You have it right. When you can't read the names look for a corrobnorating record and then you know it is style of the priest that is difficult to read.
April 26, 1750, Thomas Caetano Pachequo filho de Antonio da Costa Homem e Maria Pimentel com Maria Francisca Coelha de Mendonca filha de Manuel do Mello VasConcellos e de Maria Francisca Coelha de Mendonca naturaes desta sobre dita Matriz de Sao Jorge dondos os cantrahentes forao baptizados Oct 9, 1720, Joao Pachequo do VasConcellos filho de Simao de Souza VasConcellos ja defunto e Maria Carreiro Leitao com Maria Francisca Coeilha de Mendonsa filha de Alferes Manuel Furtado Leite e sua mulher Victoria Theixeira todos natural desta Matriz On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:54:04 AM UTC-5, Rodney Figueiredo wrote: > > I need help with a couple of names on two records. They belong to 5th > great-grandmother, her parents, and her grandparents. Her name was Maria > Francisca de Mello and she was married in São Jorge, Nordeste, São Miguel > on April 26, 1750 to Thomas Caetano Pacheco (see left page): > : > > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-ND-SAOJORGE-C-1744-1755/SMG-ND-SAOJORGE-C-1744-1755_item1/P43.html > > On this record, I'm having a hard time reading her parents' names. To me, > they look like João de Mello de Vasconcellos & Maria Francisca Coelha de > Mendonça (not sure about Vasconcellos - looks more like "Dos Concellos", > but this could be the handwriting). > > I went ahead and looked for her parents' marriage record using this > information and think I found it from October 9, 1720 (left paget) in the > same parish: > > > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-ND-SAOJORGE-C-1707-1743/SMG-ND-SAOJORGE-C-1707-1743_item1/P53.html > > However, the writing on this last one is hard to read. I can tell the > groom's name is João and it kind of looks like Mello after that, but the > words "por palavra" from the previous line is overlapping the word which I > think is Mello. Then there's the Vasconcellos name...which may be > abbreviated here. Looks like Vazlos. His father's name looks like Simão > de Souza de Vazlos and mother Maria Cardoza? > > The bride's name is much more reassuring and looks a lot like Maria > Francisca Coelha de Mendonça from the previous record. It looks like she's > the daughter of Manoel Furtado (or is it Felizardo?) Leite, but I cannot > make out the mother's name. I also can't tell where they're from. Same > parish? > > I know it's a lot of questions, but I really would appreciate a second > (and third) set of eyes on these two records. It would really help my > research. I can't believe I started researching in Villa Franca do Campo > and got taken back to Nordeste. This family certainly seems to move > around. > > Thanks! > > -- 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
