Here's a baptism in Matriz. Faial for a daughter of D. Rosa Morrison d'Oliveira
http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FAL-HT-MATRIZ-B-1875-1883/FAL-HT-MATRIZ-B-1875-1883_item1/P279.html <http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FAL-HT-MATRIZ-B-1875-1883/FAL-HT-MATRIZ-B-1875-1883_item1/P279.html> Eric Edgar On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:05 PM, linda <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eliseu and Angela, > > Thank you both so much for your replies. It looks like the Morisson > family was quite mobile, moving readily among the islands. I'll look up > some of those birth and marriage records this evening. > > Luis Antonio da Costa Morisson would have been 48 years old when my 4xGGPs > married. My 4xGGF was likely somewhere between 23 to 33, and his father > was already dead. I can speculate that there might have been a business > friendship between them. > > I found mention of "Morisson & Companhia" in a list of Casas Exportadoras > de Fructa em Ponta Delgada published in 1864, fifty years after my > ancestors were married. So, at least a faction of the Morisson family was > engaged in international mercantile trade to/from the islands-- albeit much > later in time. > > Thanks so much! I'm going to file these bits of information together with > that section of the family, and keep my eyes open for more clues. > > :^D > > > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
