Hello David, After many years of no progress, I've only recently had a few breakthroughs and was able to determine which island my gg grandfather came from. I'm still very new to Azores research and I am having a little trouble reading scanned documents in Portuguese. Many of the names and locations you mention seem close to the names and locations I have found so far. I'll keep at it. We could be distant cousins.
Wendy On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 1:14:15 PM UTC-6, Kawika322 wrote: > > Hi Wendy, > > from my maternal grandfather's paternal line I have a Joao Antonio de > Freitas Mendonca from Lajes on Flores. He was born 1812 and died 1868. > > His parents were Manuel de Freitas Mendonca, born 1785 Fajazinha, Flores > and died 1853. His wife was Maria de Sao Jose. > > Manuel's parents were Jose Mendonca, born 1757 in Fajazinha, Flores, and > died 1807, and Ana de Freitas, born 1766 in Fajazinha, Flores. > > This is where the Mendonca line switches to the Island of Corvo. Jose > Mendonca's parents were Antonio de Mendonca, born 1727 on Corvo and died > 1786 in Fajazinha, Flores, and Francisca Roiz, born 1731 in > Fajazinha,Flores. > > Ana de Freitas (wife of Jose Mendonca) parents were Francisco Jose and > Esperanca de Freitas, both from Fajazinha, Flores. > > Do you have any of these names in your tree? Also, does your Mendonca or > Freitas line link to the Island of Corvo? > > I believe the furthest I could go back on the Mendonca line was with > Gaspar de Mendonca, born abt 1630 in Corvo and died 1689 in Corvo, and his > wife Barbara Roiz,born abt 1640 in Corvo and died 1692 in Corvo. > > Thanks, > > David > > -- 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.
