RUIZ, Jose Manuel

• Name	RUIZ, Jose Manuel
  Gender	Male
  Born	PARENTS: It has not been proven that Domingo Ruiz and Maria Josefa de Lugo were Jose Manuel Ruiz's parents.
  Notes	http://www.loscalifornianos.org/queries_51_-_60.htm I have been doing some Ruiz family genealogy in connection with my docent work at the San Diego County Park at Rancho Penasquitos. My research of the Ruiz family back to Juan Maria Ruiz [1725-1765] and his sons Francisco (Maria), Jose Manuel [1755-1835], Jose Alejandro [1749-?] ... Juan Maria was a soldier at Loreto, Baja California and was killed by a mountain lion. .........SONS:............ Francisco received the first land grant in the San Diego area, Rancho Penasquitos, in 1823. He retired in 1827 as comandante of the Presidio of San Diego. He never married. Jose Manuel was the first native-born governor of Baja California. ... http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=ruiz+Loreto%2C+Baja+California&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&u=www.loscalifornianos.org/queries_171-180.htm&w=ruiz+loreto+baja+california&d=7D721532ED&icp=1&.intl=us Francisco Javier Gastelum was born about 1784 in El Fuerte, Sinaloa. He was a soldier in northern Baja California; promoted to corporal in 1811. In 1820 he was a sergeant. He arrived in Ensenada about 1824. Received Rancho San Rafael in 1826. In 1835 he was deputy mayor (alcalde auxiliar) of the northern territory, at San Vicente. He was justice of the peace (juez de paz) 1837-38. During the invasion of William Walker in 1854 his Ensenada ranch was robbed and sacked, and he was forced to sell it to his son-in-law, Pedro Gastelum (1861). He married Salvadora, daughter of Jose Manuel Ruiz. Jose Manuel Ruiz was born about 1755 in Loreto, Baja California, son of Juan Maria Ruiz and Isabel Carrillo. He died in September 1835, buried 18 September 1835 in La Paz. He was the first proprietor of Rancho Ensenada de Todos Santos, now the city of Ensenada. He arrived as a soldier in the area about 1805. In 1824 he transferred his Ensenada property to his son-in-law Francisco Javier Gastelum.
  Person ID	I09914	1. Schwald - WA-NY-OR-TX
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2014