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Georgiana Frederick

Female 1852 - 1853  (0 years)


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  • Name Georgiana Frederick 
    Born 3 Dec 1852  San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 8 Jun 1853  San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1206  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Mother Mary Ann Winner,   b. 24 Sep 1828, Dover Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Feb 1859, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years) 
    Married Abt 1851  of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F819  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Father David Frederick,   b. 15 Sep 1801, Minden, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Feb 1888, Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Relationship Adopted 
    Mother Mary Ann Winner,   b. 24 Sep 1828, Dover Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Feb 1859, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years) 
    Relationship Adopted 
    Married 16 Oct 1853  San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F815  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Edward Leo Lyman, "San Bernardino, the Rise and Fall of a California Community" (1996, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT):p.96: "At the end of 1853 [Apostles] Lyman and Rich noted with brevity that the settlement had endured considerable sickness, 'though fatal in very few instances and those (mostly to) Children,' none of whom were named. Infant mortality was so common as to be natural." [The author goes on to list other deaths by name for 1853 and 1854 but does not mention Georgiana or any other individual that could possibly Georgiana's father if Mary Ann Winner was in fact married before David Frederick.]

      2. San Bernardino branch records, diary of Amasa Lyman, and many individual journals [LDS Church Archives] make no mention of births or deaths of hardly any individual in the Branch including this individual.

      3. Arda M. Haenzel, "Mormons in San Bernardino" (San Bern. County Museum Association, 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands, CA 92374; Quarterly Volume 39 no. 3, Summer 1992): "There was an earlier, unofficial burial ground in San Bern. in the 1850's before Pioneer Cemetery was established by the city in 1857. Diaries of Mormon residents refer to individuals, many of them children who died and were buried there. But the early burial ground was abandoned, and the location and even its existence were forgotten until it was uncovered in 1990 during preparation of a playing field in Seccombe Lake State Park, across 7th Street from Pioneer Cemetery. A study was made, but it was impossible to identify any of the individuals involved, for nothing remained to distinguish them. So in January 1992, San Bernardino reverently reburied the unknown early residents in a common grave in Pioneer Cemetery. A historic plaque marks the site near the 9th Street entrance." [There is a good chance this could be the final resting place of Georgiana - true last name unknown.]

      4. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 13 Dec 2002.

      5. Could name have been a combination of her grandparents George and Hanna Winner?

      BIRTH:
      1. Online Ordinance Index FHL film 170583, p. 436, 13 Jun 1883 SGEOR, gives "Georgiana Frederick b. 3 Dec 1852 in California." Data was by David Frederick at time of sealing.

      2. Los Angeles County was changed to San Bernardino County in 1853.

      3. David Frederick does not appear to be the birth father. Per the family bible, Mary Ann was married to David Frederick 16 Oct 1853. Mary Ann arrives from San Francisco with her family in mid-March 1852. Georgiana was born Dec 1852 and dies Jun 1853. 1852 California Census taken around Jun 1852 for San Bernardino lists no David Frederick [Mary Ann's future husband] even though he had moved to S.B. at several months earlier and lists Mary Ann as living at home unmarried [yet her daughter Georgiana will be born within 6 months or less]. Marriage to Mary Ann is not noted in David Frederick's 18 Apr 1853 nor 20 May 1853 letters (see his notes for transcriptions) to his daughter Mary E. Frederick; however, he does sign for himself and her in letters beginning 20 Jan 1855 (in which letter he also announces the birth of his son David, Jr. He also wrote a letter on 8 Feb 1853 in which transcription he makes no mention of a death even though this would have been shortly after Georgiana's death. This all lends credence to Daisy Van Wagoner's grandfather's [Mary Ann's great grandson] handwritten note that Georgiana's father was not David Frederick but a possible "George Oakley" [or a variation thereof since he slightly misspells other names on the note]. There is no such individual yet found in my research for either San Bern. or San Fran. or from 1860/70 censuses of adjoining states; however, there is a merchant George Oakes in 1851 in S. Fran. just a couple of blocks from where Winner's property was in 1846 in Bancroft's History. Was Mary Ann previously married in San Francisco or was the child conceived out of wedlock in early March 1852 perhaps leading to George Winner's removal of his family in mid-March from San Fran. to San Bernardino? Regardless, it should be noted that David Frederick had Georgiana sealed to himself as father and to his deceased wife Mary Ann in the LDS St. George temple 13 Jun 1883 as cited below.
      If the name George Oakley is correct, there is another one reported in the book "Gleanings from Alta California," by Mary Dean Alsworth. It is a compilation of vital records reported in the first newspapers published in California 1846-1850. Judging from dates, he would have died too early to have fathered Georgiana:
      "Tuesday, 29 January 1850. Died - in this city, on the 26th of January, George M. Oakley, Esq., late of Montgomery, Orange county, New York, aged 35 years."

      DEATH:
      1. Online Ordinance Index data given by her father.