Posted on: Monterey County Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/Monterey?read=272 Surname: McKINNON, HEBBRON, WALKER, SOTO ------------------------- I have a printed copy of "Biographical Notices of Residents" from "History of Monterey California, 1881". The biography is of "Duncan McKINNON, born in York Co., Canada West, June 15, 1836. His parents were natives of Scotland, and had emigrated from there in May, 1835." I will mail a copy to whomever gives me a snail mail address to send it to. The biography includes Duncan McKINNON's travel to British Columbia hoping to strike it rich in gold mining, his falling ill with smallpox, the threat of murder by Indians falling victim to the imported disease, a return to Canada to a changed home. Per the biography: Duncan McKINNON eventually settled in Monterey Co. with his brother, Anthony, on a parcel rented from J. M. SOTO's Santa Rita Rancho in 1867. By 1874 with the knowledge of farming gained on their mother's farm in Canada after their father's death, the brothers bought 1100 acres of the Sausal ranch for $60,000. The biography states: Alice Maud HEBBRON was 2nd daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. R. HEBBRON of Natividad, Monterey Co., formerly of London, England. On Jan. 1, 1877, Alice married Duncan McKINNON and on that date at the same place Miss Ida C. HEBBRON, eldest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. R. HEBBRON, married J. M. WALKER of Canada. Per the biography by the year of print: Children born to Duncan and Alice McKINNON: Duncan Florent McKINNON born Dec. 6, 1877 and William Elmer McKINNON born May 12, 1880