Thank you Julio.
This is interesting because the headstone (from Kurdistown cemetery) is different from the large Branco monument in the upper left corner of the St Anthony's cemetery in Laupahoehoe. The obituary underneath confirms the youngest Maria (Auntie Kay called her Selena) as his wife and the eldest Maria (our "Mother Kramer") as his sister-in-law living at 1100 South King Street. The obituary says he "was one of the largest individual property owners in East Hawaii". My research tells me that was an interesting process. The Bureau of Conveyancing suggests that over many years he gradually acquired small holdings from individuals. Miss Josephine is also in the Branco monument (so is the widow Maria). Our Pacheco Marques monument, which is much smaller, is in the lower right corner of the cemetery. It contains Francisco Pacheco Marques (d. March 1901), Manuel (d.1919), Margarida (d.1946 one week before the tsunami swept the family home away on the point). Manuel was a butcher in Laupahoehoe who died of appendicitis. Margarida was a seamstress who never married. 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.
