In response to K Amaral's message-- Hello, Kate.
I am so excited! I won't have time until Friday to look with a discerning eye at the information you've provided on Jose to determine if they are in fact the same person, but I've been trying for a very long to time to locate information on Jose here in the States and haven't come up with much information. If he returned to the Azores, that would make a lot of sense. Here are a few things that come to me off the top of my head. Feliciano and his twin Jose or Joao (we always heard Jose, but the baptismal record recorded Joao) were born 2 June 1892 to Mariana Rosa. We have found birth/baptismal records confirming this date. What we learned from that record was that the father was listed as Manuel de Sousa da Silva, but that he and Mariana were not married. I've wondered if Manuel had a family with a wife and now wonder if he might have had two sons named Jose. That being said, it does seem like everyone ever born in the Azores was named one of five names, and there are likely several thousand Jose de Sousa da Silva's born that year! I would love to find out if we are, in fact, related distantly. Bear with me until Friday evening and then I will dig deep and see what else I can turn up. Thanks so much for posting in reply to my message. Laura On Friday, April 13, 2012 2:37:53 PM UTC-4, Laura Share wrote: > > Hello! I am new to the board and am really hoping that someone out > there can give me a hand with a roadblock on a line of Sylva/Silva/ > Sylvias from Santa Cruz, Graciosa. > > We have traced an ancestor, Feliciano Sousa Silva, his wife Ermelinda > (born Pacheco) and his twin brother Jose Sousa Silva, arriving in > Providence, RI on the Roma on November 29, 1915, and are looking for > any information anyone might have for Feliciano and Jose's parents as > well as Ermelinda's. We believe Feliciano's mother and father are > listed on the passenger manifest as Manuel Sousa Silva and Bariana (?) > Rosa. Their last permanent residence was listed as Santa Cruz, > Graciosa. > > Feliciano and Jose were born 2 June 1892 and there is conflicting > information in the family regarding where--perhaps Italy? Ermelinda > Pacheco was born about 1897 and we have no other information. > > Feliciano and Ermelinda had 2 daughters: Mary and Albina. Mary Sylvia > married Edmund Espinola. They lived in the Plainfield, CT area. They > had a daughter Ermelinda. > > We are also looking for help with Edmund Espinola's family. Marcelino > Jose(ph) Espinola born 26 Sept. 1984 in the Azores (no more > information than that) and Rose Souza de Mello, born 15 Oct 1892 in > Portugal. We They married in 1916 in MA. They had children Edmund, > Rose and Jose. > > Any help 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."
