Hi Doug,
For several years, as I have time, I try to help my husband's cousin with
his MEDEIROS / MIRANDA family-tree. (actually his father's cousin) He
is more interested in finding descendants of .. Philip and Mary (MIRANDA)
MEDEIROS, who reportedly had 8 children.
The 1900 US census for Cambridge, MA, has Mrs. Medeiros as a widow, and
having 6 children with her. The family migrated here in 1889, and the last
3 children were born here. It seems Mr. Medeiros died between 1895-1900,
as he fathered a child in 1895. In 1910, only the 2 youngest, as teens,
were with her, and I can't locate the older children.
One side note is that I looked on census pages early this morning, and there
were 4 other MEDEIROS families, almost in the same neighborhood, and
arriving around the same time, including: Joseph, b1869, Frank, b1857,
Victor, b1862. Mrs. Mary (MIRANDA) MEDEIROS was b1859. The problem is
that most of them just say born Portugal.
I'd like to help the cousin find his ancestry. Doug just mentioned that
many MEDEIROS came from Faial and Pico. But, as far as I know, the
cousin does not know where his Philip MEDEIROS, b~1855?, came from.
Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)
P.S.
About a month ago a very helpful researcher offered me information on my
husband's ancestors. He said Mrs. Filomena (da ROSA) MOURA came from
Horta, Faial, but her parents came from both Faial and Pico. She and
Francisco MOURA also married there, and was told their children were born
there. But, Francisco was from Ponta Degada, Sao Miguel.
By the way, the surviving children were: Manuel, Elzira "Elsie," Ernesto
"Frank," Rosa, and Carolina. (in that order) I read that Ernesto and
Anna MOURA went back to the Azores during 1950's; is it possible they died
there?
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