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NOTE: THE FOLLOWING QUERIES HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT SINCE NO EMAIL ADDRESS WAS GIVEN, I CANNOT CONTACT THE SENDERS FOR MORE INFORMATION. PLEASE ALWAYS INCLUDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS!! La Tejedora 1. How many graves were there in San Gabrile [sic]? Mission San Gabriel, Calif. or the city or someplace other than California? When? Total? (probably impossible to determine) Marked? Recorded in mission and/or civil records? 2. I am seeking to confirm the existence of the Redfeather clan within the Navajo peoples. The only Native American records we have are California mission records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths. As far as my family knows, we were relocated from the four corners territory into Sacramento, (as mule team drivers) & also Ventura Calif., and Somis Calif. (as migrant workers). When? We only post queries related to family lines in Alta California before 1848. ##########
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My mother, Elizabeth (Bette) Allen is/was a member of Los Californianos. I am carrying on her research. She descends from Felepe Santiago Garcia and Petra Joaquina Alcantara del Rincon de Lugo through two children, Juan Jose Garcia (the first white child born in upper California) and Jose Antonio Inocencio (Inocente) Garcia. I also descend from Leonardo Lopez, Sr., (died 1883 in San Luis Obispo Co., Calif) who married Maria Laurenza Rafaela Garcia (child of Jose Antonio Inocencio (Inocente) Garcia). I am filling in as may descendants of these people as I can find. I am currently working on Inez Lopez, born 1856, who married Juan Salvador Garcia, born 1850-1852. I have questions about their descendants. I am informed by my mother that Joyce Guinn, a member of Los Californianos, descends from this couple through their son, Edward Lucas Garcia. I would like to contact Joyce Guinn or have her contact me (boballen1948@sbcglobal.net [Bob Allen (nonmember), San Jose, Calif.]
I am interested in Leonardo Lopez's family as Jose Maria Lopez, his son by his Indian wife, was raised by my McAuliffe grandparents when Jose was left by his father after his mother died, and he was placed in the orphanage in Watsonville, Calif. Leonardo Lopez wanted to marry Rafiela Garcia, and he didn't want to keep half-Indian Jose. The Rev. Apolinarius Roussel placed Jose in the McAuliffe's household. He never married, and remained a valued family member of the McAuliffes until he died. Jose Lopez kept in contact with his San Luis Obispo Lopez sisters and brothers, and they were kind to him. There are descendants of Leonardo Lopez at this time. [Helen Collins (member), San Jose, Calif.]
Juan Bojorques [ born 1806] and Ysidora Galindo [ born 1816] were the parents of four children: Maria Juana de Jesus [born 1832]; Geronima Antonia [born 1834]; Maria Luisa/Lucia Guadalupe [born 1835]; and Francisco de las Llagas [born 1837]. Of these four I’ve found only two marriages: Maria Juana de Jesus and her sister Maria Luisa Guadalupe. Maria Juana de Jesus married Jose Antonio Maria Castro and had 7 children before Antonio died at age 28. Juana remarried within 6 months to Jesus Palomares and they had 3 children. I have no idea what happened to Jesus Palomares but Juana married again to Manuel Enriques. Juana and Manuel had 8 children. Juana’s sister, Maria Luisa/Lucia Guadalupe Bojorques, married first Jose Antonio de Jesus Pena/Pina and they had one daughter, Maria de Jesus Nicanor [born December 1849]. Maria Luisa/Lucia married a second time to Jose Nemesio Sepulveda at St Joseph’s Church, San Jose, Calif. in July 1853. I have no children listed for these two. One of Maria Luisa/Lucia’s descendants, John Robert Feliz was a Life Member of Los Californianos. I’m hoping to find more descendants, either his children or descendants of John’s father’s family. I know this is a long shot, but any information on the families of Maria Luisa/Lucia Guadalupe Bojorques and either of her husbands would be so appreciated! I can be reached at Sheila-Ann@juno.com but please be sure to cc this Web site for others to learn more about these families, too. [Sheila Ruiz Harrell (member), Modesto, Calif.]
