Mike-- I would recommend a visit to the Azores if at all possible. There are some good museums and even modern day artisan workshops that are preserving handicrafts of long ago. Knowing some of the language might help. There are probably many studies written in Portuguese.
Have you looked around this website: http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/default.aspx (Same site where online archives are located.) They might have online info from the museums. I wanted to reply before I forgot so I didn't look for anything specific. Mary On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:23 AM Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Pico is not going to be different than any other of the Azores islands. > > Illiteracy was high for both children and adults. I want to say this did > not change until the 1900s. Children did tasks for their age and size. Some > milked cows. Some pulled weeds. Others may have churned butter. > > A child would be sent away most likely for a better opportunity or a > better life. > > Most of Pico would have emigrated from the port of Horta. Those records > start in 1836: https://tombo.pt/en/d/acores > > You might want to see if your local public library has a copy of "Atlantic > Islanders of the Azores and Madeiras" by Francis M. Rogers. Part I is "The > Lives of Azoreans and Madeirans" and Part II is "Their Values." It's > written from a American perspective though. I read it 20 years ago so I > can't tell you specifically what it was about. Maybe I should reread it. > > Cheri > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Mickey Blue <michaelsemm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, can anyone direct me to book(s) or information, hopefully >> translated into English, which describe social customs and life in general >> on Pico in 1825/35 when my Great grandfather Manuel Jacinto was born and >> left Pico? Were children of that era literate? Was school available to all? >> What work was expected of children under 10 years of age? Why would a ten >> year old leave home? Are there shipping records to Trinidad or Madeira (he >> possibly went to Madeira first). >> >> These are all things I would dearly like to know. I am hoping to write an >> historically accurate fiction based on what I know about this remarkable >> man. I know his parents lived and died on Pico. Though he was the oldest >> child he was charged with stealing a Frenchman's watch in Trinidad in >> December 1836, he had just turned 11. I am guessing he was there because >> slavery was abolished and in 1834 the plantation owners on Trinidad >> (probably mostly French) were looking for cheap labour to replace their >> slaves. The British had taken possession of Trinidad by then and Manuel >> was tried and sentenced under British law. He spent the next two years on a >> prison Hulk on the Thames in London before being "Transported" to Van >> Diemen's Land, now Tasmania Australia, to finish his seven years sentence >> (sentences were generally, hanging, 7 years or life transportation at that >> time). >> >> If anyone has connections with Trinidad I would be interested if any >> court records from that era survived and how to access them (I have written >> to officials in Trinidad but have not received a reply). >> >> I would be happy to have any information that would help me understand >> life at that time. Thank you in anticipation. >> >> Mike Emmett >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
