Eulalia Perez de Guillén Mariné

Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné (1766 – 1878) was a supercentenarian Californio who was mayordoma of Missión San Gabriel Arcángel and owner of Rancho del Rincón de San Pascual, in present day Los Angeles area of Southern California. Pérez was born in Loreto, Baja California (then capital of Las Californias), to Diego Pérez of Spain and Antonia Rosalía Cota (but named as Lucía Valenzuela by Miguel Blanco). Diego Pérez was a ship captain, thought t... more

Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné (1766 – 1878) was a supercentenarian Californio who was mayordoma of Missión San Gabriel Arcángel and owner of Rancho del Rincón de San Pascual, in present day Los Angeles area of Southern California. Pérez was born in Loreto, Baja California (then capital of Las Californias), to Diego Pérez of Spain and Antonia Rosalía Cota (but named as Lucía Valenzuela by Miguel Blanco). Diego Pérez was a ship captain, thought to come from Salamanca—family members have been unable to trace records of his commission through the Archivo General de Indias or in Loreto, which has been ravaged by hurricanes over the centuries. Her siblings were Teresa, Petra, Juana, Josefa, Bernardo, and León. According to family lore, Capitan Pérez taught his daughter how to read and write, a fact later important to her survival and eventual prominence. She married a sergeant named Miguel Antonio Guillén in the Spanish army and moved with him—on foot, in those days—to Alta California... less