They wrote "mais ou menos" nearly 100% of the time, so I don't see it as a case where the priest didn't care.
You can also look at that in another way - it might be how the priest viewed their condition or how old they looked. If someone who was really 85 was estimated to be 70yrs or so, then that might be a good thing!
Often a woman can be estimated to be much older than she really was. To me, that makes me think she really had a hard life and looked 20 years older than she really was.
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Ribeira Grande Records
From: Antonio Roque <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, April 02, 2014 3:42 am
To: [email protected]
When a priest would write "' mais ou menos "' in a death certificate was to me a very NOT caring kind of priest or was he too busy to ask a family member as to when the person was born and then correctly make the correct age notation? One thing for sure they did not dream that hundred years later they would be scrutinized for these mistakes by people looking for their ancestors.
On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 6:25:14 AM UTC-4, Eliseu Pacheco da Silva wrote:Hi!I just sent you the first one i found in the book order. I have read some more josé s being raised by the paid couples… it is very hard to determine who is who… One could be suspicious about the “father”… but I do not think. The “father” is the same at other “adoptions”. He was the bell man of the church (sineiro)… I looked at the other josé s and the bell man was always the godfather…As to to age being wrong it was a very common thing those days. That is why you can read in the “assentos” the sentence “pouco mais ou menos” (more or less). It means a person had 50 years more or less (one more one less who cares at those days?!
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