Huh! That's interesting. I just did a quick search through the Terceira Marriage Index for "bali" and "bale" and the names that came up were "Baliero/a", "Baleeiro/a" and Balencio.
In the baptismal records, I still see "Bal---", but the Obits definitely look like "Blaer"! TOTAL SPECULATION :) The same priest recorded the obits and the first baptism; a second priest recorded the second two baptisms. I wonder if it was an unusual name for Velas/Sao Jorge, and if the priests were spelling it phonetically how they heard the parishioners pronounce it? It's not a very common name in the Terceira-- and seems to be mostly concentrated in the 1600's in a few locations-- and didn't show up at all in the Flores Index. Perhaps as Lisa goes back along that line she'll find an ancestor who moved from Terceira to Velas; one or two of mine moved the other way, from Velas to Terceira. I wonder if her ancestors were whalers or if the name comes from some thing/where else? fascinating stuff! thanks Bill and Lisa! Linda On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 12:13:24 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > In the 1867 baptism of Maria, I think the Maternal grandfather's name > looks to me like Antonio Jose Baliel. I had never seen this name "Baliel" > before, but on Ancestry it does show some immigrant passengers from Faial > to Boston in the early 1800s so the name did exist in the Azores. The other > two records though the name looks more like "Blair", a common name but not > a Portuguese name so I'm not sure what to make of that. I do agree with > Linda though that they are likely the same person. > > Another thing I found interesting is that the last two baptisms were on > the same day, but the priest only said "ja defunctos" for the last. I > found Maria Joesfa in Nov 1872 > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SJR-VL-VELAS-O-1871-1880/SJR-VL-VELAS-O-1871-1880_item1/P23.html; > > It says she is the widow of what looks like Antonio Jose Blair (or Blaer), > just like on the 1873 baptisms. I found Antonio Jose's in December 1870 > here: > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SJR-VL-VELAS-O-1860-1870/SJR-VL-VELAS-O-1860-1870_item1/P163.html > and > the name appears to be Blair or Blaer here also. > > The priest may have made a mistake on the 1873 baptism by writing Marianna > Luiza instead of Marianna Josefa; or Marianna Luiza started using the name > Josefa instead of Luiza. > > Bill Seidler > > > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
