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PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS
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Pregunta 109 - 23 December 2002 UPDATE, 8 October 2004

Pregunta 108 - 2 December 2002

Looking for information on ancestors from New Almaden, San Benito, Tres Pinos, Santa Clara County, family name of Careaga, Carriaga, Cariaga, etc. -- especially a Pedro or Peter. Also looking for  a Cessario or Sessario Lucero and a José or Joseph Lucero in the same area. Both married into the Ducommun/Ducommen family. Much appreciation for any information on these. [Eric Lucero (nonmember), Oakland, Calif.]

Respuesta a Pregunta 108 - 3 January 2003

I am related to the Lucero line via  Maria (Mary) Lucero, who was the daughter of Jacinto Lucero and Maria Angelia Castro. They had a son, Cesario Lucero, who shows up named as a survivor in the obituary for Maria Angelia Castro/Lucero.  According to my records, Cesario worked for the New Almadén mines.  The family goes back to the Castro land grant in Watsonville, Calif.   I sent an inquiry to this site earlier this year [Pregunta #62],which you might want to check out.   I have a lot more information on this family since then and would be willing to share it with you in exchange for information that you may have. My email is pgheir@bellsouth.net --contact me at that address. Sincerely, Pat [Patricia Garretson (nonmember), Smyrna, Georgia]

Pregunta 107 - 26 November 2002

Respuesta a Pregunta 107 - 9 May 2003

Aloha from Hawaii,
I was happy to find some information in Pregunta 107.  What information are you looking for? I have some Sepulveda family information but need more.  Regarding José Mauricio Sepulveda, his grandfather, Francisco Xavier Sepulveda, is my great great great great grandfather, born 1742. Contact person: Richard Sepulveda, Vista, California. Hope to hear from you soon regarding the family, crownflower@turquoise.net Regarding Lugo, the only Lugo I am familiar with at this time is a María Beatriz Isabel Ascención Cota-Lugo who was married to José Dolores Pico, this is on my grandmother's side of the family. I will be researching this for more information, until then Aloha  [Helene Iverson (nonmember), Kailua-Kona, Hawaii] Note: please let us know if you make contact and have information to share with other readers of this page. La Tejedora

Respuesta a Pregunta 107 - 7 December 2002

According to Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California, 1769-1850, Volume 2, pages 221-22: Maria Antonia Avila, also known as Maria Antonia Rendon was the hija natural (natural daughter) of Antonio Ygnacio Avila, (possibly the son of Cornelio Avila and Maria Isabel Urquidez) and Maria Gregoria Matlide Cota (born 12 March 1785 of Antonio Cota and Maria Bernarda (Chicalia) and baptized 13 March 1785 at Mission San Gabriel ). Maria Antonia Avila (Rendon) was born 9 January 1802 at Mission San Gabriel. (It looks as though she was born out of wedlock the way I read the excerpt.) Maria Rendon married Jose Maria Lugo 30 November 1820 at Mission San Gabriel. Maria Rendon was buried 5 December 1877 at Los Angeles Plaza Church at age 76 years. Maria Rendon apparently was raised buy her mother, Maria Gregoria Matilde Cota, and stepfather, Jose Ygnacio Rendon, who were married 25 November 1805 at Mission San Fernando. There were eight children born of this latter union (, i.e., Cota/Rendon).

Antonio Maria Lugo was grantee of the "Rancho San Antonio," which was in the Lynwood, Bell, Montebello and Maywood area of Los Angeles County and consisted of 29,513 acres patented 20 July 1866.  In Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties between Chino and Pomona, he was also a grantee in a partnership with Issac Williams of the "Rancho Santa Ana del Chino in 1841 and 1845. The Rancho consisted of 22,234 acres later patented to H. H. Williams, et al., on 15 February 1869. This according to the book, Ranchos of California by Robert G. Cowan.

Also, there is much more information to be found on your family names in both volumes of Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families. These books can be purchased from the Southern California Genealogical Society. Good luck in your search, and Happy Holidays. [Jimmie Hardy (member), Winston, Ore.]

