Repost for Ceeshouse, cshouse at optonline.net I'm new to the list and looking up my mother's family. According to the 1920 Census, John and Mary (Joao and Mariana) came to the US I presume through the port of Boston or close by in 1900. They settled in Seekonk, MA and were both naturalized in 1907. They went on to have seven children who all born in Rhode Island. My grandmother died when my mother was only about 4 so she doesn't remember much. I'm going to be making a trip to the Archives in a few weeks, but figured I'd post to he list in the meantime.
My mother always thought her grandparents were from Cape Verde, but the census says St. Michael Portugal which would indicate the Azores, I believe. John Lema - age 49 - b. 1871 Mary - age 36 - b 1884 Frank - b. 1907 Robert - b. 1908 Annie - b. 1910 Clara - b. 1912 Louis - b. 1914 Joseph - b. 1915 Ammela - b. 1918 In 1920 they're living on Hunt St, but at some point they lived at 165 Carpenter. To her knowledge, Robbie, Louie and Annie made it to adulthood. Robert married Celia and had 3 children, Beverly who died as a toddler, Barbara and Joyce. Louie Married 2 or 3 times. first to Lena then much later to Mildred with whom he adopted John Michael who wound up in an institution or ward of the state after Millies death in the late 70's or early 80's Upon the death of her mother, my mother went to live (and was legally adopted by) her father in Providence. We presume he wasn't listed on her birth certificate. She has the adoption papers somewhere, but can't locate them. I know they must contain some valuable info. When I get to the area, I'm looking forward to getting copies of the Naturalization papers for John and Mary as well as birth and death records for Annie's Siblings. My mother also had a brother Joey (Joseph) Lima who was born about 1930 and drowned somewhere around 1940. We think Joey had a different father, as it doesn't appear he was adopted by her father. I had at one time found a newspaper clipping about the accident, but she has since misplaced it. I had given her all the documents after taking her to the archives in NYC, but it was all damaged in a flood in her home. I don't think I made copies unfortunately. Any advice about Azores records would be greatly appreciated. -- 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."
