Just in case you care to know: Grou (Grouw) is also a town in Holland and there is also a town in the continent called Calha do Grou. I must say, as a surname, that is a new one for me :)) Hermano Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:19:40 -0800 From: jmro...@gmail.com To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Twin girls
The dictionary says its a bird, a crane. They adopted all sorts of nicknames, sometimes appropriate and obvious, but other times, who knows why. JR On Sunday, November 16, 2014 9:20:36 AM UTC-5, Herb wrote:Thanks Margaret and thanks to others who posted on this. I think this closes the mystery on my Maria Mello and my Gamboa/Grou ancestors. They were from Ponta Garca through Nordestinho I posted on this a few days ago and JR and Richard and Angela responded. Couldn't have done it without their insights and JRs encouragement and tenacity to keep searching. It's an unusual name Grou isn't it?. I'm not sure I have ever seen it. I wonder if it's Portuguese in origin? Herb On Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:45:03 AM UTC-5, Mara wrote:Herb, They were born 5 min apart on the 4th day February 1862 The margin note: Victoria passed away in this Parish yesterday. I can't make out the exact date but the year was 1938. Margaret Vicente On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Herb and Judi Silva <herba...@verizon.net> wrote: Starting on bottom left http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-ND-SAOJORGE-B-1860-1867/SMG-ND-SAOJORGE-B-1860-1867_item1/P79.html perhaps someone can make out what it says in the margin. These were twin girls but apparently born days apart. Did one of them die? This is fascinating to me as twins run in my family on mom's side. This is the line I was asking about a few days ago involving my ancestor Francisco Raposo Gamboa thanks Herb -- 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+un...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- Margaret M Vicente -- 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.
