Category Archives: California Roots
Mary Ann (Kelly) Meincke’s Individual Summary
Mary Ann was the daughter of Martin and Catherine (Dolan) Kelly. She married Frederick Meincke in San Francisco ca 1877. They had several children together. The couple ran boardinghouses and saloons in San Francisco mostly in the Mission Road area. One of those businesses was called the Five Mile House which they took over around …
Catherine (Kelly) McSwegan’s Individual Summary
Catharine (Kelly) McSwegan was my 3rd Great Aunt. Catharine’s husband, Thomas McSwegan, was a plasterer. He was seriously hurt on the job in the mid-1890s. He died at the age of 50 from the those injuries in 1895. Catherine had 9 children, 3 of them born after 1890. One born a year before Thomas died. …
Emma (Cabral) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Emma was the first wife of John “Sailor” Pacheco, my grandfather’s cousin. She grew up in Oakland and came from a large family. Her parents were early immigrants to California having married there in 1893. I’m not sure when Emma and John married. John grew up in Kilauea, but shows up in California records around …