Feast your eyes upon a beautiful sight… This is my great great grandparents, Jacinto Pacheco and Anna Jacinta de Mello’s marriage record. It is the culmination of 3-5 years of searching, a good 10 or more years of not being able to search because of my arthritis, and the end of a whole lot of…
Tag: Sao Miguel Island
What’s wrong with these ages?
I thought I would do something nice for some cousins this weekend. As some of the Azorean church records are online, I thought I would look through them and find some of my great and great great aunts and uncles. I was able to locate Francisco de Boa Ventura in Sao Jose, Ponta Delgada fairly…
This may be why I can’t find the marriage
This weekend I decided to redo the work another researcher did for me on Francisco de Medeiros and Josefa de Mello. The town of Maia isn’t on the Azores Archives website yet, so I thought Povoacao was as good as any place to research. I found their son, Joao de Mello’s, baptismal record first. Then,…
Maria (Sousa Sampaio) Barbosa da Silva’s Individual Summary
Maria is my 10th great grandmother. I don’t have any dates for her. She was probably born around 1550 on Sao Miguel Island, Azores. Name: Maria SOUSA DE SAMPAIO-2625 Sex: Female Father: Jorge CORREIA-2651 ( – ) Mother: Isabel Pacheco da SILVEIRA-2633 ( – ) Individual Facts Marriages/Children 1. Heitor BARBOSA DA SILVA-2623 ( -1629)…
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…