Well, I'll keep the timeline with the other document I have on her. Keep putting the info out there, you never know what may turn up!
Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 3:02 PM, 'celeste perry' via Azores Genealogy < azores@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Thanks, Rosemarie. It is reading the recent "finds" shared on this list > that gave me the courage to reopen the elusive Maria Cristo door. I have > some information that was provided by some of the researchers that helped > me and live in RI and MA. I put together a timeline of sorts and am > putting a copy here. There may be someone who matches a name that those > researchers found. This may give some novice researchers some leads of > where to look if they have ancestors from the US East Coast. > Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com > > > > On Saturday, October 31, 2015 2:26 PM, Rosemarie Capodicci < > rcap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Boy Celeste, you are such a great researcher! I know that you have been > looking for Maria Cristo for years (I still have your info on my desktop!) > I hope that someone out there has her in their database and is wondering > where she came from! Good Luck and continue your search. As you are aware, > if you have been watching the list, Dave W. finally found his birth > mother's family just this week! So, continue and hope that the info will > come to light soon. > > > Rosemarie > rcap...@gmail.com > Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, > Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 1:31 PM, 'celeste perry' via Azores Genealogy < > azores@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > It has been a long time since I tried to find documentation for the birth > of my husband, Robert Edward Perry’s, paternal grandmother. I call her > the, “elusive Maria Cristo.” > > I began my search in 2001. At that time, there were limited resources on > line so I contacted relatives and researchers I found living in Rhode > Island and MA. The oral history I had did not go very far back in time > until I found a great-grandson of her brother, Jose. That helped some > since I then knew the village in Sao Miguel where the family lived before > Seraphine, her brother, immigrated to RI. I have been able to collect > information about the lives of those of her family that immigrated followed > Seraphine to RI from the census and marriage reords. > > In 2007, I visited Lomba da Santa Barbara and found that all the church > records I needed were in the archives in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel. I > spent a week going through the church records looking for my “elusive Maria > Cristo.” Maria Cristo’s parents had names that were not very common so > the task was easier than it may have been. Joao de Morais (several > spellings) and Jacinta Libianna (several variations of spellings) were not > as hard as some names to pick out in the records. I found Maria Cristo > had several siblings and I recorded all of them. > > I had been told by her daughter, Mary Cruz, that Maria Cristo was 5 years > old when her father died. I looked in all the records up to the time of > his death. Found nothing. > > In 2009, I returned to Sao Miguel thinking maybe Maria Cristo had been > raised by this family and was not biologically related. Or that she was > the daughter of an older sibling that was not married and raised by her > grandparents. > > I found that 3 of the older siblings had died young so I ruled them out. Then > I thought the family may have been visiting one of the villages surrounding > Lomba da Santa Barbara when she was born and was baptized in a village that > was near Lomba da Santa Barbara. I looked at all the villages that > abutted Lomba da Santa Barbara and could find neither a Maria born to her > parents or to them listed as grandparents to a Maria. > > So….I left Sao Miguel with the mystery unsolved. As I worked more and > more on the other 7 Portuguese immigrant family for me and my husband, I > left Maria Cristo waiting for me to take up the search. > > I have been following the Azores list daily, with my eye on anyone > mentioning a Maria born in Sao Miguel who could have a connection to my > “elusive Maria Cristo.” None has shown up YET. Any suggestions or help > is appreciated. > > [image: Inline image] > Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com > -- > 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. 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