am
a linguist working on the Spanish language used in California before 1848. I
saw your vocabulary list, but I was wondering if any of your members have
letters or documents written in Spanish which they would be willing to show me
to add to what I have found at the Bancroft Library and the California State
Archives. I would really appreciate any help you could give. Muchísimas
gracias, [Dr. Lynette Nyaggah
(nonmember), Rio Hondo, Calif.]
LNyaggah@riohondo.edu
Pregunta 447 - 22 June 2007
What information do you have on
John Collins,
a.k.a,
Juan Bautista, a.k.a Juan Colins?
I know he was born in London in 1796, and died in Baja Sur 1866. Also
interest in his wife,
Loretta Marron.
[Beatriz Amador (nonmember), Rancho San Diego, Calif.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 447 - 9 February 2008
My name is Alicia Collins. I am the great great granddaughter of
John Collins and
Maria Loreto Marron.
I am interested in communicating with their descendents to find all my
family roots. I have not found out who the parents of
John Collins and
Maria Loreto Marron
are . Thank you for your help. My email is
aliciacollins4@hotmail.com
[Alicia Collins (nonmember), Fontana, Calif.]
Pregunta 446 - 22 June 2007
Looking for information on
Pedro Amador,
father of
Jose Maria Amador. Where was he born
and was he in Baja California Sur? If so, when? Did he have a family in Baja
California Sur? If he did, what was his wife's name, and how many children in
Baja California Sur? Also when was he in Baja Sur? [Beatriz Amador
(nonmember), Rancho San Diego, Calif.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 446 - 11 July 2007
I have a great deal of information on
Pedro Amador
(my great-great-great-great-grandfather). Here's a sample:
Enlisted at Loreto, 1764 [Service record: TBL, C–A 16: 19]. With Portolá in
second party to San Diego, and on to San Francisco under Portolá and Rivera [AGNM,
Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. With Rivera on his return to
Velicatá, 11 February 1770, but did not return with him to San Diego in July
1770 [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. Acting sergeant in
Escolta de la Frontera at Velicatá, 1773. Obtained permit to resign and
return to home in Cocula, 1774. After eight months absence, returned to Loreto
simply as soldier [Bancroft, History of California, vol. II, p. 584]. At
Misión Santo Domingo, 1780. In Sonora with Rivera conducting settlers to Alta
California (missed Yuma massacre), 1781 [AHBCS, Político, 49]. Returned to
Loreto, 1782, assigned to Escolta de la Frontera late 1782 and 1783, [AHBCS,
Político, exp. 71]. Transferred 25 January 1784 to Presidio of Santa Bárbara [AHBCS,
Político, 102]; promoted to sergeant in 1787 [AGS, Secretaría de Guerra,!
Hojas de Servicio, leg. 7275, VII, 82; Bancroft, History of California, vol.
I, p. 472]. Leader of the five to eight soldiers guarding new Misión de Santa
Cruz, 1795–1797 [Bancroft, op. cit., p. 495]. Listed as retired 31 December
1801, 4 December 1815 [TBL, C–A 21: 76–77, 81]. - Men of the 1769 Overland
Expeditions, Velicatá to San Diego by Harry Crosby
As the grizzled Sergeant
Pedro Amador
wryly commented in his service record, the only compensation he had received
for eighteen year's service in California was fourteen Indian arrows in his
body. Colonial Life in Spanish California During the North American
Revolution by Leon G. Campbell
I have quite a bit of his service record, his three wives and eleven children.
Contact me at patgarcia@cebridge.net
[Pat Garcia (member), Colfax, Calif.]
Pregunta 445 - 22 June 2007
We are well into our research on
Silvestre de la Portilla,
my husband's great grandfather. He and brother
Pablo, we think
arrived around 1819.
Pablo was with 3rd
Company of the Spanish Army.
Silvestre (#1, as
we lovingly call him) seemed to have been involved at Mission San Luis Rey and
eventually had Rancho Valle de San Jose. Indian problems, etc. caused it to
become Warner's Ranch.
OK, we are looking for any information as to what happened to him after 1861,
when he married, at age 60,
Claudia Valdez,
age 17. They had 7 or 8 children, some of whom we knew.
Anyone know of a painting of
Silvestre #1 we
have been trying to locate? It was
Silvestre upon a
horse in front of the Mission. We last saw it at the Mission in 1975 - any
clues on how to trace it would be appreciated. The Mission seems not to be
able to assist us. Many thanks--p.s.--they changed the name to
Portillo around
1880-??? [Bob & Sue Winters (new applicants), Twain Haarte, Calif.]
Pregunta 444 - 22 June 2007
I
have two questions. The first concerns my 5th
great-grandparents,
Felipe Santiago de la Cruz Pico
and his wife,
Maria Jacinta de la Bastida,
who along with their family, including my 4th great-grandfather
Jose Miguel Pico,
were members of the de Anza Expedition to Alta California. The ultimate
goal of the expedition was to establish a settlement at San Francisco.
