Hi group. Something that I recently became curious about was the possiblity that my great grandfather's parents may have had a child before him. As far as anyone in my family knows (including him, I suspect) he was the first born child. His name is Antone Costa. He was born in 1912. However, his parents married in about 1909 (estimate based on census information).
This is suspicious because he was not named Manuel and because his parents were married for three years without any children. I would say it was possible that they were waiting to come to America, but this is also not so; when Jose da Costa and Maria de Jesus came over, she was pregnant with Antone. Both Jose and Maria de Jesus came from Lagoa; he from Cabuoco and she from Santa Cruz. I do not know where they lived after marriage from 1909 to 1912. If I'm correct, though, the batismos are not filmed for 1909-1912 so this is not something I would be able to simply browse around for. I was looking for input about whether or not it is likely the couple had children before Antone. While it's completely possible that there were no previous children, there is also evidence to show there's a possiblity there could have been. This may be of note, but I have not been able to locate a birth certificate for my great grandfather. He believes he was born here in Massachusetts but I am wondering if he was born in Providence. His parents did arrive there, but the person they were going to stay with lived in New Bedford. RI is just the only other place I can think to search but I haven't had the time to; I can't really travel their if that's the only record I'm after and I'm not even sure if its there or not. Is that something someone could check on nehgs? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