Pregunta 106 - 25 November 2002

Respuesta a Pregunta 106 - 26 November 2002

Family tree for Pedro Pollorena--well to start I doubt that you will find a complete tree anywhere, but a good start would be in Marie Northrop's, Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California 1769-1850, Volume 1. Pages 278-280 list a few Pollorena's. Also at genealogy.com there is a family tree for Pedro Pollorena, the listing is for Volume 38 - Tree 1183.  Several family names are listed on this tree, and ,yes, Pedro is listed as being born about 1790 at Loreto, Baja California. You may have to take a short subscription to genealogy.com to view the family tree listed there, but I have found the site to be very helpful in my family research. Best of luck in your pursuit, and Happy Holidays to ALL! [Jimmie Hardy (member), Winston, Oregon]

Pregunta 105 - 24 November 2002

Pregunta 104 - 18 November 2002

I am an Argentinean. My great great grandmother, María Concepción Castro Peralta, was born in the San Francisco Bay area in 1835. I can’t afford a membership but I thought I could publish a query in your Web site. María's father was Guillermo Castro Garcia and her mother María Luisa Peralta Alviso. I am looking for more data about her ascendants and, if it is possible, some pictures. Thank you. [Ramiro Chaves Guevara (nonmember), Buenos Aires, Argentina]

Respuesta a Pregunta 104 - 17 March 2006

I am also searching for my daughter's ancestors who go back to Gabriel Peralta.  I have a book given to me that dates her ancestors to the early 1700s.  The name of your grandmother Maria Luisa rang a bell so I looked it up and I have in my book a Maria Luisa Peralta Soto Alviso born 27 August 1790, who married  1st husband Tomas Soto on 29 November 1807 and whose 2nd husband was Ignacio Alviso born 21 January 1794.  I have her as the 3rd child of Pedro Regaldo Peralta born 1765, who married Maria del Carmen Grijalva (my daughter's great, great, great, great grandfather is Juan Pablo, Pedro's 1st child). Pedro's father was the famous Gabriel Antonio Peralta born 1731, who married  Francisca Javier Valenzuela one of the founders of San Francisco.  He was in the Corporal Army and came to California with the Anza Expedition. Let know if this helped you.  Tanya Self.  You can email me if you'd like at poncho34@msn.com [Tanya Self (nonmember), Fresno, Calif.]

Respuesta a Respuesta - 23 December 2002

Thank you for the data you give me. I have been looking for data in this site.
http://www.peraltahacienda.org/history_gen.html There it is said that there were three Luis Maria Peralta’s daughters named Maria Luisa and that the third born in 1810 was the one that married to Guillermo Castro. I think they wouldn’t name three girls with the same name unless the previous had died. One of the sources of these data is Ponsford. Which data are correct? How many children were those of Carlos Castro and Maria de Rosario Castro? Thank you again. Best regards. [Ramiro Chaves Guevara (nonmember), Buenos Aires, Argentina]  Ramiro: my Ponsford documents (photocopy) show a Maria Luisa Fermina born 6 July 1800, bapt. on the 10th, died 17 Oct. 1801, all at Santa Clara; Maria Luisa Fermina Barbara born 5 Dec. 1804, bapt. on the 11th #3086, at Dolores, no death or other date; and finally, Maria Luisa born 1810, no place, who married  Guillermo Castro 31 Jan. 1831. There is a fainter (perhaps pencil) notation "(1804) Dec. 9 Santa Clara?" on the original card.  It would take more research to determine if the 1810 date birth date has any validity. Northrop does not list any children for Carlos and Maria de Rosario [Garcia] Castro. This is all I can do right now. Benita H. Gray, La Tejedora 

Respuesta a Pregunta 104 - 7 December 2002

According to Marie E. Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Volume I, pages 274-276: Maria Luisa Fermina Barbara Peralta was born 5 December 1804 and baptized 11 December 1804 at Mission Dolores [San Francisco]. She married Guillermo Castro 31 January 1831 at Mission Santa Clara. She died 15 December 1873 at Santa Clara (?). She had 15 brothers and sisters. Her father, Luis Maria Peralta enlisted at San Francisco in 1782; was corporal from 1790 and in command of Mission San José escolta 1798-1800; was sergeant in 1801 and comisionado of San José in 1807; was grantee of San Antonio in 1820; and elector and juez 1830-33. Luis Peralta was born about 1760 in Tubac, Sonora, México (of Gabriel Antonio Peralta and Francisca Xaviera Valenzuela) and buried 27 August 1851 at Mission Santa Clara. He married Maria Loreto Alviso 23 February 1784 at Mission Santa Clara. Maria Loreto was born about 1770 at San Miguel de Orcasitas, Sonora, México (of Domingo Alviso and Maria Angela Trejo) and buried 27 August 1851 at Mission Santa Clara. Maria Loreto Alviso came to Alta California with her parents in the 1776 Anza Expedition.

pages 15-16: Domingo Alviso was born at San Miguel de Horcasitas, Sonora, México and buried 11 March 1777 at Mission Dolores [San Francisco]. He married, in México, Maria Angela Trejo who was born at San Miguel de Horcasitas, Sonora México and was buried 4 January 1803 at Mission San Carlos de Monterey.  They had four children and the family came to Alta California with the 1776 De Anza Expedition. Domingo was corporal at the Presidio of Tubac, México. Maria Angela Trejo married Pedro Antonio Bojorquez 20 July 1777 at Mission Dolores (2 months after Domingo Alviso died). [Benita H. Gray (member), San Diego, Calif.]

