I have him in 1844 in BajaCalifornia as possibly some kind of government employee - see Google Books.
According to the 1850 US Census and 1852California Census, Teofilo was born in Jalisco in 1818, and Gertrudis (as she is usually known) in Baja California in 1831 (her baptismal record from La Paz confirmed this). He's a merchant and a land-owner. They have three children born i
