Hi Shirl, I came across this about the Bensaude family - unfortunately it's in French.
www.bensaude.org/history/Jose-fr.pdf Cheers Robyn On Aug 15, 3:55 am, [email protected] wrote: > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