Respuesta a Pregunta 104 - 7 December 2002

The Peralta Adobe is still standing, click here to see it: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/santaclara/per.htm

Also, you're looking at Carmel Valley.  There is much California history written about the Peraltas. For marriages, baptisms, etc., you can write to the Catholic Church in Santa Clara or  to San José for court  records, or  to the Mission San Carlos Borremo in Carmel, California. 
The Peralta family and Onesimo family and Meadows family were my grandmother Juana Cota's neighbors and best friends. [Teresa Russell y Espinosa de Boronda (nonmember), Long Beach, Calif.]

Pregunta 103 - 14 November 2002

Hi. My great grandfather was Abraham Ayala. His wife was Ruth Leiva or Leyba.  Her  parents  were Francisco Leiva and María Juanita or María Antonia  Anellanes. This is about  all I know. Would like to learn more about their family lines . Hope you can help. Thank you. [Jim W. Garcia (nonmember), Los Angeles, Calif.]

Respuesta a Pregunta 103 - 3 February 2003

Pregunta 102 - 6 November 2002

Respuesta a Pregunta 102 - 12 July 2008

My sister, Charlotte Lee, was married to a Frank Bernal and had two children, Roland and Juanita. He used to work on the O & O Ranch for Louis O'Neal a lawyer in San Jose, California. I understand there was a Spanish land grant in that area many years ago.  There is a road named for the Bernal Family in San Jose.  Frank had a brother, Santos, and I think a sister  or aunt named Josephine. I can't remember how many brothers and sisters he had.  Charlotte and Frank were divorced and they both remarried. He had other children also. [Evelyn Quadro (nonmember), Healdsburg, Calif.]
 

Respuesta a Pregunta 102 - 6 November 2002

According to Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Volume I, pp. 129-30: a María Ana Barbara Espinosa was baptized 7 November 1831 at the Presidio de Monterey. She might possibly be your Barbara Espinosa. Her parents were Gabriel María Espinosa (born 25 April 1798 of José Miguel Espinosa and Gabriel María Higuera); baptized 28 April 1798 at Mission Soledad; married 14 April 1817 at Mission San Carlos de Monterey) and María Mauricia Tapia (born about 1800 at Villa de Branciforte of José Francisco Tapia and María de Jesus -- India de Nutke). [Benita Gray  (member), San Diego, Calif.]

Pregunta 101 - 6 November 2002

Any information on Louis Grijalva, married to Guadalupe Arbago?  They had a daughter named Mary Grijalva, born 3 May 1864.  I believe Guadalupe Arbago was a Diegueno Indian. Mary Grijalva was married to Antonio Bega, date unknown. Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you. [Stefanie Rodriguez (nonmember), Corona, Calif.]

Respuesta a Pregunta 101 - 25 March 2005

I have the Certificate of Marriage for my great grandfather and great grandmother, Luis Grijalva and Maria-Guadalupe. They were married in the church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Santa Barbara, California. It reads: This is to Certify that Luis Grijalva and Maria-Guadalupe Arballo were lawfully Married, on the 15th day of September 1853. [Eddie Grijalva (member), Vallejo, Calif.]

Respuesta a Pregunta 101 - 9 May 2003

Antonio Bega was my great grandfather and Mary or María, my great grandmother. The Arbago name, spelled Arballo on a baptism certificate I have for María Grijalba dated 12 August 1861. Their daughter Manuela or Nellie Bega, born 30 October 1906, married Jacinto Medrano, 4 September 1926. They had two children together Emanuel and Victoria. Victoria married Gordon Rodriguez. They had three sons: Eddie, Andy, and Danny. Andy had a daughter Stephanie Rodriguez. Are you the same Stephanie?  I believe we are related. Are you from Corcoran? My aunt is Victoria Rodriguez, maiden name Medrano. My father, now deceased, is Manuel Medrano. I have my grandparents' marriage certificate with dates you are inquiring about. I also have other documents I'm sure you would be interested in. I'm new to the Internet and have just started to do some family research. I'd really like to hear from you, richmmed@hotmail.com.  I am very interested in finding out any information on either side. My great grandfather on my father's side was named Macario Medrano from Mexico or Spain. Thank you for your response.  [Richard M. Medrano (nonmember), Clovis, Calif.] Note: please let us know if you make contact and have information to share with other readers of this page. La Tejedora