With regard to Witness and using family. I'm not sure if the norm in those days was just family but I do know from my own family records that their witnesses were family, extended family, friends and people of power...i.e. bosses, landlords, proprietors...etc.
Some weddings witnesses can even be someone that was present in the church at the time of the wedding. Margaret. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Steven McNamara <[email protected]>wrote: > That is great! Thank you so much Margaret. > > > > If you have time or if someone else wouldn’t mind looking at the wife of > Antone V. Cabeca again? Other records I show have Anna as his wife’s name. > It looked like Anna to me, but of course that is what I was looking for, so > I may have just made that out to be Anna since it was hard to read. > > > > This is the first marriage record I have seen from the records in the > Azores. You listed the witnesses. Was it customary to use family for that? > > > > Thanks again, > > > > Steven > > > > > http://pg.azores.gov.pt/drac/cca/biblioteca_digital/SMLAGAPC1846-1855/SMLAGAPC1846-1855_item1/P48.html > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<azores%[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."
