Robert Macey Collection
Finding aid created by Contra Costa County Historical Society staff using RecordEXPRESS
Contra Costa County Historical Society
2018
724 Escobar Street
Martinez, California 94553
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Title: Robert Macey Collection
Dates: 1782-1925
Collection Number: 1988.11
Creator/Collector:
Macey, Robert
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
Contra Costa County Historical Society
Martinez, California 94553
Abstract: Memorabilia from the Miner and Macey families, donated by Robert Miner Macey in 1988; materials date mostly from the 1800s
and early 1900s but also include a 1782 document in Spanish, evidently from Mexico, along with an English translation written
in 1988. Collection includes family photos, newspaper clippings, birth certificate for Anna Frances Miner, marriage license
for Robert Alexander Macey and Anita Frances Miner (1909), baptism record for Robert Aloysius Macey (1882), and a Mexican
document from 1782 which is an order from the Committee of the Royal Treasury to an unnamed warehouse requesting white lead
and oil.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
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Robert Macey Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
Materials are in ten folders as detailed below.
Folder #1: Explanation of collection
Folder #2: 1814-1887
Folder #3: Orinda Brook Bank Farm (diary book) 1899-1906
Folder #4: Macey, Robert Alexander
Folder #5: Macey, Robert Aloysius
Folder #6: Miner, Anita Francis 1877-
Folder #7: Oil In Contra Costa County 1905
Folder #8: Orinda, History Of
Folder #9: Tribunal de Real Hazienda (Mexico) 1782
Folder #10: Out of Field
Genealogy
Family History
Agriculture, farming
Oil Development
Macey, Robert Alexander
Macey, Robert Aloysius
Miner, Anita Francis
Orinda
newspaper clippings
family papers