Hi One of my 2nd Great Grandfather's came to South Australia in 1848. Unfortunately most shipping lists of the time have"not survived" to use the official term.There are some Newspaper reports but they are notoriously unreliable and misspellings abound. He was born about 1808 and went by the name of Joseph Josephs which unfortunately was not his real name. His real name was supposed to be Du Coyte or something similar When one of his daughter's died the obituary said that her father fought in the Crimean war which is impossible of course because he was already in Australia before that war began. He may have fought in the Portuguese civil war as he would have been old enough.
He probably came to Australia via England. Very hard to find a name when you don't know what name to look for? He was however Portuguese and spoke very poor English. I have had my DNA tested with Ancestry and uploaded my info To "My Heritage" FTDNA,Living DNA and Gedmatch. Ancestry does not recognize my Portuguese ancestry although it did originally, however "My Heritage" does!! I have been checking my Portugal matches on Ancestry and over 90% of them have an ancestor from the Azores within 3-4 generations. I don't know how common that is in the overall Portuguese population?? I do know that Joseph was suppose to have come from an island and had a brother that went to South America,Brazil?? I know this is a bit long winded but do you think it is reasonable to assume that Joseph came from the Azores? At least at this stage? I'm just looking for an opinion and as I have explained I have next to nothing to go on!!! Rob -- 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/97bc0e6e-c8ee-42dd-b3c8-7efdccd8f167%40googlegroups.com.
