Hello Maria Elena, The marriage of 1757 is really not too early.......say Maria do Espirito Santo was 23 years old when she married in 1857.....she would have at least 20 more years of childbearing age...taking you to 1777.....When I do research, I always actually start with the year BEFORE the couple got married and look through the baptisms for their children...you would be surprised to see how many babies are born early...so you can't just start looking 9 months after the marriage. I actually look for EVERY child born to a couple. You are lucky if there is an index as I personally have not had indices in the records that I have researched.
For the question about maybe some children being baptized in Sao Roque or Sao Pedro......I would just look through BOTH parishes for possible children. It is not unusual for a couple to live in the parish of the wife and then move back to where the husband came from etc.....so you should look in both places if you find you have big spaces of time with no children born. I have found that most women will have children up to about 43-44 years old....I have found some that are older and I usually try to look through the baptisms until I know the woman is in her late 40's. I personally would not recommend looking at obits yet as a person can die anytime and they are difficult to search unless you have some parameters about when you think someone died......you can get those clues, for instance, when you find their children's marriages as they will often say if the parents of a bride or groom is deceased. I realize that I am pretty out of practice in reading records when I look at this one that you posted...the first part, as you said is hard to read for me. It does say that Antonio is a widower and was married to Maria da Silva.....to find out who his parents were, look back in time and try to find that marriage.....between Antonio de Mello and Maria da Silva. It looks like Antonia do Espirito Santo is the daughter of Matthias de Mello and Maria ??? Carvelho or something like that... this is not a surname that I am familiar with. I am sure that someone else might recognize it. Susan Vargas Murphy On Nov 2, 6:38�pm, "Maria Lima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *SORRY, i EMAILED THE WRONG CERTIFICATE. �BELOW IS THE ONE FOR ANTONIO DE > MELLO X MARIA DO ES. SNTO. > > Thanks Susan and Cheri, > > �I will go back and recheck the years before and after just to be sure it > was 1790 for his marriage. �This year leads to other issues. > > I found his parents, Antonio de Mello and Antonia do Espirito Santo (Sao > Pedro parish in Sao Miguel) married in 1757!!! �I could not find another > couple with the same name being married closer to 1770's. > > At first I ignored them as a possibility because it was so many years > between their marriage and the birth of Caetano. �I could not find his Birth > C. in Sao Pedro parish , even though he was listed in the Index of Batismos. > > I think the next step is to try to find other children born to this couple > in the Sao Pedro Index of Baptisms. � I already have the marriage > certificate for Caetano, and the birth of 5 of his children. His wife was > from the Sao Roque area and that's where they married and had their first > child. > > Susan, I started thinking today that if he had other children in the Sao > Roque parish, they would not be Indexed in Sao Pedro parish of Sao Miguel, > Maybe he moved back and forth as he had children and baptized them in the > respective parish. � I found, accidentally, the marriage of a daughter in > 1828, �the marriage certificate states she was baptized in Sao Roque, Rosto > do Cao. Now, �I wonder if they moved back to the Sao Roque parish. �At this > point I'm thinking I need to get into the OBITS. > > I don't know if people had their children baptized anywhere they wanted. (?) > > Last night I stayed up waaaayyyy to late trying to clean up the marriage > certificate of Antonio de Mello so I could ask for help on this website. > There are more names than usual listed in the upper section. > > I noticed the priest didn't write in the names of his parents. �I think it > says he was widowed of Maria da Silva buried �somewhere I couldn't decipher. > � Is there some reason, the year is repeated at the end of the body? > > �Thanks already for all your help. �I hope somebody can read this priest's > handwriting. �I thought it was one of the most difficult. �(grr!!) > > Regards, > > Maria Elena > * > > �Antonio de Mello and Antonia do Es Snto lightened.jpg > 3293KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
