Nancy, I'd believe all islands were raided quite often. Even mainland Portugal was raided occasionally. I'd guess Flores and Corvo were more commonly raided, as they were more isolated and harder to defend. From a Shipwrecking book published by Francisco Gomes,I see that Flores and Corvo were attacked by pirates in 1536, 1537, 1549, 1567, 1587, 1590, 1592, 1609, 1616, 1632, 1635, 1644, 1654, 1719, 1770, 1818. Probably more, I wasn't reading all the entries. The one in 1719 was especially bad. They captured at least 3 of my wife's ancestors. Piracy was tolerated by every nation until about 1800. At that time, the US Congress decided not to pay the usual bribe to the Barbary pirates, started the US Navy and put it to good use in North Africa. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars
There's a PhD thesis in Portuguese with a list of rescued captives: http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/13440. The lists of captives rescued start at page 432, and besides the name of the person rescued, it also indicates their origin, age, and the numbers of years they were captive. Regards, João Ventura On Monday, September 30, 2013 10:19:32 PM UTC+2, nancy jean baptiste wrote: > > What are the years that most of this occurred and which islands were > most raided? > > Nancy Jean > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] <javascript:> > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > Subject: RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: FTDNA: Got Mozabite genes? > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:00:02 -0700 > > No doubt about that. A certain percentage of the expostos and single > mother's having kids must be from that circumstance. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: FTDNA: Got Mozabite genes? > From: João_Ventura <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Mon, September 30, 2013 10:53 am > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > > Or in a very unpleasant aspect of it, maybe one of his ancestors was raped > by one of the Barbary Pirates that paid regular visits to the Azores. > > João Carlos Ventura > > On Monday, September 30, 2013 3:08:30 PM UTC+2, Eileen Leite wrote: > > This dna testing is very interesting! My husband shows Mozabite genetic > markers. North African dessert people. We assume it entered his line during > the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, but are open to other ideas. > > Our children think this has a really high ‘cool’ factor, haha. > > We are wondering how common this is in the group, I’d guess pretty high? > > Eileen Leite > > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- 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.
