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Careaga, Bonavantur, Bonaventura, Boronda

Mrs. Maria A. Careaga (1854-1943) maiden name was Bonavantur (this is how they spelled it) daughter of Monsieur Bernardo Bonaventura who came from France and married Albina Boronda, a charming member of on of the very early pure Castilian families of Monterey. Her father was a carpenter at San Juan Bautista, and passed away when our subject was only ten years old. Her mother read the family as best she could, the only one now surviving being the subject of the sketch. Her materna grandfather Boronda was a native Californian, But great-grand father Boronda came from Spain. Maria A. Bonaventura Received her education in the Jan Juan Convent and her marriage to Ramon F. Careaga was solemnized amid all the festivities characteristic of the social life in a family of such ancient traditions. We also have old papers that are signed by the president of Mexico Benito Juarz 1869. It said she was married at the old historical mission. It also tells about the early Careaga-Colonel Satornino Careaga came from Mexico to Monterey when he was 17 he was a member of Captain Munoz's Command there.

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