I missed this entry in the 1900 Census for several years. I was looking for Romain and Madeleine Menaud, with daughter. Mary Lacazette (from Madeleine’s first marriage). But, they were nowhere to be found. It took learning more about the family to root them out. The Menaud surname is rare in California in 1900. Even…
Category: California Genealogy
Alexandrinha (Jose) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Alexandrina is my Great Great Aunt. She married into my Pacheco family. She was born in Ginetes, Sao Miguel Island, Azores sometime around 1866. She migrated with her parents to Kauai, HI in 1882. She married Antonio Pacheco in 1889 in Kealia. They settled down in Kilauea, where Antonio worked on the sugar plantation. In…
Alice (Jones) Bourne’s Individual Summary
Alice was the daughter of my great great uncle and aunt, John and Matilde (Mccullough) Jones. I don’t know anything about her other than that she was born ca. 1909 in San Francisco and where she lived with her parents up until 1930. Name: Alice JONES-8627 Sex: Female Father: John J. JONES-8423 (1871-1937) Mother: Matilde…
Margaret (Coffin) Jones Individual Summary
Until about 3 years ago, I didn’t know about Margaret. That’s because I did not know that my great great grandfather, Thomas Augustine Jones, had a brother. Even after 20+ years of research there are still mysteries. Margaret’s life took a turn for the worst in the early1900s when her husband, John Charles Jones, became…
My Great Grandmother Registered to Vote?
[Another repost…Fearless Females-Women’s History Month, March 19th: A Surprising Fact] While looking through the voter registration books for 1937, I came upon a surprising entry. My Great Grandmother, Maria (de Braga) Pacheco Smith, was listed. This might not have been so surprising had my Great Grandmother been a US Citizen. But, she wasn’t. In fact,…