This is so exciting, thank you! A cousin recently sent me this note: "Evan recently did his DNA with Ancestry.com and started to put his family tree together. He showed me this name that came up for grandpa Joseph's father as Gonsalves Galego. Could it be that we thought his first name was his last name which is why we could not find any info on him?"
Joseph is the second son of Maria Pacheco Marques and her first husband, of whom we know nothing, but the 1900 Census gives the child's last name as Goncalves. Is there a connection between this and the Gonsalves Galego mentioned above? On Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 11:16:33 AM UTC+10, Michael Giffin wrote: > > My great-great grandparents, Francisco Pacheco Marques and Josepha Cabral > and their four children (Maria[1], Margarida, Manuel, and Maria[2]) arrived > in Hawaii on 4 May 1883 on the SS Abergeldie. They came from the village of > Porto Formoso in Sao Miguel. They lived for many years in the Laupahoehoe > district of Hawaii Island (the Big Island). My great-grandmother, Maria[1], > had six children by her first marriage and four children by her second > marriage. We cannot confirm the name of her first husband; however, in the > 1900 Census, the last names of her first six children is Goncalves. > According to the DeMello Passport Index, a Goncalves family arrived in > Hawaii from Porto Formoso on the same ship as the Pacheco Marques family. > While it is big guess, villagers did tend to stay together, so Maria[1] may > have married a Goncalves child from this family. I will be visiting Sao > Miquel in November 2018 and look forward to seeing the village of Porto > Formoso. Thank you, Michael. > -- 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.
