My great, great, great grandmother, Antonia Amador, was born at the presidio in Loreto, around 1776.
The first record of Antonia is her confirmation, with the governor's wife as her sponsor, at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, November 2, 1783: "MARIA ANTONIA AMADOR, de Pedro Amador, soldado, y Maria Ramona Noriega, con la Senora Governadora Doña Eulalia Callis, muger de Don Pedro Fages, Governador de esta Provincia." Her age of 14 in the 1790 San Francisco census, late October, would make her seven at this time, born around 1776, first child of this marriage.
Her father was Pedro Antonio Amador y Carpio
BIRTH 1737 • Cocula, Cocula Municipality, Jalisco, Mexico
DEATH 10 APR 1824 • San Jose, Santa Clara County, California,
son of Jose Amador, 1710– ? and Maria Josefa De Carpio, 1715–1786.
Her mother was Maria Ramona Noriega y Aguirre,
daughter of Jose Ramon Noriega, 1733– and Clara Aguirre, –1789. [Or Maria Juares and Francisco Noriega] Antonia's mother, Maria Antonia Ramona Gertrudis Noriega, died in 1802 during a measles epidemic, Alta Cal Msn Bk #03_1778-1866_Snta Cl_Bur, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL #2901) Sept 3 (1802)- DONA RAMONA NORIEGA, muger del Sargento Invalido Don Pedro Amador, murio en la epidemia, de sarampion. Doña Ramona had taught all her children to read.
Maria Antonia Amador "del sur de la antigua California" married José Joaquín de las Reyes Castro y Botiller, "soldado de la compañia del R.l Presidio de San Carlos Monterey", SFD#217, January 14, 1791, at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Her parents were high ranking Pedro Antonio Amador, "sargento de la compañia del imediato presidio", and Maria Ramona Rosalia Noriega, born 11/3/1760 in Loreto and christened 11/16/1760 as Maria Antonia Ramona Gertrudis Noriega in the distrito federal. She was the second of Pedro's three wives, married in 1777. Her family was in the 1790 San Francisco census as Pedro Amador, sergeant, español, from Cocula [Jalisco], 51; wife Ramona Noriega, española, [from Loreto] 30; seven children: [Juan Pablo] 12; [José Fructuoso] 10; [María Antonia] 14; [María del Carmen] 7; [José Sinforoso] 4; [María Sinforosa] 2; [María Ignacia] three months {born 23 July 1790}.
María del Carmen married Catalonian volunteer, cabo Claudio Galindo, 5/18/1797, SFD# 558. María Sinforosa married Manuel Mendoza, soltero, 8/10/1800, SDF# 638. Maria Ignacia married widower Nicolas Berreyesa, 11/19/1803, SDF# 1047; then soldero Mariano Linares as a widow, 1/14/1807, SDF# 1065; then after his death, married Josef Serafin Pinto, 4/5/1808, SDF# 1113. José Fructuoso was a soldier, dying 4/7/1807, SDF# 2439.
Missing from this census is an older half-brother, Jose Jacinto Amador, possibly because he had died young. Also missing is an older half-sister, Maria Ygnacia Amador y Ruiz, born around 1770 in Real de San Antonio, daughter of Pedro Antonio Amador and his first wife, Maria de la Luz Ruiz from Loreto. The 1773-74 Rivera expedition lists this mother and daughter accompanying her soldier father. Without further documents, it appears Maria de la Luz Ruiz likely expired soon after, her father remarrying around 1775 and Antonia arriving in 1776. Around 1785, Ygnacia married Francisco Xavier Alvarado from Loreto, later retiring as a sergeant: they had many prestigious children connected to the southern California missions.
Joaquín and Antonia had many children:
José Ygnacio Castro 1793–January 8, 1811, baptized March 3, 1793 SC# 1833, died at age 18 and was buried January 10, 1811 in San Juan Bautista, SJB# 1059. A younger brother would also be named José Ygnacio Castro.
Maria Antonia Dionisia Castro 1795–1885, baptized SC# 2031, April 10, 1795, married Juan José de Gracia Féliz y Cota in 1816 and had 6 sons and 5 daughters.
Maria Josefa Castro 1797–1811 baptized SC# 2177, August 1, 1797
Maria Rafaela Inocencia Castro 1799–1841, married Francisco de Sales Rodríguez about 1833 in San Francisco, and had 3 sons and 5 daughters.
José Rafael Castro 1802–1811
Plácida de Jesús Castro 1803–Deceased
Rafael de Jesús Antonio Castro 1803–1878, married Maria de la Soledad Cota about 1823 at the Mission Santa Cruz, and had 9 sons and 7 daughters: long time Aptos residents.
Juan José Castro 1805–1878, married Maria Rita Pinto, SJS# 1603, and had 9 sons and 7 daughters.
Dária Castro 1806–Deceased
Maria Martina Castro 1807–1890, married José Simon Cota about 1825 in Monterey and had 1 son and 3 daughters.
Candida Castro 1808–1860, married José Antonio Bolcoff in 1822 in Santa Cruz.
Francisco Castro 1810–1811
Guadalupe Castro 1811–1893
Maria Antonia Jacinta Castro 1815–1878 She became a nun in 1851.
Vicenta Castro 1815–Deceased
José Ygnacio Castro 1817–1858; had 4 sons and 2 daughters with Micaela de Jesús Ricarda Rodríguez.
