I could have written about a few ancestors for this prompt, but I’ve already written about several of the ancestors who have a birthday closest to mine. This time I’ve selected Jean Breil who was born 3 days after my birthday. Jean Breil was born 31 Jan 1812 in Izeste, Pyrenees Atlantique, France. He was…
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They Owned Laundries
Another for my Labor Day photo series… My great grandfather was Charles Mazeres . Charles was from Ogeu les bains, France. He made his way to San Francisco in the early 1890s. He and my grandmother, Brigitte Breilh, owned French Laundries. The earliest laundry I’ve documented is the one he owned in Modesto, California, 1903. …
Father and Son Marry Women With the Same Name
I almost made a mistake putting families together with the new research I found on my Breilh/Mazou Verges line is Izeste, France. I was working on Jean Breilh and Jeanne Mazou Verges (sometimes recorded as Mazou Berges, Verges, or Berges). I found several children for this couple. When I started to assess the information, I…
In Remembrance of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire
Were your ancestors living in San Francisco on April 18th, 1906? My Kelly, Dolan, Jones, and Segalas relatives were there. The Mazeres and Breilh cousins were over in Oakland and Berkeley. The Cosma’s and a couple of Pacheco’s were new arrivals in Oakland. I like to think of what that period must have been like…
Working at the French Laundry
[Fearless Females–Women’s History Month, March 12th: Working Girl] This photograph was taken around 1905-1910. It shows the Mazeres family in front of one of their French laundries in Oakland, Alameda Co., California. My great grandmother, Brigitte (Breilh) Mazeres, always worked alongside her husband, Charles. When he died in 1921, she ran the laundries. In the…