Early
California Pioneers as related to Robert E. Smith from 1769 to the year
2000. Parts of my family have been in the Californias for over 300 years
with the early explores of Baja California to the explores of Alta
California. Ancestry of Robert E. Smith, President/member of Los Pobladores
200, member of Los Descendientes de Santa Barbara, Los Californianos and
other Early California Ancestry Organizations.
My family surnames include the following: de Ortega,Carrillo, Lopez,
Quintero, Rubio, Rodriguez, Olivera (Spain, Mexico and EarlyCalifornia
-1769=1781), Oliver (Boston), Breck (=1829)(Boston, and deBrecc-Scotland and
England), Stewart (=1813) (Stuart-Scotland and England),and others who came
after 1942 Smith (1942) (England), Kroupa and Hruby(known as Czechoslovakia
in 1914 and as Austria in 1885), Tudor (England), deBruce and de Brecc
(Scotland). The Stewart line meets both sides my mothers family in Scotland
and England with a marriage between her de Brecc's, deBruse (de Brusse),
Stewart's, and Duncan's, with additional relations to the Kings of Normandy,
Prussia, Ireland and other early European nations.
Genealogy for Maria Benitez, Past President of Los Pobladores
I am a descendent of Luis Quintero through my Great Grandmother Velesarda Machado. She was the daughter of Jesus Machado and Luguarda Osuna vd de Alvarado. Jesus Machado was son of Josef Manuel Machado Jr. and Maria Serifina Valdez; she was daughter of Eugenio Valdez and Maria Sebastiana Quintero the daughter of poblador Luis Quintero and Maria Petra Rubio. We are also descendents of Alvarado, Yorba, Lopez, Pedro Amador and many others. I would like to say that it will be my pleasure to be the President of the organization, and my goal will be to plan some very interesting and historic places to visit. And hopefully get the next generations interested in learning about their ancestors. We need the youth to get involved so we can leave them their legacy. I am happy to announce several of my family members are now getting interested and joining the organization...let's keep it going and going strong. I am also a member of the Californianos, and Boosters of Old Town San Diego, and will rejoin the Santa Barbara organization. I love learning about the history of my state and my ancestors.
Genealogy for Paul Guzman, Current president of Los Pobladores
I was born on May 23, 1945 in Los Angeles in the Boyle Heights area. I went to First Street, Humphries, and finally to Ford elementary school. Then I attended I.W. Griffith Jr High. Attended Garfield High graduating in 1963. I worked in the garment district after graduation.
In 1970 I started working for the Postal Service, retiring in 2000, after 30 years of service.
I am a direct descendent of three of the founding families
of Los Angeles, they are Jose Moreno, Basilio Rosas, and Pablo Rodriquez. I
am also a descendent of Nieto, Ontiveros and Dominquez, the
land-grant families or "Rancho Canyon de Santa Ana" and "Rancho Los Nietos".
Im also a descendent of Prospero Dominquez a Gabrielino-Tongva who was
granted the propero tract in San Gabriel, and finally a direct descendent of
the Pico family.
Genealogy for Tony Leon follow this link to my web site
My name is Albert Anthony Leon V (I go by Tony) and I joined Los Pobladores 200 soon after the annual September 'Walk to LA' event in 2004. I first became aware of my roots and connection to Los Angeles during the city's bicentennial year of 1981 when the group was formed from my cousin Felix Medina who was an original member at the time. He went around to different family members trying to spark an interest in those of us whose ancestry goes back to the original pobladores, and I came to realize I was a ninth generation Californio and direct descendant to Luis Quintero, but at 19, I’m sorry to say, I could really care less. Now, as a father of two, it is most definitely something I have a great interest in and after joining the organization as a regular member I was soon asked to be parliamentarian for the group which I gladly accepted. However, that was a briefly held position that I had to give up to take on the secretary and newsletter editor positions that became open. This year of 2006 will mark my 2nd year with LP200 and it has been a great experience learning more and more about my heritage and being a part of such an exclusive group (family) for which I am proud to belong to. I can’t wait to meet more of my pobladore cousins.
-Tony Leon
Bio for RONALD RAYMOND CROSTHWAITE(AKA) Raymond Ronald Osuna
(underlined names denote Pobladore lines)
Julio Osuna is the son of Leandro Osuna and Francisca Marron. Their son Ramon Nacho is the father of Raymond Joseph who is the father of Raymond Ronald. Raymond’s mother married a second time and she chose, unknowingly, it is assumed, his fathers cousin who was a Crosthwaite. Raymond’s middle name was then changed to become his first name and his first name was to become his middle name. He is now known as Ronald Raymond Crosthwaite, which by coincidence makes him his own cousin, since Philip Crosthwaite is his great great maternal grandfather.
Julio was the great grandson of Juan Ismario de Osuna who escorted Junipero Serra as corporal of the guard in 1769 helping to establish the first of the twenty-one Missions to spread along the coast of California. Juan Ismario married a local native from the Kumeyaay tribe later known as the Mission Indians. Their first son Juan Maria became the first mayor (alcalde) of San Diego and grantee of the Spanish land grant Rancho San Dieguito, now known as Rancho Santa Fe.
Part of the old land grant was owned by the famous crooner Bing Crosby, who refurbished the original adobe then built his home adjacent to the original structure. Another portion of the land grant was known as Pickfair owned by the late silent film star Douglas Fairbanks and his wife Mary Pickford. During the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles the property was used for several equestrian events. As a design for one of the jumps, they used the Osuna branding symbol and gave credit to the Osuna family in their brochure.
