Monthly Archives: July 2014

Information is coming in

Hello everyone,

Thank you very much for your kind comments to the upgrade of the www.moragahistory.com website. Very much appreciated.

We are still trying to work out that pesky “subscribe to our WordPress blog” issue. Hopefully, we will have an RSS feed or something else working soon.

We have also received some great photos and suggested updates on information on the site.

Gerry Hamor provided information and a photo on a plaque located north of Ventura, California recognizing the Rancho La Cañada Larga Mexican land-grant to Gabriel Moraga’s second wife, Joaquina Alvarado de Moraga. Gerry is a descendent of the Gabriel Moraga family line.

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Following the death of Gabriel Moraga, his second wife, Joaquina Alvarado de Moraga, petitioned the Mexican government and was granted on 30 Jan. 1841 a total of 6,559 acres of land in the area known as La Cañada Larga north of the city of Ventura. Photo courtesy of Gerry Hamor.

He also provided updated information on the connection between the Camarillo and Moraga family so check out the “San Francisco Branch” page.

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Lance Beeson, a descendent of Joseph Juaquin Moraga, provided a photo of his Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Gomacinda Moraga, and information on the Facebook page, Los Arribeños de San Francisco, on the traditional “Fandango at the Moraga Adobe” in Northern California.

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Photo by Gomacinda de Los Santos Moraga, daughter of Jose de Jesus Moraga, grand daughter of Joaquin Trinadad De La Santisma Moraga, great-granddaugter of Gabriel Moraga and great-great granddaughter of Joseph Joaquin Moraga. Photo courtesy of Lance Beeson.

Lance also provided us with photos from his recent visit to Spain, including a visit to el Palacio – Casa de los Moraga, which was donated by Dona Marta de Moraga as a rectory to the Convent of Santa Maria de Jesus in Cáceres, Extremadura. The house, which is now a center of Extremaduran arts and crafts, can be seen today with an inscription outside reading “Casa de Nuestra Senora y Pobres Que Fue de los Moraga.”

You can also click on the image below to see a short slideshow.

The Casa de Moraga in Caceras, Extremada, Spain. To the left is the shield Benito Moraga y Nidos. That on the right is the shield of his wife, Doña Maria de Carvajal. Photo courtesy of Lance Beeson.

The Casa de Moraga in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. To the left is the shield Benito Moraga y Nidos. That on the right is the shield of his wife, Doña Maria de Carvajal. Photo courtesy of Lance Beeson.

Thanks again for all your contributions. Very much appreciated… Frank M.

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Frank X. Moraga hanging out next to a westbound California Zephyr in Winslow, AZ. Photo by Star Hunter / ©2014

Welcome to the Moraga Family History web site. With your help we hope to trace the Moraga family history from its beginnings in Europe to the present day. We welcome you to join along in this family history search adventure.

As an introduction, my name is Frank X. Moraga. I have been working on my family genealogy as an occasional hobby for the past half-dozen years. My initial goal was to discover the origins of the Moraga family who resided in the El Rio neighborhood of Oxnard in Ventura County, California. My search is still incomplete, but I have discovered a wealth of information about the Moraga family in general and I would like to share that information with anyone who is also considering doing their own family history search. I hope you will also share what you have learned about the Moraga family and together we will be able to accurately trace our family from its beginnings. Thank you and good hunting.

For more information, or to contribute photos and other resources to this website, send an email to contact@moragahistory.com

(Disclaimer: While the author of this site has sought to use verifiable research data, this is an unscientific family history web site and we make no claims as to the complete accuracy of the data used in this site. We will seek to attribute sources to the material whenever possible as we develop our link/sources page).

Under construction

Construction of the Riverpark development on the site of the old Moraga property on El Rio Drive, Ventura County, CA. Photo by Frank X. Moraga / 2014©

Hello everyone,

Sorry if you stumbled on this page while we are undergoing a major renovation.

But we hope you will like the results as we migrate to a new, easier-to-use, WordPress theme for our website.

This will allow us to update the site more frequently, post more photos, provide more links to reference sources and publish your comments.

Thanks very much to everyone over the years who have visited our previous website. We very much appreciate your comments, photo and information contributions.

We hope to have this new site up and running very soon.

Thanks for your patience… Frank X. Moraga

Time to update the site

Yes, it is long past time to update the Moraga family history site. Our part of the Moraga family has moved from Ventura County, CA to Arizona (sort of doing our family migration in reverse). Time to change e-mail addresses and close out old web sites.

Thanks to everyone over the years who have contacted us through this site and provided additional information on the history of the Moraga family and how we all got to be in our present location.

Also thanks to those who have provided additional family photos so we can add them on our web site. As time permits, I will try to keep this web site updated with new information (family tree lists, photographs, videos and blog entries). Thanks in advance for your help in keeping this site fresh with new information.