Thanks, Rosemarie. It is reading the recent "finds" shared on this list that gave me the courage to reopen the elusive Maria Cristo door. I have some information that was provided by some of the researchers that helped me and live in RI and MA. I put together a timeline of sorts and am putting a copy here. There may be someone who matches a name that those researchers found. This may give some novice researchers some leads of where to look if they have ancestors from the US East Coast.Celeste Perry [email protected]
On Saturday, October 31, 2015 2:26 PM, Rosemarie Capodicci
<[email protected]> wrote:
Boy Celeste, you are such a great researcher! I know that you have been
looking for Maria Cristo for years (I still have your info on my desktop!) I
hope that someone out there has her in their database and is wondering where
she came from! Good Luck and continue your search. As you are aware, if you
have been watching the list, Dave W. finally found his birth mother's family
just this week! So, continue and hope that the info will come to light soon.
Rosemarie [email protected] Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and
Pico, Azores,Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 1:31 PM, 'celeste perry' via Azores Genealogy
<[email protected]> wrote:
It has been a long time sinceI tried to find documentation for the birth of my
husband, Robert Edward Perry’s,paternal grandmother. I call her the,
“elusiveMaria Cristo.” I began my search in2001. At that time, there were
limitedresources on line so I contacted relatives and researchers I found
living in RhodeIsland and MA. The oral history I haddid not go very far back
in time until I found a great-grandson of her brother,Jose. That helped some
since I then knewthe village in Sao Miguel where the family lived before
Seraphine, her brother,immigrated to RI. I have been able tocollect
information about the lives of those of her family that immigratedfollowed
Seraphine to RI from the census and marriage reords. In 2007, I visited Lomba
daSanta Barbara and found that all the church records I needed were in
thearchives in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel. Ispent a week going through the
church records looking for my “elusive MariaCristo.” Maria Cristo’s parents
hadnames that were not very common so the task was easier than it may havebeen.
Joao de Morais (several spellings)and Jacinta Libianna (several variations of
spellings) were not as hard as somenames to pick out in the records. Ifound
Maria Cristo had several siblings and I recorded all of them. I had been told
by herdaughter, Mary Cruz, that Maria Cristo was 5 years old when her
fatherdied. I looked in all the records up to thetime of his death. Found
nothing. In 2009, I returned to SaoMiguel thinking maybe Maria Cristo had been
raised by this family and was notbiologically related. Or that she wasthe
daughter of an older sibling that was not married and raised by her
grandparents. I found that 3 of the older siblingshad died young so I ruled
them out. ThenI thought the family may have been visiting one of the villages
surroundingLomba da Santa Barbara when she was born and was baptized in a
village that wasnear Lomba da Santa Barbara. I looked atall the villages that
abutted Lomba da Santa Barbara and could find neither aMaria born to her
parents or to them listed as grandparents to a Maria. So….I left Sao Miguel
withthe mystery unsolved. As I worked moreand more on the other 7 Portuguese
immigrant family for me and my husband, Ileft Maria Cristo waiting for me to
take up the search. I have been following theAzores list daily, with my eye
on anyone mentioning a Maria born in Sao Miguelwho could have a connection to
my “elusive Maria Cristo.” None has shown up YET. Any suggestions or help is
appreciated.
Celeste Perry [email protected]
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