Pam, The Azores doesn't have an island named Sao Roque. There's probably a few freguesias named after that saint. She expressly stated that the Sao Roque she was after was on Sao Miguel. Without access to my books, I can't tell her when it was formed. I can only tell her what was filmed by the GSU in the 1980s. No baptisms were filmed for Sao Roque. S. Roque was probably formed from another freguesia. That's why I stated someone who researches that area will inform her better than I can at the moment.
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