Claudio
married Maria
Luisa Cota [born about 1776 at the Royal Presidio, Loreto,
Baja California of Roque
Jacinto Cota and
Juana Maria Verdugo; died 15 February 1851; buried 16 February
1851 at Mission San Gabriel]. Claudio
was buried 8 January 1833 inside Mission San Gabriel beneath the holy
water font. He had settled in Los Angeles in 1811; was majordomo at Mission San
Gabriel 1821-30; and was alcalde at Los Angeles 1826. [Benita H. Gray (member),
San Diego, Calif.]
Pregunta 388 - 12 September 2006
Hello, my grandmother's grandfather was Cayatano
Duarte (born about 1832?). We haven't been able to find out
who his ancestors are or where they came from. He was married to Maria,
maiden name unknown. His daughter, Maria,
married Ambrose
Vanzaghi and their daughters were Irene,
Evelyn,and
Louise.
I am interested in any information regarding Cayatano
and his wife. Thanks so much, [Daneille Ong (nonmember), Reno, Nev.]
Looking for a database of mission records for the period of 1850 to 1870.
The ECPP covers up to 1850 and the Marin County archives don't begin until
1870. Our relative
Maude Garcia was born approximately 1866, in Olema, Calif.,
of Juan Garcia
(born 1836) and Guadaloupe
Higuera (born 1845). Her grandparents were Rafael
Garcia (born 1791) and Maria
Loreto Altamirano (born 1813) [Laura Imhoff (husband is
provisional), Redwood Valley, Calif.]
Pregunta por Laura 387 - 8
November 2006
Laura, do you know of any children of
Rafael Garcia and Maria Loreto
Altamirano other than
Juan? My great, great grandfather was
Jesus
Garcia, born about 1835. He married
the daughter of
Juana Briones,
the sister of
Gregorio who
married
Rafael's sister
Ramona.
Thank you [Patrick Garcia (nonmember), Spokane, Wash.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 387 - 6 October 2006
I think I can put you in contact with a descendant of
Maud Garcia.
Please contact me by email - Julia Christy at
stevejc@bresnan.net [Julia Christy
(member), Worland, Wyo.]
Pregunta 386 - 7 September 2006
Benita
Catalina Bermudez born (1895) & died (1950) in San
Gabriel. Tradition says ancestors include an Indian princess who married a
cousin to King of Spain. Her granddaughter's desire is to find who is the
chief. She is also interested in other ancestors, mostly coming from Mexico to
California.
Jose Maria
Ruiz 1831 & Maria
Francisca Duarte 1833-1910 SG Mariano Ruiz 1811
& Maria
Florentina Ybarra 1811
(Mariano
de la Encarnacion Ruiz) Fructuoso
Maria Ruiz & Maria
Dolores Lugo Jose Desiderio
Ybarra & Maria
de Jesus Valeriana Lorenzana Francisco
Xavier Duarte & Maria
Loreto Rosas Manuel Antonio
Duarte & Apolonia
Ontiveros Jose Manuel
Rosas & Maria
Victoria Monroy
We don't know which lines might be Indian and which and when any came from
Spain. Or when and where they came to California. Also, we do not know of any
earlier generations. I thought with this list and many members someone will
probably know something any information will be appreciated. We would like to
get to know them. Stories and research clues invited. Thank you [Nedra Roman
(nonmember), Provo, Utah]
Respuesta a Pregunta 386 - 7 September
2006
You have listed so many people and family lines that I cannot include all
the information on them to be found in Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican
Families of Early California: 1769-1850. However, I will direct you to the
page numbers for the family names you mention. You should be able to access a
copy of her works at your Family History Center or your local university or
community libraries or through Interlibrary loan [ask your librarian about
this alternative]. Using her information, you should be able to research the
extensive microfilm Mission records in the Family History Center in Salt Lake
City. Also, check out the Huntington Library Web site, which has just put
original Mission records online. [Benita H. Gray (member), San Diego, Calif.]
Vol. I: Duarte
pp. 128-129; Lugo
pp. 207-216; Ruiz
pp. 291-293
Vol. II: Duarte
pp. 68-77; Lorenzana/o
pp. 151-152; Lugo
pp. 152-153; Ontiveros
pp. 189-193; Rosas
pp. 250-252; Ruiz
pp. 257-258; Ybarra
pp. 331-334
Pregunta 385 - 7 September 2006
Hi! I'm The great great great granddaughter of Rafael
Castro and Maria
Soledad Cota of Santa Cruz/Aptos, California. My great great
grandfather was Francisco
Castro, son of Rafael
Castro and Maria
Soledad. My great grandmother is Maria
De La Soledad Castro/Williams-Rodriquez of Santa Cruz. Maria
De La Soledad Castro was born 26 December 1872 and died 16
September 1969 in Santa Rita/Salinas, California. I myself know I have
relatives out there since I believe Rafael
had 10 children and one married Claus
Spreckles of the sugar company. Anyway I do know Maria
Cota was a Native American Indian of Monterey, California.
