Table of Contents Sanchez File

Monterey County Census Records 1850-1910

Participants in The Sanchez File
(Murder and Conspiracy in Monterey, 1853)

Encarnacion Ortega's children in Italics

Year    Head of household                              Wife's name               Ages     Occupation
                                                                                                                H    W
1850   Sanchez, Jose MariaEncarnacion46  26Farmer
1850   Breen, Patrick Margaret 56  40 Hotel Keeper
1860   Breen, Edward Catherine27  28 Farmer
1860   Crane, George W. Encarnacion 33  36 Lawyer
1860   Bravo, Francisco Virginia  Crane?    35 Tavern Keeper
1860   Beals, Joseph R. 43 Lawyer
1860   McMahon, James 53 Merchant
1860   Willson, Daniel Vicenta Sanchez 32  20Farmer
1860   Ortega, Jose Quintin Ramona 35  28 Herdsman
1860   German, Louis 52 Gardener
1860   Breen, Patrick Margaret 67  40Postmaster
1860   Breen, John Margaret 28  24Farmer
1860   Breen, Samuel Margaret 65  45 Teamster
1860   McKnight, Thomas Refugia Sanchez?    20 Butcher
1860   Roach, William Margaret 40  27 Farmer
1870   Breen, Margaret       65
1870   Crane, Encarnacion       46
1870   Castro, GeorgeCandelaria Sanchez34  28Laborer
1870   Sanchez, Jose Gregorio Margaret Breen 25  20Rancher
1870   Roche, James Guadalupe Sanchez31  25 Merchant
1870   Breen, Patrick Amelia 33  26 Farmer
1870   Breen, James P.(illegible) 28  20 Attorney
1870   Breen, J.S. Fidellla Sanford29  17
1880   Crane, Encarnacion      56
1880   Sanchez, Jose GregorioMargaret 35  30Rancher
1900   Crane, Virginia      42
1900   Sanchez, Jose Gregorio 55 Day laborer*
1910   Crane, Virginia       53
1910  Rhodes, Mary (Virginia's daughter**       38

 *Jose Gregorio has gone from wealthy rancher to laborer. The result of his debts and
dissipation.
** Mary will commit her mother, Virginia, to Agnews State Insane Asylum in Nov.
1936, where she died one month later.
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