Hi mnk, Your scenario is certainly possible, but I still argue for two different women named "Florença" here.
See point 1, where I mention that that same priest _before_ and _after_ 1806 never referred to "our" Florença as a slave, but that same priest did refer to the "mulata" Florença as a slave (note that I actually didn't check if it was the same priest, but it's certainly the same parish within a 20-year span. Maybe the 1806 priest was different from the one 10 years before and the one 10 years later.) Also see point 4, where I do say "usually". I grant you that eventually they did marry, but what occurred in most cases was that they would be house servants to some 'richer' society element. Normally, they would share the bed with someone in the house, and their offspring would have 'pai incognito'. That occurred to both these Florenças. In the case of the slave, I'd bet the father of Cláudia was the slave owner. I've searched the Flores marriage book for the marriage of a Cláudia, daughter of Florença, but I never found it. João Ventura http://tombo.pt/en On Friday, 26 September 2014 14:06:28 UTC+2, mnk wrote: > > I just want to say that I have seen a marriage of a slave to a free > person. I can't remember what village I was searching when I saw it, but it > was possibly Ginetes. I just remember because I had never seen that before. > Maybe the priest in your case was progressive or anti-slavery so he did > not mention race or status of the women. > MNK -- 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.
