No, it was not her, Elaine. I have searched all the records from the marriage to the death of her father (spent a week in Ponta Delgada looking at all the records of a "Maria" born to Jacintha Libiana and Joao Moraes. She did not show up. Joao Ventura has also looked for her birth without any success.
So.....I am hoping that someone will be able to "look" at her marriage record to see if the priest wrote in the margin of the record that she was baptized in a place that is not, Lomba da Santa Barbara or any village that shares a border with Lomba, in the island of Sao Miguel. By the way, the village is no longer called Lomba, it is just, "Santa Barbara." Thanks for your interest in finding something that confirms she was a "biological" member of this family. Celeste Celeste Perry [email protected] -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 1/9/17, E" Sharp <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] My elusive Maria Cristo To: "azores" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, January 9, 2017, 1:05 PM Hi Celeste, Hope you had a happy holiday. I thought we (people on the list) found her the last time you asked. Was that not her? "E" On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:14 PM, 'celeste perry' via Azores Genealogy <[email protected]> wrote: Once again, I am posting and asking for any information that will help in my search to find my husband's paternal grandmother, Maria Cristo In the US she used many names: Maria or Mary, Pereira da Silva; Pereira; or Silva. 1. Her name: In 2006, I received an email from a great-grandson of MC’s brother Jose. He wrote “on Ancestry.com he found Maria Cristo immigrated July 31, 1909.”I found an arrival of “Maria Moraes arriving July 31, 1909, age 25, est. birth yr. 1884, F, Portuguese, port of departure: St. michaels, Az, Portugal; ship name, Cretic; arriving at Boston, MA; last residence, Azores, birthplace, St. Barbara, Azores.” I received this information from someone and I never saw the name of the person she was going to. I think she would have come to her brother, Seraphine who immigrated 10/24/1904 and I have found his name as: Serafim Morais/Morris/Moraes in different census. On her marriage record: 11/27/09 she is: Maria de Christ Moraes 2. DOB, where??? : May 22, 1884/1885 Lomba da Santa Barbara, Sao Miguel, Azores, (oral history told to me by her daughter) She married in 1909 and said she was 22 years old (I have the marriage record from St. Mary’s church in Bristol, RI.) Rencently, I noticed that the information I have is on a form filled out by the priest at St. Mary's church in Bristol, RI.) I would like to have someone look at the actual book to see if the priest MAY have written her place of birth. 3. Father: Joao Moraes, he died 4/13/1899, I found his death record in 2006. 4. Mother: Jacinta Libianna 5. When did she come to US: I think she came to the US to her brother, Seraphine Moraes. This is what her daughter told me. It had to have been before Nov. 1909 when she married. 6. In the 1910 census Fellippe E. & Mary C. Silva, are living with Seraphim & Rosa Morais at 15 East Brooks. St. in Bristol, RI she lived on Estbrook St. with her husband, Fillippe Silva. She was listed as Maria C. Silva who immigrated in 1909. 1927-1928, 1929-1930/ 1935-1936; 1937 census, Phillip & Mry Perry, carpenter, live at 66 Blossom St. 1938; 1939, 43, 66 Blossom St. per City directory 1947 moved to Oakland, CA 7. In 2005, at the Oakland FHCC, I found a Maria Moraes arriving 7/31/1909, age 25, est. yob 1884, F, Portuguese; departed: S.Miguel; ship’s name is Crotic; arrived in Boston, MA 8. She was 24 years old when her daughter Mary was born in 1911. Any help in locating a document that connects her to the biological family she and her "sister, Anna" "thought" was her family. When Anna died in her will she left , "to my sister, Mary Perry in Oakland, California, $100.00." I viewed the records for Lomba da Santa Barbara in Sao Miguel page by page and found all her siblings. Although there was no "Maria" born to this family that fit the bill for my Maria Cristo. There were 2 Maria's; the first would have been too old when my Maria Cristo's youngest son was born to have been her. The second Maria, died young. Everyone with whom I have spoken that knew this family all connect her to the family. There is just no baptismal record that I have found to do so. Thanks for any help you can think of that will give me a solid connection. Celeste Thanks, Celeste Celeste Perry [email protected] Celeste Perry [email protected] -- 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+unsubscribe@ 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 [email protected]. 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