Some priests tended to give exotic names to expostos, that is children left abandoned.
http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-VF-PONTAGARCA-B-1836-1842/SMG-VF-PONTAGARCA-B-1836-1842_item1/P11.html PG bap-, Maximianno, Infante, exposto, a porta de Margarida Jacintha mulher de Andre Joze, freguezia desta igreja de NS Senhora da Piedade, [found] Feb 21- 1837, bap- Feb 22- 1837, by Rev Manoel Joze Rapozo, Cura of said church. Padrinhos, Antonio Claudinio e Rocha, filho familia de Venuslau de Bohemia Rodrigues Cabral e Thereza Margarida Felizberta, freg. de VFSM. JR On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 9:13:18 PM UTC-5, JR wrote: > > Joao Jacinto cc Anna Felizberta- Nov 18- 1829 > > > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-VF-SAOMIGUEL-C-1820-1836/SMG-VF-SAOMIGUEL-C-1820-1836_item1/P107.html > > JR > > On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 3:54:29 PM UTC-5, Alvin Swonger wrote: >> >> My wife's grandmother was Maria Trinidad Mello, born 21 Apr 1877 in Villa >> Franca. She lived in nearby Ponta Garca in 1921. She had emigrated to >> East Providence, RI in 1910, but returned to Sao Miguel and remained there >> during WWI with her youngest children while her husband remained in East >> Providence with the older ones. Trinidad later immigrated permanently to >> East Providence, RI in 1925. I have seen her baptism record as well as >> those of nine of her siblings. They were children of Maximilian Jose Mello >> and Maria Josephine Mello (Mello was both her birth name and her married >> name. Every one of the baptism records indicates the parents of >> Maximillian as "unknown" but those of Maria Josephine Mello as Joao Jacinto >> de Mello and Anna Felisberta. Maria Josephine Mello was born 27 Sep 1841 >> and resided in Ponta Garca in 1924. I am hoping someone might have >> information about Joao Jacinto de Mello or his wife Anna Felisberta. There >> was clearly more than one Joao Jacinto de Mello as I have seen reference to >> one a generation or so older, but the one in my wife's line would have been >> likely born in the range of 1800-1820. Also, has anyone encountered a >> Maximilian Mello? It is interesting to me that the given name "Maximilian" >> does not appear in baptism records of Ponta Garca for any child or father, >> other than this particular Maximilian Mello. >> > -- 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.
