AGI, México, 281, "Cartas y expedientes de personas eclesiásticas" ["El amojonamiento entre los obispados de la Nueva Galicia y Michoacán (1551)": don, archdeacon of Michoacán, 11 March 1551 p. 65, 82-84, 90, 91, 97 (highly unlikely);
AGI, Justicia, 211, “Autos fiscales: México” [1567-68, fiscal against Lorenzo Álvarez Pereyra, concerning being a Portuguese and went to the Indies and conducted business in them];
AGI, Contratación, 475, N.1, L.2 [Proceso sobre la muerte y bienes de Lorenzo Álvarez que por otro nombre se llamava Juan Gallego difunto, Puebla de Los Ángeles, September 1579; a Juan de Luján, clérigo at Tlatlauntepeque, presents the testamento that specifies that some of Álvarez’s possesseion be sent to Portugal to his mother Isabel Álvares; a Juan Ruiz is a witness in Puebla in 1579; Álvarez was natural of Tabarca del obispado de Braga in Portugal; father, Esteban Álvares; mother, Isabel Álvares; “desde que estoy en esta nueva españa me he nombrado el dicho Juan Gallego E me han nombrado por tal por dezirme que hera natural gallego por causa de la provysion que hay de que portugueses no pasen a esta partes;” he had come from Portugal only 18 years previously (1561) [cannot be expeditionary];
AHJ, Escribanos, No.1, Rodrigo Hernández Cordero, v.1 [1589-1590: Agustina de Viera, widow of Lorenzo Álvares; daughter Juana Álvares; 12 Dec. 1607; Atotonilco in the jurisdiction of the partido of Teocualtiche, fol.21r] (this seems too late);
AGI, Contratación, 283, N.1, L.8 [1608, native of Triana, deceased in La Florida; some son of Álvaro Gabin, vecino of this city; mentioned Baltasar de Saavedra, barbero, Juan Bautista Romero, cirujano and Bartolomé de Castillejo, somehow in jail];
AHJ, Archivo Instrumentos Públicos (AIP), Tierras y Aguas, Colección Primera, Libro 2, tomo 19 [5 May 1611; Agustina de Viera, widow of Lorenzo Álvarez, son Juan Álvarez, fol. 1r (fol. 121r)];
Hillerkuss, Documentalia [Álvarez, Lorenzo]
Hillerkuss, Diccionario Biográfico, Vol.1 [p.74: payment in the caja real, Zacatecas, 1574; sentenced by visitador of Nueva Galicia in 1579; paid from the caja real in 1583; possibly the same person who was paid married Augustina de Viera, son Juan Álvarez de Viera; 1607 dead already; widow and son in the partido de Teocaltetiche 1607];