Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa was an Mexican land grant in present-day Sonoma County, California given in 1841 by Governor pro tem Manuel Jimeno to María Ygnacia López.Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco The grant was along Santa Rosa Creek, and encompassed present-day Santa Rosa, California.Diseño del Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa.Mexican Land Grants in Sonoma County.
History María Ygnacia de la Candelaria López (1793–1849) married Joaquin Victor Carrillo (1793–1835) in San Diego in 1809. When Carrillo died in 1835, three of their twelve children were already married: Maria Antonia (known as Josefa) to Henry D. Fitch, Maria Ramona to José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco, and Francisca Benicia to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. María Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo and her 9 unmarried children left San Diego in 1837 and moved to Sonoma, California where her daughter Francisca Benicia Carrillo (1815-1891) lived with her husband General Vallejo. General Vallejo was a critical factor in obtaining the two square league grant in 1841.
Eldest son, Joaquin Carrillo (1820–1899), was granted Rancho Llano de Santa Rosa just west of his mother's property by Governor Manuel Micheltorena in 1844. Son Juan Bautista (1825–1841) died of poisoning. Daughter María de la Luz Esquatuia Carrillo (1814–1893) married her brother-in-law Salvador Vallejo and set up her home in Sonoma. María López Carrillo died in 1849 and was buried at Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma."Doña Maria of Two Adobes" by Glen Burch
Seven claims for Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa were filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852. Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
Land Case No.(Northern District ND) Claimant Notes Patented area PatentDate Land Case 124 NDUnited States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 124 NDJulio Maria Tomas CarrilloSon Julio Maria Tomas Carrillo (1824–1889) inherited the bulk of the grant.1866 Land Case 125 NDUnited States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 125 NDJuana de Jesús MallaghDaughter Juana de Jesús (1829– ) married sea captain David Mallagh.1879 Land Case 126 NDUnited States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 126 NDJames EldridgeEldridge, California is named after James EldridgeErwin G. Gudde, William Bright, 2004,California Place Names, University of California Press, 1880 Land Case 127 NDUnited States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 127 NDFelicidad Carrillo de CastroDaughter Felicidad Carrillo (1833 - 1856) married Victor Castro.1881 Land Case 128 NDUnited States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 128 NDJacob R. Mayer and J. G. Isham 1879 Land Case 235 NDUnited States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 235 NDJohn HendleyDr. John Hendley (1820–1875) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, had been assistant surgeon in a Missouri volunteer regiment, and came to California in 1850, settling first in Sonoma but moving to Santa Rosa when it became the county seat in 1854. He moved to his farm in 1863, where he died in 1875.Santa Rosa Times, February 25, 1875 He was Sonoma County's first treasurer and clerk, and claimed one square mile ().1879 Land Case 258 NDUnited States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 258 NDOliver BeaulieuOliver Beaulieu, a French-Canadian fur trapper, bought on the north side of Santa Rosa Creek from Julio Carrillo in 1850. Beaulieu laid out a town named Franklin in 1853, which preceded the founding of Santa Rosa. But Franklin did not survive, when Santa Rosa became the county seat in 1854, and the residents moved the mile and a half to Santa Rosa.Robert A. Thompson, 1877,Historical and Descriptive Sketch of Sonoma County, California, L. H. Everts & Co., Philadelphia.J. P. Munro-Fraser, 1880, History of Sonoma County, Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco. rejected
Son José Ramon Carrillo (1821–1864) was killed in 1864. Daughter Maria Marta Juana Carrillo (1826–1905) married Jose de Cruz Pilar Carrillo.
Historic sites of the Rancho Carrillo Adobe. The home of the Carrillo family.
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