Oposura 30

 

Google Streetview. Hermosillo. June 2018.

As mentioned in yesterday's post, I found the address for the family home of Gregorio Diaz in the request in December 1924 for recording his birth registration from 1874 in the civil registration. The address is also listed in the recording of his marriage to Tomasa Arvayo on 1 May 1911 (which had previously occurred on 17 December 1897). Both Gregorio and Tomasa were living at Calle Oposura 30 in Hermosillo, which can still be seen today on the Google Streetview image above. The area is just north of Villa de Seris, across the Rio Sonora, not far from the City Courthouse and Cathedral Hermosillo Nuestra Señora de la Asunción.

The neighboring orange house, seen with fading and peeling paint in the 2018 streetview photo, was a more vibrant orange in 2009. This is Oposura 26, and in 1911 it was the home of Gregorio's mother, my 3rd-great-grandmother, Dolores Quijada.

Google Streetview. 2009.

Source: Ancestry. Mexico, Civil Registration. 1911.

Turning the Streetview camera to the side, one can see a basketball court, playground from the neighboring school and murals across from both houses, with towers from the Cathedral visible in the upper right corner.

Source: Google Streetview. Hermosillo, June 2018.