FYI Alvarado and Decoto are now Union City. I lived there when Decoto became
part of Union City.
My husband's grandmother lived in Alvarado.
Shirley in CA
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From: Joan Jurancich
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Researching Faial, Pico, Sao Jorge, Terceira,
and Brazil
At 08:49 PM 1/19/2012, you wrote:
Repost for Emil, silveira.emil at gmail.com
I am just posting a hello to all. I have interest in Family from Faial,
Pico, Sao Jorge, Brazil and Terceira. I have been cleaning up my files and have
made many corrections. I keep monitoring the list and all though silent most of
the time, I check each post against my recorded information.
Best to all
Emil
Emil Silveira
Currently Researching:
Names and Places;
Avila, Horta, Angustias, Faial
Silveira, Horta, Sao Salvador, Faial
Leal, Horta, Angustias, Faial
Vargas, Horta, Almoxarife, Faial
I, too, am searching for ancestors from Faial. One branch is, according to
information from my great-aunt, from Flamengos: family names Pereira (da) Rosa,
Silva, Fialho, Gonsalves.
The earliest dates I have are for Thomas Pereira Rose, b. 1833 in Flamengos,
Faial, d. 1929 in Fremont (Alvarado), CA. He married Maria Claudina Fialho in
Mission San Jose, CA, dau. of Joao Fialho and Maria Claudina. According to the
notes from my g-aunt: Thomas Rose came to San Francisco on a whaling ship &
jumped ship to go to the gold fields during the Gold Rush. He returned to the
Alvarado area and bought 17 acres from George Patterson with proceeds from his
gold panning. After a few years he paid passage for Maria Claudina Fialho to
come from the Azores to marry him. He did not know her personally, so in
essence she was a "mail-order bride." She stayed with relatives in Decoto
(Union City) and he gave her six months to decide if she wanted to marry him.
The property remained in the family until Thomas's daughter, Rita, sold it in
1958.
[Rita was the second child, born June 06, 1872, in Fremont (Alvarado), CA,
and died April 1967 in Fremont.] I do not (yet) have birth and death dates for
Thomas Pereira Rose, Jr., the oldest child. Thomas & Maria Claudina's third
child was my g-grandmother, Anna Eugenia Pereira Rose (b. April 22, 1878,
Fremont (Alvarado), CA; d. December 31, 1963, Fremont). Anna Eugenia married
Manuel Gonsalves da Silva on Dec. 30, 1893, in Fremont (Centerville), CA. I
have a picture of my g-grandparents & their 7 living children from c. 1939 (my
mother identified everyone in the picture for me); I knew my G-Grandma Silva,
though not well (I was 14 y.o. when she died).
Do any of these people sound familiar? For now, I am hypothesizing that Maria
Claudina Fialho came from Flamengos, Faial. I am not certain what village
Manuel Gonsalves da Silva was from, but he also was an immigrant from Faial,
possibly(?) Flamengos. Too bad I wasn't interested in family history when my
G-Grandma Silva was still alive. :-(
I am eagerly awaiting the time when the Faial records come on-line, though I
may be able to make a trip to Faial before that, given the slow pace of
digitizing and up-loading. |-O
Joan Jurancich
[email protected]
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