JR, It's a story. I started stirring the pot in West Warwick, Rhode Island, trying to clear up some of the collateral family lines. A guy whom I've been trying to connect with for years, sent me an obituary of a cousin from West Warwick, asking who it was. I did the lineage of the man in the obituary years ago when he was alive. Found out that I never put it in the computer though. So it's on paper somewhere.
I had his dad, "Frank" in my computer (Francisco de Mello Barboza in the Azores and Frank Mello here). I didn't have his wife Anna or Annie Rei/Ray/Rey. So I went off recreating the line and that's when I found the baptism of their oldest son. I vaguely remember something about Connecticut from this line. When I put it into my computer, Frank would have been about 23 at marriage, and Annie would have been about 14 or 15!! Yikes! That generally doesn't happen on my Portuguese lines. 1925 Rhode Island State census says she was born c. 1887 and was about 17 when son Frank Jr (kid #2 was born). 1915 Rhode Island State census she was born c. 1885 and was about 15 when the eldest, Manuel, was born. 1930 U.S. Federal, she was born c. 1885 and states she married at age 16 (Frank says married at age 23). She was about 18 when Frank Jr was born (the eldest, Manuel, is not in the household). At first, it didn't make sense since they seem to be around West Warwick, but if she was underage, maybe they went to another state where no one knew them to get married. I don't recall if I did the work on Anna/Annie all those years ago. I was trying to verify the family story about being related to Jim Mello, the Notre Dame football player. My dad said that he and his grandfather were watching or listening to the Notre Dame football games during the 1940s. When Jim Mello made a play, my dad was told that the play was made by his cousin! (Jim Mello & Manuel Mello, my dad's grandfather, were 2nd cousins). I went to verify the story in the 1990s (BC - Before Computers) and went to my public library, looked up the Notre Dame Alumni Association, and wrote them a letter, asking to be put into contact with my cousin Jim. They mailed him my letter and he called me. He gave me the information on his parents, Frank/Francisco Mello and Anna/Annie Ray, and I went to my FHC and pulled the film working on the Mello line and found they came off my Mello Barboza line. Yeah, those Furtado Rei and Laurencia/Laurencio lines are going to drive me crazy! No direct relation, but I guess my family liked theirs. Their offspring married each other. They were probably godparents to each others kids too! I have Anna born on the 7 Oct 1884 RdT....The "g" from freguesia is crashing down into the date, but I'm pretty sure I'm seeing sete: http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-VF-RIBEIRATAINHAS-B-1880-1889/SMG-VF-RIBEIRATAINHAS-B-1880-1889_item1/P120.html Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 6:39 AM, JR <jmro...@gmail.com> wrote: > This couple married in USA, 1899, or so? I think I I have this Anna > Rosario Furtado connection. It's the same line as Lilian Palko. However, I > think there may some mix-up, because there is a Furtado Lourenco line and a > Lourencia line. Both intertwine but are also separate. My records show Anna > was born Oct 2- 1884 in RDT to Francisco Furtado Lourencia and Maria da Luz > [Roi]. Way to young to be same person that had Manuel in 1900 RDT. > > Is this what you have? > > JR > > On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 1:05:23 AM UTC-4, Cheri Mello wrote: >> >> I was thinking it was along those lines and my brain was saying >> "fiduciary" but I don't know how to spell that in English. Or I thought I >> didn't. Gmail is not flagging it as misspelled. >> >> Which Catholic church in Stonington would they have used? Anyone know? >> Cheri >> >> Cheri Mello >> Listowner, Azores-Gen >> Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das >> Tainhas, Achada >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:56 PM, <bsei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I believe it is "informaçõs fidedignas" which means credible/trustworthy >>> information(s) >>> >>> Bill Seidler >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 9:33:44 PM UTC-7, Cheri Mello wrote: >>> >>>> This is the continuation of a baptism from the previous page. The bride >>>> and groom were married in Stonington, Connecticut (does anyone know what >>>> church that would be?) Left page, 9th line. >>>> >>>> 8) received, second informa- >>>> 9) tion, WHAT? of the church Ca- >>>> 10) tholic...... >>>> >>>> The WHAT on line 9. 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