I am trying to find the father & mother of Jesus Urquidez [born 1828; died 1911; married to Isabel Pombert]. I have a feeling there was a name change or a different spelling. I was once refereed to the Lorraine Escobar-Estrada database and still can't find the parents of Jesus. I would appreciate any help you can give me. [Debbie Miles (nonmember), Magalia, Calif.]
I am researching the family of Manuel Butron. Specifically, I would like to know what became of Maria Ramona Sixta Butron McMahon after her husband, Jeremiah McMahon, was killed in a gunfight in Monterey in March 1855. The 1860 census shows 3 of her children living with her aunt, Rosa Butron Simmler, in San Luis Obispo County. Ramona was born in 1819 at Natividad and married Mr. McMahon in San Juan Bautista in 1848. [Roger Carsner (nonmember), Elk Grove, Calif.]
HELP - Can someone tell me if I am on the right Feliz line? Juan Victorino Feliz [born Cozala] married Maria Micaela Landeras about 1771. They had two sons: 1) Jose Ignacio [born about 1774; married Antonia Dolores Villa; died 1891 in Santa Barbara] and 2) Juan Manuel [born about 1775; married Maria Isabel Asencion Cota in Santa Barbara 17 May 1795]. I followed Juan Manuel's line. He died 1800 or 1801. He married Maria Isabel de la Ascension Cota. They had Juan Jose (de Gracia) , baptized July 1799(?) at Mission Santa Barbara. When Juan Manuel died, did Maria Isabel marry Jose Dolores Pico? Was she pregnant with a daughter - Nariana de Jesus who was baptized 8 September 1801 in Monterey? Juan Jose (de Gracia) married Maria Antonia Dionisia Ascension Castro, daughter of Jose Joaquin Castro and Maria Antonia Amador. Their daughter (my 3rd great grandmother) married Juan Pablo Bernal. Juan Jose died in 1871 in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was about 75 years old. .....or should I have followed Jose Ygnacio Feliz, who married Maria Antonia Dolores Villa??? They also had a son. HELP SOMEONE [Dorothy Wuss (member), San Jose, Calif.]
I have information for Juan Victorino Feliz that I think would be of interest to Dortohy Wuss. Contact me at my E-mail address jandeloren@att.net . [John Lorenzana (member), Clovis, Calif.] Note: others may also be interested so please copy to the Web site. La Tejedora
My great-great-grandmother is Maria Refugio Alviso Fagalde. Information has been handed down in our family that either her father or her grandfather was with Juan Bautista de Anza when the San Francisco area was settled or founded. I keep getting the two Francisco sons of Domingo Alviso mixed up with one another, and their wives. So I'm not sure which one was her father or where anyone was born, or if they were Mexican or Spanish, or a mixture. Can anyone provide information for me, so that I can continue the search of my ancestry through Domingo Alviso and Maria Angela Trejo. I thank you for your help. [Laura Sanders Fagundes (nonmember at present), Placerville, Calif.]
Maria Angela Trejo was the 2nd wife of Pedro Antonio Bojorues. (They are my grandmother's great great grandparents). See Pregunta 021) She and Pedro were married about 1770 in Sinaloa and she was the one who accompanied him in the 1776 Anza expedition. They had 3 children, and that's where my family comes from. (His first wife was Maria Francisca De Lara and their daughter, Maria Augustina Bojorques was born in 1771. She was married on 12 Dec. 1787 to Francisco Xavier Alviso. I have no clue if he was related to Domingo Alviso.) This was Maria's 2nd marriage. Her first marriage was to Corporal Domingo Alviso and she had 4 children with Cpl. Domingo before being widowed. I don't know who those children were. Maria Angela Trejo (or Chumacero) was born at Mission San Miguel de Orcasistas in 1747 and died on 4 Jan. 1803 at Mission San Carlos De Monterey. Hope this helps! [ Carol Cronin (not yet member), Omaha, Neb.]
