I have João Morais da Costa, born 1849, Santa Bárbara, Ribeira Grande. He married in 10.11.1867 to Jacinta Libânia, born 1843 Santa Bárbara. Se was the daughter of José Tavares Pimentel and Maria Joaquina.
They had: Maria, 1868 Manuel, 1870 Maria, 1873 Manuel, 1874 Ana, 1876 Serafim Morais, 1879 Ana de Jesus Morais, 1861 José, 1883 Muito Obrigado, Eliseu Pacheco da Silva Azores (S. Miguel, Graciosa, Faial); Mainland (Alentejo) (http://gw.geneanet.org/eliseumanuel?lang=en) De: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] Em nome de Rosemarie Capodicci Enviada: 31 de outubro de 2015 20:33 Para: azores@googlegroups.com Assunto: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Maria Cristo Morais, Lomba da Santa Barbara, Sao Miguel, Azores Celeste, do you think that she may not have been baptized in the Azores (or the record was lost) and she was re-baptiaed here in the USA before her marriage??? That happened in the Azores (not here) to my greatgreatgrandma, records were not available at the time of her marriage so she was re-baptized right before she married. Just a thought. Rosemarie <mailto:rcap...@gmail.com> rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Rosemarie Capodicci <rcap...@gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto:rcap...@gmail.com> 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 <mailto: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. Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com <mailto: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. 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 <mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . 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