I would love to hear from someone that is a relative of Rafael
Castro and Maria
Soledad Cota. Hope to hear back soon. [Sarah
Fulton/Bergstrom (nonmember), Hope Mills, N.C.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 385 - 22 May 2007
I would like to thank Valerie Hall in responding to questions regarding my
great, great, great grandfather
Raphael Castro
and
Maria Soledad Cota
my great, great, great grandmother.
I would like to inform you Valerie that regarding your question "who was
married to
Claus Spreckels"
It was known to me through family and some history books. I quote,
"Vicente
Castro, born 25th November 1835, Aptos, California son of
Rafael Castro and
Soledad Cota, he
married first
Refugio Jesus Fuentes,
and second
Vicenta Pico. He
sold the remainder of Rancho Aptos to his brother-in-law
Claus Spreckels. "
Is
Vicenta Pico the
daughter of
Claus Spreckels?
What my question is, is there anybody by name living that I could meet that is
a relative through my great, great, great grandparents? I would like to meet
them. [Sarah Bergstrom (nonmember), Hope Mills, N.C.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 385 - 6 October 2006
Sarah, you have lots of relatives out here in California. Your
Jose Rafael de Jesus Castro y Amador
(y = mother's surname), whose family goes back to Aragon,
Spain, had many descendants.
Maria de la Soledad Cota y Romero's
family is mainly from Villa de Sinaloa, Mexico. She was
born 15 April 1808 in Santa Barbara to
Manuel Antonio Cota y Lugo
of California and wife
Maria Gertrudis Romero y Salgado
who was born in Loreto, Baja California, Mexico. I haven't found any Indian
ancestors on any lines yet. All of these families go back several more
generations. A good place to look for them would be Marie Northrop's
Spanish and Mexican Families, listed in the respuesta a pregunta #386
right above. Another good source is the recently completed index of all the
early California Mission records at the Huntington Library website:
http://www.huntington.org/Information/ECPPlogin.htm
If you find more information about which of their children married
Claus Spreckles,
I'd like to hear the details. [Valerie Hall (member), Fair Oaks, Calif.]
Pregunta 384 - 7 September 2006
Hello,
We are from Folklor Mexicano and we are interested in networking we are
currently investigating music and dances for the Californios. We will be
designing the costumes to dance at the Dickens Festival in Riverside, Calif.
Would like to share information. Contact Gabriela via email folklorMexicano@comcast.net
or call 951-642-1867. Thanks [Nick Carbone
Ballet Folklorico Folklor Mexicano Del Sur De California]
Pregunta 383 - 7 September 2006
I have a rather odd request......I recently moved into a house in Azusa,
California.
After getting settled in the house I started working clearing the (very
overgrown) outside yards. After cutting my way through a jungle of ivy I found
laying on the ground a carved, marble headstone. It wasn't like someone was
buried there but it had been put there. I haven't moved it but I did clean it
off and found out what was written on it. It reads:
Maria Arcadia
Alvarado
Born November 16, 1851
Died December 5, 1879
(all of this is written in Spanish)
That's it! No, Loving Mother or Wife of , daughter of, just the name and
dates. (I don't have a digital camera or I would send you a photo). I called
the previous owners of the Azusa house to ask if they knew anything about the
headstone. They were surprised as they had forgotten all about it. They told
me before buying the house in Azusa (1979) they
had lived in a house on the corner of Alvarado Street and Park Ave. in Pomona,
California. ( I don't know how long they lived there.) But they told me they
had found the headstone in the garage there and as the house was going to be
torn down they brought it with them to their new Azusa house (1979) They told
me they always meant to find out something
about it but just never got around to it.
I've tried to do a little research on my own but with the way the Spanish use
surnames and maiden names it's very confusing. All I really want to do
is put Maria Arcadia Alvarado's headstone back where it belongs, give it to
her descendants or donate it to a historical
society. I'm not sure what the right thing to do is???
If you can help me, or have any information I would surely appreciate it.
