In the marriage register of Manuel Medeiros and Maria Pimentel seems that the Manuel father's name is Gonsalo de Medeiros ?
*http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779_item1/P211.html <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fculturacores.azores.gov.pt%2Fbiblioteca_digital%2FSMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779%2FSMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779_item1%2FP211.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFneHz_myjtBd5DmaFX-5FbwcIkUA>* Domingo, 26 de Janeiro de 2014 20:46:49 UTC-5, Richard Francis Pimentel escreveu: > > *Correction made third link.* > > > > *Hi All,* > > > > *Just want to share this genealogy sleuthing and dealing with damaged > records. * > > > > *I have been working with a line that has ended in Bretanha. What I have > noticed there are a number of woman named Maria de Benevides so I have to > be careful in determining which Maria is which. What makes this challenging > is the fact that the records from Bretanha on line begin in 1703. * > > > > *http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779_item1/P191.html > > <http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779_item1/P191.html> > > Record bottom left. This first record I want to highlight is a marriage on > 16 May 1707 of Miguel de Oliveira widow of Maria Benevides and Margarida de > Pimentel daughter of Tome Furtado and Lucia de Carvalho. The only person > deceased here is Maria Benevides.* > > > > > > *http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779_item1/P211.html > > <http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-C-1703-1779_item1/P211.html> > > Record on left In this record of 6 Mar 1716 is the marriage of Manuel de > Medeiros son of Joseph de Medeiros and Maria Benevedes and Maria de > Pimentel daughter of Tome Furtado and Lucia Carvalho. I would note that > there is no indication that any party is deceased.* > > > > *Because Maria de Pimentel is the sister of Margarida de Pimentel an > assumption could be made that the Maria Benevides in both records was the > same person due to family connections which the assumption that Manuel de > Madeiros was the step son of Miguel de Oliveira and his first wife Maria > Benevides. The confusion is ended with the next record.* > > > > *http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-O-1713-1778/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-O-1713-1778_item1/P10.html > > <http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-O-1713-1778/SMG-PD-AJUDABRETANHA-O-1713-1778_item1/P10.html> > > Record upper left In this record of 27 (Oct ?) 1718 which is partially > unreadable. At the end of the third line is the first name of the deceased > “Joseph” on the following line is mulher Maria Benevides. What is important > is what is missing. And that is the last name of Joseph although a safe > assumption is that it is Medeiros. It seems the format at the time for a > partner in marriage was to use one word between the names. If the spouse > was deceased then the word viuvo/viuva would be used. If the spouse was > still alive then the word mulher/marido is used. On this record the word > “mulher is used indicating that Maria Benevides was still alive and could > not be the first wife of Miguel de Oliveira.* > > > > *If I looked further I may be able to find the death of Maria Benevides > viuvo of Joseph de Medeiros but as you see the records from NS Ajuda > Bretanha in this time frame are torture trying to read. The worse book is > the marriages 1703-1779 which was rebound without making any attempt to put > the pages together in order. Looking at 200+ pages for a record on a > particular date is very time consuming. I found one record that was on the > bottom of a page and somewhere else hopefully is the other half of the > record. At least this record was not important to me at this time.* > > > > *What I have determined from all this is that I have two separate Maria de > Benevedes in my Tree. One died before 16 May 1707 and the other died after > 27 Oct 1718. * > > > > > > > > *Rick* > > > > *Richard Francis Pimentel* > > *Spring, TX* > > > > > -- 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.
