, Petrona Efigenia who married Ventura Candelaria in 1719.

~Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 358

• Information. ⁵⁰⁹
Francisco García de Noriega and his wife were among the Founding Families of Alburquerque.

Francisco married María de Ribera, daughter of Juan de Ribera and Lucía López de Ocanto, on 27 Oct 1697 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (María de Ribera was born before Aug 1680 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵² and died on 28 Jan 1732 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record. ⁵⁰⁹
On 27 Oct 1697, in Santa Fé, Francisco García was a twenty-two year old native of the Río Abajo and a soldier at the Santa Fé Presidio. He was the son of Lázaro García de Noriega and Nicolasa Varela. On that date he married María de Ribera, a seventeen year old, native of Santa Fé, and the daughter of Juan de Ribera and Lucía de Otón, both natives of New México Witnesses were fellow soldiers and Río Abajo native, Carlos López, nineteen, Juan Trujillo, forty-three, another Río Abajo native, and Pedro Luján, a fellow soldier.

~Aqui Se Comienza, p. 231

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
9 Oct 1697, Santa Fé. Francisco García (20), native of El Río Abajo and soldier of Santa Fé Presidido, son of Lazaro García de Noriega and Nicolasa Varela, and María de Ribera (17), native of Santa Fé, daughter of Juan de Ribera and Lucía de Otón, natives of New Mexico. ~ Witnesses: Carlos López (19), native of El Río Abajo and soldier of Santa Fé, Juan Trujillo (43), native of El Río Abajo, Pedro Lujan (30), native of New Mexico and soldier of Santa Fé. Pair married 27 Oct 1697.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 590

Francisco next married Juana Cedillo Rico de Rojas, daughter of Joaquín Cedillo Rico de Rojas and María Varela Jaramillo, on 17 Mar 1762 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.⁵⁰⁹ (Juana Cedillo Rico de Rojas was born about 1700 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁷⁰ and died after 1750 in Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁷⁰.)