Thank you, arobinred@sbcglobal.net
(626)441-3135 [Robin Arnold (nonmember), Azusa, Calif.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 383 - 24 November 2006
Dear Robin Arnold,
Re:
Maria Arcadia Alvarado [born 11
November 1851, baptized 16 November 1851, died 5 December 1879]
Yes, you are exactly right and your heart is where
it should be. To hold onto what is good and plant the discolored headstone
back at the ivy root as it should be, hold onto the great round rocks in life
and let the unimportant stone go. Reaching back in time from here, we know
that Maria Arcadia experienced pain and yet the scars of time have healed over
like the ivy annually covering itself with new leaves. We know that she
walked in sadness and yet all to be seen now is the beautiful soothing autumn
light from Mother Earth the tall mountain nearby and all is in harmony as it
should be with beauty in all directions and the song of the wind. Enjoy your
home. [Teresa Russell y Espinosa (nonmember), Long Beach, Calif.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 383 - 17 November 2006
Robin I just read & talked to you in regard to
Maria Arcadia Alvarado,
her father is brother to
Juan Nepomuceno Alvarado,
Juan N. Alvarado
would be my great, great, great, great grandfather, so
Maria Arcadia
would be cousin to
Mariano Alvarado
(my great, great, great grandfather & the son of
Juan N. Alvarado).
Mariano's great,
great granddaughter is my grandmother
Beatrice M. Alvarado.
[Vivian Romero (nonmember), Tyler, Tex.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 383 - 7 September 2006
According to Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early
California: 1769-1850, vol. II. pp. 5-6: a Maria
Arcadia Alvarado was born 11 November 1851 of Ysidro
Maria Dolores Alvarado and his second wife Manuela
Lorenza Justiniana Avila [Manuela
died 1865 of smallpox]. Maria
Arcadia was baptized 16 November 1851 at the Los Angeles Plaza Church. I
wonder if the tombstone was not used and was replaced because the birth date was
incorrect? [Benita H. Gray (member), San Diego, Calif.]
Pregunta 382 - 7 September 2006
My great-great-grandfather was Petronilo
Rios who was married to Catarina
Avila. Petronilo
Rios [born 1806] served with and under General Vallejo. He
reached the rank of Sgt. and was in charge of munitions (Presidio San
Francisco de Sonoma OR Presidio de San Francisco?). In 1835, with local Indian
labor, he built the The Rios-Caledonia Adobe. In
1846 William
Reed, Miguel
Garcia, and Rios
brought the San Miguel rancho.
On December 5, 1848 Reed
was murdered along with other members of his household including his wife, Maria
Antonia Vallejo and her brother
Jose Maria Vallejo, both children of General Vallejo
according to the Catarina's recuerdo of the events written in 1877. (It
is my assumption that Maria
Antonia and Jose
Maria were illegitimate children of M.
G. Vallejo and not the children of his wife, Francisca
Maria Benicia Carrillo).
Per Jolon church records, dated 20 May 1844, a Maria
Antonia Vallejo was listed as adopted by Don Petronilo
Rios and Doña Catarina
Linares: (Catarina
Avila Linares, sic) fue ettada Luzar da Garca.
One secondary source states that "Maria
was a Neophyte Salinan Indian, baptized and sponsored by Jesus Linares and
Marcela Avila Linares, and may have adopted their surnames as hers." and
asks "Where did the surname Vallejo originate??? We know from histories
written about Governor Mariano
Guadalupe Vallejo, he visited the Jolon, Calif. area often,
as did as his brother."
In 1860, Maria
Antonia [born 1841] married Jose
Maria Gil. Their youngest child Mary
Ann Gil married
Egobilo "Bill" Rios, the grandson of Petronilo
and Catarina
Rios.
So here are my questions: Maria
Antonia Vallejo #1 - is it known who her mother was? Was she
Native American and when was she born? Is it possible that Maria
Antonia Vallejo #2 [born 1841] was also General Vallejo's
daughter? Where might I find the answer to who her parents were? [Cyndi
Rios-Gonzalez (nonmember), San Francisco, Calif.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 382 - 7 September
2006
According to Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early
California:1769-1850:
Vol. II, p. 310: Maria
Antonia del Carmen Vallejo (Avila) was hija natural of Mariano
Guadalupe Vallejo and Maria
Rosalia Avila. She was baptized 16 March 1827 at Mission San
Carlos de Monterey. [Benita H. Gray (member), San Diego, Calif.]
Pregunta 381 - 7 September 2006
My fifth great grandfather is the first land grant owner in California,
Manuel Butron. My question is, however, if my great-great grandmother,
Valentina (Castro) Canet, was related to any of the Castros around
central California. Her father was Juan, and on his place of birth it says Baja California.
[Linda Caligari (not yet member), Winters, Calif.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 381 - 6 October 2006
Linda, I'd be glad to see if I have your
Valentina Castro
in my records. Could I get more information, like her date and place of birth
and death? Estimates would do. [Valerie Hall (member), Fair Oaks, Calif.]
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