Person:José MacHado (2)

Owned Rancho La Ballona in Los Angeles. Now the spot of Marina del Ray and Culver City. As a side note, I used to crew for UCLA on Ballona Creek, next to the marina.

Could not read or write.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Los Angeles County, California. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

   Ballona township, Los Angeles county, ED 94, Sheet 15A, Family 209, Lines 1-9, NARA microfilm publication T623

2. ↑ Northrop, Marie E. Spanish-Mexican families of early California, 1769-1850. (Southern California Genealogical Society, 1984)
   2:155.
3.   Graves, J. A. My seventy years in California, 1857-1927. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990).

   CHAPTER XVIII
   page 153
   West of the Rancho Los Bueyes was the Rancho La Ballona, confirmed to Antonio Machado, containing 13,919 acres, and patented December 18, 1873. This ranch also contained much marsh land and, together with the Cienega, afforded the early residents of Los Angeles most excellent duck, snipe and goose shooting.,

4. ↑ Los Angeles, California, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T624).

   Ballona, Los Angeles county, ED 5, Sheet 17B, Family 407, NARA microfilm publication M1283

5. ↑ Northrop shows “Jan” but the June birth month would preclude that.