Note that Maria is recorded in records with surname as “de Jesus”. This is not a surname, but a religious name. Portuguese women took on religious names that were similar to a surname. Sometimes they changed them at different times of their life. Name: Maria Candida de JESUS-2702 Sex: Female Individual Facts Birth 1816 Estrela,…
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Catherine (Kelly) McSwegan’s Individual Summary
Catharine (Kelly) McSwegan was my 3rd Great Aunt. Catharine’s husband, Thomas McSwegan, was a plasterer. He was seriously hurt on the job in the mid-1890s. He died at the age of 50 from the those injuries in 1895. Catherine had 9 children, 3 of them born after 1890. One born a year before Thomas died….
Sophie (Pacheco) Figg’s Individual Summary
Sophie was my grandfather’s cousin. She has a special place in the family history. Sophie was the first of the family to leave Hawaii and not settle in California. Her husband was in the military and decided to go back to his hometown in Missouri. They were there when the 1930 census was taken, but…
Emma (Cabral) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Emma was the first wife of John “Sailor” Pacheco, my grandfather’s cousin. She grew up in Oakland and came from a large family. Her parents were early immigrants to California having married there in 1893. I’m not sure when Emma and John married. John grew up in Kilauea, but shows up in California records around…
Winifred (Kelly) Small’s Individual Summary
I do not know much about Winifred. I have yet to find her marriage date. She died at the age of 31 just after giving birth to her only child. After she died, her daughter ended up with relatives. I am not sure what happened to her husbands. Perhaps he felt he could not raise…