Hi again, I forgot to mention in my other posting this morning that "Tony" PACHECO was born ~1885 in the Azores, and probably in a town beside Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel. He arrived Age 20 and there were several Antonio PACHECO's, and other spellings arriving in MA/US, and I don't know which was him.
And, Mrs. "Elsie" (MOURA) PACHECO told her children she came from "St. Michael's." But, I have not been able to find out about that. And, other researchers tell me the MOURA name was more present in Santa Maria. If her father was a "whaler" and he did not join his family when they came to Massachusetts, he could have died at sea. Or, one guess is that the couple separated and he went to New York ~1900. One other part of the story I didn't mention is that "Grandma Elsie" had quite a temper. She helped to raise some of her grandchildren, and they can all attest to that; One got injured at her hands. My husband remembers her Portuguese soup, and she did like him. But, one other part of the story is that she told all her grandchildren - nothing - about her late husband. My husband grew up not even knowing his grandfather's name. And, she told him that her late husband had "no" relatives in MA or New England. Because of my research for 6-7 yrs., I have found out that another PACHECO family in Cambridge, MA, "was" related to him; they had come from the same village in Sao Miguel; can't think of the name of it at this second. And, he probably had other relatives in Massachusetts. My guess is that Elsie got so angry that her husband had "left her" in 1928, and left her very pregnant with twins, and left her with 5 young children to raise on her own -- that she never wanted to discuss him again ! And, whether she developed a "temper" because of it, or whether she always had a temper, we don't know. I don't know if any "Portuguese customs" were present in the extended family during the 1940's to 1960's. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) (There are 2 Portuguese restaurants in the City of Lowell that we know of, and we might be visiting "The Azorean" in Gloucester, MA, this month. My husband always orders a soup. I am "all British" and tried making a Portuguese soup 5 yrs. ago. I found them very time-consuming and haven't tried again.) :o) -- 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."
