The old Portuguese Newspapers in the UMASS collection have many ads placed looking for imformation on missing family members. Indigacao , I think is the heading
Eric Edgar On Oct 25, 2016 10:06 AM, "Maria Sousa" <lelaalvesso...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had a maternal great-uncle that left Portugal for a better life in the > United States. After a few years, he returned to Portugal to get his wife > and children and bring them to the United States. The wife didn't want to > leave Portugal. He told her he was not staying in Portugal and would leave > with or without her. He left without her and the children. He married in > the United States to a widowed Polish woman and had many years together. > Never had children in the U.S. Died in the 1970s in New Jersey. > > I would assume there were wives (women) that didn't want to leave their > families behind. > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Philippe GARNIER < > philippegarnier...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I saw some records wera the man was said “died on the sea”. >> >> To anothers, it seems exist a law with a definition on the time of the >> disapearence. I see a old paper with a sentence like that. >> >> >> >> I saw too a lot of batism with this expression : “son of Maria wife of >> Manoel absent”. >> >> >> >> To the difficulties of this wives, il’s important to know that, on this >> time, the family solidarity was very strong (different of our time). >> >> >> >> Philippe Garnier >> >> Paris - France >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *De :* azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] *De la >> part de* Cheri Mello >> *Envoyé :* mardi 18 octobre 2016 02:25 >> *À :* azores@googlegroups.com >> *Objet :* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Lost husbands >> >> >> >> But if a husband had died at sea, wouldn't the crew have told his family >> back home when they returned? Then the wife would be a widow, not a married >> woman. Or would they have said nothing to his family and left them >> wondering? >> >> -- >> 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/to >> pic/azores/ZYsBB8i4Ufc/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
