Francisco de Olivares
pre-1530:
?Millares Carlo y Montecón, Indice y extractos, I:1721 [Nov. 5, 1528, poder to Pedro de Vargas]
1540-1550:
1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [1 horse, native arms, Guevara's company]
González-Leal, Relación Secreta [p. 78-81: Xalisco: Francisco de Olivares, tiene indios; p. 81-82: Despues de sacado este memorial han dad las personas siguientes: Francisco de Olivares; p. 88-90: Pobladores vecinos de Guadalajara que tiene indios: Francisco de Olivares, ha servido en esta Nueva España y Guatemala, es casado con hija de conquistador, tiene encomendado el pueblo de Gualica [Yagualica];
Garmendia Leal, Fundadores [p.13: Listed in the Padrón de Tetlán, 1541]
?AGI, Justicia, 269, Pieza 6 [Residencia a Hernán Pérez de Bocanegra, 1545, witness in 1543 in Ciudad de México is Francisco de Olivares, has fight with Francisco Díaz] [might be in Mexico City at this time];
AGI, Justicia, 339, N.1, R.1 [December 1544, Residencia que el licenciado Lorenzo de Tejada, oidor de la Audiencia Real de Nueva España, tomo a Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Governador que fue de la Nueva Galicia, y a su teniente] [Olivares, more than 30 years old, could sign his name (no signature on copy) [este testigo yba e paso con el campo al tiempo que paso a la tierra nueva];
AGI, México, 1064, L.1\1, “Informes” [fol.258v:vecino of Guadalajara; native of Béjar del Castañar; son of Alonso de Olivares and Mari Velázquez; 19 years in Nueva España; pacifications of Çipotecas, Guatimala and Nueva Galicia; went to Cíbola; married to the daughter of Cristóbal Romero; encomienda - pueblo of Agualican [Yagualica, (HID)] which has 100 men which Cristóbal Romero bought from Juan de Alaejos; encomienda - pueblo de la barranca; digo en corregimiento];
Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:7163 = Icaza, Diccionario, #1214 = Melchior Pérez’s Petition for Preferment in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 32 [p.538-39: Francisco de Olivares, a vecino of Guadalajara, more than 40 years old, testified as a witness for Pérez] [he could sign his name] [Olivares went to Nueva Galicia with don Luis de Castilla, along with Melchior Pérez; has known Pérez since 1533];
?AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD72, Real Audiencia, Mercedes, vol.2, exp. 503, 1543 [fol. 205v: December 22, 1543: a Francisco de Olivares is granted an estancia and a caballería en términos del pueblo de Ixtlatlan, sujeto a Jacona (MICH)];
1550-1560:
AHMC, Caja A11, exp. 5, document 392 [p. 255-261: January 14, 1582, Colima: Melchor Pérez is dead; August 17, 1556: will of doña María Álvarez, wife of Melchor Pérez, vecino de Guadalajara; she brought no dowry to the marriage; their children were Catalina Mejía (wife of Pedro de Ledesma) and Isabel Mejía (wife of Alonso de la Vera), and Mari Álvarez (doncella); Pérez and Álvarez gave as dowry to their daughter Catalina "el pueblo de Cuyupustlan y estancia de Cacalutlan que es en la jurisdicción de [Guadalajara]," Francisco de Olivares, vecino of Guadalajara, is a witness];
AHAG, Gobierno, Escrituras, General, 1579-1735, Tierras y Molinos de Santa Ynés, 1690, fol. 46r: June 27, 1558, Juan de Zaldívar renounces "un sitio de molino" in favor of Francisco de Estrada; Francisco de Olivares is a regidor of Guadalajara and signs his name; Olivares signs again as regidor, January 1, 1559, fol. 48r];
Garmendia Leal, Fundadores [p.62: married to Leonor de Padilla, hija de Cristóbal Romero and Ana de la Cerda (p. 190 of the protocolos of Hernández Cordero)];
Palomino y Cañedo, Protocolos de Rodrigo Hernández Cordero, Anotaciones, #15 [p.190: Palomino y Cañedo speaks of Leonor de Padilla, daughter of Cristóbal Romero, conqueror, wife of Francisco de Olivares, conqueror, being assigned encomienda by Vázquez de Coronado as governor; p.248-encomienda of Yahualica]
Other info: Dorantes de Carranza, Sumaría relación, 265 [his father, Andrés Dorantes was from Béjar del Castañar, 10 leagues from Salamanca and 10 from Plasencia; Béjar is located there in provincia of Salamanca];
Gran Enciclopedia de España [3:1424-25 - Béjar in Salamanca and there is a santuario de la Virgen del Castañar near Béjar]