This week the Book of Me, Written by You prompt is about my grandparents. I’ll start by telling you about my Dad’s parents. I knew both my Grandma and my Grandpa on this side. My Grandfather was Jean Lassalle a native of Ogeu les bains, France, born in 1888. He arrived on American shores in…
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Alexandrinha (Jose) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Alexandrina is my Great Great Aunt. She married into my Pacheco family. She was born in Ginetes, Sao Miguel Island, Azores sometime around 1866. She migrated with her parents to Kauai, HI in 1882. She married Antonio Pacheco in 1889 in Kealia. They settled down in Kilauea, where Antonio worked on the sugar plantation. In…
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…
Isabella (Pacheco) Ventura’s Individual Summary
Isabella Pacheco de Braga Ventura was one of my Grandfather’s cousins. Isabella was born to Joao Pacheco and Joanna Gonsalves Cardoza. When she was a young girl, he father died and her mother had no financial capacity to take care of her children. She gave Isabella away to a relatives who were unable to…
Women Worked Too!
[Originally posted on YourIslandRoutes.com. Reposted for Fearless Females–Women’s History Month, March 12th: Working Girl] After piling over my research notes for the last 10 or more years, I’ve come to the conclusion that women worked much earlier than movies, television, and books lead us to believe. While many joined the work force during the depression…