Annette: Here's the link for the passengers traveling to Victoria during the years our ancestors were going there. Your ancestor, Francisco was born in 1832 and the two ancestors I have were born in 1836 and 1838. Maybe the link will lead you to some info. I googled "unassisted passengers traveling to Victoria". The PROV website used to be easier to navigate than it is now but by googling what I wanted it gave me the page to go and search.
https://www.prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/passenger-records-and-immigration/unassisted-passenger-lists Maria Elena > On Jan 10, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is very difficult to research Sao Miguel island with its 70 or so parishes > without knowing which parish your ancestor came from. Araujos are all over > Sao Miguel. > > I'd go to your local genealogy society and ask how to trace an immigrant > ancestor in Australia around 1850. Are there censuses, naturalizations, or > other documents that you can look at that might list your ancestor's place of > birth? Any Australian military records, his death record, his obituary, etc? > I'm not Australian so I'm not familiar with what you have for resources to > trace an immigrant ancestor. > > If that work turns up no more than Sao Miguel island, you could turn to DNA. > Understand though that it's not a magic wand. Sao Miguel island is the > largest and we have only a couple of DNA clusters so far on that island. If > you test and match a group of testees who are all researching in a particular > freguesia (village), then you'll know where to start looking. However, it is > most likely that you won't match a clear cluster, but your results will sit > there, attracting more matches over time. While you play wait-and-see you can > work other matches or force matches to happen by testing other family > members. If you do decide to go this route, test the oldest person on your > Araujo line. If that's one of your parents, test your parent first. If your > parents are deceased, but have a living sibling, test them first. If your > parents and their siblings are all deceased, then you are the best candidate > so you could test yourself. You would want to order the Family Finder test at > Family Tree DNA here: https://goo.gl/i34dpE > > If your maiden name is Araujo, then we would want to test someone else too > and with a different kind of test in addition to the one above. > > Good luck, Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Annette <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can anyone please tell me anything about my 2nd great grandfather, He was a >> farmer and married a lady called Antonia, who we don't know of her last >> name. >> I don't know what parish they came from, only it was Sao Miguel. >> My great grandfather's name was Francisco Batila De Araujo or De Araugo. He >> was born in 1832. >> Francisco ran away to sea when he was 16 years old and ended up on the gold >> fields as a miner in Bendigo Victoria Australia. >> I know of all the children Francisco had and the rest of the family. >> I'm hopeful that someone will know of him or the name De Araujo and what >> part of Sao Miguel they came from. >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
