Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
My grandmother came to the US when she was 4. She traveled with 2 aunts and an uncle. Her parents were already here. I wish I had asked her way back when as to why her parents came almost a whole year ahead of her when she was so young. They all came in through Rhode Island and settled in New Bedford. Some stayed there for a while. Others left right away for Mendocino County in California. Karen Huffman On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Mike wrote: > When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any > typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming > with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger > brother? Would she have traveled over alone if another family member > already here? > I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great > grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for > traveling into the USA > Mike > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions > when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Hugs and Blessings from Karen (Medeiros) Huffman in Paso Robles, CA USA Searching for Medeiros and Cabral in Sao Miguel, Santos, Silva and Costa in Terceira Acores. Searching for Anderson and Swanson in Sweden and Schaeffer and Schommer in Germany. -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
My great aunt came to the USA with her 6 year old brother in tow. She was 13 years old: her parents and other siblings (including my grandmother) stayed behind. Janet On Jan 30, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Mike wrote: > When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any > typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming > with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger brother? > Would she have traveled over alone if another family member already here? > I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great > grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for > traveling into the USA > Mike > > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when > they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
Mike, I guess you would have to define what you mean by a woman first. But I'd say there was nothing typical about any immigration scenario. I've seen some with parents (I'd call them kids or teens), I've seen some with their husbands, with an older or younger SIBLING, alone, etc. My ancestor came in 1901, aged 13, with her 16 year old sister. Their sponsor in America was a male cousin (the 16 year old later married him). Not much help :( Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
My ex husbands gggreat aunt came with her kids, her husband already passed and her nephew my ex husbands ggrandfather came with her and hid in the mattress she had on the ship. On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:45 PM, janet laytham wrote: > My great aunt came to the USA with her 6 year old brother in tow. She was > 13 years old: her parents and other siblings (including my grandmother) > stayed behind. > > Janet > > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Mike wrote: > > When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any > typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming > with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger > brother? Would she have traveled over alone if another family member > already here? > I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great > grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for > traveling into the USA > Mike > > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions > when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions > when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
We don't know how my great grandmother got here. I've looked and looked. She did have a brother who may or may not have come with her. She was 18 and her passage was paid by the man who became my grandfather. We don't think they had met in the Azores because they were from different areas of Sao Jorge and she was only a year old when he left. Two of her older sisters were already here (California) and had married two brothers. I can't find their marriages or how they got here, but from census information they married here and may have been "sent for" also. Great grandmother was very seasick on the voyage and always said she came around the horn. She was quite melodramatic, so it could be that it only felt like it. The "mail order" marriages seemed to work. Mary On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Mike wrote: > When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any > typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming > with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger brother? > Would she have traveled over alone if another family member already here? > I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great > grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for > traveling into the USA > Mike > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when > they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
When our family left the Azores, they came over in three groups, by way of the Hawaiian Kingdom. In the first group were my Great Grandparents and the older boys, leaving two of the younger boys with relatives. In the second group, were my Great Grandfather's older brother and his family and one of the younger sons. Finally when the 3rd small group traveled, the youngest son, now a year older, was chaparoned by my Great Grandfather's sister in-laws, sister, and finally reunited with his family. The sacrifices they made. AVA In a message dated 1/30/2013 9:42:24 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, pamsanto...@gmail.com writes: My ex husbands gggreat aunt came with her kids, her husband already passed and her nephew my ex husbands ggrandfather came with her and hid in the mattress she had on the ship. On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:45 PM, janet laytham <_jwlaytham@msn.com_ (mailto:jwlayt...@msn.com) > wrote: My great aunt came to the USA with her 6 year old brother in tow. She was 13 years old: her parents and other siblings (including my grandmother) stayed behind. Janet On Jan 30, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Mike <_mgilfilian95@gmail.com_ (mailto:mgilfilia...@gmail.com) > wrote: When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger brother? Would she have traveled over alone if another family member already here? I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for traveling into the USA Mike -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to _Azores+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com_ (mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) . Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at _http://groups.google.com/group/Azores_ (http://groups.google.com/group/Azores) . Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com_ (mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) . For more options, visit _https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out_ (https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out) . -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to _Azores+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com_ (mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) . Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at _http://groups.google.com/group/Azores_ (http://groups.google.com/group/Azores) . Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com_ (mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) . For more options, visit _https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out_ (https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out) . -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at _http://groups.google.com/group/Azores_ (http://groups.google.com/group/Azores) . Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit _https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out_ (https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out) . -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. T
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
Karen, I probably could answer your question of why your grandmother came a year after her parents. The cost of the voyage. Maria Moore - Original Message - From: "Karen Huffman" To: "Azores Google Group" Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:07:29 PM Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores My grandmother came to the US when she was 4. She traveled with 2 aunts and an uncle. Her parents were already here. I wish I had asked her way back when as to why her parents came almost a whole year ahead of her when she was so young. They all came in through Rhode Island and settled in New Bedford. Some stayed there for a while. Others left right away for Mendocino County in California. Karen Huffman On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Mike < mgilfilia...@gmail.com > wrote: When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger brother? Would she have traveled over alone if another family member already here? I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for traveling into the USA Mike -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores . Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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 . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out . -- Hugs and Blessings from Karen (Medeiros) Huffman in Paso Robles, CA USA Searching for Medeiros and Cabral in Sao Miguel, Santos, Silva and Costa in Terceira Acores. Searching for Anderson and Swanson in Sweden and Schaeffer and Schommer in Germany. -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores . Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out . -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