Maria de los Angeles Castro 1818–1903, married Joseph Ladd Majors on December 19, 1839, in Santa Cruz, and had 7 sons and 5 daughters.
Joaquín Castro 1821–1903, had 5 sons and 3 daughters with Eusebia Valencia.
The family was in the 1827 Population of the Villa de Branciforte (Jackson 1980): Joaquín Castro, Maria Antonia Amador, Guadalupe Castro, José Ygnacio Castro, Joaquín Castro, Jacinta Castro, Maria de los Angeles.
Her father, Pedro Amador, by then promoted to officer, died April 10, 1824, SCL# 5720, Sargento retirado con graduacion de Alferez". He had an extensive military career in early California, beginning with the Sacred Expedition in 1776, accompanying Fr. Junipero Serra to San Francisco. He was born in 1739 in Cocula near Guadalajara, to Juan Jose Amador and Maria Josefa de Carpio.
From the Schwald Family:
[S002] Alta Cal 1769 - Overland Exped; Velicata-San Diego, Crosby, Harry, (http://shhar.net/calfamily.htm).
Name: Pedro Antonio Amador
Calidad: Espanol
Born: c. 1737 At: Cocula [Jalisco]
Died: 1824 At: Santa Clara
Parents: Jose Amador and Maria Josefa Carpio
Wife: (I) Maria de la Luz Ruiz; (II) Maria Ramona Noriega
Children: (I) Jose Jacinto, Maria de la Luz, Maria Ignacia;
(II) Juan Pablo, Maria Antonia, Fructuoso, Maria del Carmen
Enlisted at Loreto, 1764 [Service record: TBL, C?A 16: 19]. With Portola in second party to San Diego, and on to San Francisco under Portola and Rivera [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. With Rivera on his return to Velicata, 11 February 1770, but did not return with him to San Diego in July 1770 [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. Acting sergeant in Escolta de la Frontera at Velicata, 1773. Obtained permit to resign and return to home in Cocula, 1774. After eight months absence, returned to Loreto simply as soldier [Bancroft, History of California, vol. II, p. 584]. At Mision Santo Domingo, 1780. In Sonora with Rivera conducting settlers to Alta California (missed Yuma massacre), 1781 [AHBCS, PolÃtico, 49]. Returned to Loreto, 1782, assigned to Escolta de la Frontera late 1782 and 1783, [AHBCS, PolÃtico, exp. 71]. Transferred 25 January 1784 to Presidio of Santa Barbara [AHBCS, PolÃtico, 102]; promoted to sergeant in 1787 [AGS, SecretarÃa de Guerra, Hojas de Servicio, leg. 7275, VII, 82; Bancroft, History of California, vol. I, p. 472]. Leader of the five to eight soldiers guarding new Mision de Santa Cruz, 1795?1797 [Bancroft, op. cit., p. 495]. Listed as retired 31 December 1801, 4 December 1815 [TBL, C-A 21: 76-77, 81].
[S011] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1770-1855_Bur, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org),http://missions.huntington.org/DeathData.aspx?ID=60559.
BURIAL - image on web site
Msn. Santa Clara Cemetery
#5720) 11 Apr 1824- PEDRO AMADOR, adulto, en el Cementerio de esta Mision, Death Date: el dia antecedente, Sargento retirado con graduacion de Alferez.
*More info on web site
[S015] Alta Cal Msn Bk #03_1778-1866_Snta Cl_Bur, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL
#5720) Apr 11 1825 [1824-JSR-2016]- di sepulta. Eccla. en el Cemeterio de esta Misn. el cuerpo de Don PEDRO AMADOR, Sargto. retirado con graduacion de Alferez, el qe. murio el dia antecedte. con los stos. Sacramtos. de Penita. Viatico y Extreme Unccion. Fr. Jose Viader
[S162] CENSUS 1790 - Alta California, (sfgenealogy.com/sf/ca1790.htm).
1790 CENSUS - SAN FRANCISCO
Pedro Amador, sergeant, espanol, from Cocula [Jalisco], 51; wife Ramona Noriega, espanola, [from Loreto] 30; seven children: [Juan Pablo] 12; [Jose Fructuoso] 10; [Maria Antonia] 14; [Maria del Carmen] 7; [Jose Sinforoso] 4; [Maria Sinforosa] 2; [Maria Ignacia] three months {born 23 July 1790}.
[S012] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1772-1855 _Marr, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org),http://missions.huntington.org/MarriageData.aspx?ID=17742.
Msn. Santa Clara
#1085) 12 Apr 1804- PEDRO AMADOR, viudo de Maria Ramona Noriega,
con TERESA PINTO, viuda de Nicolas Galiindo.
*More info on web site
[S017] Alta Cal Msn Bk #04_1778-1863_Snta Cl_Marr, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
MARRIAGE
#1085) Apr 12, 1804- PEDRO AMADOR, viudo de Maria Ramona Noriega,
with TERESA PINTO, viuda del invalido Nicolas Galindo;
Joseph Simeon Castro y Joseph Californio, wits. Catal
https://schwaldfamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I12498&tree=RodSchwald
Antonia died June 30, 1827 and was buried beneath the floor of the Mission Santa Cruz church.
The first record of Antonia is her confirmation, with the governor's wife as her sponsor, at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, November 2, 1783: "MARIA ANTONIA AMADOR, de Pedro Amador, soldado, y Maria Ramona Noriega, con la Senora Governadora Doña Eulalia Callis, muger de Don Pedro Fages, Governador de esta Provincia." Her age of 14 in the 1790 San Francisco census, late October, would make her seven at this time, born around 1776, first child of this marriage.
