I would like to repost the below, in case anyone new may see it this time. In addition, I would like to add that Gaudencio's daughter's oral history indicates he was born in Santa Luzia... with a name like his one would not think it would be so hard to find! Our "Terra" DNA matches have been contacted, and I am consistently being told that their lineage is in Bandeiras /and or/ Santa Luzia.
Thanks, Jeremy On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 11:03:16 AM UTC-8, Jeremy G. B-C wrote: > > Mysterious Terra Family From Pico > > Hello! > > I have 3 immigrant ancetors from the Azores, I have been successful in > trading the lineage of two of them in Sao Jorge. The third, my grandmother, > came from Pico and is a complete mystery - which is truly unbelivable given > the abnormal names of her brothers, and the extent of the info we Do have. > Just can't seem to find any records on Pico whatsoever for them. > > My grandmother's name was Maria Emilia Rosa da Terra. She was born > somewhere on Pico in or about April/May 1854-1860. Most records give April > 22nd 1855. > , but 1858 is prevelant too. She came to the United States in the early > to mid 1870s settling in California. > > She had two brothers named Augusto Garcia Terra and Gauldencio Garcia > Terra. Gauldencio married in Massachusetts in 1873, Augusto never married. > Both brothers had made it to California by 1879 where they were Naturalized > in San Luis Obispo. They were whalers. > > Our working hypothesis is that they may have originated in the Santa Lucia > or Bandeiras area. They were FULL siblings. > > The parents were Joao Garcia de Terra and Maria Rosa. NOT Manuel and Maria > as one record for Gaudencio falsely states. > > #) Gauldencio or Gaudencio "Gaides" (various spellings) Garcia Terra was > born approx. NOVEMBER 1838-1840. He died in 1916 in SLO County CA. > > #) Augusto Garcia Terra was born in abt. 1852, and died in 1929 in SLO CA. > > #) Maria was born about April 1854-1860 and died in SLO County CA in 1942. > Her married name was Reis. > > We have an extraordinary amount of information, and documentation on them > in the United States, but nothing from Pico. > > If anyone can render ANY assistance, it would be gratefully appreciated. > Also if anyone has the name Gauldencio or Gauldencio or Augusto or Joao > Garcia Terra in their databases I would be interested to know! > > Thank you > > Jeremy -- 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.
