At the age of 39, Thomas Augustine Jones found himself a widow with two teenagers and three daughters under the age of 10 to raise. It was 1889, and San Francisco was still somewhat of a wild city. Not exactly the best place to raise children, yet he did it, and they turned out to…
Tag: San Francisco
Josephine (Jones) Pohley’s Individual Summary
My Great Aunt, Josephine (Jones) Pohley) was born in San Francisco in 1870. She was the first child of Thomas and Margaret (Kelly) Jones. She survived the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The Pohley’s were said to be the only ones in the Jones family whose house survived. I have yet to search all the city…
SNGF: Fearless Female Prompt of the Day
Randy Seaver has asked us to take a prompt from the Fear Females list created by Lisa Alzo for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. I’ve chosen today’s prompt which is to take a family document and write a narrative about it. My Great Aunt Margaret Jackson married Alfred Fafri sometime in the early 1940s…somewhere. No one…
Marie (Condrey) Jacquemet’s Individual Summary
(Another collateral line. The Jacquemet’s owned a Florist in San Francisco) Name: Marie J. CONDREY-8006 Sex: Female Father: ??? CONDREY-8132 ( – ) Mother: Individual Facts Birth abt 1870 Asasp, France15 Immigration 1881 (about age 11) Residence 1901 (about age 31) 27 4th; San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA Residence bet 1910 and 1915 (between…
Why Didn’t Anyone Ask How My Grandparents Met?
[Fearless Females, Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 5th: How did they meet?] My Grandma Lassalle was born in San Francisco, spent a brief part of her childhood in Modesto, and spent most of her pre-marriage years in Oakland, California. Her parents owned a laundry business, where Grandma also worked. My Grandpa Lassalle was born…
