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 Maria Encarnacion 46  26 Farmer
1850   Breen, Patrick  Margaret  56  40  Hotel Keeper
1860   Breen, Edward  Catherine 27  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  20 Farmer
1860   Ortega, Jose Quintin  Ramona  35  28  Herdsman
1860   German, Louis  52  Gardener
1860   Breen, Patrick  Margaret  67  40 Postmaster
1860   Breen, John  Margaret  28  24 Farmer
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, George Candelaria Sanchez 34  28 Laborer
1870   Sanchez, Jose Gregorio  Margaret Breen  25  20 Rancher
1870   Roche, James  Guadalupe Sanchez 31  25  Merchant
1870   Breen, Patrick  Amelia  33  26  Farmer
1870   Breen, James P. (illegible)  28  20  Attorney
1870   Breen, J.S.  Fidellla Sanford 29  17
1880   Crane, Encarnacion       56
1880   Sanchez, Jose Gregorio Margaret  35  30 Rancher
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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