When Maria Dolores Alvarado was born in 1836, in Mexico, her father, Alvino Pablo Alvarado, was 44 and her mother, Francisca Brigida Chaves Quesada, was 38. She married Victoriano Encarnacion Parra Bravo on 10 January 1856, in Tetepango, Hidalgo, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1914, in Tulancingo, Tulancingo de Bravo, Hidalgo, Mexico, at the age of 78, and was buried in Tulancingo, Tulancingo de Bravo, Hidalgo, Mexico.