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City of Pleasanton, Draft General Plan Page 5 October 9, 2008 Our families again enrolled with the BIA during the 1948 -1957 and 1968 -1970 enrollment periods and those applications were also approved by the Secretary of Interior and the U.S. Court of Claims as well. As stated above, one of the direct ancestors of the Marine lineage was Liberato Culpecse of the Jalquin Ohlone Tribal group whom occupied the East Bay areas of south Oakland, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hayward, Castro Valley and adjacent lands. His mother, Obdulia Jobocme who was also of the Jalquin Ohlone Tribal group, was baptized (SFB 2436) at Mission Dolores on May 17, 1802. Liberato's father, Faustino Poylemja was from the Saclanes Tribal group, and he was baptized at Mission Dolores on December 18, 1794. It was into a complex and rapidly changing world of the emergent Hispanic Empire, that Liberato Culpecse, at the age of 14 years old (born 1787) was baptized on November 18, 1801 at Mission Dolores, along with other members of his Tribe. Seven years later in 1808, Liberato Culpecse had married his first wife Catalina Pispisoboj; she died three years later on October 16, 1811. After the death of his wife, Liberato was allowed to relocate to the Mission San Jose region, where he met his second wife Efrena Quennatole. Efrena Quennatole who was Napian/Karquin Ohlone was born in 1797 and baptized at Mission San Jose on January 1, 1815 at the age of 18 years. Father Fortuny married Liberato and Efrena (who by then was also a widow) on July 13, 1818. Liberato Culpecse and Efrena Quennatole had a son named Jose Liberato Dionisio (a.k.a. Liberato Nonessa). Liberato and Efrena later had a daughter named Maria Efrena. Both Jose Liberato Dionisio and Maria Efrena married other Mission San Jose Indians. Liberato Dionisio's second wife was Maria de Jesus, who was the daughter of Captain Rupardo Leyo (Leopardo), and was the younger sister of Captain Jose Antonio. Liberato Dionisio and Maria de Jesus had several children including Francisca Nonessa Guzman, born May 7, 1867. Maria Efrena had married an Indian man named Pamfilio Yakilamne (from the Ilamne Tribe of the Sacramento Delta region) and they had several children including their youngest daughter Avelina Cornates (Marine). During the late 19 and early 20 centuries, Francisca Nonessa Guzman and Avelina Cornates Marine became two of the founding matriarchs of the present -day Guzman and Marine lineages. They, along with the other Tribal families, comprised the historic Federally Recognized Verona Band Tribal community residing at the following East Bay rancherias: San Lorenzo, Alisal (Pleasanton), Del Mocho (Livermore), El Molino (Niles), Sunol, and later Newark. Avelina Cornates Marine was born in November 1863 and baptized at Mission San Jose on January 17, 1864. By the late 1880s she had met Raphael Marine, who came to the United States from Costa Rica, but oral tradition indicates that he was originally from Sicily. Avelina Cornates and Raphael Marine had nine living children together by 1903, six of whom have surviving descendents who are presently enrolled in the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. In the 1880s, the Hearst family purchased part of the Bernal Rancho containing the Alisal Rancheria and Mrs. Hearst permitted the 125 Muwekmas living at Alisal to remain on the land, and even employing some of them to do her laundry. During the early part of the 20th century, the Muwekma Ohlone Indians (later identified as the Verona Band by the BIA) became Federally Recognized and appear on the Special Indian Census conducted by Agent C. E. Kelsey in 1905 -1906.