In a message dated 7/8/2009 11:42:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rapos...@gmail.com writes: > Dear John, > > > It took me very hard work at the vaults of Rio's metropolitan > cathedral to discover where my family is from. I can tell for sure > now that I am the offspring of José Antonio Raposo, from the matrix of > São Sebastião, Ponta Delgada, and Maria Theresa do Nascimento, > christened in Santa Maria de Asia, Braga. They had three children in > Brazil: Dirothea (1808), José Joaquim (my 3rd grandfather, 1809) and > Carlota (1813), all born in the parish of Santa Rita, Rio. > > Now, what was an Azorean doing in Brazil in 1808, married to an > Bragantine? They certainly met either in Lisbon or in Rio. My guess > is that they arrived here that very year with D. Maria I, a Louca, > probably as servants of the royal house. Forgive me if I continue to > bother, but is is possible to discover when did José Antonio Raposo, > the son of Antonio José Raposo, leave the Azores? And if I send you a > list of my Azorean forebearers for you to check on them, would I not > be abusing your kindness? > > I didn't know the tomb of Maria, a Louca, was in Portugal, for she > died in Rio. She was somewhat popular here and used to promenade in > the city with her "damas de companhia". That is the origin of the > Brazilian dictum "Maria vai com as outras", meaning someone who just > follows the lead. But sometimes Maria let out loud shrieks in public > and the "outras" had trouble to control her. > > Thank you very much again, > Marcos. >
Dear Marcos: Please feel free to send me a list of your Azorean ancestors (with any available vital data) and I will be happy to check through my data base. In order to spare list members the tedium of dealing with a subject relevant only to the two of us, you should send the material directly to my e-mail address (marra...@cs.com) and not to the list. As for Passports to Brazil, this has been a matter of some discussion on the list in recent days. I do not know if such records exist for your time period (the Napoleonic invasions). And I have some doubt that a passport was necessary for a Portuguese subject to travel to another part of the Kingdom, e.g. Brazil. There are people on the list (e.g. Cheri Mello, the list owner and João Ventura) who know a great deal about these things, and I am hopeful that Cheri or João will be able to clarify the matter for you. As far as D. Maria I, when D. João returned to Portugal he took the remains of his deceased mother back with him and had her interred in Portugal. Many Portuguese have considered it a pitty that he didn't leave D. Joaquina Carlota in Rio! Best regards and good luck. I look forward to checking your Azorean ancestors against my data base. John Miranda Raposo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
