Eric,
When you go to the train museum, if you have time, could you find out if
there are records of weekly pay statements for 1858-1900 for the men who
built the railroad. I think I am interested in the railroad that was near
Mission San Jose, Niles area.
Thanks in advance,
Tish
On Apr 2, 2011 6:34am, [email protected] wrote:
Eric,
Congratulations! Know the feeling on breaking through. Wish I
could be there to share your serendipity... but I shall have to settle for
a glass here in Utah.
Ally
Vieira Anselmo in Ribeira Seca, Sao Miguel
Pinheiro, Nunes, Silveira in Praia do Almoxarife and Pedro
Miguel, Faial
Silveira, Rodrigues in Sao Jorge
In a message dated 4/1/2011 10:35:51 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
I did it!!!!I broke down my first serious brickwall
today...
I have been trying to find where my great-great grandfather, Manuel
Rodrigues is buried. He immigrated to Hawaii in the 1880's from the
Azores and then the family immigrated from Hawaii in 1906...
So... according to family lore, he was killed by a train in Oakland when
my grandmother was a child. She has no memory of him or her other
grandfather, Manuel Cabral, who was also killed by a train in Oakland in
1925
when she was 3 days old.
Well, I finally found him... I have searched the internet, been to the
Oakland Family History Center on several occasions, used City
Directories, pulled the California Death Index from the Oakland Public
Library, looked through numerous micro film rolls of the Oakland Tribune
and
the Hayward Daily Review at the Oakland Public Library and California
State
University HAYWARD (I refuse to call it East Bay) to no avail...
well, it turns out, the CA death index had him listed as Manuel
RodrigueZ....
I was at Cal State Hayward today and was looking for Manuel Rodriguez in
the June 10, 1927 Oakland Tribune... I first found an article of an
unidentified elderly man that was struck by a Southern Pacific Electric
Train... the type that used to travel across the Oakland Bay Bridge on the
first level... that was my first clue... In the June 12, 1927 obituaries,
I
found him listed. I know it is him because the address matched and the
middle initial matched... he is the only Manuel A Rodrigues in several
different sources. Pay Dirt... =) I will request the death
certificate the next time I am in Oakland... and I plan on traveling to
Sacramento on my next day off to see if there are any records at the
Railroad
Museum. And now for the serendipity...
--
Eric Gomes
Castro Valley, CA
Surnames: Gomes, Smith, Townsend, Lopes, Cabral, Erwin, Kennedy, Rodman,
Rodrigues, and many more.
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