Wow, Richard, that is good detective work! It pays to get the info on others with a similar name because the Priests did make mistakes! Good hunting!
Rosemarie [email protected] Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Richard Francis Pimentel < [email protected]> wrote: > *My project of compiling marriages from Santissimo Salvador is progressing > I am now up to 1902 with 3 more years to go.* > > > > *Because I am entering the information into a genealogy program it is > taking more time than I originally anticipated. I started working on this > project 20 years ago.* > > > > *Things take time and I try to be accurate. Yesterday I was entering a > marriage. The bride was Maria Julia Cabral. Her parents were Francisco > Cabral de Mello and Maria Jose Pacheco. I found her parents easily in my > data base and proceeded to add her. * > > > > *When I looked at her age I computed her birth date as born before 7 Jul > 1881. But wait I already had a sister Maria da Conceicao with a birth date > of 20 March 1881. Something is wrong here I have two Marias with birthdates > in the same gestation period.* > > > > *I recheck both marriages and the Parents names are exactly the same I > spend the next several hours looking for the birth of another Maria > including checking names in other girls born in the time. The only thing I > learned is that the birth record of Maria da Conceicao said first of the > name. So if the parents had another Maria the birthdate would be after the > first Maria in other words, start looking 9 months after 20 March 1881. But > the problem is Maria Julia Cabral age on her marriage date of 7 July 1902 > is 21. I came to the conclusion that one of these Marias had the wrong > parents names entered in the records. The question is which one and who > were the other set of parents.* > > > > *The solution I employed was to look for births of children from the two > Marias and see if the grandparents names were the same or different. * > > > > *I started with Maria Julia Cabral. A year and a half after her marriage > she had a son and the grand parents were the same as her parents in her > marriage record. Also the sons name was Simao the same name as a brother > with her parent’s names.* > > > > *Next I looked after the marriage of Maria da Conceicao and about a year > after her marriage she had a son. Her parents names were given as Francisco > Cabral and Maria de Jesus Silva as compared to Maria Julia Cabral parents > names of Francisco Cabral de Mello and Maria Jose Pacheco. * > > > > *To tie this all up I looked for the baptism of Maria da Conceicao with > these new parents names and found a record on 19 Apr 1880 with the parent’s > names of Francisco Cabral and Maria de Jesus. Her maternal grandfather’s > name was Manual da Silva. The icing on this cake was a margin note giving > information on her marriage with her husband down to the date and record > number. Case solved. Names were close but the families were different. The > birth date I had for Maria da Conceicao was actually the on for Maria Julia > Cabral The error in the marriage records was the priest wrote the wrong > parents names for Maria da Conceicao.* > > > > > > *Rick* > > *Richard Francis Pimentel* > > *Epping, NH* > > > > *Researching, Riberia Grande, Riberinha, Achada Grande, Bretanha, and > Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Acores* > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
