Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo [SEP] residence
Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo
Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo (January 31, 1793 in San Diego, New Spain – February 28, 1849 in Sonoma, California) was the original grantee of Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa, the land on which Santa Rosa, California would later be founded. She was also the mother of the woman after whom Benicia, California was named and the grandmother of Romualdo Pacheco, the 12th governor of California.
Biography.
Ygnacia was born to Juan Francisco Lopez and Maria Feliciana Arballo on
pioneer and the hard journey she had to undertake to settle here. Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo was born the youngest to a large family on January 31, 1793 
in San Diego, California. At the age of seven it is thought that Maria watched her father, Juan Francisco Lopez, being buried just outside a San Diego presidio. It was at this same presidio that Maria spent most of her childhood until, at the age of sixteen; she married Joaquin Victor Carrillo, a young man who had left his family