However, it seems that the Pico family ended up in Los Angeles rather than
in San Francisco or any of the towns nearby. Did they simply leave the
expedition when it reached Los Angeles, or did they continue on up to San
Francisco and then return to and settle in Los Angeles? By the way another
pair of my 5th great-grandparents,
Jose Ramon Bojorquez and
his wife,
Maria Francisca Romero,
were also members of the de Anza Expedition, but they remained with the
expedition for the full journey and were among the founding families of
San Jose.
My second question concerns yet another set of
5th great-grandparents,
Jose Fernando de Velasco y Lara
and
Maria Campos.
After
Jose Fernando
left
Maria
and their children stranded in Santa Barbara and returned to Mexico, she
married a man named
Luis Gonzaga de Lugo.
Luis'
father was
Francisco Ginez de Lugo. Are
these
de Lugos
related to my 6th great-grandfather
Jose Francisco Salvador de Lugo,
husband of
Juana Maria Martinez y Vianazul,
and furthermore , along this same line of questioning, was my 5th
great-grandmother
Maria Josefa de Lugo,
wife of
Domingo Ruiz,
related to either
Francisco Gonzaga de Lugo
or
Jose Francisco Salvador de Lugo?[William
J. Romo (member), Ottawa, Canada]
Respuesta a Pregunta 443 - 11 July 2007
Felipe Santiago de la Cruz Pico
was a soldier recruit with the second Anza expedition. Although he appears on
the 31 December 1776 San Francisco Presidio roster, Antepasados Vol.
II, 1977, there is speculation that he never served in San Francisco. He was
reassigned to San Diego at some point in time in 1776 and he then appears on
the San Diego Presidio rosters. He raised most of his family there and
retired from the army before 1790. He received permission from the government
to retire at Los Angeles and is listed there in the 1790 Los Angeles Census.
In his later years, he and
Maria Jacinta Bastida
relocated to the Santa Barbara area where their son
Miguel Pico was a
soldier at the presidio, and married to
Casilda dela Cruz Sinova.
Maria Jacinta died
and was buried at the Santa Barbara Presidio Chapel Cemetery on 15 May 1796.
Miguel and his
brother
Patrico were
grandees for Rancho San Jose del Gracia de Simi in 1795.
Miguel retired
from the military and served as the mayordomo of Mission San Buenaventura.
Santiago de la Cruz Pico
was living with
Miguel Pico when
he died and he was buried at the Mission Cemetery on 12 May 1815.
Ramon Bojorques
served as a soldado de cuera at the San Francisco Presidio and he also
served as the cabo of the escolta for both the San Francisco and
Santa Clara Missions. You can find an interesting anecdote about him in later
life in San Jose in Californio Voices - The Oral Memoirs of Jose Maria
Amador and Lorenzo Asisara, edited by Gregorio Mora-Torres. I've been told
he is buried under the church floor at Mission San Jose. Hope this helps.
[Tom Silva (member), Walnut Creek, Calif.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 443 - 22 June 2007
According to Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early
California 1769-1850, Vol. II, p. 206: "Felipe
Santiago de la Cruz Pico: Left Tubac on 23 October 1775 as
recruit with Anza; of San Francisco Company in 1776; at San Diego 1782-83;
vaquero at Los Angeles 1790; grantee San Jose de Gracia de Semi." [Benita H.
Gray (member), San Diego, Calif.]
Pregunta 443 - 22 June 2007
TI would like information on the life of Sister
Vincenta Bermudes
who is buried at the Santa Barbara Mission. She was only 20 years old and
died on Dec. 25, 1863. [Susan Clark (nonmember), Orlando, Fla.]
Pregunta 442 - 14 June 2007
I would be interested in learning any information available on the ancestry
of
Francisco Maria Josef de Castro
and his wife,
Zeferina Limon.
Is it known, for instance, when this
Castro family came
to Mexico and from where? [John Bryan Starr (member), New Canaan, Conn.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 442 - 29 June 2007
I have just a little information on
Francisco Maria Josef de Castro,
but nothing any further back.
Per Harry Crosby's Antigua California:
Born about 1725 at Villa de Sinaloa, died 1770 at Loreto; wife
Maria Zeferina Limon (I have no further information on her.). Enlisted in Presidio of Loreto,
Escuadra del Sur, before 1751. By 1754
Castro had been
promoted to sergeant and entrusted to conduct a series of legal hearings. He
remained in the south until 1768 then was made mayordomo of Misión de la
Purisima (Alta California). He was literate. Hope this helps, [Valerie Hall
(member), Fair Oaks, Calif.]
Pregunta 441 - 14 June 2007
I would like to now what the last name
Moyza,
means and where it originated from? [Vanessa Lemus (nonmember), El Centro,
Calif.]
Respuesta a Pregunta 441 - 29 June 2007
I am
Moyza by my mother
from Arivaca, Arizona. My grandfather was
Floencio and
Ufemiano Moyza. We
are supposedly to be of Italian descent. Rancho Moyza was a ranch in Arivaca,
Arizona. [Daniel Moyza Valenzuela (nonmember), Tucson, Ariz.]
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