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Without the Abbeys there wouldn't be a Jardine Ranch. Thomas Francis Abbey Senior is the homesteader of Jardine Ranch. The two Jardine boys, John Thomas Jardine and William Robert Jardine, married the daughters of Thomas Francis Abbey Senior. William married Elizabeth Nicholson Abbey and John married Eleanor Nicholson Abbey.

Thomas Francis Abbey Senior was a miller by trade in Stockton on Tee England and decided that he wanted to move to the United States in 1874. He didn't move to California straight away but had jobs as a farmer and miller in the mid west. Here is a picture of Diamond Mills in Kansas City Missouri where he was the head miller.

Diamond Mills

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The original Jardines came to Paso Robles in 1874 according to the book "History of San Luis Obispo County and environs, California". William and Mary Jardine were born in Scotland and married June 7, 1866 in the church at Tynron Scotland.

 

They traveled to the United States and settled in Kentucky for a few years where their three children were born, John Thomas, William Robert, and Jessie Agnes. Then in 1874 they moved to Paso Robles and had a place along the Huero Huero river a few miles east of Paso Robles.

The boys grew up to be farmers here in the Paso Robles area. Jardine Road is named after John Thomas. They farmed the plains east of Paso Robles to Shandon. While the boys were farming the plains their dad owned and operated the Santa Ysabel Ranch. Wouldn't it be nice to still have the Santa Ysabel Ranch? Anyway that is how we got here to Paso Robles.

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