Pedro Hernández y Aguilera

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Background. ²⁵⁰
Leonor Orozco has an ancestry the reaches back to the early 1400s in Spain, if not back to the late 1300s. Her family genealogy was researched by Mariano González Leal and José Ygncacio Dávila Garibi. Members of the Orozco family are among the common ancestors for people with roots in Nueva Galicia.

Leonor Orozco was a daughter of Juan Lucas Morcillo, a native of Castilla, and doña Isabel de Orozco. Doña Isabel Orozco had two sisters: 1) Doña Catalina de Orozco married with don Bartolomé Rodríguez de Aranda, with issue, and 2) Doña María de Orozco married with don Tomás de Burgos Antolines, a native of Spain, with issue. These sisters were the daughters of don Pedro Hernández de Aguilera, owner of the hacienda de Xanamuato, Michoacán, Nueva España, and doña Beatriz de Orozco Tovar, a native of the Villa de Vélez, Spain.
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:
"Pedro Hernández y Aguilera was born around 1539 in Spain... He was the owner of the Xanamuato estate. He was the husband of Beatriz de Orozco Tovar, a native of Vélez where he was born in 1540, daughter of Diego de Orozco y Tovar, a Spaniard, and doña Ana Mexía..."

Source: [Diccionario biográfico del occidente novohispano: siglo XVI, Volume 3, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Centro de Docencia Superior, 2006 - Mexico - 496 pages.]

The ancestry of the Alcalá through the Orozco line, as well as the enumeration of the children of Juan de Alcalá and Leonor de Orozco, appear in the manuscript entitled Book of the Illustrious Ancestry and Executory Genealogy of Pedro Hernández de Aguilera and Beatriz of Orozco, from don Garci Sánchez Primero, Lord of the House and Mayorazgo of the Orozco Valley, to don José Ygnacio de Orozco y Toledo and his brothers (1808).

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.].

Pedro married Beatriz Orozco Tovar, daughter of Diego Orozco y Tovar and Ana Mejia, in Xanamuato, Michoacán, Nueva España. (Beatriz Orozco Tovar was born in 1512 in Villa de Vélez, España, Iberia and died in Hacienda de Xanamuato, Michoacán, Nueva España.)