Thank you, Cheri! Margaret
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:49 AM MaryAnn Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, Cheri! Thank you for sharing - this is great. I have quite a number > of ancestors who married relatives. This will be good for me to research if > I every get to retire! > > MaryAnn > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For those interested in the dispensations: >> >> A dispensation is what a couple needed to obtain when they were going to >> marry a relative. The dispensation should contain interviews with the >> couple and how they are related (will state the lineage). >> >> Because the Diocese for the Azores is in Angra, the dispensations are >> housed in the Angra archive. >> >> The dispensations are very hit and miss. I'd say more on the "miss" side. >> They have only what they have. Many dispensations no longer exist. >> >> The first photo (80244) shows the request I made to see some >> dispensations. They call them "Dispensations of Matrimony" so that is what >> I called them. I am in their country, so I write in Portuguese. I include >> the island and the years I want. Not all years exist. >> >> The next photo (92811) shows how the dispensations come. They are bound >> up in packets, tied with a cotton ribbon. You can see a couple of other >> packets to the side. >> >> Photo 920845 shows what it looks like when you open the packet. There's a >> stack of dispensations. They are chronological. You have to look through >> them. >> >> Photo 92945 shows a later dispensation. It names the bride and groom and >> to the right, states the degree. The left states the church. The older ones >> are not as nice as this. Some are a few pages and some are many pages. They >> all varied. >> >> Photo 94345 shows 50 years of dispensations on Pico. The third most >> populated island. That's not the much considering how intermarried the >> Azoreans are. >> >> Cheri Mello >> Listowner, Azores-Gen >> Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, >> Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > *MaryAnn Santos* > Senior Advisement and Student Affairs Administrator > Department of Art and Art Professions > NYU/Steinhardt > 212.998.5702 > [email protected] > > Follow us at > > *Twitter / @NYUart <https://twitter.com/NYUart>Instagram / @nyuart > <http://instagram.com/nyuart>* > *Facebook / NYU Art Department > <https://www.facebook.com/pages/NYU-Art-Department/53833145389>* > > -- > 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. > -- Margaret M Vicente -- 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.
