I arrived in Terceira yesterday from Ponta Delgada. For the most part, my search did not produce much information. I found that the church in Lomba da Santa Barbara does not have confession rolls so I could not put Maria Cristo in the family. Maria Crista`s father did not have anything to leave to anyone when he died in 1899 so there were no taxes to pay; therefore no list of his children. I found no Maria (she had 2 older sisters with that name) who could have had a child and the child could have been raised by the grandparents, Joao Morais and Jacintha Libiana. Both names are unusual in Lomba da Santa Barbara which helped my search for a Maria getting married between 1888 and 1894 when the first 2 Marias would have been of age to marry. My search of the death records did tell me that one of the Marias died as an infant and also one of the Anas and the Manuel. That leaves only the first Maria unknown as to where she went and who she married. Oral history told me that these 4 siblings of Maria Cristo did not immigrate to the US. I now know why for 3 of them. The passenger list for 1909, when Maria Cristo left the Azores for Bristol, RI. She married in 1909 in Bristol and is listed in the 1910 census living with her brother, Serafim and his wife. I do not have her marriage record; the information I have is from her oldest daughter as to when she married and how old she was at the time. At this point, I think there are 2 possibilities: her baptism was not recorded, not usual; however, possible. The second is that she was raised in this family and was either an orphan or the child of a relative who died or was unable to raise her. There does not appear to be any way to prove this. That is what I have found on this search for the final link that will complete my family tree. This week in Ladaida Grand, Terceira is party time. There is a festa at the church; the bulls are running in front of the house where I am staying and everyday there is some activity. I am glad I rested in Ponta Delgada after the archive closed at 5pm. I was usually in bed reading by 7 and asleep by 9. Celeste
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