Her father was Pedro Antonio Amador y Carpio
BIRTH 1737 • Cocula, Cocula Municipality, Jalisco, Mexico
DEATH 10 APR 1824 • San Jose, Santa Clara County, California,
son of Jose Amador, 1710– ? and Maria Josefa De Carpio, 1715–1786.
Her mother was Maria Ramona Noriega y Aguirre,
daughter of Jose Ramon Noriega, 1733– and Clara Aguirre, –1789. [Or Maria Juares and Francisco Noriega] Antonia's mother, Maria Antonia Ramona Gertrudis Noriega, died in 1802 during a measles epidemic, Alta Cal Msn Bk #03_1778-1866_Snta Cl_Bur, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL #2901) Sept 3 (1802)- DONA RAMONA NORIEGA, muger del Sargento Invalido Don Pedro Amador, murio en la epidemia, de sarampion. Doña Ramona had taught all her children to read.
Maria Antonia Amador "del sur de la antigua California" married José Joaquín de las Reyes Castro y Botiller, "soldado de la compañia del R.l Presidio de San Carlos Monterey", SFD#217, January 14, 1791, at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Her parents were high ranking Pedro Antonio Amador, "sargento de la compañia del imediato presidio", and Maria Ramona Rosalia Noriega, born 11/3/1760 in Loreto and christened 11/16/1760 as Maria Antonia Ramona Gertrudis Noriega in the distrito federal. She was the second of Pedro's three wives, married in 1777. Her family was in the 1790 San Francisco census as Pedro Amador, sergeant, español, from Cocula [Jalisco], 51; wife Ramona Noriega, española, [from Loreto] 30; seven children: [Juan Pablo] 12; [José Fructuoso] 10; [María Antonia] 14; [María del Carmen] 7; [José Sinforoso] 4; [María Sinforosa] 2; [María Ignacia] three months {born 23 July 1790}.
María del Carmen married Catalonian volunteer, cabo Claudio Galindo, 5/18/1797, SFD# 558. María Sinforosa married Manuel Mendoza, soltero, 8/10/1800, SDF# 638. Maria Ignacia married widower Nicolas Berreyesa, 11/19/1803, SDF# 1047; then soldero Mariano Linares as a widow, 1/14/1807, SDF# 1065; then after his death, married Josef Serafin Pinto, 4/5/1808, SDF# 1113. José Fructuoso was a soldier, dying 4/7/1807, SDF# 2439.
Missing from this census is an older half-brother, Jose Jacinto Amador, possibly because he had died young. Also missing is an older half-sister, Maria Ygnacia Amador y Ruiz, born around 1770 in Real de San Antonio, daughter of Pedro Antonio Amador and his first wife, Maria de la Luz Ruiz from Loreto. The 1773-74 Rivera expedition lists this mother and daughter accompanying her soldier father. Without further documents, it appears Maria de la Luz Ruiz likely expired soon after, her father remarrying around 1775 and Antonia arriving in 1776. Around 1785, Ygnacia married Francisco Xavier Alvarado from Loreto, later retiring as a sergeant: they had many prestigious children connected to the southern California missions.
Joaquín and Antonia had many children:
José Ygnacio Castro 1793–January 8, 1811, baptized March 3, 1793 SC# 1833, died at age 18 and was buried January 10, 1811 in San Juan Bautista, SJB# 1059. A younger brother would also be named José Ygnacio Castro.
Maria Antonia Dionisia Castro 1795–1885, baptized SC# 2031, April 10, 1795, married Juan José de Gracia Féliz y Cota in 1816 and had 6 sons and 5 daughters.
Maria Josefa Castro 1797–1811 baptized SC# 2177, August 1, 1797
Maria Rafaela Inocencia Castro 1799–1841, married Francisco de Sales Rodríguez about 1833 in San Francisco, and had 3 sons and 5 daughters.
José Rafael Castro 1802–1811
Plácida de Jesús Castro 1803–Deceased
Rafael de Jesús Antonio Castro 1803–1878, married Maria de la Soledad Cota about 1823 at the Mission Santa Cruz, and had 9 sons and 7 daughters: long time Aptos residents.
Juan José Castro 1805–1878, married Maria Rita Pinto, SJS# 1603, and had 9 sons and 7 daughters.
Dária Castro 1806–Deceased
Maria Martina Castro 1807–1890, married José Simon Cota about 1825 in Monterey and had 1 son and 3 daughters.
Candida Castro 1808–1860, married José Antonio Bolcoff in 1822 in Santa Cruz.
Francisco Castro 1810–1811
Guadalupe Castro 1811–1893
Maria Antonia Jacinta Castro 1815–1878 She became a nun in 1851.
Vicenta Castro 1815–Deceased
José Ygnacio Castro 1817–1858; had 4 sons and 2 daughters with Micaela de Jesús Ricarda Rodríguez.
Maria de los Angeles Castro 1818–1903, married Joseph Ladd Majors on December 19, 1839, in Santa Cruz, and had 7 sons and 5 daughters.
Joaquín Castro 1821–1903, had 5 sons and 3 daughters with Eusebia Valencia.
The family was in the 1827 Population of the Villa de Branciforte (Jackson 1980): Joaquín Castro, Maria Antonia Amador, Guadalupe Castro, José Ygnacio Castro, Joaquín Castro, Jacinta Castro, Maria de los Angeles.
