I also wondered about the amount of immigration and the expostas during that time. On the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy Facebook page a recent visitor to São Miguel heard this account: In approximately 1870 an envoy of Californian orange growers visited São Miguel to learn about the successful Azorian export business. They brought a gift of California oranges that unfortunately carried destructive white flies. Entire orange groves were decimated, making Azorian workers a prime target for Hawaiian sugar growers to entice them to immigrateover the next 40 years.
When families couldn’t feed another child, the roda was an option that gave the baby a chance at survival. Nursing mothers got a monthly stipend to take in the exposta for 7 years. I wonder if it was common to turn in an infant and get them back later. Has anyone else heard of accounts like these? Debbie Shepherd Mendonca jessdebmendonca at gmail.com Areas of interest: MENDONCA & AGUIAR from São Paulo, Brazil; Madeira LUIS/LUIZ, SOUZA, PIMENTAL, PERREIRA from São Roque in Ponta Delgada on São Miguel On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 2:12 PM 'John Raposo' via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > The towns and cities had Foundling homes, usually convents, but not all > churches in the cities and towns were foundling homes. In the villages, as > can be seen in baptismal records, the foundlings were left either at > somebody's door or in a place where they would likely be found. Eloise > Cadinha studied this situation extensively and I have her notes. > > John Miranda Raposo > > On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 3:35:49 PM EDT, Cheri Mello < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I seem to remember Joao Ventura, the archivist, stating that many babies > were given up at the Matriz churches more so than the smaller parish > church. The information is on the Azores GenWeb (I'm pretty sure). I'll > look when I get home. > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 12:32 PM Maria Sousa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I know this question comes up often and I am familiar with the "roda" and > the "oxpostos". My question is, did every church have the "roda" system or > was it just certain churches? Maybe even each frequesia had a "matrix" > church which had the roda? Does anyone happen to know? > > It was very heartbreaking looking for my ancestor in Sao Sebastiao Church > in Ponta Delegada and the amount of expostos that I read was astounding. > So much so that each exposto was given a number. My ancestor happened to > be a number in the 600s. I noticed the number on her marriage certificate > and then was able to match the same number to her birth certificate. > Still a deadend for me, but so heartbreaking to think of the hundreds of > people who were going to this church to hand over a child. I can't image > what was going on in the 1860 to 1890 in that area, that so many were just > giving up their children. > > Would love to hear your thoughts. > > Maria Sousa > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/CAE_yQQVb-5ceuWZAwFr8Cty7bf8p%2B8FWAicc64aWcoANXJ2z9A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/CAE_yQQVb-5ceuWZAwFr8Cty7bf8p%2B8FWAicc64aWcoANXJ2z9A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/CAKUUw_FL4cXTqmhqg4FJ6ZzXgVSq04dLBtaZZBKCwPWpDgN4yA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/CAKUUw_FL4cXTqmhqg4FJ6ZzXgVSq04dLBtaZZBKCwPWpDgN4yA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/375168660.1799035.1570050766683%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/375168660.1799035.1570050766683%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/CAJ7050vwY12fOMWEPxcApYOL2gyRoCxVDabpZH5wd-XgR1HnLA%40mail.gmail.com.
