[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Terceira families

2009-02-25 Thread Carole Gomez
I have heard of the victure family..I belive a long time ago they were with the circus... --- On Tue, 2/24/09, E Sharp bellema...@gmail.com wrote: From: E Sharp bellema...@gmail.com Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Terceira families To: azores Azores@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Terceira families

2009-02-24 Thread E Sharp
Jessica, My Victor family had a circus. They orginally came from Italy and mainland Portugal. Why they settled in the Azores is a mystery. They performed on the trapeze and one of my great aunts said she hung from her hair (ouch!!) My aunt told me they also had animals (horses and dogs). So

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Terceira families

2009-02-24 Thread hisalv
Jack, I have also done research in Altares and Ribeirinha, Maybe I can help Helen Salvador  his...@aol.com Fremont, CA           Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com Altares - Mendes Borges  Ribeirinha - Mendonça Jack --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Terceira families

2009-02-23 Thread E Sharp
Celeste, Curious... When was you grandmother b. in Porto Judeu as one of my great uncles, Manuel Victor, was born in the Village of Santo Antonio Porto Judeu in 1885, which means my circus family was in that area then. I don't know what happened to him, though. E On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Terceira families

2009-02-23 Thread celeste perry
Elaine,    Maria Jose Ferreira Dinis, my maternal grandmother, was born January 19, 1897 in Porto Judeu, Terceira, baptized at Santo Antonio,  to Joao Ferreira Dinis born Oct. 28, 1873 in Porto Judeu and Maria Jose Ormonde born Jan. 3, 1870 in Porto Judeu, both baptized at Santo Antonio.    

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Terceira families

2009-02-23 Thread celeste perry
Jack,    How about first and last names?  I am sorry, I have my files indexed by first name and just having last names make searching complicated. My maternal grandmother's ancestors go back to the founders of the Island of Terceira and I do have a few names from many of the villages in