I am wondering if there is a way to access census records for Sao Miguel in the 1800s ? The goal is to find home addresses for some ancestors so that we can see these places when we are there in November. Thanks
Pete > On Aug 27, 2018, at 3:47 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > Repost for Celito Medeiros, celitofmedeiros at gmail.com > > I'm just curious about the Medeiros Family History. I was a friend of José > Antonio Gonçalves, from Madeira Island, recently deceased journalist, whose > portrait I painted and was invited to exhibitions and TV program of his > professional line. I was in the places of Portugal where this genealogical > tree begins with Rui Gonçalves de Medeiros (1383), this Family Medeiros is > natural of the place of Medeiros, in the parish of Vila Chã, in the > Municipality of Montalegre, district of Vila Real, province of Trás- > os-Montes between Chaves and Braga, 16 km from the border with Spain, on the > edge of the Barroso mountains, the province is called 'behind-the-hills' in > the far north of the Portuguese mainland. The parish comprises: Castanheira, > Firvidas, Gralhos, Medeiros, Peirezes, Penedones, São Vicente, Travassos de > Chã and Trogueda. He took over the mayor of Évora. > > 1420-1450 - James Guill lists the names of several heads of families in the > Madeira archipelago, among which is Rui Vaz de Medeiros. Rui Vaz de Medeiros, > who lived in the time of Captain Rui Gonçalves de Medeiros, was a native of > Ponte de Lima, Guimarães region, Portugal, fled his father's house and went > first to Madeira during the first colonization, where he married D. Ana (or > Mecia) Gonçalves de Mendonça, a daughter of a noble citizen, named Jorge de > Mendonça. It had sesmaria in Tabua and left generation in this parish Ponta > do Sol and Funchal, with good connections of blood. He then moved with his > family to the Azores, having settled on the island of São Miguel. > > My ancestors arriving in BRAZIL. > * 1753-Date of the birth of Manoel Jorge de Medeiros, native of Faial Island, > parish of Cedros, son of Maria do Rosario de Medeiros and Antonio Jorge > Ferreira. Manoel Jorge de Medeiros emigrated to Brazil where he formed a > family in the south of Minas Gerais, creating the Medeiros Branch, in the > city of Passos, Minas Gerais. Then some went to the North and others to the > South of Brazil in the States of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, then > to Paraná. > > General João Nepomuceno de Medeiros Mallet, was born in Bagé, Rio Grande do > Sul on May 16, 1840 - died in Rio de Janeiro, December 12, 1907). He was > Governor of Mato Grosso and Ceará. Minister of War of Brazil > 1898-1902. > > General Octavio Aguiar de Medeiros was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1922, from > the new immigration and died in Brasília, September 5, 2005. He was a general > of the Brazilian Army and SNI's Chief of the Brazilian General Figueiredo's > Presidency. > > Noé Nunes de Medeiros, was born in 1927, was a politician and farmer of the > Agribusiness, in the Municipality of S. Miguel do Iguaçu (due to the origin > in the Island of S. Miguel, in the Azores), died in an accident in the Farm > in 1971 with only 44 years, I am your son Celito Freitas de Medeiros, of this > life (1951), with connections of the history of the immigrants to the USA of > 1926, as I already mentioned (reality or fiction?). In addition, in addition > to books in Brazil, there is a trilingual (Portuguese - English - Spanish) > fiction: The Earth Watchers (AMAZON). > -- > 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. -- 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.
