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Bernardo Yorba (August 20, 1800 - November 28, 1858)[1][2], was a native of Nueva California and the son of Spanish soldier, José Antonio Yorba. Bernardo became one of the most successful ranchers in Alta California with thousands of cattle and horses grazing on land grants totaling more than 35,000 acres (8 square Spanish leagues). Bernado Yorba built a large adobe hacienda, Hacienda de San Antonio near the present day city of Yorba Linda which is named in honor of Bernardo.[3]

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Birth and Childhood

Bernardo Yorba was born on August 20, 1800 in San Diego. Other sources list his birth on August 4, 1801.[4][5] Bernardo was the of José Antonio Yorba, one of the early settlers of Spanish California, and Maria Josefa Grijalva. Bernardo's childhood was spent in San Diego. Here he was sent to a school kept by Franciscan Fathers. Jose Antonio Yorba had moved to the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, granted to him and his nephew Pablo Peralta, by Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga on behalf of the Spanish Government in 1810.[6][7] It was around this time that the family moved to the rancho near present day Olive, California in Orange County.[8]

Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana

In 1834, Bernardo was granted the 13,328-acre (53.94 km2) Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana.[9][10][11] It was shortly after this that Bernardo began construction of a large adobe house, the Bernardo Yorba Hacienda.[12] Bernardo was elected to serve as Juez de Campo and Auxiliary Alcade several times (1833, 1836, 1840, and 1844).[7][13]

Descendants

In 1858, At the age of 57, Bernardo Yorba died leaving behind a large and prosperous rancho and many children. [14] Some sources list his death on November 28, 1858.[7] Other sources list his death on October 21, 1858.[4][15]

He married his first wife Maria de Jesus Alvarado in 1819. After her death, he married Felipa Dominguez in 1829, and after her death, Andrea Elizalde (Avila) in 1854. [7][16]

The children of Bernardo Yorba and Maria de Jesus Alvarado (1796 - 1828)
Name Birth/Death Married Notes
Dolores Yorba 1824 -
Raymundo Yorba 1826 - 1891 Francisca Dominguez, Concepcion Serrano
Maria Ynez Yorba 1827 - 1911 Leonardo Cota
Ramona Anselma Yorba 1828 - 1849 Benjamin Davis Wilson
The children of Bernardo Yorba and Felipa Dominguez (1812 - 1851)
Name Birth/Death Married Notes
Maria de Jesus Yorba 1831 - Anastasio Botiller, Thomas J. Scully
Prudencio Yorba 1832 - 1885 Maria de los Dolores Ontiveros One of their children, Angelina Yorba, would marry Samuel Kraemer in 1886.[17][18][19][20]
Jose de Jesus Yorba 1833 - 1881 Soledad Lugo
Marcos Yorba 1834 - 1892 Ramona Yorba
Leonora Yorba 1838 - John Rowland
Trinidad Yorba 1840 - 1881 Jesus Lugo, Josefa Palomares
Vicente Yorba 1844 - 1903 Erolinda Cota [21]
Sinobia Yorba 1845 - 1892 Thomas Rowland
The children of Bernardo Yorba and Andrea Elizalde (1830 - )
Name Birth/Death Married Notes
Bernardo Antonio Yorba II 1855 - 1888 [22]
Francis Xavier Yorba 1856 - Victorine Carnaham
Gregorio Yorba 1857 -

References

  1. ^ Amelia L. Davila, "Historic Yorba", Santa Ana Weekly Blade, June 1 1893
  2. ^ Arnold O. Dominguez, "José Antonio Yorba I", 1985 2nd Ed.; pg. 12, Orange County Historical Society
  3. ^ Don Meadows, "The House of Bernardo Yorba", 1985 2nd Ed.; pg. 4, Orange County Historical Society
  4. ^ a b Yorba Linda History - Courtesy of the Yorba Linda Public Library
  5. ^ Find A Grave
  6. ^ Arnold O. Dominguez, 1985 2nd Ed., pg. 11
  7. ^ a b c d Amelia L. Davila, 1893
  8. ^ Don Meadows, 1985 2nd Ed.; pg. 4
  9. ^ Don Meadows, 1985 2nd Ed.; pg. 4
  10. ^ Yorba Linda History
  11. ^ Don Meadows, 1985 2nd Ed.; pg. 4
  12. ^ Don Meadows, 1985 2nd Ed.; pg. 4
  13. ^ Arnold O. Dominguez, 1985 2nd Ed.
  14. ^ [California Society, D.A.R., 1952, Early California Wills, 952 pgs; Volume 1]
  15. ^ Bernardo Yorba @ Find A Grave
  16. ^ Bernardo (Fernando) Antonio Yorba
  17. ^ Prudencio Yorba
  18. ^ Maria de los Delores Ontiveros and Prudencio Yorba
  19. ^ Prudencio Yorba @ find a grave
  20. ^ Dolores wife of Prudencio @ find a grave
  21. ^ Vicente Yorba @ find a grave
  22. ^ Bernardo Yorba II
  • Yorba Linda History
  • Yorba Family
  • The Yorba and Slaughter Families Adobe
  • Beers, Henry Putney, (1979). "Spanish & Mexican Records of the American Southwest : A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources", Tucson : University of Arizona Press
  • Mildred Yorba MacArthur, A brief history of the Yorba family, Yorba Linda Public Library, May 1960.
  • Newmark, Haris (1916) Sixty Years in Southern California: 1853-1913, Knickerbocker Press, New York.
  • Northrop, Marie E. The Yorba Family Cemetery: California's Oldest, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, June 1969, pp. 96-103
  • Northrop, Marie E. (1986). Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Volumes I, II & III. Southern California Genealogical Society, Burbank, California.  
  • Pitt, Leonard; Ramón A. Gutiérrez (1999). Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520219588.  
  • Pleasants, Adelene (1931). "History of Orange County, California. Vol. 1", Los Angeles, CA : J. R. Finnell & Sons Publishing Company







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