Thank you everyone for your responses. All very helpful. I had suspected Faial but wanted to get other opinions.
Júlio, you raise an interesting point. I had only speculated that he adopted the name Brown to assimilate. There is no mention of the name Brown in his marriage certificate - it only appears gradually in the birth certificates of his children. But he could have dropped Brum and picked it up later with the similar sounding Brum. According to this same documents, his parents are Joseph Le Swezer and Mary Dolphin. Could it be Jose de Sousa and Maria Delfina? <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XhpqnsAjNXw/WmBOxLPDnQI/AAAAAAAAAEM/UWfnjWcFA_4sRGZ9Q4dqeLcvlkrCf6BLgCLcBGAs/s1600/Joseph%2BDe%2BSouza%2B-%2BParent.JPG> On Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 5:09:39 AM UTC+11, Brett Moffitt wrote: > > I am researching my g-g-grandfather who I believe was born in the Azores. > The image below contains the place of birth from a variety of documents. I > believe he was illiterate so the place names may have been written as heard > by an English-speaker. > > > He went by the name of Joseph Le Swezer and then later by Joseph Soizer > Brown. I suspect his name was actually Joseph De Souza as someone of that > name arrived in Australia at the place and time that fits with my ancestor. > This person boarded his ship (the 'Water Lily') in St Michael, Azores in > 1853. > > > Can anyone please assist with confirming the place name below? > > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-buZJ4osSlC0/Wl85zTIrurI/AAAAAAAAADw/NqHCJkpsM3c_CLRzqVN12tnfsB0-Qey7wCLcBGAs/s1600/Joseph%2BDe%2BSouza%2B-%2BBirth%2BPlace.JPG> > > > > > > -- 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.
