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PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS

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Pregunta 150 - 19 August 2003

I am looking for information on José del Refugio Zuniga and wife, María Juana Verdugo (vejar) <1820> and Ignacio Zuniga and wife, Carmel Mesa. This is all part of the Eduardo Poyorena (Pollorena) family. [Tim Miguel (nonmember), Glendale, Calif.]

Pregunta 149 - 6 August 2003

I am looking for any information on Juana Chavoya or (Chaboya) born in California about 1823 and married in Santa Clara about 1835 to Alexander Geneve, Genave, Schenefe, or some other spelling as we do not know correct spelling. I am trying to find out more about her family and children as I think she had daughters named (1) Narcissa, (2) Delfina, and (3) Adelina. I would like to know the correct spelling of the last name.  Any information would be of great help. [Richard (nonmember), Guerneville, Calif.]

Respuesta a Pregunta 149 - 27 October 2003

Maria Leocadia was born in a village called San Juan Bautista. as it was named by the Spanish. Its real name was the village of Ritocsi. She was a full blooded Indian woman. [Patrick Orozco (nonmember), Watsonville, Calif.]

Respuesta a Pregunta 149 - 18 August 2003

Maria Micaela Linares was baptized 13 July 1814 in Mission Santa Clara de Asis, age 2 days, parents:  Ramon Linares and Maria Antonia Higuera, godparents:  Fermin Cordoro and Manuela Chaboya. -V.  =Entry #6211.

Juan Jose Ramon Linares was born about 1770 at San Miguel Orcasitas, Sonora, México.  He married Antonia Higuera 8 September 1794 at Mission Dolores [San Francisco, Alta California].  He was buried 25 January 1820 at Mission San José [Alta California].  His father, Ygnacio Antonio Linares, was born about 1745 at San Miguel Orcasitas <Horcasitas?>, Sonora, México to parents, Gregoria Linares and Manuela Gonzales.  Ygnacio Antonio was buried 6 June 1805 at Mission Santa Clara.  He married Maria Gertrudis Rivas about 1767 at San Miguel Orcasitas; she was born about 1752 at San Miguel Orcasitas, and she was buried 4 December 1813 at Mission Santa Clara. The 10 children of Ygnacio Antonio Linares and Maria Gertrudis Rivas include:  Maria Gertrudis, Juan Jose Ramon, Maria Juliana, Salvador Ygnacio, Maria Marcela, Maria Francisca Saturnina, Mariano de los Dolores, Joseph de los Santos, Maria Nicolasa, and Maria Antonia.

Maria Antonia Higuera was married twice:  8 September 1794 at Mission Dolores to Ramon Linares, and 16 October 1820 at Mission Santa Clara to Jose Francisco Garcia.  She was born 13 July 1782 and baptized 16 July 1782 at Mission Dolores and buried January 1834 at Mission San José.  Her parents were Ygnacio Anastacio Higuera born about 1753 at Villa de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, México (son of Joaquin Higuera and Juana); married 26 October 1775 at San Javier del Bac, Sonora, Mexico to Maria Micaela Bojorquez  (daughter of Jose Ramon Bojorquez and Francisca Romero).  Ygnacio Anastacio died 17 January 1805 near San José and was buried 27 January 1805 at Mission San José.  Maria Antonia's brother was Joseph Loreto Higuera.  He was born and baptized 8 September 1778 at Mission Dolores, died 18 March 1845 from a fall from a horse, buried at Mission San José, married twice:  15 January 1794 at Mission Dolores to Maria Pilar Sanchez and 22 February 1813 at Mission Dolores to Maria Romona Bartola Bernal.  Back to Maria Antonia Higuera, see Marriage Entry #1930:  Francisco Garcia, age 45, native of Cozala, widower of Manuela Duerte, married 16 October 1820 at Mission Santa Clara de Asis, to Maria Antonia Higuera, widow of Ramon Linares; witnesses:  Pablo Parra and Ignacio Peralta Cabo de esta Escolta. -Viader.

Respuesta a Pregunta 149 - 12 August 2003

Some marriages of children of Marcos Chaboya and Maria Teresa Bernal at Mission Santa Clara de Asis:
25 May 1818 Antonio Higuera, 22, married Manuela Chavoya, 20 <1797>.
10 Sep 1823 Jose de la Cruz Chavoya, 20, married Mariana Vasquez, widow of Alejandro, neofito.
18 Sep 1829 Anastacio Chavoya, 24 <1805>, married Josefa Higuera, 23 <1826> daughter of Joaquin Higuera and Bernarda Soto.
11 Oct 1832 Gervasio Chavoya married Micaela Linares, 19 <1813>, daughter of Ramon Linares and Antonia Higuera.

