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…
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Carolina (Freitas) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Carolina’s family was from Kilauea just like my Pacheco’s. She married my grandfather’s cousin, Manoel Pacheco, in Kilauea in 1914. A couple of years later they moved their family to King City. I don’t know much about Carolina except that she was said to make the best pancakes. I guess something like that sticks with…
A Mini Brick Wall: Ana Jacinta
[Fearless Females-Women’s History Month, March 20th: Female ancestor who is a brick wall] My female ancestors have been good to me. They have left pretty good trails despite being woman. There is one female ancestor I consider a mini brick wall. Despite the fact that I can go back beyond Ana Jacintha de Melo Pacheco,…
Francisca (Mello) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Unfortunately, the further we go back with Portuguese records, the less we can learn about our female ancestors. The only thing I can gather about Francisca is that that she was born, married, raised a family, and died in the same village–Maia. Some day I will go back to the parish records and I’ll find…
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…