THANK YOU! I think that I may have hit upon the area that she is from, because on the very next page, I found another Maria with a Maciel surname.
Maybe cousins? Now to figure out which one is my GGGM, if either? http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PIC-LJ-PIEDADE-B-1865-1874/PIC-LJ-PIEDADE-B-1865-1874_item1/P39.html # 58 top right 14 lines down, the name Maciel The name Manuel Ferreira Leal is also in the tree of someone who I match on GEDmatch On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 11:08:29 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Susan, > > Baptism is in Dec. Birth is in November. Looks like the 17th but word is > sinking into the page bend. Looks like dezasete but the "sete" is > questionable. > > Gayle > > > > On Sep 6, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Susan Schoen <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Maria Theresa Maciel is my father's maternal grandmother. I match many > people via GEDmatch on her line, but since I do not he the names of either > of her parents, it's hard for me to untangle who she might be connected to. > > Can someone please help me translate # 53 on the bottom left? > > > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PIC-LJ-PIEDADE-B-1865-1874/PIC-LJ-PIEDADE-B-1865-1874_item1/P38.html > > I can recognise the name *Maciel* on the 7th line down. I'm not sure if > this is our Maria Theresa Maciel because I can't decipher the date? I can > make out December & Octo for 1800's but the end of the line is blurry. It > is page 38 of 164 with the date range of 1864 to 1874, so it's in the > ballpark. Her birth year is estimated to be from 1865 to 1868 from census & > death record. One census stated August 1867, but don't know how accurate it > might be? In my grandmother's family (who is the daughter of Maria Theresa > Maciel) all of the daughters were baptised Mary, but only the eldest was > called Mary, all of the rest were called by their middle name. > > We were always told that she was from Pico & judging by some of the trees > from the DNA matches that we share in common, Lajes do Pico is probable. > Other family names that show up frequently in the matching trees are > Pereira & Silveira. Maciel goes in & out. > > Thank you in advance! > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > 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.
