Shirl, The Susana Goulart Costa book 'Azores, Nine Islands, One History' mentions the Bensaude family in Sao Miguel arriving in the 1820s and paying a central role in the economic activity of the Azores.(page 309) She mentions a study conducted by Fatima Sequeira Dias demonstrating their success. They expanded into Faial and made inroads into the navigation business. The patriarch of the family, Abraham Bensaude, began by investing in trade with England.
If you haven't seen it you may want to and look for the study. Happy hunting, Pat Anselmo Nostrome -----Original Message----- From: Cheri Mello <[email protected]> To: Azores Genealogy <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 9:09 am Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Jewish records on Terceira? >From [email protected]: <<To the person who said they could not find any ancestry information from church or baptismal records - would those ancestors perhaps have been Jewish? Mine were so all those church records do me no good! I am researching ancestors: Seriqui, Benarus, Bensabat, Bensaude. The Seriquis lived on Terceira and two sons went to Brazil - Salão and David probably at the end of the 1800s. At least one Benarus lived on another Azores island and an Arthur Benarus lived in Lisbon at least in 1915. He called my grandfather, Miguel Seriqui (changed to Sereque in the USA), "cousin". I was at the CCA site but wasn't able to find much.0 I clicked on passports but nothing came up. Thanks for any help! Most of you know so much more than I do. - Shirl - >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
