Marchetti & Gracia Family Tree
The Marchetti & Togliatti families from Balangero, Northern Italy, immigrated to Utah at the end of silver boom in the early 20th Century before relocating to the Santa Clara Valley in California. The Italian vineyardists married into more Italian vineyardist families, Casella & Bossa, just in time for Prohibition. Safe to say the Tijuana business boomed and the entrepreneurial ambition won through.
Francois Pascale Gracia arrived in 1870’s San Francisco and married the newly arrived Marguerite Mahood from an Irish family fresh from Tahiti. The first generation Irish families of Grant & Brandon married into the Gracia & Medina Mendoza family, a first generation family from the central state of Guanajuato, Mexico.
Henry “Hank” Marchetti was born on Home Ranch in Uvas Creek, Gilroy, married Joan Gracia in San Francisco, 1949, and they settled in Mountain View, California, to raise their family.
Marchetti Family Stories
Brenda, James, & The Giant Quake
Loma Prieta Earthquake October 17, 1989 – Where were you? On this day 35 years years ago I was 8 years old. My little brother James and I were at our babysitter’s house with a few other kids. We were…
Marchetti & Gracia Family Tree
The Marchetti & Togliatti families from Balangero, Northern Italy, immigrated to Utah at the end of silver boom in the early 20th Century before relocating to the Santa Clara Valley in California. The Italian vineyardists married into more Italian vineyardist…
Ford Mustang Versus Shuttle Atlantis!
We had never experienced a rocket launch. It was the summer of 2011 and purely by coincidence we had flown from England to visit family in Florida in the same week STS-135 was scheduled to launch. This was the 135th…
Marchetti & Togliatti V State of Utah
The Marchetti & Togliatti families emigrated from Balangero, Piedmont, Northern Italy, just 16 miles northwest of Turin. Emigration commenced at the turn of the 20th Century and within 13 years both families had emigrated to the USA. The families embarked…
Obituary: Joan Shirley Marchetti né Gracia
Joan Shirley (Gracia) Marchetti Oct. 19, 1929 – Oct. 29, 2021. Born in San Francisco, CA to Joseph E. Gracia and Claire K. (Grant) Gracia. Joan was preceded in death by her husband of over sixty years, Henry J. Marchetti. She…
Prohibition, what prohibition?
To avoid prohibition, entrepreneur, and great grandfather, James S MARCHETTI (1900-1965) partnered with his brother-in-law, Victor R Delu, to establish Vick’s Place in Tijuana, a restaurant, bar, dance and music hall.
Gracia Family Stories
Marchetti & Gracia Family Tree
The Marchetti & Togliatti families from Balangero, Northern Italy, immigrated to Utah at the end of silver boom in the early 20th Century before relocating to the Santa Clara Valley in California. The Italian vineyardists married into more Italian vineyardist…
Bill Gracia & Cupertino Foothills
William “Bill” E Gracia (1901-1978), our 2nd Great-Granduncle, was the youngest of seven children born to Maggie MAHOOD (1856-1921) & Frank P GRACIA (1852-1930). Bill is sat on the far left of this historic Gracia family photo. The occasion for…
The Gracia sisters & PacTel San Francisco
Eight Gracia sisters were born between 1901-1914, seven reaching adulthood, interspersed between four brothers. None of the sisters had reach the age of 18 by the time their father passed away on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918. From 1920 until…
The Gracia brothers & San Francisco Shipyard
The third generation of the Gracia family in San Francisco all followed a common path in their occupations. Three out of four brothers became metal workers and six out of seven sisters became telephone operators. Their father, Emile Vincent GRACIA…
Our families and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake!
At precisely 5:12am Wednesday, 18th April 1906, Northern California was struck by an estimated 7.9 magnitude earthquake, shaking the city of San Francisco for 42 seconds. 80% of the city was affected by the quake, however the subsequent four days…
Obituary: Joan Shirley Marchetti né Gracia
Joan Shirley (Gracia) Marchetti Oct. 19, 1929 – Oct. 29, 2021. Born in San Francisco, CA to Joseph E. Gracia and Claire K. (Grant) Gracia. Joan was preceded in death by her husband of over sixty years, Henry J. Marchetti. She…
Montreal House
1300 Stockton Street, San Francisco, California. Newlyweds, Francois & Marguerite GRACIA, initially lived at 13001/2 Stockton Ave, from 1877. Known as Montreal House, it was a three story lodgings and saloon at the north eastern corner of Stockton & Broadway.…
Maggie Mahood’s French Connections
Marguerite “Maggie” MAHOOD was the first child of Eliza Ann BUCK & Sergeant John MAHOOD, Royal Artillery, stationed with the British Army in Ireland. Maggie was born in July 1856, shortly before the outbreak of hostilities in the Second Opium…
John Mahood & The Long Way Round
This article recounts the dramatic, traumatic, and tragic events leading to the first immigrant to California from the Gracia & Marchetti family. It is remarkable that one man’s life can be so thoroughly documented, placing him as, not only an…
