here is the baptism of Francisco Luis de Medeiros http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PV-MAEDEDEUS-B-1738-1750/SMG-PV-MAEDEDEUS-B-1738-1750_item1/P38.html
how you know his grandfathers?? quinta-feira, 25 de Maio de 2017 às 02:00:28 UTC, IslandRoutes escreveu: > > Before I got involved with my de Braga discovery, I was working on the > Mello/Mello Castanho's of Maia, Ribeira Grande. One thing that had > confounded me was I could not locate information on my ancestor, Joao de > Mello's parents or siblings. I was able to solve part of the mystery this > month. This is what I found: > > Joao de Mello (b. 7 Feb 1771), Povoacao m. Maria Theresa de Medeiros (b. > 13 Aug 1778, Maia) 14 Mar 1796, Maia. > > The marriage record states that Joao's parents were Francisco de Medeyros > and Josefa de Mello. I was able to find 4 children for this couple: > Apollinario b. 10 Jul 1768, Maia > Joam/Joao de Mello listed above > Pulqueria, b. 25 Oct 1772, Povoacao > Leonarda, b. 15 Oct 1774, Povoacao > (all found in Mae de Deus) > > I found Josefa de Mello's death record 3 Aug 1778, Mae de Deus, Povoacao. > > Next, I tried to find Francisco and Josefa's marriage record. I searched > through Maia and Mae de Deus, but didn't find anything.. I also couldn't > find marriages or death records on their children. > > Josefa was said to have been born in Porto Formoso, so I moved over to > those marriage records. I finally found it, but was surprised that > Josefa's surname wasn't Mello at all. It was Pacheco. > > Francisco Luis de Medeyros m. Josefa Pacheco 16 May 1765, Porto Formoso. > > Francisco's parents Domingos Pereira Luis (aka Domingos Luis and Domingos > Pereira) and Maria de Medeyros > Josefa's parents: Francisco de Sousa and Florencia Pacheco > > Francisco & Florencia had two other children who married under the Sousa > surname: > 1. Francisca de Sousa m. Manoel de Silva, 23 May 1778, Porto Formoso (son > of Sebastiao de Silva and Josepha Pacheco) > 2. Manoel de Sousa m Thereza Francisca 1 Apr 1760, Porto Formoso (daughter > of Manoel do Monte Couto and Antonia Francisca) > > I searched for both Francisco and Josefa's baptismal records. I did not > find Josefa's, but I found Francisco's: > > Francisco de Medeyros was b. 13 Dec 1739, bapt. 19 Dec 1739, Mae de Deus, > Povoacao. Paternal grandparents: Manoel Luis and Barbara Pereira; > maternal grandparents Domingos Cardoso(?) and Thereza de Payva. > > I found that after Josefa Pacheco died, Francisco remarried to Quiteira de > Mello, 10 May 1779, Mae de Deus, Povoacao. (Daughter of Antonio Furtado da > Sylva and Izabel de Mello) > > I never figured out why Josefa Pacheco was using the surname Mello after > she married. It may be that the answer lies with her grandparents) In any > case, her son, Joao (my ancestor) took that surname. His children married > under the surname Mello, though around 1825, many of them began using the > surname, Mello Castanho. (I have not found reference to the surname > Castanho on either line). > > If anyone else is researching these lines, I have extensive research on > the Mello Castanho's.. The Mello Castanho surname is still in use today in > Maia. Several lines went to the East Coast of the US around 1900 and then > in the 1950s and 1960s. Craig Mello, the Nobel prize winning scientist, is > a descendant of Joao de Mello and Maria Theresa de Medeiros. > > > > > > > -- 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.
