Interesting. I'd still like to know more about the husbands who didn't go back and what commonly happened to their wives.
Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Philippe Garnier < [email protected]> wrote: > I have an history. > Francisco Ferreira Armond went to Brazil at the begining of 1725. His wife > was godmother in 1728 and 1734 in Ilha Terceira. Later the couple had > children in Brazil, the first in 1736. Ten years without children. > At tis time, I Think the divorce didn't exist. > > On Ilha Terceira, the "vox populi" said that Brazil was "the forgetting > land".Theses cases are very frequent. The husband went to Brazil to have a > "best way of life". Some went back to Terceira. Some wife joined the > husband in Brazil. Some are definitively "auzente nas portas do Brazil". > > Philippe Garnier > Paris - France > http://philippegarnier112.wixsite.com/familiasilhaterceira/copie-de- > familias-da-ilha-terceira > > > Le lundi 17 octobre 2016 22:21:13 UTC+2, Cheri Mello a écrit : >> >> I'm starting the topic of lost husbands in its own thread since Paul's >> topic was different. However, when Margaret brought the following up, I had >> questions. >> >> Margaret said: >> <<They are all saying the same thing i.e. husband was away, not missing. >> The number of years gives the reader an insight at this lady's situation. >> Unfortunately this happened to many women on the islands with immigrated >> husbands. Some waited for many years, others didn't. Does this answer your >> question?>> >> >> I would say it's a fairly safe bet for the man to leave. Why did he >> leave? Some of my thoughts would be he left to try to make a better life. >> One would like to think that he went somewhere with the intent of making >> money to send back for his wife and children, (assuming he had children >> already). Suppose he was not successful in making enough money. He's in a >> new county and she's back in the Azores. It must be very difficult for her, >> and more so if she had children. >> >> Suppose the husband and wife decided that they could not stand each >> other. I'm sure very few got divorced back then. He could leave and start >> up a new family in a new country and no one would know. >> >> From the couple of ideas I thought of above, the husband could start over >> and no one would know. He could have a second family! But everyone in the >> freguesia knew if she had a 2nd family! >> >> Does anyone have historical insight as to these situations? >> Cheri Mello >> Listowner, Azores-Gen >> Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das >> Tainhas, Achada >> > -- > 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. > -- 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.
