Hi David,
Manuel Goncalves Carvalho and Maria de Melo are also my ancestors.
I do know about all the others you mentioned and presume there must be a close relation, but as yet, I haven't pieced together any facts leading to my Manuel Goncalves Carvalho being the same one who married Catarina Pereira. But I haven't yet completed my early Altares baptism research to see who all the padrinhos were. Maybe that's where you made this leap back.
My line continues with their daughter Beatriz de Melo. Which of their children is your line?
As for the records of Altares, that's all there are. Anything older is presumably lost from some form of destruction like an earthquake or fire or maybe pirates ransacking the church.
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
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Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Altares, Terceira records prior to 1644
From: Kawika322 <oldschoo...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, April 17, 2013 11:16 pm
To: azores@googlegroups.com
I am trying to trace my Altares line back and have come to a stop for the moment as the records are not present prior to 1644 (Baptisms) and 1648 (Marriages). My ancestor is Belchior Goncalves de Carvalho who was married to Maria Goncalves. Their son Manuel Goncalves Carvalho was married prior to 1646 to Maria de Melo presumably in Altares (as this is where all of their children were born) and once before that to Catharina Pereira in Se, Terceira on 1 Feb 1633. Through the earlier marriage record I was able to get the names of his parents of Belchior Goncalves Carvalho and Maria Goncalves.Any suggestions where I might go from there to get the generation before Belchior? Do records exist prior to 1644 in Altares, or were they destroyed or part of another parish before that?Thanks,David--
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