Sorry, to answer your question and according to the timeline here's what happened in Faial in the 1700 hundredes. Hope you can read it. It was an Epidemic in the places you mentioned
- 1717 <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/1717>-1718 <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/1718> — Epidemia no Faial <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_do_Faial> - De Novembro de 1717 a Fevereiro de 1718 grassou no Faial uma epidemia de "pleurizes" (peste bubónica <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peste_bub%C3%B3nica>) que causou muitas mortes. Em Novembro morreu grande parte dos moradores dos Cedros <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedros_(Horta)>, o mesmo acontecendo em Castelo Branco <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelo_Branco_(Horta)> e Flamengos <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamengos>. Fizeram-se procissões e preces públicas. On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Repost for mufflevski at gmail.com > > Hello, I'm very interested in the history of Faial during the mid 1700s. > Our Rocha family lived there (Flamengos and Horta) during that time. We > think they may have been in the military (because they moved frequently). > This would have been after the Portuguese Restoration war which ended in > 1668. Can anyone tell me what was occurring during the 1700s particularly > in Faial? (I know also the great tidal wave of Lisbon swept through in > 1775. Our family was there at that time as well). > > -- > 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. > -- Margaret M Vicente -- 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.
