Mom's maiden name Maltos. Maltos was always a weird name. Spelling was troublesome: Maltoes? Maltas? Maltos. Not an easy, peasy name like Smith, Jones or even Allison (one L or two?).
We plugged it into to online data bases, hopeful and eager…. And time and time again, almost nothing came back. We found a few Maltos people along the Tex-Mex border. Some lived in towns like Eagle Pass Texas , a few turned up in New Mexico, a few in Old Mexico, a couple floated into New York from Europe. Maltos were rare.
Rare is not necessarily a bad thing in the genealogy biz. In the 1800’s in California, Maltos were few and far between. So when Stella went back to shake the census records looking for Antonia Maltos, Antonia Davis fell out of the 1880 San Francisco Census.
Huh?
Antonia Davis, seamstress?
Married to Louis N Davis, grocer?
OOOOhhhhh!!!!!
Bata Maltos, mother, born in Mexico.
Was she our Antonia?
The evidence was looking a whole lot more hopeful.
Maybe, Bata was our great, great, grandmother……
Just maybe.
December 8, 2013
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