There are many Airoso from the Azores on Ancestry. Here is one: Alvaro Machado Airoso, b. 3/12/1897, Dos Riberos, Azores. I think they listed 699 but there are quite a few duplicates and there are a few family trees and some pictures. There are also quite a few on FamilySearch.
"E" On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:22 PM, rcapodc <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug, > > Do you know anyone by the name of Airoso in Sac? When I went to teach a > Portuguese Genealogy class for Merced Gen. Soc. there was a lady there and > her family name was Airoso and her people was from Sacramento. I didn’t > think that it could have been that name having never heard of it before. > I’m curious about the origin. > > Rosemarie > > *From:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Friday, August 30, 2013 3:59 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* Isabella Baltar <[email protected]> > *Subject:* RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Gonçalves_ancestors - Terceira > > Hi Isabella, > > Yea, that's the line. > > I need to look more carefully for a connection between us. The one I > described leads to that interesting surname of Airoso, but I am only > speculating on your link back to about the year 1500. > > And I don't know your most recent Terceira ancestors, so can't really say > what our closest link might be. > You did once mention your Drummond line, but I don't know the parents of > Teresa Lopes, who might not both be from Terceira, since she was from Rio. > That is the only blank area that might have a line that is closer than the > others. > > I don't have enough research completed on all your lines - most are into > the middle 1700s and though I might have their ancestors, I don't know the > links between them. And I also see Adriana Drummond's mother, Maria > Teodora, I don't know about her yet. Again, there could be a link there. > > In summary, there are many holes and I can't yet answer you. > But like Airoso above, we also have another theoretical connection from > the name Leonardes. The same Pacheco line also goes back to the Leonardes > family and that ultimately leads to one of the original settlers of > Terceira during the time of Jacome de Bruges in 1451. His name was Joao > Leonardes, of Flanders, I believe (off the top of my head), born in an > estimated 1405 (I just checked that one). He was one of the four named > Joao. > > I have Goncalves Leonardo in Sao Bento, and just about everyone who has > Sao Bento and Ribeirinha (next door) ancestry has this same Goncalves > Leonardo line. There was a huge court battle between descendants of this > family who had property (lots of property) in Sao Sebastiao, and I don't > know enough details, but from this court battle we learned a lot more about > the descendants. They include the Lopes Cabaco family. > > From my notes, here is a quote from the book by your ancestor: > > "Anais da Ilha Terceira" volume I, by > Francisco Ferreira Drummond, (reprinted in 1981 from the original 1850 > edition), it says on pg.39: > > "Pelo mesmo tempo se estabeleceu no Arrabalde da villa de S. Sebastião o > referido João Leonardes, casado com Catharina Dias, de quem teve muitos > filhos, e parece tomou ali a sua primeira data nas immediações do Pico da > Mina, á Ribeira Sêcca." > > And looking more, I see you have an Aguiar family which must connect to my > own Aguiar line, since it's the original line for all named Aguiar in > Terceira, presumably. > > I see a LUCAS surname from Altares that probably connects to my Lucas from > Altares another generation or two back (into the middle 1500s). > > That's about it, pending more info on the blanks I need to fill. > > Atenciosamente, > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy]_Re:_Gonçalves_ancestors_-_Tercei ra > From: Isabella Baltar <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, August 30, 2013 11:14 am > To: [email protected] > Cc: Isabella Baltar <[email protected]> > > Hi Doug, > > I just checked my genealogy software and found my Pacheco line. I have > Francisco Vieira Pacheco married to Anna Maria (both my 5th great > grandfather/mother), they were parents of Roza Ignacia Vieira, who married > Vicente Jacques de Oliveira (both my 4th great grandfather/mother). > > I haven't research back on this line, maybe that's why I couldn't find my > Gonçalves. > > Right now I have been doing research mainly on my mtDNA ancestry, but this > doesn't mean I'm not interested on them, I just don't have enough time to > research. > > So do we have a connection? > > Isabella Baltar myportuguesegen.blogspot.com > > On Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:26:59 PM UTC-4, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote: >> >> Hi Isabella, >> >> Gonçalves is so common throughout every freguesia in every island, I am >> surprised it hasn't appeared in your tree yet. I must have 50 ancestors >> named Gonçalves from every ancestral line. >> >> You say somewhere on your website about an ancestor from Cabo da Praia >> and so I just looked at the tree for that ancestor and I find you do have >> Gonçalves. As I say, it would be surprising not to. >> >> But maybe you didn't find your way back far enough and haven't yet >> reached your ancestor named Manuel Gonçalves who married Catarina. Find >> them through your Pacheco line. >> >> And that same line has a very interesting connection to a family that is >> also mine and would make us very remotely related through the surname >> AIROSO. >> >> My oldest AIROSO ancestor was born maybe about 1537. I have a guess that >> your Airoso link might be from about another generation back - maybe 1500. >> >> So when you get back to that line, you can investigate that more. >> >> Atenciosamente, >> >> Doug da Rocha Holmes >> Sacramento, California >> Pico & Terceira Genealogist >> 916-550-1618 >> www.dholmes.com >> >> >> > -- > 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. 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