Thanks Hermano - I'll take you up on your kind offer off line. In the
meantime, I've discovered another point of confusion. I have a Clara born
to Melchoir Baldaia and Maria Franca on 23 Jan 1628 and then twenty years
later, this same Clara with the name Clara Vasconcellos actually written
Hi David,
The record says Belchior was born in fenais da cidade, which is Fenais da
Luz, the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz
located in the 'concelho de Ponta Delgada'.
The word 'Cidade' in those times always refers to Ponta Delgada, Cidade de
Ponta Delgada.
Manoel Cesar Furtado
Em
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Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Some Needed Translation Help
Thanks Hermano - I'll take you up on your kind offer off line. In the
meantime, I've discovered another point of confusion. I have a Clara born to
Melchoir Baldaia and Maria Franca on 23 Jan 1628 and then twenty years later
Thanks Doug for your suggestions. As for the priest writing the wrong
first name, that's possible though in this case he also apparently wrote
down the wrong place of birth. Some years ago I scoured these records at
my local FHC but came up empty. As you know, the records we all have
direct
Thank you Margaret and Dano. Unfortunately, what you've read is what I
read which leads me to the very question Dano brought up. Namely, everyone
has Belchoir's father as Gaspar yet this record has Joam. Over the years
I've been told various reasons for this including the one mentioned, the
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