Some deaths of children of Marcos Chaboya and Maria Teresa Bernal at Mission Santa Clara de Asis:
7 Jan 1811 Mariano Chavoya died at age 5 months <1810>.
2 Nov 1807 Maria Lutgarda Chavoya, 7 months.  [See baptism entry 5307.]
22 Oct 1807 Manuel Salvador Chavoya, 16 <1791>.  [See baptism entry 1999.]

Others (parents not given):
Died 29 Jun 1804 Jose Antonio Chavira, widower, born in the city of Celaya, Guanajuato, México.
Died 15 Dec 1808 Marcos Chavira, widower of Teresa Bernal.

Taken from:  Northrop, Marie E (Main Author), Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California, 1769-1850, Polyanthos, c1976: New Orleans.  Southern California Genealogical Society:  Burbank, Calif.  Book, Page 229, Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400, USA, 979.4 F2n:
Juan Francisco Bernal (Mestizo) Born in 1737 at Rancho de Tule, Sinaloa.  Recruit soldier with Anza.  Brought wife, Maria Josefa Soto, a sister of Ygnacio Soto, and seven children:
1. Joaquin Bernal, aged 13 in 1776.  Married in 1785 at San Francisco Mission, Josefa Sanchez, aged 16, daughter of Jose Antonio Sanchez.  Joaquin died in 1837 at San José.
2. Juan Francisco Bernal, aged 12 in 1776.  Married in 1782 at Mission Dolores <San Francisco>, Petrona Gutierrez.  Juan Francisco died before 1804, for in that year his widow, Petrona, married at Mission Dolores, Cornelio Valderama.
3. Dionisio Bernal, aged 10 in 1776.  Married in 1784 at Santa Clara, Maria Manuela Mesa, daughter of Valerio Mesa.  Dionisio was in mission guard at Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Cruz.  His wife died in 1805 at San Jose.  Dionisio was retired from the army with rank of corporal when he died at San José in 1828.
4. Apolonario Bernal, aged 9 in 1776.  Married in 1792 at San Carlos, Maria Apolonaria Soberanes, daughter of Jose Maria Soberanes.  Widowed, he married in 1802 at Mission Dolores <San Francisco>, Teodora Peralta, daughter of Luis Peralta.
5. Ana Maria Bernal, aged 5 in 1776.  Married in 1784, at Mission Dolores, Gabriel Moraga.
6. Maria Teresa Bernal, aged 3 in 1776.   Married in 1786 at Mission Dolores, Marcos Chavoya, son of Pascual Chavoya.  She died in San José in 1830.
7. Tomas Januario Bernal, few months old in 1776. [Karen Kelnhofer Eddy (nonmember), Salt Lake City, Utah]

Pregunta 148 - 6 August 2003

Pregunta 147 - 6 August 2003

William "Julian"  Wilson was a 24 year old native of Virginia when he arrived in Santa Cruz, California in 1823.  It was believed that Wilson was a sailor or soldier aboard the privateer fleet of Lord Cochrane, the British adventurer who helped South American countries win their independence, though, there is some evidence of this, but no proof.  He became a permanent resident of Alta California. He applied for Mexican citizenship and was baptised a Catholic in 1824. [Helen Collins (member), San José, Calif.]

Pregunta 146 - 16 July 2003

Respuesta a Pregunta 146 - 22 September 2004

Sue Dominguez, email me at jalbitre@aol.com and I can give you a little more information.  Augustina Olivera was not married into the family of Vicente Feliz (1776), but a Feliz family that came from Sonora at a later date. [John Albitre (member), Bakersfield, Calif.] Note: please copy the information to me so I can correct my material, too. La Tejedora

Respuesta a Pregunta 146 - 16 July 2003

This was very common as there were a limited number of families in all of Alta California and travel was difficult. According to Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Vol. I, pp. 238-246: Joseph Ignacio Olivera [born about 1750 at San José del Cabo, Baja California, México; buried 26 April 1794 at Mission Santa Barbara] and Ygnacio Narciso Olivera [born about 1758 at San Antonio, Baja California, México; buried 16 May 1814 at Mission Santa Barbara] were both sons of Martin Olivera and María Micaela Carrillo. Joseph's wife, María Loreta Feliz [born about 1765 at Alamos Sonora, México; buried 8 July 1789 at Mission San Gabriel], and Ygnacio Narciso's wife, María Marcelina Feliz [born about 1769 at Alamos; buried 16 May 1814 at Mission Santa Barbara], were both daughters of José Vicente Feliz and María Pinuelas. I am sorry that I was unable to find the marriage of Vicente Feliz and Augustina Olivera in Northrop as she does not give all the Martin Olivera/María Carrillo children nor all the Feliz/Pinuela children. [Benita Gray (member), San Diego, Calif.]