Her father, Pedro Amador, by then promoted to officer, died April 10, 1824, SCL# 5720, Sargento retirado con graduacion de Alferez". He had an extensive military career in early California, beginning with the Sacred Expedition in 1776, accompanying Fr. Junipero Serra to San Francisco. He was born in 1739 in Cocula near Guadalajara, to Juan Jose Amador and Maria Josefa de Carpio.
From the Schwald Family:
[S002] Alta Cal 1769 - Overland Exped; Velicata-San Diego, Crosby, Harry, (http://shhar.net/calfamily.htm).
Name: Pedro Antonio Amador
Calidad: Espanol
Born: c. 1737 At: Cocula [Jalisco]
Died: 1824 At: Santa Clara
Parents: Jose Amador and Maria Josefa Carpio
Wife: (I) Maria de la Luz Ruiz; (II) Maria Ramona Noriega
Children: (I) Jose Jacinto, Maria de la Luz, Maria Ignacia;
(II) Juan Pablo, Maria Antonia, Fructuoso, Maria del Carmen
Enlisted at Loreto, 1764 [Service record: TBL, C?A 16: 19]. With Portola in second party to San Diego, and on to San Francisco under Portola and Rivera [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. With Rivera on his return to Velicata, 11 February 1770, but did not return with him to San Diego in July 1770 [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. Acting sergeant in Escolta de la Frontera at Velicata, 1773. Obtained permit to resign and return to home in Cocula, 1774. After eight months absence, returned to Loreto simply as soldier [Bancroft, History of California, vol. II, p. 584]. At Mision Santo Domingo, 1780. In Sonora with Rivera conducting settlers to Alta California (missed Yuma massacre), 1781 [AHBCS, PolÃtico, 49]. Returned to Loreto, 1782, assigned to Escolta de la Frontera late 1782 and 1783, [AHBCS, PolÃtico, exp. 71]. Transferred 25 January 1784 to Presidio of Santa Barbara [AHBCS, PolÃtico, 102]; promoted to sergeant in 1787 [AGS, SecretarÃa de Guerra, Hojas de Servicio, leg. 7275, VII, 82; Bancroft, History of California, vol. I, p. 472]. Leader of the five to eight soldiers guarding new Mision de Santa Cruz, 1795?1797 [Bancroft, op. cit., p. 495]. Listed as retired 31 December 1801, 4 December 1815 [TBL, C-A 21: 76-77, 81].
[S011] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1770-1855_Bur, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org),http://missions.huntington.org/DeathData.aspx?ID=60559.
BURIAL - image on web site
Msn. Santa Clara Cemetery
#5720) 11 Apr 1824- PEDRO AMADOR, adulto, en el Cementerio de esta Mision, Death Date: el dia antecedente, Sargento retirado con graduacion de Alferez.
*More info on web site
[S015] Alta Cal Msn Bk #03_1778-1866_Snta Cl_Bur, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL
#5720) Apr 11 1825 [1824-JSR-2016]- di sepulta. Eccla. en el Cemeterio de esta Misn. el cuerpo de Don PEDRO AMADOR, Sargto. retirado con graduacion de Alferez, el qe. murio el dia antecedte. con los stos. Sacramtos. de Penita. Viatico y Extreme Unccion. Fr. Jose Viader
[S162] CENSUS 1790 - Alta California, (sfgenealogy.com/sf/ca1790.htm).
1790 CENSUS - SAN FRANCISCO
Pedro Amador, sergeant, espanol, from Cocula [Jalisco], 51; wife Ramona Noriega, espanola, [from Loreto] 30; seven children: [Juan Pablo] 12; [Jose Fructuoso] 10; [Maria Antonia] 14; [Maria del Carmen] 7; [Jose Sinforoso] 4; [Maria Sinforosa] 2; [Maria Ignacia] three months {born 23 July 1790}.
[S012] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1772-1855 _Marr, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org),http://missions.huntington.org/MarriageData.aspx?ID=17742.
Msn. Santa Clara
#1085) 12 Apr 1804- PEDRO AMADOR, viudo de Maria Ramona Noriega,
con TERESA PINTO, viuda de Nicolas Galiindo.
*More info on web site
[S017] Alta Cal Msn Bk #04_1778-1863_Snta Cl_Marr, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
MARRIAGE
#1085) Apr 12, 1804- PEDRO AMADOR, viudo de Maria Ramona Noriega,
with TERESA PINTO, viuda del invalido Nicolas Galindo;
Joseph Simeon Castro y Joseph Californio, wits. Catal
https://schwaldfamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I12498&tree=RodSchwald
Antonia died June 30, 1827 and was buried beneath the floor of the Mission Santa Cruz church.
My great, great, great grandmother, Antonia Amador, was born at the presidio in Loreto, around 1776.
The first record of Antonia is her confirmation, with the governor's wife as her sponsor, at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, November 2, 1783: "MARIA ANTONIA AMADOR, de Pedro Amador, soldado, y Maria Ramona Noriega, con la Senora Governadora Doña Eulalia Callis, muger de Don Pedro Fages, Governador de esta Provincia." Her age of 14 in the 1790 San Francisco census, late October, would make her seven at this time, born around 1776, first child of this marriage.
