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Californio Descendant By Georgia Callian
Georgia Callian sitting in her great-grandfather’s chair
My family descends from the earliest Californios.
In fact, many of the sites that dot the plaza in Old Town San Diego still retain the names of my ancestors: the Machado house, the Machado-Silvas and Machado-Wrightington homes, are all properties that started within my family. My own family line goes all the way back to the Junipero Serra expedition in 1769. My great-great-great-grandfather, Josef Manuel Machado, born in San Gabriel, California in 1781, oversaw the Presidio’s cattle operation at Rancho de la Nacion (now National City) in the 1820’s.
Homes that were in Georgia Callian’s family (Illustrations courtesy Callian family archives)
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