Which Irishman worked at Mission Santa Cruz?
score:7
This was probably referring to John Mulligan, who is referred to in this discussion of the population at Branciforte, adjacent to the mission of Santa Cruz:
The total population of Spanish or mixed blood, known as gente de razon in 1820, was estimated at something over 3,000 souls; and of foreigners not of Spanish or Indian parentage, twelve; of these Thomas Doak and Daniel Call, who came in 1816, and Joseph Chapman in 1818, were Americans; John Gilroy in 1814, and John Rose in 1818, were Scotchmen; Thomas Lester in 1817, and I. Thomas in 1818, were Englishmen; John Mulligan in 1814 or 1815, was an Irishman; Jose Bolcof in 1815, was a Russian; Juan Cristobal in 1816, M. J. Pascual and Fisher or Norris in 1818, were negroes.
The above quote appears to be an excerpt from Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.
Mulligan is also discussed in more length in The California Padres and Their Missions
...along came Irishman named John Milligan or Mulligan who had stranded in California from some ship and couldn't get away.... he and Padre Luis struck up a friendship the Padre to drive away his ennui I suppose and also because he had a philological turn and had already picked up a couple of Indian languages conceived the notion of Mulligan to teach him English...
Upvote:3
Just to add a bit of extra info to justCal's answer, below are links to two document images in the Vallejo volumes. The first is a statement of Mulligan/Milligan's account with William Hartnell in 1829. The second is a letter in 1851 from a solicitor in Belfast to John Milliken's executor William Hartnell. Mulligan/Milligan/Milliken are apparently name variants.
More post
- 📝 Were concentration camp guards allowed to talk about their work at home?
- 📝 Was the 1852 Richard/Bolcoff divorce the first one in California?
- 📝 Which fortress east of Ancient Megiddo did Thutmose III go to during the siege?
- 📝 Why was the Soviet Marine Infantry disbanded in 1947?
- 📝 What were Catherine the Great's orders to von Böhm?
- 📝 When is the first recorded plague?
- 📝 Umar ibn Khattab and Omar as a Western given name
- 📝 Is there any footage and/or photos of Germans surrendering towns and cities in the Western Front?
- 📝 What are some instances of professional army funding being stolen in full?
- 📝 How close did Germany come to interdicting Soviet oil shipments from the Caucasus in 1942?
- 📝 How did people apply for university in the 18th century?
- 📝 Is the concern about automation costing jobs a recent one only, or are there other examples from the past?
- 📝 Where was the Temple of Onias located?
- 📝 When and what was the maximum extent of Nationalist China?
- 📝 What was Libya's form of direct democracy (Jamahiria) like in practice?
- 📝 Is there proof that John Proctor owned a tavern?
- 📝 The diminishing role of the "family name" throughout the Byzantine Empire
- 📝 Did the British East India Company operate in the West Indies?
- 📝 Did the Eastern Romans also use Roman concrete?
- 📝 Security of war documents/letters during revolutionary war?
- 📝 When was "diablo" first used to refer to the Devil?
- 📝 How would a king's servants prove that they are on a task given by the king?
- 📝 Why did Nepal and Bhutan not become a part of India like other princely states when colonial rule ended?
- 📝 Teaching of Mathematics in Italy and in Germany in the fifteenth century
- 📝 Did the French Resistance kill civilians?
- 📝 Absolute rulers who voluntarily resigned their power
- 📝 How accurate is the fatalistic samurai culture in James Clavell's novel Shogun?
- 📝 Is it true that medieval villages didn't have names?
- 📝 Why didn't Imperial Japan attack the Soviet Union during World War 2?
- 📝 Are there contemporary records of why flappers used cosmetics to create thin, upturned eyebrows?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Which Irishman worked at Mission Santa Cruz?
- 📝 Which culture used no personal names?
- 📝 Which came first: polytheism or monotheism?
- 📝 Which European Languages are not Indo-European?
- 📝 Which monarch had the longest break in their reign?
- 📝 Which year in history had the highest ratio of non-natural deaths?
- 📝 Which countries (or comparable geographical units) have a lower population now than they used to at some point in history before 1950?
- 📝 Under which conditions does the losing party actively commemorate a battle?
- 📝 How do I find the sources which determined the year of the fall of Babylon?
- 📝 Which battle was the most lopsided result in terms of casualties?
- 📝 Why did Roosevelt and Churchill use voice-based telecommunication, instead of simpler text-based options which were easier to encrypt?
- 📝 What was the plan for an abort of the Enola Gay's mission to drop the atomic bomb?
- 📝 Which war games did Napoleon practice with his generals?
- 📝 Which cultures did *not* produce alcohol?
- 📝 Which religion was the first monotheistic one?
- 📝 Are there any documented examples of wooden ships which were in active service for 100 years or more? If not, what is the longest?
- 📝 When was this photo of Mission Dolores *actually* taken?
- 📝 At which point in time did the majority of German population become aware of the Holocaust?
- 📝 Which languages would be most useful in Europe at the end of the 19th century?
- 📝 Which WW2 belligerents provided military brothels?
- 📝 Which bastards became kings?
- 📝 In which document was the exact course of the northern part of the German-Polish border decided?
- 📝 What exactly was East Prussia between 1933 and 1945? Was it part of a larger government, and which one?
- 📝 Which historical/legendary/mythological accounts turned out to be true?
- 📝 Which was the first civilization to ban slavery?
- 📝 Which European monarch of the middle ages died furthest from home?
- 📝 Which lost historical documents, when uncovered, led to the most substantial revisions in historiography?
- 📝 Which Babylonian tablets contains the list of squares and cubes?
- 📝 Which nations have armed prisoners and sent them to war?
- 📝 Which was the last major war in which horse mounted cavalry actually participated in active fighting?