David, Looking over the Stone Fleet history, since they were mostly using old whaling ships , it's reasonable that they would be using the men who had sailed them before. Probably on a privateer basis. The only databases that cover that area of the Civil War I've found is the Casualty ,Drownings, and Accident books for Naval ships at Ancestry. I've looked at some and they cover the time period and list the ships name. This can be compared to the ships listed for the Stone Fleet. I didn't see any Hurd or Terra .
The Converso background for Silveira Cardoso from Lajes das Pico interests me. These are my people, related to my Silveira Soares family. The only place likely to have documents on this would be inquisition files at Torre deTombo. There are some sites I've seen for Sephardic Portuguese. I'll take a look at them. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:13 AM, David <dsdscorn...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I started working on the family history as a teen in the '70s, I > maintained for a while a lively correspondence with Pat Amaral, one of the > leaders in establishing Portuguese-American genealogy. I understand that > she passed away some years ago. > > Pat informed me that my g'g'grandfather Antonio Hurd / António da Terra > had served the Union during the Civil War, as a sailor in the Stone Fleet > (sometimes called the "Great Stone Fleet"). (For those not familiar with > this attempt to blockade Confederate harbors, here's an overview: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Fleet) > > I have combed through Union records (from during the period as well as > later records regarding veterans and pensioners) but found no mention of my > g'g'grandfather under any conceivable variant of his anglicized name or of > his original Portuguese name. I'm thinking that perhaps the sailors of the > Stone Fleet were never formally enlisted in the Union Navy... > > I have my side of my correspondence with Pat in storage in a different > city, but as I recall she didn't indicate what her source was. Does anyone > else here have an ancestor who (actually or allegedly) sailed with the > Stone Fleet, and thus has familiarity with the relevant sources? And/or > does anyone know what Pat did with her source materials collection -- i.e., > is it in a library somewhere, or otherwise accessible to researchers? > > She also insisted to me (again, iirc, without naming her source(s)) that > certain of my families were of known Converso descent, e.g., Silveira > Cardoso from Lajes do Pico. For this reason too I'd love to know whether > her source materials have been preserved and are accessible somewhere. > > Thanks in advance, > > David da Silva Cornell > Miami, FL > > Researching the following surnames: > > Faial - Terra (unknown freguesia(s)) > > Flores - Freitas, Lourenço, Coelho (unknown freguesia(s)) > > Pico - Silveira Cardoso, Macedo, Machado, Pereira Madruga, Ferreira, > Cardoso, Cardoso Machado, Vieira, Bettencourt, Dutra, Castanho, Homem, > Goulart, Quaresma, Moniz, Barreto, Silveira, Mancebo, Pereira, Álvares (all > Lajes do Pico) > > S. Jorge - Silva, Botelho, Azevedo, Cardoso (Urzelina); Silva, Azevedo, > Cardoso (Santo António in Norte Grande) > > > -- > For 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. > To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en. > > > -- For 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. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
