Dear All, Am still trying to get some answers about the life of Clara Teresa Mallet Garesché (Mrs. Francis Garesché). She was born (when?) in Cornwall, England, came to this country (when?) and married him about 1855-1857 in San Francisco. Their first child (of 12) was born in 1858 in Volcanoville, El Dorado County, CA. Frank was lost at sea in 1875 - they had moved to Nevada, then Victoria, B.C. and he was a Wells Fargo agent and banker who was carrying gold from Canada to San Francisco when the ship went down. As a widow Clara moved back to CA, to San Francisco, and is found there in the 1880 census. She died April 19, 1891 mysteriously, possibly at the hand of a second husband, ____ Yerxa(?) (The Estate of Clara Yerxa comes up in court documents involving her son in Victoria, B. C., Canada some years later). The family tradition is that Clara married a second time, to a man with a Russian sounding name (not remembered today) and at the time of her death, he, the family silver and her money disappeared. She died in San Jose, but the coroner has no record of a suspicious death, yet she was buried as Clara Garesché (although the newspaper death notice said Ganesché). So today we are not even sure if she married the man, yet there are those court documents in Canada. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can solve this mystery? Are wills and probate records available for this time period? If so, where, please? Thanks for "listening," Betty Garesché Torno St. Louis, MO