Dear Listers: I hope you can help Amy out, for I suggested she join our group. Just my opinion, but I've always found the rootsweb message boards (from whence she came) to be minimally helpful at best. Denis
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:43 AM, amy....@xtra.co.nz <amy....@xtra.co.nz>wrote: > Hi All, > > I am searching for information and I am hoping someone here may be > able to help me. > > My great great great grandfather came from Portugal. The region is > unknown at present but could be somewhere around the Porto district or > Azores region (this is second hand information from a relative). I > think he was born approx 1814 - 1822 (Although family think it could > be as late as 1836 but this doesn't match age on documents I have) and > left Portugal on a whaling ship in which he jumped off in Australia. I > think I have narrowed down the whaling ship to Jeannette which sailed > from New Bedford in 1842 and he was listed as a boy (what does this > mean?). He lived in Australia for a while then sailed on the Oliver > Lang to New Zealand where I believed he changed his name from Jose > Francisco de Simas to either Jose Leal de Simas or Jose Silva de > Simas. I believe the Silva to be his mothers maiden name. > > I am seeking any information about his life but particularly > information about his younger days. I dont have names for his parents > or an exact location of his birth but would love to find this > information out. > > Anyone out there that can help me : > > Thanks > Amy > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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."
