This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.yuba/1069.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: NOTE: Please take the time to post this information to the San Francisco and Sonoma county boards using your contact email. Wensinger, Francis Savier, b. SWT 1825 Sailing from New York City to California in 1849. Passengers by steamer Northerner, Feb 2. F. S. Wesinger. Marriage, Daily Alta Newspaper, 1853 21 Jul - F. S. Wensinger - Kate Curtin [22 Jul] Census: 1860 San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Page 14 F. S. Wensinger, 34, born Switzerland, $1,000 real prop., merchant. Cathrine, 27, born Ireland Wensinger, Francis Xavier 40 Switzerland Merchant 817 Bush 8 July 27, 1866 Registered on proof of naturalization of father (1835, Mansfield, Ohio) Great Register 1867 Census: 1870 Unable to locate Marriage: "WENSINGER/O'FARRELL--In Santa Rosa, August 24, F.S. WENSINGER to T. O'FARRELL." Source: San Francisco Daily Morning Call, 10 Sept 1873 Census: 1880 5-Wd, San Francisco, CA Page 6 132 Montgomery Street (hotel) F. S. Wensinger 50, boarder, he and parents born Switz., real estate dealer. T. N. Wensinger (female) 40, boarder, she and parents born Ireland. 1890 reconstructed census for Sonoma County F. S. Wensinger 1890 City Directory, Page 1352 Francis S. Wensinger, real estate. residence Occidental hotel. Source: The San Francisco Blue Book & Pacific Coast Elite Directory, 1892 The Bancroft Company, San Francisco, 1892 Member of the Pacific Union Club. F. S. Wensinger. Pacific Union Club, San Francisco, 1922 Francis S. Wensinger died January 24, 1900 Census: 1900 Bodega Twp., Sonoma, CA ED 157/SH 8B Date census taken: June 18, 1900 Teresa Wensinger, widow, 59, Sep 1840, 0 children/0 living she and parents born Ireland, farmer. George O'Farrell, brother, single, 76, April 1824, he and parents born Ireland Olena O'Farrell, niece, single, 31, July 68, born CA, parents born Ireland Ella O'Gorman, niece, single, 22, Feb 1878, born MN, father MA, mother MN Gerrold O'Farrell, nephew, single, 30, June 1869, born CA, father Ireland, mother MO, farm laborer. 11 servants NOTE: There's some question regarding death date of F. S. Wensinger. You'll notice that the date of the census is June 18 and Teresa is widowed yet the Pacific Union Club states that he died January 24. "WENSINGER--BEQUEATHS LARGE SUMS TO CHARITY--SANTA ROSA - (Sonoma Co.), December 8 - The will of the late Mrs. Theresa WENSINGER of Freestone and San Francisco has been filed for probate in the Superior Court by the Union Trust Company of San Francisco, which is named in the will as executor. While the petition states that the value of the estate is over $20,000 it is said that it will be between $200,000 and $400,000. With the benevolence which was a feature of her life, Mrs. WENSINGER remembers many charitable institutions of the Roman Catholic Church, and one-third of her property will find its way there. A number of bequests are made to relatives. Twenty thousand dollars is bequeathed to the Union Trust Company to be held in trust and the interest given to George O'FARRELL, a brother of the deceased, and on his death the sum is to be divided equally to the charitable institutions known as the Youths Directory, Children's Day Home, Home for Old People and Home for Incurab! les. To a sister, M.L. O'FARRELL, who is in a convent at Killarney, Ireland, the sum of $5,000 is given. The Orphans' Asylum in charge of the Christian Brothers and the Orphan Asylum for Girls conducted by the Sisters of Charity are each given $500. After bequests are all disposed of, the remainder of the estate is bequeathed to the Roman Catholic Archbishop in San Francisco for the maintenance and operation of St. Patrick's Seminary at Menlo Park." Source: The Evening Bee (Sacramento, CA), 8 Dec 1905, Page 10. Transcribed by Betty Loose