My Azorean relatives came from Flores and settled in Merced. Many of their neighbors were Azorean Portuguese farming alfalfa, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peaches, apricots, almonds and walnuts. My Grandmother's Lineage My ggf, Francisco Jorge/George, immigrated from the Azores (Flores) in 1889 and moved to the Merced area. He helped build the roads to Yosemite and brought gold down from the hills back to Merced. He then worked in various farmhand jobs, saving money to buy a farm in Merced (west of Merced, toward El Nido, a small farming community). In 1905 he brought his bride, Leopoldina Freitas (also from Flores), to California and married her in Fresno with her cousins in attendance. They sold the first farm and purchased their final farm of 40 acres off Franklin Road (north of Merced and bordering Atwater near where Castle AFB would eventually be) in the Buhach Colony. The Buhach Colony had a LARGE group of Portuguese farming families in the area. The local Catholic Church was in the Buhach Colony. That Catholic Church was where we went for the annual Pentecost celebration and sopas meal. The Buhach Colony surrounds Highway 99 from Franklin to Buhach Roads. My Grandfather's Lineage We do not have as much information about this side of the family with surnames of Enos, Silviera and Rodrigues, as my father met finally met his father as an adult. The Enos (my ggf) family were farmers and lived in the Buhach Colony too. His wife was Maria Silviera (my ggm)and I don't know much about them or exactly what island they came from. The Rodrigues side I haven't discovered much about as my ggf was Manuel Rodrigues (a very common name) and he died in the flu epidemic of 1917/18 right after my grandfather was born. Don't know how Manuel's family immigrated to California, but wonder if they came through Hawaii, as one of my uncles has strong Asian characteristics in his eyes. Debbie Rodrigues Wolgemuth
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:05:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Dias/ Silviera/ Henriques/ Fraga 1800 - present From: noblankt...@gmail.com To: azores@googlegroups.com John, Post what you have on the Central Valley folks. My mom's family settled from Modesto and Ceres down to Atwater, I've researched many families from that area, Eric Edgar On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:35 AM, john kracha <jkk...@gmail.com> wrote: It appears that ancestors originated in area of Cedres, Flores, Azores and settled in Central Valley of California. Mostly near Modesto. Since Cedros is relatively small, there is some historical connection still remaining. Can you help fill in? The google sites that I have researched do not identify paternal/ maternal lines. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
