Whoohoo! mystery solved :^D Love it!-- truth is much better than lame speculation. Thanks!
Linda On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:41 AM, 'Marcio' via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > Blayer surname comes from the descendants of a Joseph Blayer, born St. > Martin in the Fields, London England and died in Velas, s. Jorge Jul 22 > 1747. He married Maria Faustiina da Silveira, born in Urzelina, s. Jorge. > Today there are descendants who carry this surname. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 30, 2016, at 2:07 PM, linda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/azores/6R5BC0jbE0E/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
