Hi again, While visiting this Group early this morning, I decided to search it to find out how many times Ponta Delagada has been mentioned. I know it is a large town (city?) on the southern shore of Sao Miguel, so many ships would have left from there. So I wonder whether some people were from other islands and would have left from Sao Miguel (St. Michael's as the grandparents called it while in MA)
In one posting from a couple years ago, I saw the name, SANTOS mentioned. My (now) husband's (late) EX-wife had SANTOS parents, but they were from Medeiros. I've only learned a tiny bit about that family, so I don't know how they got to Massachusetts. One note is that one of the ex-wife's cousins just passed this month, leaving only one family-member of that generation still living. However, Mr. SANTOS had cousins living in Lowell, MA. I heard from one younger cousin ~4 yrs. ago, but not since. (I can't think of their surname at this second.) In my other posting this morning, I mentioned an amusing story about my husband's PACHECO / MOURA grandparents. What I didn't take the time to mention was that Mrs. Elsie (MOURA) PACHECO's 2 sisters married in Cambridge, MA, also; Rosa married into a PERRY (probably PEREIRA) family, and Carolina married into a MEDEIROS family. They had 2 brothers, and I haven't been able to find out whether they were older and had already married when arriving, or married in MA/US. They were Francisco MOURA, Jr., who moved to San Francisco, CA, and Manuel MOURA who moved to Brooklyn, NY. (I am "guessing" their father moved there when their mother moved to Cambridge, MA.) (We know how to contact some of the cousins, but I've never found descendants of those 2 brothers.) Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) (See my old postings on the Lists and Boards at www.rootsweb.com for further information I've gathered.) -- 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."
