[AZORES-Genealogy] madalena-pico records

[emmanuel lopes]

greetings,


to those who are seeking information about ancestors from pico (and some
from sao jorge), azorean professor norberta amorim, retired, of the
university of minho in northern portugal has compiled records about pico
(see bilingual  site below, CITCEM).
it is a good place to start but it is not entirely accurate so info should
be compared to actual parish records which are also available online (see
CULTURA section below), although the handwriting is often difficult to read.

the site has other goodies such as information about early flemish
settlement.

 if anyone requires info from madalena in the last 100 years drop me a
line, i may be able to assist.
manuel azevedo


BPARAH: Arquivo Regional - Fontes Genealógicas e Outros ...

www.bparah.*azores*.gov.pt/.../bparah-arquivo+regiona...


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Registos Paroquiais dos Açores Registos paroquiais (nascimentos, casamentos
e óbitos) digitalizados, provenientes dos três arquivos regionais - Angra
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[AZORES-Genealogy] dictionary of portuguese sephardic names

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"*Dicionário Sefardi de Sobrenomes*" (*Dictionary of Sephardic surnames*)
In English and Portuguese - authored by Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo
Valadares and Anna Rosa Campagnano - published by Fraiha Publishing House,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 528 pp, about $47.

"This superb bilingual addition to the select library of essential books
for Sephardic Genealogy has 528 pages divided into several sections. The
first section, dealing with a brief Sephardic history and explanations of
Sephardic onomastics is printed on 150 pages of glossy paper, beautifully
illustrated and reminiscent of an "art book". The right hand page is in
Portuguese and the left hand in English, which - though translated by
someone for whom English is obviously not a first language - is quite
enjoyable and informative.

The remainder of the book, printed in non-glossy paper, consists of the
dictionary of 17,000 Sephardic surnames. For this, the authors modeled
themselves on Beider's Surnames of the Russian Empire, albeit with a few
modifications necessitated by dealing with surnames written in a variety of
alphabets and languages (*instead of just Cyrillic*), and covering a period
of 6 centuries and 335 sources instead of the much narrower period and
sources used by Beider. The dictionary section presents the surname, some
spelling variants, geographical locations, type (patronymic, descriptive,
etc.), meaning of, and sources where found. 

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[AZORES-Genealogy] congrats lionel holmes

[emmanuel lopes]

wishing you lots of health and happiness. it was a real pleasure meeting
you in 1990.
manuel azevedo
(delia's cousin)

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[AZORES-Genealogy] jews/new christians in the azores

[emmanuel lopes]

greetings,

i have previously posted a list of names of new christians in the azores
who were assessed a tax finta to pay for the general pardons of 1604, and
1623 on the ladina blog as below.
http://ladina.blogspot.pt/2007/06/blog-post_24.html

AÇORES/AZORES, 1604, 1623 LIST OF NEW CHRISTIANS TAXED FOR A GENERAL PARDON (
click on tables to increase text size)

(Source: Paulo Drumond Braga, A Inquisição Nos Açores/The Inquisition in
the Azores, PHD thesis, 1996, Universidade Nova Lisboa, published by the
Cultural Institute of the Azores)
anyone know the origin of the name of Porto Judeu in terceira?
i have been referred to alexandre herculano but have not tracked down the
relevant passage.
manuel lopes d'azevedo paim
(ribeirinha, santa luzia  pico), tavira, estramoz
ps, inquisition records in the torre de tombo national archives are also a
good source of information. i believe the first person burned at the stake
from the azores, a woman from sao miguel via Viseu was burned circa 1580.
(have to check my files re exact date)

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[AZORES-Genealogy] presence of jews in the azores and portuguese jewish surnames

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Jews in the azores and portuguese jewish surnames

greetings,

regarding the presence of jews in the azores, i have posted several
articles and information from various sources such as surnames from the
1604 levy  for the general pardon amongst new christians in the azores,
as well as notarial records from the 17th century in amsterdam which often
have reference to the azores.
the surnames bemsaude, benarus, sequeira,  etc. refer to jews who
immigrated to portugal after the demise of the inquisition around 1770,
albeit the inquisition was not formally abolished until 1821 by a liberal
national assembly.
in the 1770's, the marquis de pombal, portugal's  enlightened despotic
prime minister, abolished the distinction between new christians and old
christians and invited jews back to portugal. accordingly, sephardic jews,
that is, jews whose ancestors were from the iberian peninsula but had fled
the realm after the spanish expulsion of 1492, and  the forced baptism of
1497 in portugal (mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries),  returned to form
communities in lisbon, faro, sao miguel, terceira and faial where there are
extant cemeteries. those communities also had synagogues. Pedro Merlin,
deceased, wrote a book about the Jews of Terceira, Os Hebreus da
Terceira.(?)
 the lisbon community dates from 1804. the lisbon synagogue, which was
restored in 2004, was built in 1904. in faro there is a museum of the
jewish cemetery. the cemetery in Faial which i have visited has about 17
tombs and  the one in Terceira about 50 (last burial in 1961 or so in both
cemeteries, Faial later). I have not visited the cemetery in Sao Miguel. I
have also read that there are several tombs in Flores but i am not aware of
any actual evidence of such burials.
little is known about the early settlement of the azores by jews. for
example, witness the name of Porto Judeu, a village in Terceira. i have
heard that the original name of Terceira, 'Island of Jesus Christ was
changed due to the majority jewish presence on that island, but again have
not seen any actual documenatry evidence.
professor drummond braga has written an unpublished phd thesis on
azorean jews and muslims  in the portuguese inquisition from which i
extracted the 1604 census information.
 i have also  translated the trial of the first Azorean woman to be
burned in the inquisition (Maria Lopes from Sao Miguel (A native of Viseu),
16th century) which i hope to publish along with the trials of 6 other
women in the portuguese inquisition.
this is an area crying for research but so far has been largely
neglected. for example, there is a dearth of information about the jewish
connection with the origin and rituals of the brotherhood of the holy
spirit (irmandade do espirito santo).
assuming that surnames of plants such as Oliveira, Silva, Pereira are
Jewish is too simplistic; they may be, but not necessarily  so.  there is
no hard and fast rules about portuguese jewish surnames. when portuguese
jews were forced to the baptismal fonts in 1497, they were often given the
names of their christian godparents. sometimes they adopted names from
their places of birth.
there are very few records indicating a person's jewish name and their
adopted new christain name in 1497.
in my opinion,  the best source to determine the jewishness of a
portuguese surname is probably the records of the inquisition housed in the
national archives, torre de tombo. in addition, there are several good
dictionaries and internet resources.
manuel azevedo
http://ladina.blogspot.pt/

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