Despite having genealogies going back more than 10 generations for 4 of these families (to the 1500's for more than a dozen lines within these families) and to at least the early 1800's for all the families, we have located only 27% of their immigrant ancestors. Many have been in the US for 8 or more generations and most were probably from England. We have located more than 60 immigrants distributed as follows:

Immigration of Ancestors of California Families

Most of these 8 families (4 Great grandparents of people born around 200-2019 - Generation 1) have been in the US for 5 or more generations so that's 256 people (Great-Great-Great Grandparents) for the 8 families (Generation 6). We have only located 70 of the immigrants countries of origin, which is why the numbers do not add up to 100%.

Ethnicity of Generation 6
Country	Finley	Gard	Hellar	King	McBride	Sikes	Thomas	Woodley
English		5.5%	50%	8.6%		22%	0.6%	?
German		9.8%					3.1%	?
Scotch	1.6%				100%	0.8%
Irish	10.9%						50% ?
Welsh						1.6%	0.2%
Dutch		0.4%

See: Ethnicity for Generation 7 at McBride Title and Sikes Title.

† Several genealogies list immigrants born prior to 1635 as "of Hartford, CT". Since Hartford was a Dutch trading post then and the town was not established until 1635 when some English settlers came down from Mass. these people were probably not born in Hartford.

** Ethnicity of generation 3 descendants of all the Gen. 6 families. For each generation back ethnicity is cut in half. e.g. Your Great Grandmother contributes 1/8th while your Grandmother contributes 1/4 towards your ethnicity. Since the Scottish ancestors immigrated more recently they have a larger effect even though there are fewer of them.

* GEN - Generations back from 2000.

Immigrants are highlighted on the fan charts.

Ships and Ports for Immigrants
Who	From	To	Date/Ship A-Arive, D-Depart
Joseph Cobb	London, Eng.	Jamestown, VA	1613 on the Treasuror
George Soul	Plymoth, Eng.	Plymoth, MA	A.Nov. 1620 on The Mayflower
Samuel Wilbore	Eng.	Boston, MA	psbly. 4 Sept 1633 on ship "Griffin"
John Rockwell II his wife Wilmet Cade and children	Somerset, Eng.	Dorchester, MA	D. 8 May 1635 on the Hopewell
Roger Garde	Bideford, Devonshire, Eng.	York, Maine	D. May 1634 on the Pide Cow
Henry Jackson	Eng.	Watertown, MA	1635 on "Elizabeth and Ann"
Thomas Fairchild	Eng.	CT	bef. 1638
John Hathaway	Eng.	MA	bef. 1639
Richard Sikes	Eng.	Mass.	bef. 1639
James Finley and family	Dublin, Ireland	New Castle, Del	A. May 1720 on the Eagle Wing
Donald McBride and family	Lamlash, Arran, Scotland	New Brunswick, Canada	1851