It's too early to telephone my mother, but I'm guessing the time period was the later part of the 1800's. I believe it was five children who immigrated to the USA (one being my great-grandfather, Joseph Bettencourt), and one to Lisbon (didn't return to the Azores) and Manual Victrino Bettencourt (I believe this was his name - the doctor) stayed. We were fortunate to visit the family home from the 1500's, still occupied by Manual's granddaughter in Angra during our recent trip in June.
------------------------------------- What time period are you talking? Entailments, the system by which an estate passed on, undivided, to one designated heir in each successive generation, ended in the last half of the nineteenth century. Of course anyone could still leave all of their property to one child while disinheriting the others or leaving them just the one single dollar. Who was the famous doctor? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
