Juan Lucas de Alcalá y Orozco

  General Notes:

Herencia July 1996 p. 3, 20

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Background. ²⁵⁰
Juana de Alcalá y Mendoza, wife of Miguel Vásquez de Lara, was a native of Tlazazalca, Michoacán, Nueva España, and a daughter Juan Lucas Alcalá y Orozco and Juana Avina Hurtado de Mendoza.

Juan Lucas Alcalá y Orozco, a native of Tlazazalca, Michoacán who died prior to 1661, was a son of Juan Alcalá y Zamora and Leonor Orozco (see Alcalá and Orozco lineage below). He was married with Juana de la Mora Mendoza y Garibay (aka Avina Hurtado de Mendoza), bt. 28 January 1616, Zamora, Michoacán, daughter of Juan de la Mora y Mendoza and Francisca Ochoa Garibay.

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:
Juan Lucas de Alcalá y de Orozco and his wife doña Juana de Aviña y Hurtado de Mendoza were ranchers in the jurisdiction of Tlazazalca, where he died before 1661. In addition, they owned the ranch of San Pedro, in the jurisdiction of Pénjamo'. His children, all born in the jurisdiction of TIazazalca, formed, by the mixture of paternal surnames...

Source:[Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia: 2. parte ; 3. parte (principio). Diccionario genealógico de las familias alteñas (Abalza-Cano) Volume 2, Part 2 of Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia, Jalisco (Mexico). Mariano González-Leal, Gobierno de Jalisco, Secretaría General de Gobierno, Dirección de Publicaciones, 2010, University of California]

Death
In the town of Tlazazalca on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand six hundred and fifty-two years, he died and was buried. Lucas de Alcala, a resident of this jurisdiction, was married to doña Juana de Mendosa, who was widowed.

Source: ["México, Michoacán, registros parroquiales y diocesanos, 1555-1996," database with images, FamilySearch : 20 May 2014), Tlazazalca > San Miguel > Entierros 1644-1711, 1713-1734 > image 11 of 303; parroquias Católicas, Michoacan (Catholic Church parishes, Michoacan).]

Son of Juan Alcalá y Zamora and Leonor Orozco who made their wills in 1623 in the city of Valladolid, New Spain.

Juan married Juana de la Mora Mendoza y Garibay de Mendoza, daughter of Juan de la Mora y Mendoza and Francisca Ochoa Garibay.²⁵⁰ (Juana de la Mora Mendoza y Garibay de Mendoza was born in Zamora, Michoacán, Nueva España ⁵⁸⁶ and was baptized on 28 Jan 1616 in Zamora, Michoacán, Nueva España ²⁵⁰.)