John, I have been away for a month and am just catching up with reading all these Azores posts...so sorry this is late. I just wanted to tell you a few ideas that I had. I looked up your family in 1880 and saw that the Roderick next door had the initial of "I"...i had the idea to check the UPEC membership rolls for that name.....for Oakland, of which there are many pages:) Unfortunately I did not find a Roderick with that initial...in fact there were only two Rodericks at all in the membership rolls of the Oakland Councils.. There quite a few Rodrigues men, and I am sure your Roderick is an Americanization of Rodrigues....however, there was only one with the initial of I...Ingnacio A Rodrigues, who lived in East Oakand, was from Flores and his wife is the wrong name.....she as Emelia L, and listed as Amelia another year. Ignacio died April 29, 1913...there is a 30 written above the 29...so maybe he died the 30th? You might want to follow up on that death just to make sure there is no way he is connected to you. I really don't think he is, but he was from Flores. Another thought that I had is that when you say Mary married to Nichols.....maybe her husband, Joseph Silva changed his name to Nichols? That just occurred to me because on the 1880 Census he is listed as born in Portugal and I don't think he was born with the name of Nichols in Portugal....how you get Nichols from Silva, I don't know....but many of the Portuguese did strange things trying to Americanize their names. I had an great uncle by marriage that went from Soares to Swartz....kind of missed in trying to Americanize...I am sure people must have thought he was German. With the son Joseph....and the name Dyce.....wonder if that could have been an attempt to change Dias? Most Portuguese men carried two surames....as in Pereira Vargas in my family.....da Rosa Maciel also my family. My one grandfather was Jose Ignacio Maciel. On the first Census after he arrived he is listed as Joseph Enos...he Americanized his middle name. Then later Census records and what he came to always be known as was Joe Maciel...finally deciding to go by that name! Another in my family was Garcia in one Census and Goularte in another....again, trying to decide with name to go by. I am just pointing out that your Mary may not have been married as many times as you think...maybe they were just trying to figure out which name to use. Good luck!
Susan Vargas Murphy On Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:21:50 PM UTC-8, John Machado wrote: > > I have come to seek wisdom from the group. Recently, I have hit a wall > with one of my branches. The ancestor nearest me is Mary Agnes Silva > (married William Perry). She was born in Buffalo, NY Jan 24, 1868. Her > parents were Joseph Silva and Mary Roderick. I have no records of birth, > only the death cert to confirm. In 1869, I find the family in Oakland, > CA, with a new son named Joseph. Interestingly, Joseph’s name on the > internment records is Joseph Dyce. Also, his death cert is Joseph Dyce > with mothers maiden name as Mary Roderick. So that fits. Fast forward > to the 1880 Oakland, CA census she is now married to Joseph Nichols and > living next door to a family of Roderick’s. I have to assume it’s her > brother. Her mother was also living with the brother I believe. All are > buried at the same cemetery. All I believe are from the Azores. I would > like to find from where in the Azores. I have searched Ancestry at > nausea, Google, news archives, library of congress and so on. Anyone > have ideas or connections? I can’t find any info on Joseph Silva the > biological father. I assume only the birth record of Mary Agnes Silva > would include that info, but she was born in 1868 Buffalo, NY, hospital > unknown. Mary Roderick (Silva, Dyce, Nichols) died in Oakland in 1901. The > death was only recorded on ledger and gives simple info. Thanks for > reading… > > John Machado > -- -- 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." --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
