What a coincidence though unfortunately of no help to you. My father's name was John Perry, my name is David and a family friend who helped my grandfather purchase a farm in MA was named Camara. Good luck tracking down your John Perry. Mine lived in the SF Bay Area most of his life as do I. David
On Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:49:29 PM UTC-8, Kawika322 wrote: > I am trying to track down the immigration/ship passenger record for a > relative John Perry. From everything I found, he was most likely from the > Ponta Delgada area of Sao Miguel, and his birthday dates ranges from > December 1875 to 1879 based on various records (census, WWI draft register, > petitition for naturalization), but it could be different years. His > petition for naturalization record in Sacramento only states when he came > from Hawaii to California, but not when he came from Azores to Hawaii. The > census records say state he immigrated sometime around 1895. One ship came > in 4 April 1895 - The S.S. Braunfels. > > One baptismal record of his first child Maria states his name as Joao > Damos Pareira. I searched the Index to Portugal Manifests on the Hawaii > Archives website and found a likely match - Joao Pereira Damaso who arrived > on the S.S. Braunfels in 1895. > > > http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/indextop/index/assoc/HASHeb18/98cce7a3.dir/doc.pdf > > It does not state is age but only he was from Delgada. I tried to look up > the record on the handwritten ship passenger manifests from the Portuguese > Consulate - It is microfilmed and available at the Family History Library > #1017125, but I could not find an entry of a Joao Pereira Damaso for some > reason on that ship. Maybe I missed it. The typed index card where I found > his name has #257, sheet 6 written on it. From what I can tell, this does > not correlate with the hand written numbers on the ship passenger lists. > Does anyone know what the original source info for the index cards is? > > Also, I am not sure on the names of his parents. The California Death > Record Index lists his father's last name as Camara and mother's last name > as Joseph. I have heard the family name of Camara from other cousins but it > has never been confirmed how the Camara (or Pereira Camara) name is > connected. He always went by John Perry. > > Any info would be helpful, > > Thanks, > > David > > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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 post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
