Interesting that your contact is Christine Macedo her uncle and I believe either cousins or brothers are my family finder matches and her Macedo line traces to Candelaria, Pico.
On Monday, October 27, 2014 10:32:42 AM UTC-7, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Repost for Christine Macedo Lee, gandclee at bigpond.com > > Most of the Azores Emigrants in the 1800s came to Australia looking for > gold and went to the goldfield in Victoria or Kalgoolie in Western > Australia. There are lists of the people who came to the goldfields and I > can find them but it will take a while I.m leaving in a 1 hour to go for a > week’s break. When I get back I can find if the local family history Centre > on the Gold Coast has copies of the lists, they have an extensive micro > fiche library. My great grandfather Jose de Andrade de Macedo came to > Australia about 1860 and might have come on the Waterlily . I will have to > look up my Argentinian Aunts letters when I get back. The gold rushes were > almost finishing by the time my g grandfather got here and then he went on > to New Zealand. He married in N.Z then went to Argentina leaving his son in > N.Z. hence I was born in N.Z. but now live in Aus. I know from my aunt > that we have relatives in Sao Miguel but haven’t had time to research it. > There are certainly a number of Sousas in the family. I’ll be in touch when > I get back and if someone else hasn’t helped you I’ll see what i can find > out for you. > > Christine Macedo > -- 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.
