Hi Maria, I cant thankyou enough for your reply. Its so great to finaly find some details of the arrival of Portuguse people to Australia. Francisco J Muniz was a store keeper and miner at Smythesdale and i do know of members of the Muniz family buried at Creswick. I do know that Francisco had shares in a gold mine. I do know that Manuel Carreiro Muniz died in Creswick in 1882, his wife was Louisa Sims. In April there is a gathering of Pioneer family desendants at Smythesdale Botanical Gardens, it is to celebrate 150 years since families arrived and settled into the area. I hope to meet up with people that may be related. I do know that there is a living Muiz in the area who is a member of the historical society that will be there on the day. I would like to contact you by email to compare notes. Thankyou so much, Best Wishes Chris
On Mar 24, 7:35 am, Maria Lima <maria.lima...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris: > > My husband also had two brothers that were on the Water Lily in 1853 from > Azores to Australia. They were gold miners in the Crestwick area. They were > teen agers also and through researching, I learned they went with their > father and the father's brother in law. The names were Jacintho Jose de > Lima and Jose Jacintho de Lima. The father was Antonio Jose de Lima and his > brother in law was J. Borges. > > That ship arriving in October (I think) was full of people from the Azores, > judging from the Portuguese names. Who knows that our ancestors might have > known and worked together. the Lima's were partners in The Humbug Hill > Sluicing Company. I don't know what happened to the company. Both brothers > returned to the Azores. One of them married an English girl, Charlotte > Staley who had an 8 year old son who had passed away. They were married > less than a year when Charlotte also died and he buried her in the same > site; I have picture of the gravestone. Charlotte was a fruitier and owned > a store on Albert Street. Jacintho advertised sale of the store in the > Crestwick and Clunes Register and Advertiser selling the store and > belongings and returned to the Azores after her death. > > Maybe, we will find some connection. > > Warm regards, > > Maria Elena (Lima) > > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:49 AM, cmurray56 <cmurra...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > Please help, i dont know how to find records of people leaving Sao > > Roque in 1850's. How do i find these records? > > Francisco Joaquim Muniz b 1838 Sao Roque > > d 1899 Smythesdale,victoria,australia > > Manuel Carreio Muniz b 1827 Sao Roque, d 1882 Creswick, victoria, > > austrralia > > > Parents of the above are; > > Francisco Carreio Muniz b 1803 Sao,Roque > > Maria Joaquina b 1803 Sao Pedro > > > All the records in Australia are spelt MUNIZ. > > Thanks > > Chris > > > -- > > 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."- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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."
