Pat Amaral also wrote the book on gravestones at St. John's Cemetery in New Bedford and I have this book. The records are also available online at findagrave.com
"E" On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:13 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > When I started working on the family history as a teen in the '70s, I > maintained for a while a lively correspondence with Pat Amaral, one of the > leaders in establishing Portuguese-American genealogy. I understand that > she passed away some years ago. > > Pat informed me that my g'g'grandfather Antonio Hurd / António da Terra > had served the Union during the Civil War, as a sailor in the Stone Fleet > (sometimes called the "Great Stone Fleet"). (For those not familiar with > this attempt to blockade Confederate harbors, here's an overview: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Fleet) > > I have combed through Union records (from during the period as well as > later records regarding veterans and pensioners) but found no mention of my > g'g'grandfather under any conceivable variant of his anglicized name or of > his original Portuguese name. I'm thinking that perhaps the sailors of the > Stone Fleet were never formally enlisted in the Union Navy... > > I have my side of my correspondence with Pat in storage in a different > city, but as I recall she didn't indicate what her source was. Does anyone > else here have an ancestor who (actually or allegedly) sailed with the > Stone Fleet, and thus has familiarity with the relevant sources? And/or > does anyone know what Pat did with her source materials collection -- i.e., > is it in a library somewhere, or otherwise accessible to researchers? > > She also insisted to me (again, iirc, without naming her source(s)) that > certain of my families were of known Converso descent, e.g., Silveira > Cardoso from Lajes do Pico. For this reason too I'd love to know whether > her source materials have been preserved and are accessible somewhere. > > Thanks in advance, > > David da Silva Cornell > Miami, FL > > Researching the following surnames: > > Faial - Terra (unknown freguesia(s)) > > Flores - Freitas, Lourenço, Coelho (unknown freguesia(s)) > > Pico - Silveira Cardoso, Macedo, Machado, Pereira Madruga, Ferreira, > Cardoso, Cardoso Machado, Vieira, Bettencourt, Dutra, Castanho, Homem, > Goulart, Quaresma, Moniz, Barreto, Silveira, Mancebo, Pereira, Álvares (all > Lajes do Pico) > > S. Jorge - Silva, Botelho, Azevedo, Cardoso (Urzelina); Silva, Azevedo, > Cardoso (Santo António in Norte Grande) > > > -- > For 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en. > > > -- For 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
