It looks like it says "em presence de mim", followed by the priest's name (as Bill pointed out), so I would assume that rest of the names are of witnesses to the marriage. Usually, it would say "testamunhos", but I don't see that. On the other hand, I loose the thread of it entirely where the ink fades, sooooo.... FWIW, that's my best theory.
Some of my cousin's are Pavao's-- will let them know about their famous connection :) Thanks! Linda On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 9:52:11 AM UTC-7, bsei...@gmail.com wrote: > Like Lee, I am very curious about those people named after the groom's > deceased parents. The first, Manuel Andrade, seems to be the priest, then > it looks like Jose de Medeiros da Camera, ??? Jose Martins, Martinho Rapozo > and Joseph Rapozo. I haven't seen this done before. > > My first thought is that one or more was standing in for the deceased > parents because perhaps the groom had not reached majority age (I don't > know if he had or not). But if this is the case, why so many people? > > Bill Seidler > -- 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.