According to Dorothy Gittinger Mutnick (Some Alta California Pioneers and Descendants, Div One, Vol I, Entry #74) Maria Geronima del Refugio Alviso was baptized at Mission San Jose in 1839 as the daughter of Francisco Solano Alviso and Bernabela Antonia Linares. Francisco Solano Alviso was baptized at Mission San Antonio in July 1792, the son of Francisco Xavier Alviso and Maria Augustina Bojorques. Francisco Xavier Alviso was 12 years old when he came with his parents Domingo Alviso and Maria Angela de la Luz Trejo on the Anza Expedition, 1775-76. Maria Anglea de la Luz Trejo is my 5th great grandmother, so I guess that makes us cousins! Write to me here if you want more information Sheila-Ann@juno.com [Sheila Ruiz Harrell (member), Modesto, Calif.]
Trying to find information on the Juan Bautista Alvarado family and the Lopez family who lived in San Juan Bautista , Hollister, and Watsonville area. Thanks [Norma Lawrence (nonmember), Gustine, Calif.]
I am new to genealogy and I am trying to find information on Manuel Nieto who had received a Spanish land grant in 1784. He was a corporal in the "Leather Jacket Guards" [Kathy Nieto-Hafliger (nonmember)]
www.Ancestry.com allows non-subscribers to view what has been submitted for free, and I have posted a chart for Govenor Juan Bautista Alvarado born 1809, which includes his grandfather and my ancestor by the same same name, Juan Bautista Alvarado, born 1749. If you try the search form tool for him and the Lopez family, it will give you information and photos compiled by many researchers. [ Valerie Hall (member), Fair Oaks, Calif.]
According to Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1790-1850, vol. I, pp. 237-38: Jose Manuel Perez Nieto was born about 1748 at Villa de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Mexico of Jose Nieto and Manuela Perez. He was buried 13 December 1804 at Mission San Gabriel. About 1775 he married Maria Teresa Morillo [born about 1756 at Loreto, Baja California; buried 21 September 1816 at Mission San Gabriel] at Loreto. They had 6 children between 1776 and 1796: Joseph Ygnacio [baptized at Loreto], Juan Joseph Maria [baptized at San Diego], and Joseph Antonio Maria, Antonia Maria de los Santos, Maria Manuela Antonia, and Antonio Maria de los Santos [all baptized at San Gabriel]. Joseph Manuel was a soldier at Monterey 28 February 1773 and at San Luis Obispo in 1774, where he was padrino for an Indian baptism officiated by Fr. Junipero Serra. He returned to Loreto and escorted Los Angeles settlers to San Diego in August 1781. He was the third grantee of a Spanish land concession in 1784 (Rancho Los Nietos, 300,000 acres), which was the largest grant to an individual during the Spanish regime. [Benita H. Gray (member), San Diego, Calif.]
Is there another site similar to the Alta California website, but in Baja California? As we could not complete our trace of our surname in Alta California families. Thank you. [Frank Mijares (not yet), Oceanside, Calif.]
There's a copy of this Book ( Guia Familiar de Baja California, 1700-1900 Vital Statistics of Lower California) @ the Santa Ana Library in the "Heritage Room" only ... [Vivian Romero (not yet member), Tyler, Tex.]
I am not aware of a Baja California site, but we do have links on our link page to Web sites that might take some family names back to Baja California or even Spain. Also, we have books in our Traveling Genealogy Library [open to the public for a nominal fee at all of our meetings] which go back into Baja California and, occasionally, back to Spain. Among them are Marie Northrop's 3 vols., Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1790-1850, and Guía Familiar de Baja California, 1700-1900, Vital Statistics of Lower California, which are also available in some community libraries and might be available for borrow through interlibrary loan. [La Tejedora]
I am looking for the family name Matheo Nomovit, born 1760 in the present area of San Juan Capistrano, California and died 19 Apr 1783 in San Juan Capistrano, Alta California. I am also looking for the wife who is a possible native to California, Maria Luisa Zaigevede, born about 1752 in the present San Juan Capistrano area, died 06 January 1783 in San Juan Capistrano, Alta California. I need help in finding more of this family. [Elizbeth Wagner (nonmember), Sacramento, Calif.]
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