On Friday, December 9, 2016 at 8:03:54 AM UTC-5, Elaine Mello wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've been going page by page from about 1904 onwards looking for my > parternal grandmather, Maria Lima. It's been great looking at these > records for those years from Porto Delgada, because whomever was writing > the logs had the clearest handwriting I've seen so far. I think I found > her, but they weren't listed as coming from Ribeira Quente. I'm assuming > this is a mistake, as they just did an ellipses from the person above them > rather than to write the correct town down. > > So on line 675 here: > http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PASSAPORTES-PDL-1906-1907/PASSAPORTES-PDL-1906-1907_item1/P114.html > > I see the passport for Francisca Roza de Mello, whose parents were Manuel > de Mello Barboza and Maria Julia. > The next line down is a Maria da Lima, with her parents listed, Joao > Ignacio de Lima and Francisca Roza. > > The line after that is another Maria Lima, who would be the right age for > my grandmother, who was born in 1890. I can't read the middle name listed > there, and now there are two Marias there. Looking at my family tree, > Manuel had a brother Jose who also married a Francesca and their daughter > was Maria, but I thought she was the same age, and she would have been a de > Mello or Barboza, not a Lima. > > So is it possible that the first Maria was listed as my grandmother, but > would in fact be the cousin? > > And if this is the correct record, my grandmother would have had a little > brother, also named Joao? > > Thanks for you assistance! > > Elaine > >
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