I dug out my Flores family. I don't have much to share, just scant
information. I keep hoping to be connected to someone.
Here's my Flores family:
Margarida Ursela Pimentel, b June 1879 in Flores, immigrated alone at
age 15 to New Bedford
(married Jose da Silva, of San Miguel, 1897, in New Bedford who
later became Joseph S Sylvia)
Margarida (Maggie) parents: Jose Antonia (could be Antonio) Pimentel -
Flores
Maria Ursela Pimentel -
Flores
I believe Margarida had a brother "Frank" who married Annie Martin.
That's it. That's all I know. I only got that from the New Bedfored
marriage records. I don't even know if Maggie's parents came here.
Don't know Maggie's death date yet either but my mom thinks she was
buried at St. John's in New Bedford, so I don't have a death
certificate that might have had additional information. Maggie's
parents were both Pimentels? Or did Maggie not know her mother's
maiden name? I'm dead in the water on anything further.
Cindy D
On the Kansas Plains
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
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