Although I have not been able to find acutal documentation over there to prove it, my Pimentel side is from Flores, so pour me a glass and count me in!!! I know zero about Flores other than my mother has told me that her grandmother said it has a lot of flowers.
Got a lucky break and found a marriage record in New Bedford....and it confirmed family lore that my great-grandma Maggie Pimentel (Margarida Ursela Pimentel) was indeed, from Flores. Also got her parents' names on that record. Double Score. I thought my great-grandfather was Sylvia or Silva, but no, marriage record has Da Silva....which explains why I couldn't find much of anything for the past 3 years. Doh! Made a giant pot of cacciola and had the family in to celebrate! My family tree was written by first generation American Sylvias and a big mistake was made in hand copying (before copy machines) and listed Frank Pimentel and Annie Martin as Maggie's parents which did not agree with that New Bedford marriage record at all so it's been sitting on the back-burner for at least a year. After digging through some family papers and carefully reading all the little pencil notes on the original note paper, turns out, Frank is Maggie's brother, not father. So now it all makes sense and I can put everyone where they belong. Sheesh! Cindy D Sylvia, Pimentel, and new and improved, Da Silva, De Jesus and a Martin in-law On Jun 6, 11:32�pm, John Vasconcelos <[email protected]> wrote: > I've become envious of the "Ponta Garca Gang" and the "Cabral Travassos > Country Club" and their good fortune in finding cousins. �So I hereby > establish the "Flores Genealogy and Drinking Society". �We Flores people are > not so fortunate as our more easterly "cousins". Flores was subject to the > plunderings of Pirates and Privateers which took a toll on our ancestors and > their institutions. According to historical accounts, Flores was attacked by > Privateers in the mid 1600's who burned every church on the Island. As a > result most records before the late 1600's were lost. Even the records on > neighboring Corvo go back earlier, to the early 1600's, as I recall. > > The earliest documented marriage that I have discovered among my ancestors > was that of Manoel Pimentel to Isabel de Freitas, Nov 26, 1692, Santa Cruz, > Flores who were my 4G Grandparents (He had been married previously, in the > 1680's as I recall). His parents were Domingos Nunes and Marianna Fraga, > date and place of birth unknown although it was probably Santa Cruz, Flores. > I would venture a guess that Marianna was related to Diogo das Chagas, whose > mother was also a Fraga. Her parents were Domingos Fernandez and Catarina de > Freitas. > > How about it, any cousins out there with these same ancestors? > John Vasconcelos -- 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."
