Hi Rodney

My maiden name is Andrade but mine came from Candelaria, Pico .... no help for 
you there. I keyed on the Brazil connection. Many of those records are online 
now on the FamilySearch.org site. You can view the actual records! I found my 
husband's grandfather there in the records of Rio de Janeiro (after searching 
films for years!). You might want to explore those records a bit to see if you 
can find a clue....
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, C...Church Records, 1616-1980Rio BonitoNossa Senhora da 
ConceiçãoÍndice de matrimônios 1769-1906
Kathy

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On Mar 03, 2014, at 02:06 PM, Rodney Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello everyone!  I'm hoping to get some advice on tracking down an ancestor.  I 
have a fifth great-grandfather who immigrated to Brazil sometime in the late 
1700s.  His name was Ignácio José de Andrade.  On one of his grandchildren's 
baptism records, it confirms that Ignácio was from the island of Santa Maria.  
Unfortunately, birth records of his direct children and his marriage record are 
not available (it appears that they were damaged).  So this is all I have to go 
on.  

His wife was born in Brazil and I estimate that they got married in the 1790s 
in Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.    

My best lead so far comes from an Inácio José Coelho de Andrade who arrived in 
Rio de Janeiro in 1784 from Santa Maria.  This is according to the book Relação 
dos imigrantes açorianos para os Estados do Brasil - vol. VII 
(http://www.bparah.azores.gov.pt/genealogias/belo-araimundo-rel+passaportes/arbelo-rel+emigrantes+brasil+pass1771-74-bihit+vol.VI%281948%29.pdf).
  

Is anyone familiar with the Andrade families of Santa Maria that could help me 
narrow down possible relatives?  Is it possible that Inácio José Coelho de 
Andrade and Ignácio José de Andrade are the same person.  Would the Coelho name 
have been dropped so easily?  It seems like such a small island, and the 
combination of Ignácio and the surname Andrade shouldn't bring up too many 
possibilities.  I'm willing to search all of them and rule them out (for 
example if they were still in Santa Maria in 1795).  

Any help would be appreciated.  I'm anxious to begin my search now that Santa 
Maria is online. 

Rodney

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