Eulalia Perez de Guillen Marine
| Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné | |
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| Born | 1766 Loreto, Baja California |
| Died | June 11, 1878 (aged 112) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Mayordoma |
| Spouse(s) | Miguel Antonio de Guillén Juan Mariné (1833-1836) |
| Children | Maria Rita de Guillen de la Ossa, Maria del Rosario de Guillen White (Blanco), numerous other children |
| Parent(s) | Diego Pérez Antonia Rosalía Cota |
Eulalia Perez de Guillen Marine (1766 – June 11, 1878), better known in Spanish orthography as Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné, was a Californio who was mayordoma of Missión San Gabriel Arcángel and grantee of Rancho del Rincón de San Pascual in the San Rafael Hills, in present-day Los Angeles County, California. She claimed to have been born in 1766, if so making her 112 years old at the time of her death in 1878, but her case has not been verified or fully proven.
Eulalia Pérez was born in Loreto, the capital on the Baja California Peninsula of the Las Californias Province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (in what is today the modern Mexican state of Baja California Sur), to Diego Pérez of Salamanca, Spain and Antonia Rosalia Cota. Macedonio Gonzalez, one of Eulalia's nephews, knew Antonia Cota as Lucia Valenzuela according to Eulalia's English born son-in-law and author Michael C. White, aka: 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 Spanish army Sergeant Miguel Antonio Guillén at age fifteen. He was in the company at the Presidio of San Diego. They moved from Baja about 1800 —on foot in those days— to the garrison at the new Mission San Gabriel, with their children Petra, Rosaria, and Isidoro. Miguel died while later serving at the garrison at San Diego, leaving Pérez with several children.
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