Take what St. Patrick's Church gives you with a grain of salt. If they tell you they have no records, don't assume that's the truth. I was told they did not have a death record from my relative F.J. Bettencourt who dies in Watsonville around 1933. Guess what? When I visited Watsonville, I walked across the street from the church to the cemetery and low and behold I found the burial of F.J. Bettencourt.
Since it's close, I would also recommend checking Hollister records. I've found relatives buried in the Catholic Cemetery there as well. Robin Borba Besotes On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 2:44:01 PM UTC-8, rcapodc wrote: > > Caroline, if Santa Cruz Cnty doesn't have a birth certificate for Frank > Gomez, try the Catholic Church in Watsonville. I think that it is St. > Patrick's Church. You might have better luck finding his baptismal record > which might show where his parents came from too, you never know! > > Rosemarie > [email protected] <javascript:> > Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, > Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 1:32 PM, 'Caroline Gomes' via Azores Genealogy < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> Just an update on what I have found so far. >> >> >> >> I had been focusing my newspaper search to the Santa Cruz County and >> Stanislaus County areas, using Newspapers.com, Legacy.com and Archives.com >> . Thank you Cheri for the link to the Portuguese papers archives. >> >> >> >> >> >> Frank Gomes >> >> - Santa Cruz County is not able to find his birth certificate….looking >> under Francis, Francisco or Frank. I was able to obtain original marriage >> and death certs for him and they only list 'California' as his place of >> birth. Both of those documents have him listed as Frank Gomes. Everyone in >> the family says that he was born in Watsonville. So I will try Monterey >> County and even Stanislaus County, where his siblings were born. >> >> >> >> Manuel Enos Gomes >> >> We are still looking for an exact place of birth for him. I was able to >> find his death certificate. He was admitted to the Stockton State Hospital >> in 1940 and died there April 30, 1942. His draft card which has his mark >> (X) witnessed by someone (dated Sept 12, 1918), shows his date of birth as >> Oct 4, 1873 but his death certificate shows the date of birth as Sept 4, >> 1875. The informant listed on his death certificate were both Hospital >> Records and his son, Frank Gomes.. So we have a difference in the date of >> birth. >> >> He received a consent to marry in 1910 Mary A Brown of Watsonville. >> They were listed on the 1920 census in Stanislaus County as the head of >> household and listed coming to the USA in 1906. >> >> In the 1930 census of Stanislaus County, he was missing from the >> household as Mary A Gomes was listed as the head of household. Manuel >> reappears in the 1940 census as the head of household, living with his son, >> Frank and Frank's wife, and their daughter, Joann. Then a month later, it >> looks like he was admitted to Stockton State Hospital. >> >> >> Manuel was listed as divorced on the death certificate. Mary A. Silva >> Gomes did remarry in the early 1930's to a Jack Silva. I am now going to >> contact Stanislaus County to see about the divorce records of Manuel and >> Mary. >> >> >> >> I was able to get in touch with the California State archives about the >> stay at the State Hospital. As you all may know, there is a 75 year >> restriction on accessing medical records in the state archives, based on >> the date of last contact. So, April 2017 ends the restriction. But they >> were able to tell me that there was not any mention of a specific place of >> birth. >> >> >> >> >> >> Whew! >> >> Caroline >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
