Hi John,
Yes, I can reply somewhat. From what I gather, the ships wanted to make
some extra cash by taking in extra passengers in Flores. These passangers
had no passport. From the following text (in Portuguese), you can read that
the Peninsular used to carry immigrants starting in Ponta
John,
If you wanted to travel to América did you get a passport as you boarded or
did you have to apply in advance?
On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 4:22:18 PM UTC-5, João Ventura wrote:
Hi John,
Yes, I can reply somewhat. From what I gather, the ships wanted to make
some extra cash by
Thank you João, I thought it might be something like that.
John Vasconcelos
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:22 PM, João Ventura j...@venturas.org wrote:
Hi John,
Yes, I can reply somewhat. From what I gather, the ships wanted to make
some extra cash by taking in extra passengers in Flores. These
I don't know if you could track which ship he was using. One of the
reasons for a stopover in Terceira could be boarding another ship (probably
to its final destination).
From each island he was coming ?
I think Terceira was a big ship HUB by that time - with ships to Brazil and
US.
Roberto
Roberto,
Only 3 ports in the Azores: Ponta Delgada (S. Miguel), Angra, (Terceira),
and Horta (Faial).
Sometimes you can track the ship and sometimes you can't.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Roberto Machado Velho rve...@gmail.com
wrote:
I don't know if you could track which ship he was
Cheri,
Adding to what you said, once in a great while, you will see a ships
passenger list naming Flores as the port of origin with Boston or New
Bedford as the destination. Do you know what was happening there? Was
Flores a stop to pick up passengers by a ship originating at one of the
other 3
Garços is a blue-green eye color (my wife is a native speaker but had to
look this word up). He is a farm worker (lavrador). Escala pela ilha
Terceira means he has a stopover in Terceira. This may mean that unlike
other passengers he will disembark while the ship is at port on Terceira
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