Hi,
I have located a marriage record and am having a little uncertainty with the translation. I can pick out the names as follows: Date of Marriage: 10 January 1724 Groom: Alexandre Ferreira, son of Manuel Ferreira and his wife, Catharina Garcia. Bride: Madalena Furtada, daughter of Manuel Goularte and Maria Furtada. The record is at http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-C-171 8-1752/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-C-1718-1752_item1/P13.html and is the only full record on the right page. Is there any information in the record about the ages of the parents? The reason I am trying to locate that information is that in the NEPS database, Alexandre and Madalena are shown as the parents of Francisca, but with birthdates in 1668 and 1666, respectively and with a different set of parents for both. (Alexandre, http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/geneweb/gwd.exe?b=FETEIRA;lang=en;p=alexandrre; n=ferreira and Madalena, http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/geneweb/gwd.exe?b=FETEIRA;lang=en;p=madalena;n= furtado;oc=1.) It doesn't sound likely that the NEPS information is correct as they would be 56 and 58 years old at the time of the marriage and 61 and 63 at the birth of the last child. There are no baptism records for the period from 1692 to 1705 for Candelaria on the CCA site. Is it possible the records are somewhere else or just haven't been uploaded yet. I have also located birth records for three children of what appears to be the same couple, the children being: Bartolomeu, born 20 August 1724, http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-B -1721-1733/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-B-1721-1733_item1/P29.html, top entry on the right page. Francisca, born 7 November 1726, http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-B -1721-1733/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-B-1721-1733_item1/P43.htm <http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA- B-1721-1733/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-B-1721-1733_item1/P43.html> l, third entry on right page. I believe that she is my 5th great-grandmother. Francisco, born 4 March 1729, http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-B -1721-1733/PIC-MD-CANDELARIA-B-1721-1733_item1/P60.html, second entry on the right page. The children's birthdates are consistent with the marriage date. Any help would be appreciated. Diane George -- 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.
