I want to thank everyone for their help on this. With your input, I managed to fill in quite a few blanks and find the exact date of death for Manuel Duarte Mello, Sr. on Ancestry using the NB directories. I managed to find the death of Francisca within a 2 year span and have ordered their obits from the New Bedford Library and also requested a couple of the children's birth records. If this does not give me an exact place in Sao Miguel, I will then try to get their marriage application from NB Vitals. Still scratching my head as to why they changed their surname from Duarte to Mello ca 1920?
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