Antonio Cota, (escolta) son of Andres de Cota and Angela de Leon, was born circa 1745 and married Maria Bernarda Chigilia. Antonio Cota’s granddaughter, Maria Antonia Avila (AKA Renden), was married to Jose Maria Lugo the grandson of Francisco Lugo, (escolta). His daughter, Tomasa Lugo married Francisco Arguello. Francisco was the grandson of Josef Dario Arguello, lieutenant (born 1753), who came with the 1781 expedition to Alta California accompanying Captain Rivera y Moncada to found the pueblo of Los Angeles. He was commissioned by Governor Fages at the presidio of Santa Barbara to put the Pobladores officially in possession of their land. This took place on Los Angeles’ 5th birthday, September 4, 1786. Arguello appointed corporal Feliz and private Roque de Cota (escolta) to act as legal witnesses. Each Pobladore was officially granted his house, his farm lots and finally a registered brandi ng iron. Each proud recipient signed the papers with a cross.
Arguello later became the commandante of the San Francisco Presidio, then acting governor of Alta California in 1814-15 and governor of lower California in 1851-22. Josef’s son, Santiago, became the commandante of the San Diego Presidio during the official secularization of the missions. He held many public offices and was grantee of the ex-mission properties, which was put in, trust to Philip Crosthwaite, then treasurer of San Diego until the documents could be put in order. In 1836 he was elected as the second mayor (alcalde) of San Diego, after Juan Maria Osuna, and was grantee of Rancho Tijuana, which is still in possession of the Arguello family in Mexico.
Santiago’s grandson, Ronald’s great grandfather, Alfredo Alejandro Arguello , became the first Los Angeles “Key-Stone Cop”. His badge, No. 1, still remains in possession of the family. He retired after thirty years on the force with the rank of captain.
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Santiago Arguello |
Philip Crosthwaite |
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Bio for Maria Moreno, past President and Vice President
I think my interest in family history started
with a seed planted by my grandmother, Clara Carrillo Valencia, in the
summer of 1971. I was eleven years old and my sister and I would spend the
summers with our grandparents in Collidge Arizona. That summer my
grandmother asked me if I wanted to read a book about her cousin Lita Grey,
Lita was Charlie Chaplin’s second wife. I finished the book in a short time,
but the full picture of our family history was not yet revealed. I don’t
remember my grandmother speaking a lot about her family’s history. But I
guess it was pretty important to her because she hired the California
genealogist Thomas Workman Temple to draft her family charts in 1959. She
said he gave her a discount for doing the records because they were related.
My grandmother mostly spoke of her father and mother who she loved very
much. It wasn’t until after my grandmother’s death in 1988 that her family
records would become known to us all. She had entrusted them to my mother
who in turn lent them to Judi Villa a cousin in Phoenix who was taking a
genealogy course. Judi gathered family photos and organized genealogy
information into individual notebooks for all of the participants at a
Carrillo family reunion in October 1989. It was the 100th anniversary of
Jose Rolando Carrillos arrival to Phoenix, Arizona. Jose Rolando Carrillo is
my great grandfather, and the first son born to Merced and Jose Clemente
Carrillo at the Rains house in Rancho Cucamonga in 1867. The family history
that was passed along showed connections to some of California’s founding
families, the Picos, the Lugos and the Carrillos.
The Picos had come with the Anza Expedition in 1776 and had children who
grew up to play prominent roles in early California. Their son General
Andres Pico lead Californio forces at the battle of San Pasqual during the
Mexican American war in 1846. Another son Pio de Jesus Pico served as
Governor during Mexican rule of California. Another son named Antonio Maria
Pico served as a delegate and signed the California Constitution in 1849.
I’m a direct descendant of another Pico child, Maria Conception Pico; she is
my 4th great-grand mother. She married Domingo Carrillo in 1810. Domingo’s
brother Jose Antonio Esquivel Carrillo also served as a delegate for the
California Constitutional Convention and was one of the oldest signers
present at age 53. He married Maria Estefana Pico in 1862.
Domingo and Jose’s father was Jose Raymundo Carrillo and is considered the
founder of the Carrillo family in Alta California; he arrived in San Diego
in 1769. Jose Raymundo and Maria Tomasa Lugo went on to have children and
grandchildren, one of the more famous ones was Leopoldo Carrillo, better
know as Leo Carrillo. A 1950’s film star that played the character of Pancho in “The Cisco Kid”.
My Lugo ancestor Francisco Salvadore Lugo was a Spanish soldier who came
with the first families to Alta California from Sinaloa Mexico. They first
arrived at San Diego on September 26th 1774, and then they reached the
Monterey Precidio in November of that same year. In 1781 Lugo and 3 other
soldiers escorted 11 families to found El Pueblo de Los Angeles. With this
connection of having a Lugo ancestor I have been able to be involved with
Los Pobladores 200. An ancestral organization whose members trace their
lineage back to Los Angeles’ founding families of 1781. I have been able to serve
this organization as Vice president, President and now as webmaster for
there site at www.lospobladores.org
In August 1989, almost a year after my grandmothers passing we found the
Rains house. Using the research printed regarding many of these families
this led me to doing historical enactments for schools
and libraries. My web site
www.californiaimpressions.com tells more about how I took the story of
Merced to all sorts of interested audiences.
Maria Moreno, January 25, 2006
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Maria Moreno portraying Dona Merced, my great greatgrand mother at Davis Elementary, Santa Ana |
Leo Carrillo-actor
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Rains House, Rancho Cucamonga, Ca |