Her father was Pedro Antonio Amador y Carpio
BIRTH 1737 • Cocula, Cocula Municipality, Jalisco, Mexico
DEATH 10 APR 1824 • San Jose, Santa Clara County, California,
son of Jose Amador, 1710– ? and Maria Josefa De Carpio, 1715–1786.
Her mother was Maria Ramona Noriega y Aguirre,
daughter of Jose Ramon Noriega, 1733– and Clara Aguirre, –1789. [Or Maria Juares and Francisco Noriega] Antonia's mother, Maria Antonia Ramona Gertrudis Noriega, died in 1802 during a measles epidemic, Alta Cal Msn Bk #03_1778-1866_Snta Cl_Bur, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL #2901) Sept 3 (1802)- DONA RAMONA NORIEGA, muger del Sargento Invalido Don Pedro Amador, murio en la epidemia, de sarampion. Doña Ramona had taught all her children to read.
Maria Antonia Amador "del sur de la antigua California" married José Joaquín de las Reyes Castro y Botiller, "soldado de la compañia del R.l Presidio de San Carlos Monterey", SFD#217, January 14, 1791, at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Her parents were high ranking Pedro Antonio Amador, "sargento de la compañia del imediato presidio", and Maria Ramona Rosalia Noriega, born 11/3/1760 in Loreto and christened 11/16/1760 as Maria Antonia Ramona Gertrudis Noriega in the distrito federal. She was the second of Pedro's three wives, married in 1777. Her family was in the 1790 San Francisco census as Pedro Amador, sergeant, español, from Cocula [Jalisco], 51; wife Ramona Noriega, española, [from Loreto] 30; seven children: [Juan Pablo] 12; [José Fructuoso] 10; [María Antonia] 14; [María del Carmen] 7; [José Sinforoso] 4; [María Sinforosa] 2; [María Ignacia] three months {born 23 July 1790}.
María del Carmen married Catalonian volunteer, cabo Claudio Galindo, 5/18/1797, SFD# 558. María Sinforosa married Manuel Mendoza, soltero, 8/10/1800, SDF# 638. Maria Ignacia married widower Nicolas Berreyesa, 11/19/1803, SDF# 1047; then soldero Mariano Linares as a widow, 1/14/1807, SDF# 1065; then after his death, married Josef Serafin Pinto, 4/5/1808, SDF# 1113. José Fructuoso was a soldier, dying 4/7/1807, SDF# 2439.
Missing from this census is an older half-brother, Jose Jacinto Amador, possibly because he had died young. Also missing is an older half-sister, Maria Ygnacia Amador y Ruiz, born around 1770 in Real de San Antonio, daughter of Pedro Antonio Amador and his first wife, Maria de la Luz Ruiz from Loreto. The 1773-74 Rivera expedition lists this mother and daughter accompanying her soldier father. Without further documents, it appears Maria de la Luz Ruiz likely expired soon after, her father remarrying around 1775 and Antonia arriving in 1776. Around 1785, Ygnacia married Francisco Xavier Alvarado from Loreto, later retiring as a sergeant: they had many prestigious children connected to the southern California missions.
Joaquín and Antonia had many children:
José Ygnacio Castro 1793–January 8, 1811, baptized March 3, 1793 SC# 1833, died at age 18 and was buried January 10, 1811 in San Juan Bautista, SJB# 1059. A younger brother would also be named José Ygnacio Castro.
Maria Antonia Dionisia Castro 1795–1885, baptized SC# 2031, April 10, 1795, married Juan José de Gracia Féliz y Cota in 1816 and had 6 sons and 5 daughters.
Maria Josefa Castro 1797–1811 baptized SC# 2177, August 1, 1797
Maria Rafaela Inocencia Castro 1799–1841, married Francisco de Sales Rodríguez about 1833 in San Francisco, and had 3 sons and 5 daughters.
José Rafael Castro 1802–1811
Plácida de Jesús Castro 1803–Deceased
Rafael de Jesús Antonio Castro 1803–1878, married Maria de la Soledad Cota about 1823 at the Mission Santa Cruz, and had 9 sons and 7 daughters: long time Aptos residents.
Juan José Castro 1805–1878, married Maria Rita Pinto, SJS# 1603, and had 9 sons and 7 daughters.
Dária Castro 1806–Deceased
Maria Martina Castro 1807–1890, married José Simon Cota about 1825 in Monterey and had 1 son and 3 daughters.
Candida Castro 1808–1860, married José Antonio Bolcoff in 1822 in Santa Cruz.
Francisco Castro 1810–1811
Guadalupe Castro 1811–1893
Maria Antonia Jacinta Castro 1815–1878 She became a nun in 1851.
Vicenta Castro 1815–Deceased
José Ygnacio Castro 1817–1858; had 4 sons and 2 daughters with Micaela de Jesús Ricarda Rodríguez.
Maria de los Angeles Castro 1818–1903, married Joseph Ladd Majors on December 19, 1839, in Santa Cruz, and had 7 sons and 5 daughters.
Joaquín Castro 1821–1903, had 5 sons and 3 daughters with Eusebia Valencia.
The family was in the 1827 Population of the Villa de Branciforte (Jackson 1980): Joaquín Castro, Maria Antonia Amador, Guadalupe Castro, José Ygnacio Castro, Joaquín Castro, Jacinta Castro, Maria de los Angeles.
