Steven, I'm seeing Isabel on pp. 86-87 as # 13, so this must be it. I'll do a literal translation for you. Line 1 will match line 1 on the document. I don't have my reading glasses here (I'm not home in CA yet), so there's a few things I can't quite make out.
They don't punctuate, so I left that out too. 1) On the eighteenth day of the month of September of 2) the year one thousand eight hundred seventy, at this church pa- 3) rish of Senhora das Milagres of Lagedo council 4) of Lajes Diocese of Angra I baptized solem- 5) ly an individual of the sex feminine I gave (? it's hypenated) 6) gave the name of Izabel that she was born in this freguesia 7) of five hours of the morning of the day seventeen of the same 8) month and year daughter legitimate second of the name 9) of Jose Caetano Ramos farmer and Perliana (?) 10) de Jesus occupation of the service of her house (?) Next page 11) native and received (married) parishioners and living 12) in this freguesia granddaughter paternal of Jose Coelho Ra- 13) mos and Izabel Maria maternal of Francisco 14) de Freitas (?) and Rita de Sao Jose. For Godfather -- 15) Antonio Maria de Freitas single student (?) 16) and Godmother Maria de Ceu single of whom all (hypened) 17) all the proper papers blah blah blah. The rest is church stuff that says the godparents answered, the baptism was drawn up in duplicate and the godparents didn't know how to write. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, R. das Tainhas, Achada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
