John, I've already checked all the Flores records for the Jose F Nicolau and Maria Isabel Rodrigues marriage. I've also checked New York, Massachucetts and Rhode Island.
There are a few Ancestry.com trees with parts of this family. Is the John's tree with them yours? It's not viewable due to technical problems, says the error message. They may have married on another island, like Fayal or Sao Miguel before boarding ship. I've seen that before. The name changes take getting used to. It's a normal thing to have six children of the same parents that have different surnames before 1900, it would be rare for a woman to have a surname. It would be a religious suffix. The ship records from the 1800s show maria de Jesus, de Conceicao. de Acsencion etc. Men often changed surnames once they arrived, to Americanize it, or because there were already ten guys in the neighborhood named Manuel Rodrigues, or Joseph Silva What's very important on birth dates and places is the source. Have you found a New york record from the time of her birth, or is it inferred from the census records? I've seen a number of cases of children shown as born in the US that have a baptism record in the parents hometown. Back then who could check? It got them citizenship. Eric Edgar On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:13 PM, John Machado <john.e.mach...@gmail.com>wrote: > Guess who Mary Agnes Silva (daughter of Mary E.Nichols/Silva) married? > Guilherme Francisco Pereira aka William F. Perry. So that fits perfectly > with a W. Perry being at the same address. I will attach the bio of William > Perry. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around all the name > changes. Ok so my next step is to find a marriage record of Mary E. > Roderick to Joseph Silva. I presume it occured Cedros, Flores. > > So they would have married. Then came to the USA. Mary possibly pregnant > during the voyage gives birth in Buffalo, New York to Mary Agnes Silva in > 1868. They move within the year to California, Mary gives birth to Joseph > Silva (1869) who eventually renames to Joseph Dyce. I presume Joseph Silva > the father either dies or divorces Mary E. Roderick. She at some point > marries Joseph Nichols. Joseph Nichols dies 15 Sep 1893. Mary E. Nichols > dies 04 Nov 1901. > > The Daughter: Mary Agnes Silva marries William F. Perry roughly in 1887 > California. William F. Perry is from Criacao Velha, Magdalena. His father > was originally from Angústias, Faial and grandmother from Lajes, Flores. > > I will also attach the cemetery plot record which lists everyone together. > > Thank you again, > John > >> >> > -- > -- > 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." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