Her father, Pedro Amador, by then promoted to officer, died April 10, 1824, SCL# 5720, Sargento retirado con graduacion de Alferez". He had an extensive military career in early California, beginning with the Sacred Expedition in 1776, accompanying Fr. Junipero Serra to San Francisco. He was born in 1739 in Cocula near Guadalajara, to Juan Jose Amador and Maria Josefa de Carpio.
From the Schwald Family:
[S002] Alta Cal 1769 - Overland Exped; Velicata-San Diego, Crosby, Harry, (http://shhar.net/calfamily.htm).
Name: Pedro Antonio Amador
Calidad: Espanol
Born: c. 1737 At: Cocula [Jalisco]
Died: 1824 At: Santa Clara
Parents: Jose Amador and Maria Josefa Carpio
Wife: (I) Maria de la Luz Ruiz; (II) Maria Ramona Noriega
Children: (I) Jose Jacinto, Maria de la Luz, Maria Ignacia;
(II) Juan Pablo, Maria Antonia, Fructuoso, Maria del Carmen
Enlisted at Loreto, 1764 [Service record: TBL, C?A 16: 19]. With Portola in second party to San Diego, and on to San Francisco under Portola and Rivera [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. With Rivera on his return to Velicata, 11 February 1770, but did not return with him to San Diego in July 1770 [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. Acting sergeant in Escolta de la Frontera at Velicata, 1773. Obtained permit to resign and return to home in Cocula, 1774. After eight months absence, returned to Loreto simply as soldier [Bancroft, History of California, vol. II, p. 584]. At Mision Santo Domingo, 1780. In Sonora with Rivera conducting settlers to Alta California (missed Yuma massacre), 1781 [AHBCS, PolÃtico, 49]. Returned to Loreto, 1782, assigned to Escolta de la Frontera late 1782 and 1783, [AHBCS, PolÃtico, exp. 71]. Transferred 25 January 1784 to Presidio of Santa Barbara [AHBCS, PolÃtico, 102]; promoted to sergeant in 1787 [AGS, SecretarÃa de Guerra, Hojas de Servicio, leg. 7275, VII, 82; Bancroft, History of California, vol. I, p. 472]. Leader of the five to eight soldiers guarding new Mision de Santa Cruz, 1795?1797 [Bancroft, op. cit., p. 495]. Listed as retired 31 December 1801, 4 December 1815 [TBL, C-A 21: 76-77, 81].
[S011] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1770-1855_Bur, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org),http://missions.huntington.org/DeathData.aspx?ID=60559.
BURIAL - image on web site
Msn. Santa Clara Cemetery
#5720) 11 Apr 1824- PEDRO AMADOR, adulto, en el Cementerio de esta Mision, Death Date: el dia antecedente, Sargento retirado con graduacion de Alferez.
*More info on web site
[S015] Alta Cal Msn Bk #03_1778-1866_Snta Cl_Bur, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL
#5720) Apr 11 1825 [1824-JSR-2016]- di sepulta. Eccla. en el Cemeterio de esta Misn. el cuerpo de Don PEDRO AMADOR, Sargto. retirado con graduacion de Alferez, el qe. murio el dia antecedte. con los stos. Sacramtos. de Penita. Viatico y Extreme Unccion. Fr. Jose Viader
[S162] CENSUS 1790 - Alta California, (sfgenealogy.com/sf/ca1790.htm).
1790 CENSUS - SAN FRANCISCO
Pedro Amador, sergeant, espanol, from Cocula [Jalisco], 51; wife Ramona Noriega, espanola, [from Loreto] 30; seven children: [Juan Pablo] 12; [Jose Fructuoso] 10; [Maria Antonia] 14; [Maria del Carmen] 7; [Jose Sinforoso] 4; [Maria Sinforosa] 2; [Maria Ignacia] three months {born 23 July 1790}.
[S012] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1772-1855 _Marr, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org),http://missions.huntington.org/MarriageData.aspx?ID=17742.
Msn. Santa Clara
#1085) 12 Apr 1804- PEDRO AMADOR, viudo de Maria Ramona Noriega,
con TERESA PINTO, viuda de Nicolas Galiindo.
*More info on web site
[S017] Alta Cal Msn Bk #04_1778-1863_Snta Cl_Marr, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
MARRIAGE
#1085) Apr 12, 1804- PEDRO AMADOR, viudo de Maria Ramona Noriega,
with TERESA PINTO, viuda del invalido Nicolas Galindo;
Joseph Simeon Castro y Joseph Californio, wits. Catal
https://schwaldfamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I12498&tree=RodSchwald
Antonia died June 30, 1827 and was buried beneath the floor of the Mission Santa Cruz church.
The first record of Antonia is her confirmation, with the governor's wife as her sponsor, at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, November 2, 1783: "MARIA ANTONIA AMADOR, de Pedro Amador, soldado, y Maria Ramona Noriega, con la Senora Governadora Doña Eulalia Callis, muger de Don Pedro Fages, Governador de esta Provincia." Her age of 14 in the 1790 San Francisco census, late October, would make her seven at this time, born around 1776, first child of this marriage.
Her father was Pedro Antonio Amador y Carpio
BIRTH 1737 • Cocula, Cocula Municipality, Jalisco, Mexico
DEATH 10 APR 1824 • San Jose, Santa Clara County, California,
son of Jose Amador, 1710– ? and Maria Josefa De Carpio, 1715–1786.
