My mother and father would go visit a dear friend, Manuel Piques from Cambridge, MA when I was young. I would play with their youngest daughter until we moved away and him and his wife passed on. The five children moved to different areas, but I would bump into his granddaughter once in a while and that's been maybe fifteen years ago. I remember Louis, Gabriella, Albertina, Laura and Eva. I know Louis was married with children when I was eleven. He's probably around 73 years old. So Manuel would have been born around 1910? I remember asking my dad if they were related and he said my mother's father (my grandfather) Manuel Borges Giesta who was a furniture maker back in Ribeira Grande was his mentor before he came to this country. There might have been some connection from one side to the other, but my mom never said anything about that. My Aunt Natalie Pacheco Furtado's father Manuel Pacheco being a carpenter from Cambridge knew of him so I will ask her if she remembers anything. There is Rodrigues on both sides of my family. Linda Borges (Furtado) Norton
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eliseu Manuel Pacheco da Silva Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Ferreira Belo and Piques from Ribeira Grande Hi Group, Does anyone has any information on João Ferreira Belo married to Maria Manoel around 1600’s at Ribeira Grande? They had Maria Ferreira or Maria de Sousa married to Manoel Rodrigues Piques in Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Estrella, Ribeira Grande, 11 Oct 1681. Thank you in advance, eliseu -- 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."
