Cambridge has a lot of specialty stores as well; Fernandes (for their marinated pork - ?trejume) and Atomic both on Cambridge Street. One great restaurant in Cambridge is Sunset Café and love the breakfast place on Bow St., Somerville. The Borges family owns it and always wondered if it was related to us. Don't get there much to find out.
Linda Borges Furtado Norton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of yvonne domings Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 7:54 PM To: Azores Genealogy Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Azorean names in Cambridge, MA, USA East Cambridge has some great Azorean restaurants (Portugalia, Atasca, Cafe Portugal) and bakeries. Many Azoreans also moved to Somerville, which is right near east Cambridge. Many moved to Hudson as well. If you can't find information on a name, try Anglicizing the name. For example, my grandmother-in-law was Lipoldinha (spelled several different ways), but called herself Pauline. If you say it fast with an English pronunciation you can see where Pauline came from. I was fortunate to find this early on when she was marrying my grandfather- in-law João (called himself John). That was not as much of a stretch. Otherwise, I never would have known. What I do is try to follow a hunch out until I have enough confirming evidence to either prove it right or wrong. I'm no trained geneologist, but I think you will have to do that when you hit a dead end. It is so frustrating. I can see why people give up. The Maria thing is equally maddening not to mention the changing surnames. OY!! Yvonne On Oct 3, 8:38 am, bbffrrpp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I just wanted to remind researchers how many Azoreans came to > Massachusetts, and specifically to Boston and Cambridge, MA (side-by- > side on both sides of the Charles River). We visited the > "Cambridge Cemetery" yesterday, and saw so many Portuguese surnames > on the stones. > > My (now) husband's grandparents came over to MA/US ~1905. I don't > know where Antonio PACHECO (age 20) first lived on arriving, but very > soon after he was in Cambridge. Elsie MOURA (age 12) went to a > family on Beacon Hill in Boston as a servant. They married in > Cambridge in 1911. > > I was not able to find out if "Tony" came over with relatives. > Around 1910 Elsie arranged for her mother and 4 younger (?) siblings > to come over. Just in time for her to marry Tony in 1911 in > Cambridge. Elsie's sister, Carolina, married into a large > MEDEIROS family. Their sister, Rosa, married into a PERRY family > (probably PEREIRA). I have never been able to find out whether > their brothers, Frank and Manny MOURA, were already married when they > came over, or whether they were younger than their sisters. > > I don't know what happened to Elsie's father. But, one guess is > that he went to Brooklyn, NY, when his wife and children went to > Boston, MA. Francisco MOURA was reported to have been a whaler. > > Over the years, I have met other people with Portuguese names; for > instance, I grew up with a step-grandfather, who was half-Portuguese, > and his last name was FRANCIS. And, I knew a lady who had married > into the RESENDES family of Cambridge, MA. > > And, many families moved a little north into the City of Lowell, > MA. There are Portuguese neighborhoods in both cities, and both > have a St. Anthony's Church. I think the other place where is a > Portuguese neighborhood is Hudson, MA. (?) > > I know that Tony PACHECO came from just outside of Ponta Delgada. > The MOURA family came from Sao Miguel, but I'm told the name probably > originated in Santa Maria. > > Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) -- 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."