Her mother was Maria Ramona Noriega y Aguirre,
daughter of Jose Ramon Noriega, 1733– and Clara Aguirre, –1789. [Or Maria Juares and Francisco Noriega] Antonia's mother, Maria Antonia Ramona Gertrudis Noriega, died in 1802 during a measles epidemic, Alta Cal Msn Bk #03_1778-1866_Snta Cl_Bur, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL #2901) Sept 3 (1802)- DONA RAMONA NORIEGA, muger del Sargento Invalido Don Pedro Amador, murio en la epidemia, de sarampion. Doña Ramona had taught all her children to read.
Maria Antonia Amador "del sur de la antigua California" married José Joaquín de las Reyes Castro y Botiller, "soldado de la compañia del R.l Presidio de San Carlos Monterey", SFD#217, January 14, 1791, at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Her parents were high ranking Pedro Antonio Amador, "sargento de la compañia del imediato presidio", and Maria Ramona Rosalia Noriega, born 11/3/1760 in Loreto and christened 11/16/1760 as Maria Antonia Ramona Gertrudis Noriega in the distrito federal. She was the second of Pedro's three wives, married in 1777. Her family was in the 1790 San Francisco census as Pedro Amador, sergeant, español, from Cocula [Jalisco], 51; wife Ramona Noriega, española, [from Loreto] 30; seven children: [Juan Pablo] 12; [José Fructuoso] 10; [María Antonia] 14; [María del Carmen] 7; [José Sinforoso] 4; [María Sinforosa] 2; [María Ignacia] three months {born 23 July 1790}.
María del Carmen married Catalonian volunteer, cabo Claudio Galindo, 5/18/1797, SFD# 558. María Sinforosa married Manuel Mendoza, soltero, 8/10/1800, SDF# 638. Maria Ignacia married widower Nicolas Berreyesa, 11/19/1803, SDF# 1047; then soldero Mariano Linares as a widow, 1/14/1807, SDF# 1065; then after his death, married Josef Serafin Pinto, 4/5/1808, SDF# 1113. José Fructuoso was a soldier, dying 4/7/1807, SDF# 2439.
Missing from this census is an older half-brother, Jose Jacinto Amador, possibly because he had died young. Also missing is an older half-sister, Maria Ygnacia Amador y Ruiz, born around 1770 in Real de San Antonio, daughter of Pedro Antonio Amador and his first wife, Maria de la Luz Ruiz from Loreto. The 1773-74 Rivera expedition lists this mother and daughter accompanying her soldier father. Without further documents, it appears Maria de la Luz Ruiz likely expired soon after, her father remarrying around 1775 and Antonia arriving in 1776. Around 1785, Ygnacia married Francisco Xavier Alvarado from Loreto, later retiring as a sergeant: they had many prestigious children connected to the southern California missions.
Joaquín and Antonia had many children:
José Ygnacio Castro 1793–January 8, 1811, baptized March 3, 1793 SC# 1833, died at age 18 and was buried January 10, 1811 in San Juan Bautista, SJB# 1059. A younger brother would also be named José Ygnacio Castro.
Maria Antonia Dionisia Castro 1795–1885, baptized SC# 2031, April 10, 1795, married Juan José de Gracia Féliz y Cota in 1816 and had 6 sons and 5 daughters.
Maria Josefa Castro 1797–1811 baptized SC# 2177, August 1, 1797
Maria Rafaela Inocencia Castro 1799–1841, married Francisco de Sales Rodríguez about 1833 in San Francisco, and had 3 sons and 5 daughters.
José Rafael Castro 1802–1811
Plácida de Jesús Castro 1803–Deceased
Rafael de Jesús Antonio Castro 1803–1878, married Maria de la Soledad Cota about 1823 at the Mission Santa Cruz, and had 9 sons and 7 daughters: long time Aptos residents.
Juan José Castro 1805–1878, married Maria Rita Pinto, SJS# 1603, and had 9 sons and 7 daughters.
Dária Castro 1806–Deceased
Maria Martina Castro 1807–1890, married José Simon Cota about 1825 in Monterey and had 1 son and 3 daughters.
Candida Castro 1808–1860, married José Antonio Bolcoff in 1822 in Santa Cruz.
Francisco Castro 1810–1811
Guadalupe Castro 1811–1893
Maria Antonia Jacinta Castro 1815–1878 She became a nun in 1851.
Vicenta Castro 1815–Deceased
José Ygnacio Castro 1817–1858; had 4 sons and 2 daughters with Micaela de Jesús Ricarda Rodríguez.
Maria de los Angeles Castro 1818–1903, married Joseph Ladd Majors on December 19, 1839, in Santa Cruz, and had 7 sons and 5 daughters.
Joaquín Castro 1821–1903, had 5 sons and 3 daughters with Eusebia Valencia.
The family was in the 1827 Population of the Villa de Branciforte (Jackson 1980): Joaquín Castro, Maria Antonia Amador, Guadalupe Castro, José Ygnacio Castro, Joaquín Castro, Jacinta Castro, Maria de los Angeles.
Her father, Pedro Amador, by then promoted to officer, died April 10, 1824, SCL# 5720, Sargento retirado con graduacion de Alferez". He had an extensive military career in early California, beginning with the Sacred Expedition in 1776, accompanying Fr. Junipero Serra to San Francisco. He was born in 1739 in Cocula near Guadalajara, to Juan Jose Amador and Maria Josefa de Carpio.
From the Schwald Family:
[S002] Alta Cal 1769 - Overland Exped; Velicata-San Diego, Crosby, Harry, (http://shhar.net/calfamily.htm).
