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Mateo Arnerich

Male 1812 - 1884  (72 years)


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  • Name Mateo Arnerich 
    Birth 1812  Island of Brac, Dalmatia, Croatia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 29 Jun 1880  Almaden, Santa Clara, CA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mateo, age 55, born AUS, farmer, parents born AUS/AUS 
    Death 3 May 1884  Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Calvary Catholic Cemetery, San Jose, CA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5580  Family Tree
    Last Modified 22 May 2018 

    Family Elizabeth Brown,   b. 7 Jul 1832, Clovernel, Tipperary Co, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Oct 1910, San Jose, Santa Clara, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage May 1856  Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 1910 Census has several problems. 1. Margarette A, 38, is incorrectly added. Elizabeth is missing.
    Children 
     1. John Francis Arnerich,   b. Aug 1857, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1930, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    +2. Mary Catherine Arnerich,   b. Feb 1860, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jul 1935, San Jose, Santa Clara, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     3. Elizabeth H Arnerich,   b. Oct 1860, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Aug 1924, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    +4. Matthew Edward Arnerich,   b. 29 Oct 1865, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Oct 1948, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    +5. Paul J Arnerich,   b. 23 Sep 1869, San Jose, Santa Clara, CA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Mar 1936, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     6. Isabelle A “Belle” Arnerich,   b. Jul 1871, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1939, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     7. Margaret W Arnerich,   b. Sep 1873, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Aug 1928, Santa Clara Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
    Family ID F1694  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 May 2018 

  • Notes 
    • from "The San Jose Evening News", 5 May 1884 (genealogybank.com)
      ARNERICH - In Union District, Santa Clara county, May 3rd, 1884, Matteo Arnerich, brother-in-law of W.D. Brown.
    • From "Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated"
      ARNERICH, MATEO Vineyard-Farm-Goldminer
      Mateo Arnerich was born on the island of Brac, Dalmatia, Croatia in the Adriatic Sea. In 1826, when fourteen years of age, he became a sailor boy. He followed a sea faring life for fourteen years, visiting every sea and ocean. He came from China to San Francisco in 1849, and never left the State of his adoption but once, when he went, in 1872, to visit the scenes and friends of his childhood days. From 1849 to 1852 Mateo mined for gold in the Calaveras. In 1852 Mr. Arnerich came to the Santa Clara Valley, and soon after became interested in agriculture. In May, 1856, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown) Moylan, widow of Edward Moylan. They bought property in the Narvaze grant, and opened a farm, which they occupied for twelve years. They then found that no valid title to it could be obtained, and so left the place, and by pre-emption and purchase secured 160 acres of choice land, which constitute the present family homestead in the Union District. The ranch is located in an angle of the Santa Clara and Guadaloupe road, which bounds it on the north and east. Mr. and Mrs. Arnerich commenced life on the ranch in a comfortable house, which several years ago gave place to the substantial family residence of today. Mr. Arnerich was an active, energetic man, and carried forward the improvement of his property quite rapidly. The neighborhood lost in him a citizen actively interested in all movernents tending to the general good. His death, which occurred May 3, I883, was caused by injuries received in being thrown from a buggy, near his own home. His widow and her seven children, John, Catharine, Elizabeth, Mateo, Paul, Isabelle, and Margaret all yet making their home with their mother, are quite well provided for. Mrs. Arnerich was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1831. She was nine years of age when her parents, William and Catharine Brown, emigrated to Australia, whence, after a residence of ten years, they came to San Francisco. Later they became pioneers of Union District. Mr. Brown's death, resulting from an accidental fall, occurred in 1854. William D. Brown, the chief of police at San Jose, is a brother of Mrs. Arnerich. The first marriage of Mrs. Arnerich occurred at San Francisco in January, 1851. Her husband died of consumption ten months later. Quite a large portion of the family homestead is now devoted to the raising of grapes and fruit. A vineyard of sixty acres furnishes a general variety of wine and table grapes. In the orchard can be found olive, fig, pomegranate, orange, and lemon trees. Mrs. Arnerich and her children are members of the Catholic church.