When my Great Grandmother came overfrom Madeira she had to be sponsored. She and my Great Grandfather both. And then they settled in Fall River. I am not sure which Port they came through. That is all a work in process, which I am currently trying to do at the moment. Kathy Lee On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Mike wrote: > When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any > typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming > with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger > brother? Would she have traveled over alone if another family member > already here? > I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great > grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for > traveling into the USA > Mike > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions > when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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*My parents had a "Pen Pal" marriage. My father (Joao Vitorino Vasconcelos) immigrated from Flores in 1909 and joined two older brothers who were working as ranch hands on a ranch near Malta, Montana. Over the next 9 years, he moved first to Portland Oregon where he worked on a dairy farm which was located near the present day Portland Zoo and then a few years later he moved to work as a ranch hand for a Portuguese dairy farmer near Fresno California who turned out to be a distant cousin of the woman who he eventually married and became my mother. When my father arrived at the Pimentel ranch in 1918, he met Jose Freitas, who had just immigrated from Flores. The were both from the same small Island of Flores, but met for the first time in rural Fresno County. They became fast friends and immediately decided to marry each other's sister (who were both still on Flores). My father started writing Jose's sister, Ana, and in about 1928 he returned to Flores, formally courted my mother and in 1929, they were married. By the time he returned to be married, he had saved his money and had bought a 45 acre dairy a few miles west of Fresno and had employed his new brother-in law. Jose. Jose wasn't so lucky, My father's sister Angelina had a mind of her own and in 1920 arrived in Fresno, already married. But in the end it all worked out. Jose (who never married) and his brother Francisco went into partnership with my Aunt Angelina and her husband Jose in the Granada Market in east Fresno. John Vasconcelos * On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Mary Bordi wrote: > We don't know how my great grandmother got here. I've looked and looked. > She did have a brother who may or may not have come with her. She was 18 > and her passage was paid by the man who became my grandfather. We don't > think they had met in the Azores because they were from different areas of > Sao Jorge and she was only a year old when he left. > > Two of her older sisters were already here (California) and had married > two brothers. I can't find their marriages or how they got here, but from > census information they married here and may have been "sent for" also. > > Great grandmother was very seasick on the voyage and always said she came > around the horn. She was quite melodramatic, so it could be that it only > felt like it. > > The "mail order" marriages seemed to work. > > Mary > > > > > > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Mike wrote: > > When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any > typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming > with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger > brother? Would she have traveled over alone if another family member > already here? > I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great > grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for > traveling into the USA > Mike > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions > when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions > when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" g
Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] leaving the azores
Primo John, You're fortunate to have had the opportunity to collect so much family history (my family was prone to lie and conceal with a vengeance). Even in the 1960s -- second wave of Azorean immigration, following the eruption of Capelinhos volcano on Faial -- there were families where the husband/father came to North America first in order to obtain work and save up enough money to send for his wife/children; I gather that this was not unusual. In fact, I personally know such a family where the husband spent a whole year working in the Bay Area before his wife and kids immigrated from the Azores. Katharine. On Friday, February 1, 2013 5:49:46 PM UTC-5, John Vasconcelos wrote: > > *My parents had a "Pen Pal" marriage. My father (Joao Vitorino > Vasconcelos) immigrated from Flores in 1909 and joined two older brothers > who were working as ranch hands on a ranch near Malta, Montana. Over the > next 9 years, he moved first to Portland Oregon where he worked on a dairy > farm which was located near the present day Portland Zoo and then a few > years later he moved to work as a ranch hand for a Portuguese dairy farmer > near Fresno California who turned out to be a distant cousin of the woman > who he eventually married and became my mother. > > When my father arrived at the Pimentel ranch in 1918, he met Jose Freitas, > who had just immigrated from Flores. The were both from the same small > Island of Flores, but met for the first time in rural Fresno County. They > became fast friends and immediately decided to marry each other's sister > (who were both still on Flores). My father started writing Jose's sister, > Ana, and in about 1928 he returned to Flores, formally courted my mother > and in 1929, they were married. By the time he returned to be married, he > had saved his money and had bought a 45 acre dairy a few miles west of > Fresno and had employed his new brother-in law. Jose. > Jose wasn't so lucky, My father's sister Angelina had a mind of her own > and in 1920 arrived in Fresno, already married. But in the end it all > worked out. Jose (who never married) and his brother Francisco went into > partnership with my Aunt Angelina and her husband Jose in the Granada > Market in east Fresno. > John Vasconcelos > * > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Mary Bordi > > wrote: > >> We don't know how my great grandmother got here. I've looked and looked. >> She did have a brother who may or may not have come with her. She was 18 >> and her passage was paid by the man who became my grandfather. We don't >> think they had met in the Azores because they were from different areas of >> Sao Jorge and she was only a year old when he left. >> >> Two of her older sisters were already here (California) and had married >> two brothers. I can't find their marriages or how they got here, but from >> census information they married here and may have been "sent for" also. >> >> Great grandmother was very seasick on the voyage and always said she came >> around the horn. She was quite melodramatic, so it could be that it only >> felt like it. >> >> The "mail order" marriages seemed to work. >> >> Mary >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Mike > >> wrote: >> >> When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there >> any typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? >> coming with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger >> brother? Would she have traveled over alone if another family member >> already here? >> I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great >> grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for >> traveling into the USA >> Mike >> >> -- >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> azores+un...@googlegroups.com . Follow the confirmation >> directions when they arrive. >> For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >> (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the >> right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my >> membership." >> --- >> 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+un...@googlegroups.com . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> azores+un...@googlegroups.com . Follow the confirmation >> directions when they arrive. >> For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >> (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the >> right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edi