Name: Pedro Antonio Amador
Calidad: Espanol
Born: c. 1737 At: Cocula [Jalisco]
Died: 1824 At: Santa Clara
Parents: Jose Amador and Maria Josefa Carpio
Wife: (I) Maria de la Luz Ruiz; (II) Maria Ramona Noriega
Children: (I) Jose Jacinto, Maria de la Luz, Maria Ignacia;
(II) Juan Pablo, Maria Antonia, Fructuoso, Maria del Carmen
Enlisted at Loreto, 1764 [Service record: TBL, C?A 16: 19]. With Portola in second party to San Diego, and on to San Francisco under Portola and Rivera [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. With Rivera on his return to Velicata, 11 February 1770, but did not return with him to San Diego in July 1770 [AGNM, Indiferente de Guerra, Legajo 3, 161 B]. Acting sergeant in Escolta de la Frontera at Velicata, 1773. Obtained permit to resign and return to home in Cocula, 1774. After eight months absence, returned to Loreto simply as soldier [Bancroft, History of California, vol. II, p. 584]. At Mision Santo Domingo, 1780. In Sonora with Rivera conducting settlers to Alta California (missed Yuma massacre), 1781 [AHBCS, PolÃtico, 49]. Returned to Loreto, 1782, assigned to Escolta de la Frontera late 1782 and 1783, [AHBCS, PolÃtico, exp. 71]. Transferred 25 January 1784 to Presidio of Santa Barbara [AHBCS, PolÃtico, 102]; promoted to sergeant in 1787 [AGS, SecretarÃa de Guerra, Hojas de Servicio, leg. 7275, VII, 82; Bancroft, History of California, vol. I, p. 472]. Leader of the five to eight soldiers guarding new Mision de Santa Cruz, 1795?1797 [Bancroft, op. cit., p. 495]. Listed as retired 31 December 1801, 4 December 1815 [TBL, C-A 21: 76-77, 81].
[S011] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1770-1855_Bur, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org),http://missions.huntington.org/DeathData.aspx?ID=60559.
BURIAL - image on web site
Msn. Santa Clara Cemetery
#5720) 11 Apr 1824- PEDRO AMADOR, adulto, en el Cementerio de esta Mision, Death Date: el dia antecedente, Sargento retirado con graduacion de Alferez.
*More info on web site
[S015] Alta Cal Msn Bk #03_1778-1866_Snta Cl_Bur, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL
#5720) Apr 11 1825 [1824-JSR-2016]- di sepulta. Eccla. en el Cemeterio de esta Misn. el cuerpo de Don PEDRO AMADOR, Sargto. retirado con graduacion de Alferez, el qe. murio el dia antecedte. con los stos. Sacramtos. de Penita. Viatico y Extreme Unccion. Fr. Jose Viader
[S162] CENSUS 1790 - Alta California, (sfgenealogy.com/sf/ca1790.htm).
1790 CENSUS - SAN FRANCISCO
Pedro Amador, sergeant, espanol, from Cocula [Jalisco], 51; wife Ramona Noriega, espanola, [from Loreto] 30; seven children: [Juan Pablo] 12; [Jose Fructuoso] 10; [Maria Antonia] 14; [Maria del Carmen] 7; [Jose Sinforoso] 4; [Maria Sinforosa] 2; [Maria Ignacia] three months {born 23 July 1790}.
[S012] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1772-1855 _Marr, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org),http://missions.huntington.org/MarriageData.aspx?ID=17742.
Msn. Santa Clara
#1085) 12 Apr 1804- PEDRO AMADOR, viudo de Maria Ramona Noriega,
con TERESA PINTO, viuda de Nicolas Galiindo.
*More info on web site
[S017] Alta Cal Msn Bk #04_1778-1863_Snta Cl_Marr, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
MARRIAGE
#1085) Apr 12, 1804- PEDRO AMADOR, viudo de Maria Ramona Noriega,
with TERESA PINTO, viuda del invalido Nicolas Galindo;
Joseph Simeon Castro y Joseph Californio, wits. Catal
https://schwaldfamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I12498&tree=RodSchwald
Antonia died June 30, 1827 and was buried beneath the floor of the Mission Santa Cruz church.
Family Members
Siblings
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Juan Pablo Amador y Noriega
1778–1807
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José Fructuoso Amador
1782–1807
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Maria del Carmen Amador de Galindo
1784–1820
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José Onicifero de la Luz Amador y Noriega
1786–1794
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Maria Sinforosa Josefa Amador y Noriega
1788–1841
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Maria Ygnacia Apolinaria Amador Pinto
1790–1869
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Marcos Antonio Amador y Noriega
1793–1829
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Jose Maria Amador y Noriega
1794–1883
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Maria Rosa Amador y Noriega
1797–1825
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Lazaro Amador
1801–1802
Children
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Jose Ygnacio Castro
1793–1811
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Antonia Castro Felis
1795–1885
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Maria Rafaela Inocencia Castro de Rodríguez
1799–1841
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Juan José Castro y Amador
1805–1878
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Maria Martina Castro Lodge
1807–1890
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Candida Castro Bolcoff
1808–1860
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Guadalupe Castro
1811–1893
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Sr Maria Antonia Jacinta "Sister Rosa" Castro
1815–1878
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Ignacio Castro
1816–1859
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Maria de los Angeles Castro Majors
1818–1903
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José Ygnacio Castro y Amador
1820–1859
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