This is my entry for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge, week 3: Tough Woman. It’s not easy to flesh out the stories of Azorean women. You are dealing with baptismal, marriage, and death records. That’s it. Often, women are elusive because of naming practices which involved taking a religious name rather than a…
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Surname Saturday: Correa of Maia
Today I’m listing out my Correa line (also spelled Correya) of Maia, Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel Island. This is a tiny maternal line that connects to my Paiva de Braga’s. Pedro de Paiva’s mother was Catharina Rocha. She married Manoel de Paiva on 28 Dec 1705, in Maia. Manoel’s line can be found in the…