*My parents had a "Pen Pal" marriage. My father (Joao Vitorino Vasconcelos) immigrated from Flores in 1909 and joined two older brothers who were working as ranch hands on a ranch near Malta, Montana. Over the next 9 years, he moved first to Portland Oregon where he worked on a dairy farm which was located near the present day Portland Zoo and then a few years later he moved to work as a ranch hand for a Portuguese dairy farmer near Fresno California who turned out to be a distant cousin of the woman who he eventually married and became my mother.
When my father arrived at the Pimentel ranch in 1918, he met Jose Freitas, who had just immigrated from Flores. The were both from the same small Island of Flores, but met for the first time in rural Fresno County. They became fast friends and immediately decided to marry each other's sister (who were both still on Flores). My father started writing Jose's sister, Ana, and in about 1928 he returned to Flores, formally courted my mother and in 1929, they were married. By the time he returned to be married, he had saved his money and had bought a 45 acre dairy a few miles west of Fresno and had employed his new brother-in law. Jose. Jose wasn't so lucky, My father's sister Angelina had a mind of her own and in 1920 arrived in Fresno, already married. But in the end it all worked out. Jose (who never married) and his brother Francisco went into partnership with my Aunt Angelina and her husband Jose in the Granada Market in east Fresno. John Vasconcelos * On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Mary Bordi <geneal...@hununu.org> wrote: > 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. > > > -- -- 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.
