Also, my grandmother was blonde and blue eyed, fair complexion. She was also from Horta. I was told stories of one of her relatives that was a whaler and had had red hair.......interesting! In a message dated 1/23/2015 1:03:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, ehsilve...@comcast.net writes:
Hi, My mother was also blonde when she was young and always had beautiful hazel eyes. She was born in Cedros. My wife's father was born in Sao Jorge and he was a red head and sported a red beard. One of my wife's brothers was called "Red" because he also was a red head. Emil ____________________________________ From: "John Vasconcelos" <gfsjo...@gmail.com> To: "azores" <azores@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:55:48 PM Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Horta Passport The Central Group (Faial, Pico, Sao Jorge, Gracioso) received a lot of Flemish colonists. On my first trip to the Azores in 1973, I spent a few days on Faial and Pico before going onto Flores, and was surprised at seeing so many blondes and redheads. Even Flores where my parents were born had it's share of blondes and redheads. My mothers second cousin, Whaling captain Antonio Corvello, was said to have flaming redhair. John Vasconcelos On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Joan Jurancich <_joanmj@surewest.net_ (mailto:joa...@surewest.net) > wrote: Not actually surprising to me. My great-aunt told me that her father (from Faial) was blue-eyed, fair skinned, and with strawberry blonde hair. He was a farmer and used to get very red-skinned after working in the California sun. --- Joan Jurancich On 01/17/2015 11:15 AM, mnk wrote: Interesting that they list him as blue eyed, light skin, and blonde beard! Mnk -- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com_ (mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com_ (mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com_ (mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- 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.