Celeste,
Can you give us the link to the marriage of Joao Moraes and Jacinta Libianna; or, at least the marriage date and place. Thank you On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 12:14:20 PM UTC-8, celeste perry 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] <javascript:> > -- 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.
