May 4, 1748 Death of Juan Jose Carrillo

Today's ancestor is Juan Jose Carrillo. He was born circa 1695 (probably between 1695 & 1700) and died on May 4, 1748. Some sources list his birthplace & place of death as Loreto, in Baja California Sur but another account has him dying of a snakebite at San Jose del Cabo.


San Jose del Cabo

Juan Jose Carrillo (1680 - 1748) is my 7th great grandfather on my Mother Barbara Metcalfe's side.

• Maria Ygnacia De La Concepcion Carrillo (1725 - 1798) (Daughter of Juan & Lucía Efigenia Millán)
• Ygnacio Leonardo Maria Verdugo (1761 - 1830) (Son of Maria Ygnacia & Juan Diego Verdugo)
• Jose Joaquin Verdugo (1795 - 1832) (Son of Ygnacio Leonardo & Maria Josefa Vincenta Rubio)
• Jose Joaquin Juan Pedro Verdugo (1832 - ) (Son of Jose Joaquin & Maria Josefa Magdalena Vejar)
• Mauricia Verdugo (1863 - 1930) (Daughter of Jose Joaquin Juan Pedro & Maria Basilia Perez)
• Rosa Maria Cruz (1896 - 1977) (Daughter of Mauricia & Martin Cruz)
• Henrietta Josefina Ceseña (1921 - 1988) (Daughter of Rosa & Henry Cesena)
• Barbara Jean Metcalfe (1939 - 2005) (Daughter of Henrietta Josefina & Robert George Metcalfe)

 Loreto Mission

What do we know about Juan Jose Carrillo? He is considered the originator of the Carrillo family name in the peninsula and up the coast into California. He had enlisted at the Presido of Loreto by 1715 and served at Loreto and several other Baja missions. Records survive from San Ignacio (1731) and Comondu (1736-42). He continued on active duty until his death, reaching the rank of Lietenant. He was literate.


San Ignacio Mission in 1908

In 1714 (when Juan was 34 years old), he married Lucia Efigenia Millan at Loreto, in Baja California Sur. She was born in Spain, the daughter Lazaro Millan. A Lazaro Millan is listed on the 1695 Sonora Muster, during the Pima Wars. Lazaro settled in Loreto and is found as a mission servant in 1730 at Comondu. Juan and Efiginia Carrillo never left Baja California. After being widowed, Efiginia lived with and was supported by her son-in-law, Juan Manuel Ruiz, at San Jose de Comondu, along with her two youngest children, Mariano and Antonia Victoria.

San José de Comondu

The children of Juan Jose Carrillo and Lucia Efigenia Millan were:

• Jose Mariano CARRILLO b: in Loreto, Baja, California. Death: 28 JAN 1782 in Mission San Carlos de Monterey 
• Josef Raymundo CARRILLO b: in Loreto, Baja, California. Married Petra Gonzales 
• Isabel CARRILLO b: in Loreto, Baja, California. Married Juan Maria Ruiz 
• Maria Matilde CARRILLO b: in Loreto, Baja, California. Death: DEC 1850 in San Juan Capistrano, California
• Maria Ignacia de la Concepcion CARRILLO b: 1725 in Royal Presidio of Loreto, Baja California, Mexico
• Maria Micaela CARRILLO b: 1726 in Loreto, Baja, California. Married Martin Olivera
• Hilario CARRILLO b: ABT 1730 in Loreto, Baja, California. Married Maria Josefa Antonia DE PASOS
• Guillermo CARRILLO b: 1736 in Loreto, Baja, California
• Maria Antonia Victoria CARRILLO b: 1741 in Loreto, Baja, California. Married: Jose  
  Francisco DE ORTEGA in 1759 in Loreto, Baja Calif, Mexico

Hilario Carrillo's son José Raimundo Carrillo (1749-1809) was the founder of the Carrillo family in California. He came to California as a soldier, (probably with the first expedition in 1769), and rose to rank of captain. He was a commandant at San Diego, from 1807-09. He married Tomasa Ignacia, daughter of  the soldier Francisco Lugo, the ceremony was performed by Junipero Serra at San Carlos, on April 23, 1781. Jose Raimundo's early services in California were at Santa Barbara and Monterey, coming to San Diego in 1806. He was buried in the chapel on Presidio Hill, on November 10, 1809. His only daughter, Maria Antonia, became the wife of Jose de la Guerra v Noriega. His sons, Carlos Antonio de Jesus, Jose Antonio Ezequiel, Anastasio, and Domingo Antonio Ignacio, were all prominent in the early history of California.

Guillermo Carrillo is first noted on the Presidio de Loreto muster roll in 1751. He came with Rivera to San Diego in 1769 (during which trek, he was named in both journals because of his severe illness requiring him to be carried on a litter by accompanying neophytes.) He sufficiently recovered to go on to San Francisco with Portolá. Carrillo was one of eight soldiers who signed as co-petitioners the request written by José Francisco Ortega at San Diego, 1 September 1770, asking that they be returned to their homes as Gálvez had promised when the Alta California objectives were secured. However, Guillermo Carrillo stayed on at San Diego as a cornerstone of the presidio, and was transferred from jurisdiction of Loreto to that of Alta California, on 1 January 1773. He appears as corporal on muster rolls of 2 September 1770, 1 January 1775, 21 December 1777, and 1 January 1780 and was still a corporal through 1781. Guillermo Carrillo died at San Diego 5 December 1782, almost a year after the death at Monterey of his younger brother Mariano.

On 5 February and 3 September 1754, Mariano Carrillo and his sister Antonia Victoria [who would become wife of José Francisco Ortega in 1758] served as godparents at San José de Comondú where their sister Isabel was the wife of the mission guard/mayordomo, Juan María Ruiz. On 26 July 1756, Mariano enlisted at Presidio de Loreto under Captain Fernando Rivera. After Carrillo accompanied Rivera to San Diego in 1769, the captain placed him in charge of soldiers left to guard the base at San Diego while he went north to seek Monterey with Governor Portolá and most of the assembled soldiers of the two land parties. Carrillo did go north with Portolá on the second, successful search for Monterey. Mariano remained in Monterey under Pedro Fages. In 1772, now a sergeant, Carrillo wrote a fascinatingly blunt and circumstantial report complaining of Fages’s arbitrary, erratic, and unreasonable demands on the Leatherjacket soldiers. Perhaps Junípero Serra’s accompanying strong endorsement of Carrillo’s position helped to prevent this from blighting Carrillo’s career. Transferred from jurisdiction of Loreto to that of Alta California, on 1 January 1773 he had an active account with warehouse at San Diego at end of 1779. Mariano Carrillo died in the afternoon of 27 January 1782 at Monterey and was buried in the presidio chapel after a service by Fray Junípero Serra.