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Echeverrias in the Gold Rush

Posted by Patricia Aceves Wyble on April 24, 2010 at 12:53am

My 3rd great-grandparents Teofilo Estolano Echeverria and Jesus Gertrudis Lebrija are my most-traveled ancestors so far.

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

Missionary to Australia? That’s what he told the family!

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on March 18, 2010 at 5:57pm

My great great grandfather, the music Professor Caleb Rand Bill came from Nova Scotia to New England with his wife. They had their nine children in succession from New Brunswick, Maine, Boston and then Salem as he moved from place to place teaching music. According to the Bill Family Genealogy, he had three brothers. One died while studying away at Acadia College, and the other two went on a mission to New Zealand. This made sense to me, since their father was the Nova Scotia Baptist preacher R

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