We don't know how my great grandmother got here. I've looked and looked. She did have a brother who may or may not have come with her. She was 18 and her passage was paid by the man who became my grandfather. We don't think they had met in the Azores because they were from different areas of Sao Jorge and she was only a year old when he left.
Two of her older sisters were already here (California) and had married two brothers. I can't find their marriages or how they got here, but from census information they married here and may have been "sent for" also. Great grandmother was very seasick on the voyage and always said she came around the horn. She was quite melodramatic, so it could be that it only felt like it. The "mail order" marriages seemed to work. Mary On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Mike <mgilfilia...@gmail.com> wrote: > When it comes to women leaving the Azores to come to the USA, is there any > typical situation that would bring them over? coming with parents? coming > with husband? would they have traveled over with an older or younger brother? > Would she have traveled over alone if another family member already here? > I'm trying to find a clue to connect my great aunt Francisca to my great > grandfather Jose to maybe narrow down some of the search results for > traveling into the USA > Mike > > -- > -- > 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." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
