Hello Pam,
What I've been able to find so far is that the family was living at 248
Mapleton Street, Cranston, RI for the good part of the 1940's. There are 7
articles in the Diario de Noticias online paper, all about birthday's being
celebrated. In each the names "Manuel Simões e de sua esposa senhora Maria
C. Simões" = Manuel Simoes & his wife Maria C. Simoes are mentioned.
There were two other sisters that I found, Jennie (Simoes) Gomes was also
living in Rhode Island. Jennie passed away in June of 1989. This is a
partial obit posted in the Providence Journal on June 23, 1989. It's one of
those pay-per-view sites. I tried finding it at Genealogybank but didn't
have any luck.
Jennie Gomes Was founder, owner of Norwood Cash Market
Providence Journal - Providence, R.I.
Date: Jun 23, 1989
Start Page: B-02
Section: NEWS
Text Word Count: 172
Abstract (Document Summary)
WARWICK --- Jennie Gomes, 81, formerly of 38 Evergreen Ave., died Wednesday
at the Greenwood House Nursing home, where she was a resident.
She leaves two sons, Edward Gomes of Coventry and Belmiro Gomes of
Fitchburg, Mass.; four daughters, Laura DeCosta of Warwick, Hilda Pizzuti of
Scituate, Mary Sirois of West Hartford, Conn., and Dorothy Rodriguez of
Cranston; a brother, Salvatore Simoes of New Hampshire; three sisters, Maria
Martins, Stella Lamarre and Irene Hurley, all of Cranston; ...
I also found an obit for a Maria (Simoes) Martin at Genealogybank: No
mention of the other siblings but they all had passed so that's most likely
the reason for not mentioning them.
Maria Martins: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Day, The (New London, CT) - August 28, 2004
Deceased Name: Maria Martins
Cranston, R.I. - Maria Sofia Simoes Martins, 92, of Cranston, R.I., died
Friday, Aug. 27, 2004.
Sofia, daughter of the late Manuel and Maria Cristina Costa Simoes was born
in Sao Joao do Peso, Portugal, Aug. 26, 1912 and immigrated to America in
1918. (This say's 1918 but I did find an immigration record for 1913 with a
Cristina Simoes & others going to Manuel Simoes living at 119 Columbia
Street, Fall River). There are other children that came with them. ??? Same
family...unsure at this moment but a lot of similarities.
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=ang
s-c&gsfn=Maria&gsln=Simoes&msbdy=1912&msbpn__ftp=Portugal&msrpn__ftp=RI&cpxt
=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=yh2&cp=0&mssns0=Martins&pcat=40&h=5015258&recoff=7+9+
36&db=miscatlanticpl&indiv=1
She was predeceased by her husband, Joao Martins and a daughter, Dorothy
Courville. (Dorothy was born October 24, 1932 & died March 1978 in Warwick,
RI.
Sofia is survived by her two sons, John Martins, Jr. and his wife, Estella
of East Lyme and Raymond Martins and his wife Linda of Sandy Hook, Conn.;
and nine grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
Viewing will be on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004, from 4 to7 p.m. at the Nardlillo
Funeral Home, 1278 Park Ave, Cranston, R.I. The funeral procession will form
at 8 a.m. Monday, Aug. 30, 2004.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Home and Hospice Care of Rhode
Island, 169 George St., Pawtucket RI 02860.
HURLEY, IRENE J was born 2 December 1929 and registered to vote in CRANSTON,
RHODE ISLAND. Her husband Vincent E. Hurley (abt 1929).
I hope some of this helps!
Michelle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam McLeod" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 9:54 PM
Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] new to group, researching Simoes and Bento of
MA/RI areas
Hello everyone,
I am new and found this group after some dead ends on Ancestry.com. My
husband's father was Salvador Simoes, who we believe was born in Fall River,
MA about 1926. He died in 1996 after a 30-year estrangement from his sons,
and he lived only an hour from us at the time ... very sad story. His
grandmother was Maria Bento Simoes, and his grandfather was Manuel Simoes. I
am finding some records, but nothing matches up exactly. We believe that
both may have been from Sao Miguel, and that they lived in the Fall River /
New Bedford / Cranston RI areas. Both died in Cranston. A Manuel Simoes
immigrated in 1913, listing a wife 'Maria'; and a Maria Simoes immigrated in
1916 and there was an older man named Bento on the same ship as Maria, all
from Sao Miguel.
Salvador served in WWII, but outside of his later years in New Hampshire, we
cannot find any record of him, linking him to the various Manual/Maria
Simoes combinations. His sisters were Irene Hurley (Cranston, RI) and Stella
Lamarre, and there may be brothers we are not aware of.
First, I want to ask if there is a place we can visit in the New Bedford or
RI areas to get some help with Portuguese records?
Secondly, any thoughts about why Salvador does not seem to exist in records
from 1926 until much, much later in his life?
Thank you!
Pam
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