Under David Jack's Country you state:
Upon Romie’s death, the property was passed to his children, one of whom was Maria Romie. On November 22, 1853, the Probate Court ordered Marie Romie, who was the administratrix of her father’s estate, to sell the estate’s interest in Rancho El Pescadero at a public auction.
This Maria Romie was the widow and mother of John Romie's children. Their daughter Maria, whom Jacks later married, was only 10 when her father died, and 14 when the sale took place. Jacks married Maria Christina Soledad Romie in 1860, two years before he bought Rancho El Pescadero from Edward Tompkins, so it was clearly not a ploy related to acquiring the rancho.
If you want something to ponder, David Jacks was living with the fatherless Romie family on the Rancho, when still a simple store clerk on the 1850 Census. |
