Bernardo Yorba

Bernardo Yorba (August 20, 1800 – November 28, 1858)Amelia L. Davila, "Historic Yorba", Santa Ana Weekly Blade, June 1, 1893Arnold O. Dominguez, "José Antonio Yorba I", 1985 2nd Ed.; p. 12, Orange County Historical Society was a prominent Californio landowner, ranchero, politician, and public figure. He was one of the wealthiest men in early 19th-century California. Yorba also served as alcalde (mayor) of Santa Ana. The city of Yorba Linda is named after him.Don Meadows, "The House of Bernardo Yorba", 1985 2nd Ed.; p. 4, Orange County Historical Society

Born to José Antonio Yorba, a member of the Portolà expedition, Yorba was one of California's largest landowners and most successful ranchers, with thousands of cattle and horses grazing on land grants totaling more than 35,000 acres. Bernado Yorba managed his holdings from the Hacienda de San Antonio, the principal hacienda of the Yorba family.

Life Bernardo Yorba was born on August 20, 1800, in San Diego. Other sources list his birth on August 4, 1801.Yorba Linda History – Courtesy of the Yorba Linda Public LibraryThe House of Bernardo Yorba Bernardo was the son of José Antonio Yorba, one of the first Spanish soldiers to arrive in California, and Maria Josefa Grijalva. Bernardo's childhood was spent in San Diego, where he attended 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.Arnold O. Dominguez, 1985 2nd Ed., p. 11Amelia L. Davila, 1893 It was around this time that the family moved to the rancho near present-day Olive, California, in Orange County.Don Meadows, 1985 2nd Ed.; p. 4

In 1834, Bernardo was granted the Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana.Yorba Linda History It was shortly after this that Bernardo began construction of a large adobe house, the Bernardo Yorba Hacienda. Bernardo was elected to serve as Juez de Campo and Auxiliary Alcade several times (1833, 1836, 1840, and 1844).Arnold O. Dominguez, 1985 2nd Ed. In 1846, he was granted Rancho La Sierra.

Descendants In 1858, at the age of 58, Bernardo Yorba died leaving behind a large and prosperous rancho and many children.California Society, D.A.R., 1952, Early California Wills, Volume 1 Some sources list his death on November 28, 1858.Amelia L. Davila, 1893 Other sources list his death on October 21, 1858. He was interred in the old Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles. He left the land for a cemetery, the Yorba Cemetery, in his will but it was not ready for a burial until 1862. He and nine of his family members remained at Calvary until 1923 when they were all moved and reinterred at Yorba Cemetery. 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 (Davila) in 1854.Bernardo (Fernando) Antonio Yorba

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 WilsonThe 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.Prudencio YorbaMaria de los Delores Ontiveros and Prudencio Yorba 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 Sinobia / Zenobia 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 Bernardo Yorba II Francisco Xavier Yorba 1856– Victorine Carnaham Gregorio Yorba 1857–

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