Hi Fernando,
Interesting about your Simas family being shipbuilders. I wonder if that skill was brought from the Azores. I have strong DNA links to Simas family members in Santo Amaro, "Terra dos Barco's", shipbuilding village on Pico. There are many Simas in Santo Amaro. Perhap's if you've DNA tested you could see if you match any of the Santo Amaro people. Kind regards, Nancy Jean Baptista ________________________________ From: azores@googlegroups.com <azores@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Fernando Horn Batista <feh...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 12:28:38 PM To: Azores Genealogy Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Simao in the Azores Good afternoon, John, unfortunately I do not have all these details. What I do know is that the "Simas" family came from the Azores around the 18th century to the coast of Santa Catarina in Brazil. The elders of the family said that the real name would be "Simons", there is a whole suspicion that they were Jews. The last name we can get in our tree is "Jose Luis Simas" who was married to "Maria Roza de Jesus". These were the parents of Amaro José de Simas. The family was Shipbuilders and had and still has many customs of new Christians. Thank you very much, any information you have will be extremely useful. Em segunda-feira, 3 de julho de 2017 18:59:29 UTC-3, John Raposo escreveu: Do you have more specifics? Which island, parish, what time frame? etc. I have done some extensive research on the Simas family (as has Doug Holmes da Rocha). The patriarch is Domingos de Simas (probably a Spanish hidalgo; we know he claimed to be an armiger). One of his sone went to Terceira and thos Simas spread out to the other islands. Simas, Simao, Simon??? Those names could be easily corrruped in transcription. Let me know if I can help. John Miranda Raposo On Monday, July 3, 2017 4:38 PM, Cheri Mello <gfsc...@gmail.com<javascript:>> wrote: Repost for Fernando Horn Batista, fehorn at gmail.com<http://gmail.com/> My great-great-grandfather was "Amaro José de Simas", but ... he was married to a Lady named "Maria Norberta da Conceição"(Surname equal to that of Rosa Joaquina Emilia Da Conceicao). They also come from the Azores and also say that the family came from England to the Azores because of religious persecution, which in fact the surname would be Simons (In English) and was translated on arrival in Azores. My great-uncle said that the family name was "Simão" (in Portuguese) and that they translated it wrong. As I'm a history teacher and seeing all the coincidences linked to the name, I perceive a GREAT chance of the family having Jewish origin and this would explain some changes of name, as the case of "Mendez" (Jewish name). I hope to be able to exchange information with everyone who wants. Thank you so much! See you -- 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+un...@googlegroups.com<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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:azores+unsubscr...@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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
