I'm working through the Achada marriages in the mid to late 1700. As I've been taking notes on all of them, I've been stricken by something. A good majority of the mothers are deceased by the time their children marry. I have made any determination of ages. But, I suspect many didn't make it into or past their 50s. The fathers did fare a little better.
Does anyone know if what I'm seeing during that century in Achada is the norm for the Azores? I know from other research that pregnancy and child birth took many women before the 1900. It didn't really seem to matter where the woman lived (my 2nd great grandmother died in San Francisco in the 1870 after complications of childbirth...and I can list other anecdotal examples). Anyway, it's just something that caught my eye. When you see them listed as deceased one after another it kind of catches you off guard. -- 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 [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
