Well Dano, I hope you got to enter that one into your computer! The bride was "mean old Aunt Perpetua" according to family stories! I realized I didn't have her marriage, so I looked on the CCA. You don't happen to have her death in New Bedford do you? I think her hubby died in an auto accident about 10 years after coming to America. I can look up that source if you want it.
You said: <<I don't see where it says that the father didn't attend the wedding, but, he, apparently, didn't sign attesting that the bride was the "legitimate daughter of Luiz de Mello and Maria Julia." I don't know what that was about, except maybe a cranky priest with an ax to grind.>> It doesn't say that. That was my assumption. I would guess that the father of the bride was there if he was giving his consent and the priest was saying he didn't know how to write. I couldn't image the priest going out to where the father was to ask if he gives permission. Unless it happened on Sunday at Mass and the father told the priest after Mass that he consented to her marriage. Cranky priest? Maybe the family didn't put enough in the collection basket on Sunday. Or they didn't give him enough vinho at the wedding! :) -- 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
