Category Archives: About My Ancestors
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Joe and Minnie
This wedding photo is of Minnie Frances Ventura (seated) and Jose “Joe P. Smith” Pacheco (standing on the right). The two others in this photo are Eva (Ventura) Nunes and Frank Ventura, Minnie’s sister and brother. Minnie was born in 1902 on Kauai, HI. She was the daughter of Francisco de Boa Ventura, of Sao …
Laundry Delivery, Ma’am
My Great Grandparents, Charles and Brigitte (Breilh) Mazeres were in the laundry business. They first ran French laundries in San Francisco, then Modesto, and finally ended up in Oakland, Alameda County, California, around 1910. This photograph was taken around 1915. The dapper gent is my Great Grandfather, Charles Mazeres dit Salanave. He is standing in …
Wedding Photo Wednesday: Mazeres-Breilh
Charles Mazeres dit Salanave, native of Ogeu les bains, France, was the son of Jean Mazeres dit Salanave and Marie Anne Lacrouts Brigitte Breilh, native of Castet, France, was the daughter of Jean Breilh and Mathilde Laplagne Maucor Charles and Brigitte were married 16 Jan 1897 at Notre Dame de Victoire Church in San Francisco, …