Well, I have a couple of suggestions. You may have to the nearby villages, such as Ribeira das Tainhas and Agua de Pau, Agua de Alto. They are adjacent to Vila Franca. Have you checked that Manuel da Costa may go by another name. Filomena is much rarer in pre-1900's, but sometimes may actually be Maria Filomena.
In the period between about 1860 forward, grandparents were listed in marriages and baptisms. What do those documents say? JR On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 9:28:47 AM UTC-4, Joseph Costa wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I'm loving the new indices that Matriz, VFDC uploaded for births, > marriages and deaths! > > Along those lines, I've been searching for the marriage record of my 2nd > great grandparents, Manuel da Costa and Filomena da Conceicao (also known > as Filomena Augusta). According to the birth record of their son Jose > (first born of that name) from December 1864 at Matriz VFDC, the two of > them were natives of Matriz and were married there (it says that). I also > have the birth records of their twin daughters, Maria and Jacinta from > 1869. > > I have searched high and low for their marriage record at Matriz before > the indices came out. Now that the indices have been uploaded their > marriage doesn't appear in it at all for any year. There is a Manuel da > Costa and Filomena da Conceicao in the 1890's, but it can't be them. I > also searched Sao Pedro.....no luck there either. > > Any thoughts on how I should approach this? Is it possible that it was > just a civil ceremony? Wouldn't that have been frowned upon back then? > -- 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.
