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California Yorba line

Re: California Yorba-Sepulveda line

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 5:47AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am contacting you in behalf of a friend, Margaret Eads.
I am to ask you if you know of a Rosa or Rosalia Isabel
Yorba ? Born about 1860-Calif., and supposidly adopted in 1870 by the Yorba family.
Her name before adoption may have been, Rosa Isabel Abidie.
Rosa married a John A. Parker. She also went by the name of
Bell Parker.
The surnames Nickum and Brady are also in Margaret Eads's family tree.
Please, would like to know either way.
Thank you, loiscypert34

Re: California Yorba line

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 5:06PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi cousin Kelly

Tomas Antonio Yorba (1785-1845)married Maria Vicente Sepulveda (1813-1907) in 1834. Is that your Yorba-Sepulveda connection?

Re: California Yorba line

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 5:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
I'm not sure what you mean by "the great California Yorba fortune". The Yorbas were traditionally land rich, but money poor. The "fortune" if you want to call it that came primarily through the hide and tallow trade before the 1850-1860s, then some "wealth" through sheep raising. By the death of Bernardo Yorba, the family holdings began to break up. By the 1870s, most Yorbas were "working class", holding jobs like police constable, watchman, small holdings farmers, vaqueros, etc.

Re: California Yorba line

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 8:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Since writing my initial query, I have learnt that one branch of the Yorbas has retained its wealth and is part of the social elite in LA.
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