Juan de Ribera

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Juan de Ribera, thirty-three years old and married, was residing among the refugee colonists at Ysleta del Paso in 1685. He came to New Mexico with the reconquest in 1693, when he declared himself a native of New Mexico. His wife was Lusisa de Ocanto, and their son, Francisco married a Juana Romero at Alburquerque in 1710.

~Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 91-92

Juan de Ribera and his wife Lucía de Ocanto had a daughter, María, who married Francisco García in 1697 at the age of 17.

~Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 386

Juan married Lucía López de Ocanto, daughter of Domingo López de Ocanto and Juana de Mondragón, about 1680 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España.²⁵² (Lucía López de Ocanto was born about 1665.)