I've made a really neat discovery and wanted to share! About a year ago, my cousins in Massachusetts found a woman who has the surname Remigio Pacheco. Her roots are in Brasil. But, in the 1890s a female ancestor went to Maia, Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel Island. A few decades later, her line went to Canada where she lives today.
We spent many months trying to sort out a connection from the descendants of Remigio Pacheco of Maia (son of Antonio Pacheco de Resendes and Anna Pacheco de Medeiros. Truth be told, I am skeptical of a connection on this line. Her ancestors were in Brasil for many generations well before 1700. Remigio Pacheco, the first in the line to have any form of that name, was born 2 Feb 1799. The Remigio Pacheco surname does appear in her line until about the 1870, but there doesn't seem to be any outside connection. I don't find anyone anywhere along her line coming from Maia to Brasil. We may still find a link, I'm just not sure where. At any rate, last weekend, I was given a photo from a cousin in MA that was her grandfather on the Pacheco Remigio line. Then, I was given a photo of the great grandparents of the woman in Canada. I couldn't help but notice that the two men resembled each other. The likeness was uncanny. I decided to follow the trail of the Canadian woman's ancestor Jose Jacintho de Medeiros (who married the Remigio Pacheco born in Brasil but migrated to Maia, RG around 1890). I found out that the two lines did not connect at Remigio Pacheco. They connect on the maternal line of Furtado! Their joint ancestors were Antonio Furtado (aka Antonio Furtado dos Santos) and Maria Joaquina Freitas. Antonio and Maria had at least two children: Francisca Julia da Conceicao, b. 11 May 1840 in Maia, who married Jacintho Pacheco Remigio (the ancestors of the Massachusetts line) and Jose Furtado (aka Jose Jacintho de Medeiros), b. 10 Mar 1839, who married Maria Emilia Remigio Pacheco of Brasil (the ancestor of the Canadian line). The two men in the photos I was shown turned out to be first cousins. No wonder they resembled each other so much! As with genealogy, they connect it is just not in the way that we expected. There is a double connection because Antonio Furtado remarried after his wife died to my great great grandfather, Jozimas de Braga's sister, Rosa. So, the web gets even more tangled! This is my first connection to Canada, though distant as it may be. -- 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.
