Here is Serafim Morais in a passport from Azores Oct.15 1904 number 2145 and says he is from Agua de Pau,Lagoa http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PASSAPORTES-PDL-1903-1905/PASSAPORTES-PDL-1903-1905_item1/P73.html Is that your Serafim?
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:24 PM, 'celeste perry' via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > 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]. > > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. 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