Wow, Cheri! Thank you for sharing - this is great. I have quite a number of ancestors who married relatives. This will be good for me to research if I every get to retire!
MaryAnn On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > For those interested in the dispensations: > > A dispensation is what a couple needed to obtain when they were going to > marry a relative. The dispensation should contain interviews with the > couple and how they are related (will state the lineage). > > Because the Diocese for the Azores is in Angra, the dispensations are > housed in the Angra archive. > > The dispensations are very hit and miss. I'd say more on the "miss" side. > They have only what they have. Many dispensations no longer exist. > > The first photo (80244) shows the request I made to see some > dispensations. They call them "Dispensations of Matrimony" so that is what > I called them. I am in their country, so I write in Portuguese. I include > the island and the years I want. Not all years exist. > > The next photo (92811) shows how the dispensations come. They are bound up > in packets, tied with a cotton ribbon. You can see a couple of other > packets to the side. > > Photo 920845 shows what it looks like when you open the packet. There's a > stack of dispensations. They are chronological. You have to look through > them. > > Photo 92945 shows a later dispensation. It names the bride and groom and > to the right, states the degree. The left states the church. The older ones > are not as nice as this. Some are a few pages and some are many pages. They > all varied. > > Photo 94345 shows 50 years of dispensations on Pico. The third most > populated island. That's not the much considering how intermarried the > Azoreans are. > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > -- > 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. > -- *MaryAnn Santos* Senior Advisement and Student Affairs Administrator Department of Art and Art Professions NYU/Steinhardt 212.998.5702 m...@nyu.edu Follow us at *Twitter / @NYUart <https://twitter.com/NYUart>Instagram / @nyuart <http://instagram.com/nyuart>* *Facebook / NYU Art Department <https://www.facebook.com/pages/NYU-Art-Department/53833145389>* -- 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.