Pregunta 145 -16 July 2003

Looking for information on my family line, Galindo, in California in 1800. Thank you [Edward Galindo (nonmember), Canoga Park, Calif.] Note: Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California, 1769-1850 alone has four full pages of Galindos and numerous other references to individual Galindos. Can you please be more specific as to which Galindo family line you are interested in? La Tejedora

Pregunta 144 - 16 July 2003

I have been working on a Web site for the SEPULVEDA FAMILY.  The web site is called "Jose Mauricio Sepulveda" Website and can only be accessed by invitation from me. .  If you are interested in viewing it please contact me at:  rdsepulveda@earthlink.net. The Web site at this time is mostly pictures.  If you have pictures of the Sepulveda families I would be interested in posting them to the Web site.  Francisco Xavier Sepulveda (Abt. 1742-1788) and  his wife, María Candelaria de Redondo (1746-1804) had seven (7) children.  I am interested in securing pictures of this family and their off spring to post to the Web site.  If you are interested in viewing the site - please let me know.  Again you may contact me at:  rdsepulveda@earthlink.net Thank you [Richard D. Sepulveda (nonmember), Vista, Calif.]

Pregunta 143 - 16 July 2003

In the Santa Barbara census of 1850 and 1852, a Bernardino Lugo (age 36) is married to Isabel Lugo (38) and they have children Juana Maria Lugo (15), Maria Lugo (10), R. Lugo (8), Marian Nicholosa Lugo (4), and Francisca Lugo (1).  They lived with/worked for Isabel Maitorena (a.k.a. Isabel Yorba).  Yorba-Maitorena adopted Isabel Lugo (evidently her niece) and the daughters some time thereafter.

Can you explain what happened to Bernardino and what role he carried out?  Listed as a ranchero, was he Yorba-Maitorena's mayordomo?   How were adoptions carried out in that era? [Ruth Taylor Kilday (nonmember), Oak Park, Calif.]

Respuesta a Pregunta 143 - 16 July 2003

You didn't ask for this information, but you might find it of interest. According to Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Vol. I, pp.211-212:
Bernardino Feliz Lugo [baptized 21 May 1810 at Mission San Fernando] married María Isabel Leyba 3 September 1835 at Mission Santa Barbara. His parents were José Miguel Lugo [born about 1779 at Villa de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, México of José Ygnacio Manuel Lugo and Gertrudis Limón] and María Ysabel Fernández [baptized 2 July 1783 at Mission Santa Barbara; parents José Rosalino Fernández and Juana Quintero]. José Miguel and María Ysabel married 4 February 1799 at Mission Santa Barbara and had a total of 11 children between 1800 and 1826. Bernardino was the fifth. José Miguel Lugo was a soldado de cuera at Santa Barbara in 1837 with his wife and two of his children.

According to  Vol. II, pp. 140-141: María del Carmen Isabel Leyba [who married Bernardino] was born 11 August 1810; baptized 12 August 1810 at Mission Santa Barbara. Her parents were José Rufino Leyba [born 1779 at Real de Cozala, Sinaloa, México of Juan Agustín de Leyba and María Guadalupe Salazar; buried 31 May 1819 at Mission San Buenaventura--killed by escaped Amajava (Mojave) Indians that had been held in the guardhouse] and María Francisco García [born about 1780 at Real de Cozala of Toribio García and Juana Simona Rodríguez; buried 24 November 1813 at Mission Santa Barbara]]. José Rufino and María Guadalupe were married 9 February 1796 at Mission Santa Barbara and had a total of 7 children between 1798 and 1813. María del Carmen Isabel was the sixth. José Rufino came with his parents to Mission San Gabriel in 1781. María Francisca came with her mother in the 1781 expedition to found Santa Barbara. Her widowed mother married José María Lopez at San Diego on 12 February 1782 and thereafter María Francisca often assumed her step-father's name of López. She was confirmed at San Gabriel 19 October 1788. 

According to Vol. I, p. 364: Isabel María Yorba married José Joaquín Maitorena  26 May 1805 at Mission San Diego. With a quick search, I could not find a close direct connection between Isabel Yorba and either Bernardino Lugo or María Leyba, but there may be a more distant connection. [Benita H. Gray (member), San Diego, Calif.]

Pregunta 142 - 16 July 2003

Looking for information on Juan Jose Amesquita [born 23 July 1797 in San Jose, Calif.] who was married to Maria Gregoria Arceo [Arces/arce?] [born 1805 Place Mission Santa Cruz, Calif. of Jose Maria Arceo [born 1778 Mexico] and Vicenta Anastacia Alegre [born 21 January 1786]. I would like to have contact with families doing research with these surnames.  [Judy Garcia (nonmember), Pacific Grove, Calif. johnherthel@msn.com]

Pregunta 141 - 23 June 2003

I am trying to get any information on the Parents of the following:  Dionysio Soto (born 1808) and wife, Francisca Armenta  (born about 1812).  They had a son named Macedonia Alcolla Soto (born 1834 and died in Watsonville, Calif. 6 Sept. 1907). I an trying to find if Dionysio or Francisca had other children or family.  Thank you. [Richard (nonmember), Guerneville, Calif.]

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