Did he baptize his kids Catholic? Did he happen to tell the church at that time where he was from?
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 10:06 PM, Annette <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Maria, Thank you for your suggestions. I have Francisco's death, > Married , and cemetery documents. I have been to the public records and > searched both unassisted and assisted records. I have also been through > the censuses records. I know where he lived in Bendigo. I even went to > Canberra to the head place with records of immigrants. But nothing comes > to light of where in Sao Miguel as that is all he wrote down on the > records. I will give the Diggers a try as I don't live too far from > Bendigo. I even know where he was a miner. Thank you once again for your > help. > > On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 4:08:40 AM UTC+11, Maria wrote: >> >> Annette: I also have ancestors that went to the gold fields in >> Victoria. The PROV - Public Records Office Victoria might be helpful. >> https://www.prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/where-start >> >> I found that my ancestors traveled in 1852 on the ship called the Water >> Lily in October. >> >> Another place I found them was The Creswick and Clunes Advertiser. The >> men in the goldfields took each other to court for just about " >> anything"and those records are in the newspapers. After I found all the >> times they were listed, I sent to the PROV to get copies of the articles. >> >> I also found through the Pioneer Index (I think it's called the "Diggers" >> i de. Where they married and the record of that giving details of where >> they came from. >> >> Subscribe to the Goldfields list. I don't know how you get on it since >> Rootsweb is down. It's like the Azores list. People on that list helped >> me by looking on the Pioneers index, found the ancestors and the marriage >> info. Learned the bride was abandoned by the first husband and she had a >> child of 8 years old who died and where he was buried. Learned she died >> within first year of marriage and eventually got photo of the grave >> marker. It's been special to get this info but it took detective work and >> a lot of people who helped. Write me if I can be of more help. >> >> There are others on this list who also have ancestors who went to the >> Goldfields in the same time frame. Maybe google Goldfields of Australia. >> (?) >> >> Best of luck >> >> 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. 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