John, if you are still a part of this group, please contact me. I had some stuff come up & I don't think I ever got back to you on this. I am interested in the information you have about the Correia family. Since posting this, I have located the great granddaughter of Maria Madelena Correia MEDEIROS and she gave me information on her line. I am also curious about the Antonia do Sacramento name.
On Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 2:56:06 PM UTC-4, marr...@cs.com wrote: > > In a message dated 10/7/2006 1:10:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, > psd...@aol.com <javascript:> writes: > > I spoke my grandfather's 80 year old cousin today for the first time. > He told me that my great grandfather had a sister in Sao Miguel in the > late 1950's early 1960's. Her name was Maria Madalena Correia. > He gave her address as: > S Barbara de St Antonio > S. Miguel, Azores > > Would that have been how the envelope was addressed? I see where there > is a Santa Barbara on the island, I don't see a St Antonio. I am > confused. > > He also said that he remembered speaking to his father (my great > grandfather's brother) about leaving the island. > If he remembers correctly, My great great grandfather, Manuel Corre(i)a > took his sons, Henry Jacome, and Clement to the US because of the > government was conscripting men to serve in the military in Africa. He > said this was around 1903. I have census records that show them coming > here in 1910. (I have never been able to locate their arrival in > Massachusetts so I can't say what year for sure) > > Has anyone ever heard of this before as a reason for leaving the Azores > around that time? > > > Santa Bárbara de Santo António is so designated so as not to confuse it > with Lomba de Santa Bárbara near Ribeira Grande. Santa Bárbara used to be a > chapel of the main parish of Santo António além Capelas, but is today an > independent parrish, neighboring Santo António. I have a Maria Madalena > Correia, daughter of Manuel Correia and Antónia do Sacramento, all of Santo > António, who had a brother Manuel, married to Maria Oliveira (married 1 > sept 1918). The line goes back to Afonso Ledo (died 1559). If you need the > information, please e-mail me privately. And yes, it was quite common for > young Azorean men to "dar o salto", i.e. take the leap and have themselves > smuggled out of the islands to avoid conscription. > > Best regards, > > John Miranda Raposo -- For 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
