Hello Bill, I believe the first note says the Manuel in this record was married to Maria Isabel, but became widowed when his wife died "yesterday" in Santa Cruz da Graciosa. The note is dated 21 Feb 1953. The second note says Manuel died in the locality of Rebentão, Santa Cruz da Graciosa "yesterday". This note is dated 25 Mar 1955.
Bill Seidler On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 11:00:05 AM UTC-7, want2beunique wrote: > > Manoel "Pereira" Cunha is the husband of my great aunt. A cousin asked me > to investigate the family name change. Sometime after 1911, after marrying > my great aunt, Manoel changed his last name to "Peters". The family lore > of this change is that their mail kept getting confused with another family > with the same last name of "Pereira" so they changed their last name to > "Peters". > > I searched for the marriage record for Manoel and my great aunt Basalissa > Augusta Isabel Conde, but there is no marriage record for 23 Apr 1911. > Likely because 1911 tends to be partial being the cutoff year for available > digital records. > > I was able to find a passenger manifest for May 1911 showing the newlyweds > returning from Graciosa. In if, Manoel is listed as "Manoel P. Cunha". > > Searching for Manoel's baptism, I found the following record. However, > the parental names would seem to indicate his name as "Picanço Cunha" > rather than "Pereira Cunha". > > This brings a couple questions: > * Is "Peters" commonly substituted for "Picanço"? I know "Perry" is > common for "Pereira". > * The attached baptism appears to be the correct Manoel. My ad-hoc > translation is very poor. Can someone please indicate what the margin > notes in the baptism indicate? The watermark is in the way, > unfortunately. I'm surmising that Manoel was married before my great aunt > and that she passed away. > > Thank you in advance! > > I'm attaching a color optimized version of the record. This link is to > the original: > > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/GRA-SC-GUADALUPE-B-1870-1874/GRA-SC-GUADALUPE-B-1870-1874_item1/P169.html > > Regards, > > Bill > > > > -- 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.
