Blayer surname comes from the descendants of a Joseph Blayer, born St. Martin in the Fields, London England and died in Velas, s. Jorge Jul 22 1747. He married Maria Faustiina da Silveira, born in Urzelina, s. Jorge. Today there are descendants who carry this surname.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 30, 2016, at 2:07 PM, linda <menesesli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Huh! That's interesting. > > I just did a quick search through the Terceira Marriage Index for "bali" and > "bale" and the names that came up were "Baliero/a", "Baleeiro/a" and > Balencio. > > In the baptismal records, I still see "Bal---", but the Obits definitely look > like "Blaer"! > > TOTAL SPECULATION :) The same priest recorded the obits and the first > baptism; a second priest recorded the second two baptisms. I wonder if it > was an unusual name for Velas/Sao Jorge, and if the priests were spelling it > phonetically how they heard the parishioners pronounce it? It's not a very > common name in the Terceira-- and seems to be mostly concentrated in the > 1600's in a few locations-- and didn't show up at all in the Flores Index. > Perhaps as Lisa goes back along that line she'll find an ancestor who moved > from Terceira to Velas; one or two of mine moved the other way, from Velas to > Terceira. I wonder if her ancestors were whalers or if the name comes from > some thing/where else? > > fascinating stuff! > > thanks Bill and Lisa! > > Linda > >> On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 12:13:24 AM UTC-8, bsei...@gmail.com wrote: >> In the 1867 baptism of Maria, I think the Maternal grandfather's name looks >> to me like Antonio Jose Baliel. I had never seen this name "Baliel" before, >> but on Ancestry it does show some immigrant passengers from Faial to Boston >> in the early 1800s so the name did exist in the Azores. The other two >> records though the name looks more like "Blair", a common name but not a >> Portuguese name so I'm not sure what to make of that. I do agree with Linda >> though that they are likely the same person. >> >> Another thing I found interesting is that the last two baptisms were on the >> same day, but the priest only said "ja defunctos" for the last. I found >> Maria Joesfa in Nov 1872 >> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SJR-VL-VELAS-O-1871-1880/SJR-VL-VELAS-O-1871-1880_item1/P23.html; >> It says she is the widow of what looks like Antonio Jose Blair (or Blaer), >> just like on the 1873 baptisms. I found Antonio Jose's in December 1870 >> here: >> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SJR-VL-VELAS-O-1860-1870/SJR-VL-VELAS-O-1860-1870_item1/P163.html >> and the name appears to be Blair or Blaer here also. >> >> The priest may have made a mistake on the 1873 baptism by writing Marianna >> Luiza instead of Marianna Josefa; or Marianna Luiza started using the name >> Josefa instead of Luiza. >> >> 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
