John,
Count me in for the Flores Gang... I am looking for my ggranparents Antonio Goncalves & Izabel Pedro. Have no idea where they where from. My grandmothers (Diolinda Pedro Goncalves Avila) death certificate only says Flores Azores Island. My brick wall. Beverly Avilla Marcelo ----- Original Message ----- From: "eric edgar" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:08:52 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Flores Genealogy and Drinking Society John, We'll find the ancestors, I'm in for the Flores gang. Eric Edgar Noia, Coelho Rodrigues, Vieira Ponta Delgada, Cedros On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:32 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." -- 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." -- 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."
