Thank you so much!! I needed another set of eyes to look at it... after a while, I was wondering if I was seeing things & the more I looked at it, the less sense it made...
Nivea On Monday, November 25, 2013 9:34:43 AM UTC-5, Isabella Baltar wrote: > > Nivea > > She was born on 20 Oct 1823. She was baptized on 29 Oct 1823. So you got > it right. > > The priest was writing the wrong year when he realized the mistake, so he > corrected it, this is the confusion you had, but your dates are correct. > > One godfather was the maternal uncle of the child: Thomas Francisco. > > The child also had a godmother from Angra do Heroismo, but for some reason > she wasnt' present at the church. Jorge [Pereira Cotta] had an > authorization [procuração] to represent her. I don't see her name on this > document. > > I think that these are the basics of the document. At a first reading, I > can't read well the last name of Jorge, I think is what I mention. Anyone > welcome to confirm or change. > > Isabella > > > > > On Sunday, November 24, 2013 10:13:04 PM UTC-5, Nivea wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I found the attached in the 1854 church baptism records from Porto Judeu >> Terceira. If I understand correctly, Getrudes is the legitimate daughter of >> Jose Caetano Pacheco & his wife Josefa Vitorina, natives of this parish of >> San Antonio of Porto Judeu where they were received. Born 20 of October of >> 1823 (there's some notations of the writer making a mistake, I guess they >> didn't cross out errors, they simply wrote "I meant to say") Baptized on 29 >> of the same month... and they everything gets confusing... I've been trying >> to decipher the general meaning of the rest of the record & what the names >> are & who they are but I haven't had much luck... I really don't need to >> know what every word is, just the gist of the record & if any of the names >> mean anything... >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated it... she is my paternal >> great-great grandmother... >> >> Thank you, >> Nivea >> > -- 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.
